What a flippin week!

What a flippen week!!

 

So much has happened! oh my goosh!! ok a few quotes from one of our gators! Its Mr. Kieth hahah we had a lesson with him and we asked him to grab his BoM. we cant go inside so we stand outside his apt. but anyway he goes inside and comes back outside with his glasses. and he seriously looks like santa clause! freakishly like santa, so we laughed for a minute and told him. then he went off for 20 mins on how santa is a thief and a liar! he stole xmas away from Jesus!! hahaha soo funny! so funny! so now we know to never mention santa and xmas with mr kieth lol! but he was sayin how when he prays he Expects God to move. that is deep man, deep! but then it made me think about what type of prayers am I sayin! so im tryin to pray and act like God has already done it and is gonna move. its pretty intense! that's for sure lol. than one of the ways he remembers some of the bible names are. Gods Electric Power Company... now if I can remember which book is for which word that would make it all the better! but I cant hahaha, and than mr kieth went off about his beard and how its not as long as it should be. and how at the start of 2014 he wants to cut it and get all clean shaven and than go to church but than he got thinkin that we (me and sis H) might not be there so he may have to come to church with the beard and all! we said awe please come with the beard! maybe even braided lol. he laughed but didn't come this week :P that's all good. he will come! no worries!! I seriously love him he is so funny! and we learn so much about the bible when we're with him! we're legitly thinkin about makin a bible study class with him teachin us!

A lot of the people/gators down here think that when we come over to teach its for bible study... ehh no its not . hahah!! but I love mr kieth and every time we go and have a lesson with him I see him in white, in a jumper and then a white shirt and tie! when that day happens im ganna flip into joyous squeals! yes joyous squeals!

We did service with elder harrer and elder lovell this week at a huge farm! 5 horses, 2 donkeys, 1 goat, 4 dogs, 4 cats, 30ish chickens, a million spiders and more cockroaches lol. and we were pullin weeds first. we got to use machettes!! yes I had a machete right there in my hard! and everytime sis H would swing it she would make swooshing noises and elder harrer started makin video game noises from like link and Zelda. "hu ah ga bu"! hahaha so funny! than we played fruit baseball with the machettees, grossness! the member had me and sis H clean out a feed barn thing. I was done. Cockroaches... BIG!!! I don't know how to say it! and giant spiders! ugh gross!! so this weekend was the harvest festival activity for the ward! so much fun! the missionaries were in charge of the wheel of heavenly fortune! I seriously think all of the kids in the ward LOVE us! hahhahah so much fun!! I learned how to rope a fake cow from sis H and president Burton. (stake pres) hahaha I def need some work! oh my it was sooo much fun! I love this ward! than I found my gma smartt here in florida! her name is joan cobb, a LA who will soon be active and she is freakishly like my gma smartt! I love her!!!! I just hugged her for an awkward amount of time lol. sis h was sick again. so more time to get creative!! hahah than one of the nights we ate dinner at the brewers house and they are sooo much fun! sis brewer rides a motorcycle to church! HAWT!! so much fun! I think I ate a raw hamburger haha they love em pink. so that was gross! hahah Heavenly Father kept the food down! that's for sure.

Last night we ate dinner at the Burtons. we had a rough weekend with a person and we needed it! we felt like we were at home!! it was so nice to feel loved and at home! the burtons daughter took pics of us and send them to our families! sis burton started to get emotional talking about her sons pics that get sent to her sometimes.. awe!

Last thing before I end. this week I had a moment like Nephi, and Abraham. We had a plan to do service . and we were about to leave and I just had the sickest, worst feelin in the world! and I didn't know how to say that I felt this way because where we were goin we had scheduled and than canceled and now rescheduled.. we were following the spirit! but I didn't know how to tell sis H that I think we need to call the people back and cancel again. I prayed in the bathroom asking what to do and God said in my head. "Do you fear man more than God"? ugh! I walked out of the bathroom and told sis H, we prayed again and read scriptures. the one that I opened to was that there was evil under the sun. we called the person and they got mad at us! we wrote him a note apologizing and explaining more cuz he didn't let us talk on the telephone  and at church we saw them and talked with him. he is still upset. doctrinal wise we are safe! than I thought about nephi and abramahm. they knew the commandment to not kill. if they didn't kill they would be blessed. but the Lord asked them to! and so they went and did as the Lord commanded! we told Bro Goehrig and Bro Lind. our WML and assistant WML and we got emotional and they comforted us with kind words. Me and sis H love this ward!! sooo much!!!!! Definetly ups and downs. but I fear God more than I do man! and that gives me comfort! people use your brains! don't be dumb! I love yall

Peace and blessins!

