Oops

Kelcey I know would be a tad bit annoyed with me for not getting her letters here. But I have a good excuse. - couldn't read her password to get into this blog. So, finally got it.
Here is her most recent letter and some cute pictures. Toodles

Hola!!!

This week has been another great week. We are in the middle of transfers so in three weeks from now I will know if I am being transferred or not. Can you believe I have been out longer than a month now?! Yes they are splitting our mission. We will find out May 22nd which mission we will be in. SO there is a possibility that I might be changing missions. I will keep you posted!!
We had a really awesome week this week. One of my favorite parts of this week was zone conference. It was a hilarious adventure trying to get there. We have to clean and wash our car before then because it gets inspected at zone conference. The problem was though that it snowed like three inches the night before. We had to wash it before then so in the morning we ran to the car wash and vacuumed out the inside and went through the automatic washer. Vacuuming was ridiculous cause the hose was super dirty and covered in snow so the more we vacuumed the dirtier it got haha. We did the best we could and then moved on to washing the outside. We didn't really do a good job of scrapping off the snow and sister hatch said not to worry because the water in the car wash would just melt the snow right off. I was a little nervous about us turning into a frozen moving Popsicle but really there is now arguing with sister hatch some times lol. As we were sitting there and the car was getting washed, it sprayed a soap on us that was a pepto-bismal pink and turned all three inches of the snow that color haha then the next soap layer was a mustard yellowish/brown. Oh man it looked hideous and I could not stop laughing. The water kind of melted most of the snow but there wasn't very much water pressure cause we picked a cheep car wash. We basically looked like a pink slushee that fell into yellow curb water. We got out and scrapped as much as possible off but we were didn't want to be late so we just drove there. Luckily most of it melted off by the time we got inspected but man it was pretty hilarious. People driving down the street probably thought we were so dumb haha oh well. We passed.

haha Anyways this zone conference was my first one and it was so spiritually uplifting. The theme was faith. President Maynes is an amazing teacher because he spent so many years being an institute teacher. My favorite quote he quoted was "Faith is not just a feeling it is a decision, we need to choose faith." I love that! Because just like we have to decide to be happy and to decide to keep going. We need to choose to be faithful. My favorite thing he applied it to was, our prayers. When we pray we need to actually have faith that Heavenly Father will help us receive those things we pray for. Like if I am praying that someone will be home so we can teach them, I need to have faith that it will actually happen. Also if I am praying for help to have more energy during the day, I need to have faith that Heavenly Father will give me the energy before I will even pray about it. I have been really working on that this week and it is amazing how much my prayers are answered when I have faith that they will be. I don't know if it is because I am noticing the answers to my prayers more or because of my faith they are being answered. But it is incredible the difference I have noticed this week. This is a principle I am going to apply for the rest of my life.

Something else I have learned this week is the importance of church attendance. We have been visiting a lot of less actives this week. All of them have different reasons for not coming like, they were offended, they got to busy, and they feel their own spirituality is enough for them to make it back to heaven. But all of them don't feel like they need church. They don't see the point when they already feel spiritual and are happy right now.

It is true that people can be happy if they don't go to church but I have seen for a fact that your life will slowly take a straying path. I have seen now how much it will seriously impact yourself and your families lives if you do not go to church. It's kind of like my farewell talk. Church is the place where we can continue our conversion. We can never slack on our conversion. Sister Hatch told me that "Conversion will never plateau, it is either an uphill climb or and downward slope." I now know that is true. Even the strongest most amazing members can slowly stray away if they are not constantly working on their conversion. There testimonies can be strong, but conversion is what will carry us to the last days. Church is part of the plan to keep us on the path. Not going can be seriously detrimental to ours and our families salvation. I now know why in one of Elder Holland's talks he says to return missionaries. "You have no right to become inactive after your mission." It's true! How could I ever look my investigators and less actives in the face if I ever stopped going to church. Anyways, I have learned so many valuable lessons already on my mission so far. And I want to tell you these stories so you can hold me accountable some day. I shutter to think if I ever became in active after my mission. But if I ever did. This email holds me accountable.

Well, I love you all. Thanks so much for your emails, letters, and support. I am so happy to be on my mission. I love the work, I witness the truth of this gospel every single day. Don't let excuses, distractions, and pride get in the way of your salvation. Always remember what is important. Have an Amazing week!!!!