12th Letter!!

ok hello friends.. and fellow strangers,

 

So last monday me and my good companion sis hirst went to wakulla springs! ahh! we saw a HUGE aligator! and lots of little babies! never do i want to swim in a river... hahaha So on wednesday we had a girl who leaves for her mission to scotsdale az at the end of july i believe, and she came with us to all our lessons for the day! it was my first time having someone not a missionary there teach with us!  it was a good day! the first lesson we had with her was with a guy named mathew who has been taught before, and he knows his bible.... so it was a little scary! fetch i was nervous! i think i prayed the whole time! but we taught a good lesson and he invited us back. saweet! than we saw this guy named Raniky! he lives with who we think is a drug dealer, everytime we see him he's high and on something. but raniky is a cna and is going to go back to school in august to get his lpn! he is this huge black guy!! really tall and broad! but the sweetest thing in the world, a big teddy bear as our gator who lives across the street michael says. we taught him the restoration, Iliana bore her testimony! she is going to be a really cool missionary! and than he told us that he has been searching for truth, and he says that he will listen to anybody who talks about God. because what if he didn't listen to us that first day we saw him and he just walked away but we had truth, he would have missed out on it! so his view on us and teaching is beautiful!! he is a soul searching man! OH the greatest moment was when we asked him if he would pray to know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet called of God, he said he didn't need to! he knows its true! waaaattt???? GOLDEN!! than we asked him to be baptized! he wants to be baptized!! so over all in that little complex, there is one member, 3 who want to be baptized, and 6 wanting to learn more!! woot woot!! raniky is amazing!! i told him that he is a giant nurse! he laughed and agreed hahaha we love him!! than we saw michael! love him!! he gives us some spiritual juice to get us back on our spiritual high, awesoemness! he still wants to be baptized he is sharing the gospel with his friends and asked if he could have more BoMs to give his friends... um yeah!! he ran inside to grab his bible and showed us that he was doing cross referencing! and he said how its so cool! woooo love him!! than sis hirst got sick, so when our great day with Iliana was over sis hirst crashed. she has a head cold! :P But i havent gotten sick! woop wooppp.so thursday was a slow day but we did discover something cool. 1. if you can fart in front of someone, your true friends. and 2. when sis hirst isn't sick she is a very cautious driver but when she is sick she is a normal human driver. ahaha but now she is a missionary driver again!! it was so funny! we stayed inside most of the day that is why we know this lol.  3. NEVER MAKE A SMOOTHIE WITH GARLIC AND GRAPEFRUIT! she put too much garlic in it and she almost puked it back up! nasty!! 4. you need A LOT of Book of Mormons to build a house. 5. thermometers that you put on your temple are bogus and 6. When me and sis hirst are companions we share a sickness, i apparently had a high fever, but she had all the symptoms hahaha here is a great quote from our ward mission leader, "sometimes i feel like i should be better at fellowshipping, but then i think that im really awkward, and id probably just push them away."-brother davis.  on saturday sis hirst was feeling a wee bit better so we went to visit a few people but not many because me (sis Milne) was her doctor, and i (and sis jensen) said to take it easy :)  we saw michael again, and here is an amazingly beautiful quote that he said " I used to be miserable and depressed but now everytime i read the BoM and bible, things just get better and lighter and easier!! and it just keeps getting better!!"-Michael Williams. Me and sis hirst almost died when he said that! the elders teaching him who haven't met him yet better do it fast because he is amazing! he has the sweetest smile when he talks about the gospel, and when we're teaching you can tell that he is living off of every word you say. its like light bulb, light bulb, light bulb over and over again!! BEAUTIFUL!! so during our discussion, i saw in the corner of my eye a dark object fall out of a tree, and it fell onto the hood of a truck! it sounded like a bomb!! BOOM!! than it slid off on to the ground.... it was a squirll hahahhahahahahhahahahhahahhahaha it was stunned for a few seconds then wobbly, hopped away. we busted up so hard!! oh my i couldn't help but laugh out loud!! michael asked if it was ok and i just laughed at it... hahahhahahaha we read some of the Book of Mormon with him but every time i had to read i kept replaying the squirl falling out of the tree over and over again, and i would keep reading but holding back laughter.. apparently they could notice and they started laughing too! so it was a good day! oh one more awesome thing that happened! we were pulling up to a red light turning left. and there was a car with its harzzards on. and then the light turned green so cars zoomed around it, than it turned red and thats when we pulled in. there was a girl with a pink mohawk and a guy trying to push there car across the street into a parking lot. NO one was helping so i jumped out and helped push/steer, cars were honking at us and the guy and girl were swearing at them and flipping people off. hahaha i just sat there like "push more"!! faster haha. then she thanked me. they lived close by and i ran back across the street and jumped in the car right as it turned green :) sis hist protected the car from the other cars hahahaha sweet!! oh and that day we did service! we helped build a life size truck out of tomato cans yeah it was pretty sick! da da da dum!! in church they talked about how our priorities determine what we seek in life. like think about what you want to do tomorrow, than next month and than next year! than in your life!! you start to realize that the gospel is the big picture and we need to prioritize it first before all of the worldly things!! oh here is another analogy. you have a jar and you put big rocks in it, than you put little rocks in it and shake it around. they fall into each other and fit than you put sand in it and shake that around, it all falls into place. but if you had put the sand in first than the little rocks than the big rocks, it all would not have fit!! the gospel is our big rocks and they need to be in our lives first! so my commitment for yall is to always think of christ. try to keep a prayer in your heart! always think of christ and heavenly father. your thought process changes when you do so!! LOVE YALL!!

The coolest sis miss evar

Sis Milne