Sis M the coolest cat in town

Happy Pday

Hello!!

So this week was pretty good, ok definetly some ups and downs but its goin too fast to be real! seriously i feel like im in a movie and the movie is almost half over! no way! slow down lets start over again... ok maybe i dont want that yet. i like all the knowledge ive gained! i cant imagine myself without it! so this'll be interestin!! people are askin me and sis H how long we've been out and its strange to hear her say 10 months and im almost 9.... ahh! we're oldies! oldies! hahah but i love this!!! florida is kinda scary we've decided lol lots of trees. pitch black at night, spanish moss everywhere! its a horror movie just waitin to happen. so me and sis h have decided to come back next halloween to be scared and then go back home lol. too much fun!! also!! if we're stuck inside early halloween night we've decided that were gonna dress up and make a fort and watch the restoration movie lol dress up with things we find around the house, make a fort with a couch, 2 beds a million sheets and 4 chairs lol. and the restoration movie because its not scary at all but when you look at us after we cry our eyeballs out it will be scary hahahha so its a plan! woo!

 so we have found some of the most amazing members in the entire world! we went to dinner at the millers house this week and they have the cutest kids in the world! the smallest girl was like missionaries!! all night long and then she'd point at us and make a sly grin hahaha so cute! but the bestest part is that they understand missionary work! so good!! and then they gave us 7 grocery bags full of food to take home! 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i nearly cried!! seriously cried!!! i hugged sis miller and didnt want to let her go! so nice! talk about christlike people! i love them!

 if i think about all the people i fall in love with out here. its ridiculous! its absolutely crazy! my heart beats faster and hotter when i feel that special christlike love! is that normal? haha

 so we did 2 trade offs this week. its really fun to do these! it makes me appreciate sis h more and more. also i love bein a stl! LOVE IT!!!! i also love bein a missionary hahha anywho this friday melyssa murphey was baptized! she got baptized in miami but is gonna be in 1 ward! we watched the baptism over face time :):) i cried! she is so incredible! her whole family was there to watch! and her dad said the closing prayer! he isnt a member!!!! bro bell baptized her! so cute! oh my and then after she bore her testimony and said that she knows the church is true. ooo it gives me  goosebumps just thinkin about it! she is a solid fiery member! i love her sooo much!! no matter what people say. she was definitely me and sis Gs baptism. i love her. melyssa is special. she will always be in my heart :) <3<3

 so durin ward correlation bro gerohig. i cant spell our ward mission leaders name... thats awkward lol but he told me and sis H that we have all the tough gators! all the part members who are hard headed and smartly sly. me and sis h looked at each other with a smile and said what! hahaha is it because we dont give up and follow the spirit? hahahaha

OH!! i didnt tell yall about the lesson! so Bro. Bell the most stubborn man alive! we took him and his wife who is a queen and a member to pres and sis smiths home for a lesson. we needed help with him. so we go there. its goes good. then pres starts talkin. holy macrol power pact! he showed and taught bro bell about how the priesthood was lost and needed to be restored. i cant even write the things in which he said because i can find no words for them!!! it was powerful! so powerful! (definetly a call to repentance for me, to not give up on the bible) and so we invited bro bell to be baptized again. and he said that when he knows its true he will. he is still stubborn!! it was a super soft commitment. he wouldnt say yes though!! ahhahaha he is definitely a hard cookie that is crackin slowly. afterwards pres and sis smith said that we're on the right track and that the right set of missionaries are here. that made us feel good!

Heavenly father knows how to help boost us up!! It just shows who is in charge lol. hmmm what else.

OH awkward moment ever! bro carlton. (a homeless shelter person) gave me this hug! ahh no! it came out of no where! and he turned to give sis G one but she wasnt have any of it! he forgot we told him no hugs lol oh no! so that was no good.... hahhahaha i love this! it is definetly a tough area. and we're workin on! Thank you for everything! I LOVE YOU!
LOVE
sis M the greatest! ;)

35th Letter

Hey

Ok so today was so needed! earlier i really didnt want to do anything. like i wanted to come email. i just didnt know what to say! so sad! but then reading the emails i got. seriously. Heavenly Father knows what we need to hear. So thank you. thanks yall for everythin! this past week has been up and down!  me and sis H are doin good. the work is so da gum slow! but its here and its moving... being a missionary is tough and it takes so much out of you. but the feelin i get when i can feel and see the love of Christ. it pushes me up!! ok so this week. i did trade offs with spanish sisters!! yes i was a hermana for 24 hrs! so hard! i definetly know why im an english missionary. lol i did say our purpose in spanish... ok i just mimicked hermana dawes sounds. because i dont know what she was saying or reading... hahahhaha so much fun! we did service at this car museum. seriously have the nicest cars ever! they even have the batmobile! lots of cars holy flip its so insanly awesome!!! and the guy that keeps them clean and stuff fell in love with me and hermana Dawe! haha he told us that he keeps all the cars runnin! so all them cars can be driven! so awesome! he said next time we come we can clean the cars. and that is HUGE! they say nobody touches the cars but him! and the elders have been goin there for a while now... so thats awkward... hhahha oh well! we cleaned like 1000000 windows!! on the building etc. so many windows! but Mr. Dickey loves us now :) he said that we worked harder than the boys do! hahahahaha we didnt tell the elders that!! hahaha also i havent ridden a bike in a few weeks and it definitely showed! my whole body is still recovering from it! oh btw im sparatically (spell check) runnin every other day. its ridiculous! sis H just walks and i run back and forth. than i have to run past a million elders because in the complex i live in there are 20 flippen missionaries!!! cra cra. So this past week was good. First of all

THE TIRA BACON. my bad. Sister Bacon has been called to serve in Lisbon Portugal!! she leaves march 7? i think...! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I am so happy!! seriously!!! i can remember me and sis G. prophesying her future and we knew she was gonna serve the Lord and she would laugh and say she wasnt! da da da!!! she used to say that she didnt want to go to church. but she did! oh my goodness! sooooo da gum happy!! i love the sister bacon!!!!!!!!!!

i got permission to go watch her open her call!!! i love being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also this familly the Dransfields. they fed us and told us that we could skype our family on xmas there. and bro dransfeild took us into their living room and had this projector and so when xmas time comes around we can skype and see a giant version of them!!!!!! so dagum cool! so we hope we're stayin here! so much to do!

Sis H has been sayin a lot lately that this has been her fastest transfer ever! i know its cuz im awesome... :)

Then last night we had dinner at a part members house. the Huckabas! and sis Huckaba is incredible! she was gonna be in the CIA and she knows russian, and french and a lil bit of japanesse! she has traveled everywhere! seriously! she is legit! and then she came back to the USA and married a math professsor... boring... hahhaha ok jk no its not. when she was talkin i felt like i was listenin to a real life movie!!!  and their son is 13 and is trainin for the olympics! he is a gymnist and a balerina dancer! balerino. thats what he said boys were called... not sure if its real or not lol. he is very energetic! that is for sure. but sis H has been sick this past week and so we havent gotten much teachin in etc, so at dinner we taught out of 1 nephi 11:17 with God is our loving Heavenly Father. Holy powerpacked! it was intense. the spirit was thick there. he is a quiet man but he was nice and answered questions. i couldnt tell if he was cryin or just sweatin... but it was such a fun dinner! sis Huckaba called us a few hours ago thankin us for comin over! and how powerful and perfect our message was. and how she cant wait for us to come follow up on the commitement we left with them :) she is absolutely the coolest person ever! i love her!!!

So the other day. we had planned our day and had a bunch of people we were ganna go see. no one was home. seriously not one person. and we had no idea what to do. if sis H hadnt been sick i would have cried hahaha but really. our area has nobody walkin around anywhyere. the neighborhoods were empty. we dont tract because that is a sis milne rule. and so i called our ward mission leader and asked for help. the next day we were off. we had our WML giving us ideas and today literally right before i came to email. a woman in the ward had jsut gotten the calling of getting the missionaries meals. and she was talkin to us and said she was gonna get us meals as well as apts with Less active and part member families! HOLY FLIP!! we told her about one woman who we had to cancel on her today and she asked if we wanted her to reschedule for us! i had a few seconds where i felt like we had a secretary!!! SO LEGET!!!!! We have a better drive!!!! Things will get easier when we have people to teach and me and sis H are on the same page. but our Father in Heaven is definetly watchin out for us! hahah

Sis Huckaba likes to give us little messages. like what we do at dinners lol so cute!!! overall. pretty good week! this week we're doin 2 trade offs! wooo! thatll be good :) ill keep ya posted on major events etc. haha

I LOVE BEIN A MISSIONARY!!! i noticed how much longer i have. time needs to slow down but stay this fun!

Love yall! be safe! drugs are still bad. 

Go read 3 nephi 16:11.

Love

Sister Milne the awesomesttt

34th Letter

Can i just say that conference was amazing!! woop woop!

 

So this past week has been insanely strange. like not in events or nothin but in... the spirit? just so w'ere all clear, i cant remember much of anything without lookin back in my planner... hahaha oh dear. there was this one woman who told me how age messes with peoples brain. then i thought, if it is already messed up like hers... what will mine be like when Im her age?!?! nope not gonna say it! except that I'm not gonna get old :) hurray!! hahaha So the weather is purdy nice down here! its coolin off a wee bit so its not a huge wave of nasty sauna heat lol, its a cool warm sauna heat so its much better then earlier in the year! woop woop!

So i have a funny story. for some reason this transfer has been slow. slow getting the work moving but we are moving forward! so at district meeting, we were talking about missionaries in BoM and their attributes. Ammon and Amulek, Alma, Moroni, etc. and then some of the attributes were kindness, dilligence, humility, faith etc then one that came up was happiness! in pres email last week it was about smiling and how people want to be more like others who smile and are happy! then one set of elders in the ward im in (cuz there are 10 missionaries in the ward :/)  and they said that the greatest example today of happiness was me and sis H... what?? haha they were like "we were at a members house and they just talked about you too! and how happy and fun you both were! hahaha then a different set of elders said, hey that happened to us too at a dinner apt!! WHAA? People are talking about us!! it made me feel a bit better, people really do notice us. and people are watching, if we're not happy with where we are, with what we're doing, with why we're doing it. why would anybody else want to be a part of the work we're doing?? my point made :) it was definitely a highlight of the century!! Then on another day we were walking to go buy a new map for our area and we saw our friend Glen! we referred him to 4th ward elders. but we see him sometimes! he is an older black man with one leg in a motorized wheelchair. and the way we started to talk to him was because of his hat. it said God is Good. i love Jesus!! (so many Jesus things down here! its awesome) but he is so awesome!!! he is the sweetest man alive! he saw us and he was like! oh please just kidnap me and marry me!! hahaha he is just the sweetest, funniest guy! hahahaha we said we would if we could because that would be a funny time, kidnaping him...? but he is so funny! one of the other things he said was about how he just wants to get married. and then he said "excuse my language, (me and sis H were like oh no) I just wanna help make a baby!!" hahahaha he wants to leave some part of him in the world. so cute huh!!! glen is our friend :)

SO now lets talk about conference. In the relief society confrence 2 weeks ago. that was so awesome!!!! i love all the stories i took so many notes! then this general conference. when the prophet said he was ganna write that it was the most spiritual conference he had ever been to in his journal. i second that notion! i loved conference! the power was immense! and it was felt all over!! holy cow!! i love jeffrey R Hollands talk on saturday. and i loved all of them! i just loved them all!! conference makes me so happy! i just had been thinking about how much i want to be a missionary. i hit my 8 month mark yesterday :/ strange... how much do i lean on the Lord? How much is this gospel in my life? will it continue when i become a part of it again? blah!!! so many spiritual emotions running through me! lol so much! but i am learning more and more about how much this gospel is true. especially down here in the south. so many churches and people are saying they're the true church, that they know the way to heaven. a lot of bible bashers. so what makes us different? why are we any different when we're saying the same thing? well because Jesus Christ Himself is at the head of the church. not a man who wants to be close to Jesus. Christ himself who died for us! Christ who loves each of us more then we will ever know. Christ who weeps with us and laughs with us. never has he left his sheep alone! my spirit is still growing. and its definitely being pushed harder now. satan is so real ya'll. so real its freaky. good thing we're on the Right Side!! haha Never give up. Look ahead Look up! haha conference was incredible! this gospel seriously is true. truer than toast ma friends. truer than toast. look at the bigger pic! it will blow you mind! God is real!! I love yall!

LOVE
Sis Milne the awesomest!

 P.S. sis hamilton is making me sing in sacramment meeting with her. no one knows it yet... :(

33rd letter

hahaha! ok so much fun!

first off. we dont have a car. so we're on our valiant steeds (bikes) and sis hamilton is the funniest person alive!! so much has happened this week. it seriously seems like a blur... im a little distrubed that i have a hard time remembering what happened this morning and i have to really go back in my head to remember lol oh well what ever! so this week so much has happened! we had the 1/2 mission conference and elder and sister pino from the 70 came and spoke!! soooo powerful! me and sis H were exhausted afterwards. when the spirit hits us that hard we lost all our energy! we saw so many missionaries that i thought id never see again... dont worry i made it a good experiance! but holy crap we have a lot to do! so much to do and so little time. that is what it feels like inside my chest! but im super pumped and excited for it!!! so to go to that conference it was a 2 hr drive. then the next day we, me and sis H, got to go to Missionary Leadership Conference! only for zl and st! ahhh! and that was a 3 1/2 hr drive! so that was fun! we got to know the elders and sisters in the van really well! haha one elder has a shoe size of 11 1/2 if you want to know lol anywho it was powerful! elder pino and pres smith spoke! i had gone in with a question. What am i suppost to do here? why am i a leader! what the flip is supposed to happen! so that was my question going in. and one scripture D&C 15&16. vrs 6 in both sections. i am here to declare repentance and bring souls into Gods fold. when elder pino read that i just about started crying! never has that happened to me. it was def a moment of truth. Heavenly Father. OUR Father! does listen to our prayers. he really does hear them! no matter how you say it. he hears them. he had heard me cry late into the night before, lost and confused. and that scripture has given me the direction he needs me to go. so i have started calling all the sisters w'ere over to repentance and calling all those we meet unto repentance! if you aint repenting than you are not doin it right. we all need to repent and get better. lets be honest. we all need this! so that was my big spiritual epiphany. He really listens. he cares. and He never leaves. to awesome to be real!!! hmm

so i had my first trade off this week!! woo! that was fun! omg i have to tell yall this! so there is a part member family in the ward. sis bell is active and the RS pres. and bro bell is a non member. we had our lesson with them this week. he is very good at dodgin the q and steering the conversation into something else. but we asked him to be baptized 3x! 3X! 3 FLIPPEN TIMES!! hahahah in the end he said if he found the BoM to be true he would be baptized. score. he has just recieved us and is now dead.  hahah it was an interesting lesson thats for sure!! but it was so powerful! we didn't give up. we were soo dang bold other missionaries would have peed their pants! haha he tried not answering this one question and sis H. was like WAIT No, what about YOU! no not your wife YOU! hahah 3x she had to stop him and reask the question. i feel like im seeing a 3 pattern... ill remember that.

Relief society broadcast was amazing! i saw a lot of 1st ward members. so great! i love them all!! ahh! but its good to be where im at. and conference was amazing!! loved loved loovveeddd it!!!!!!!!

funny saying.

1st councelor to the stake pres. but i cant remember his name. i asked him how he was doing and he said. "im fat and sassy!" hahahhaha so funny! also everyone in the stake know about me and issac woods relationship. (his dad taught and baptized my dad's family in Scotland, and we found out just last week!). hahaha funny funny!! but over here in 3 and 2 ward are like the higher class people. its got alot of everything but there is higher class people. for sure. so its a bit different! i miss the ghetto! haha but im glad im here. so happy!!!!!! 

My whole speal for this past week. is. to repent and come unto Christ. yep. that about sums it up! if your doin somethin you aint suppost to. fix it. NOW. talk to someone, bishop, friend, family. Fix it. now is not the time to be carrying around burdens when you need to be the strongest you can be! I love yall! your amazing and doin a  flippen amazin job! also go invite a friend over for dinner and then invite the missionaries over too. if you do it, then membesr in this ward im serving in will do it! you got this!

LOVE
Sis Milne

the awesomest! xoxooxxx