Heyllo!

HEYLLO!

Ok so i forgot to bring my planner again so thisll be interesting :)

sis H has been sick. all. week. long. booo! hahah oh well im doin lots of studin and cleanin maybe i blasted some of sis Hs cds and danced who knows! only me :) but ok this'll be off my memory so bear with me.

This week we did trade off with monticello sisters. me and sis Lloyd had fun! we went to this one LAs house. it was dark. like pitch black and it was foggy bad! haha their driveway was way up in the woods. seriously we were in a horror movie!! ahh! so we were jokin about it on the way up there how scary n such it was lol. now it was only like 7:00. we go up to the house. there aint no lights on but a little glow like theyre watchin a movie! so we knock. and we can see inside cuz they have windows on their door. and we see someone get up off the couch and go into  another room. my thought was How rude! we can see you person!! hahah so we stand there awkwardly for a few more seconds. than a face jams up against the window!! for like 2 seconds and disapears!!! WHAT?? i screamed alittle! HOLY FLIP! we were ganna die! no one answered the door so i started to write a note on a mormon.org card and sis lloyd goes to knock again and someone opens the door like 5 inches, just enough so his face fit out. and it was like young person! maybe 20s? we told him who we were and he said it wasnt a good time. so we asked when would be a good time to come back. he just slamed the door and left for a good solid minute! now i felt like time was going slow. my heart was beating fast because i just thought about dieing!!! he comes back sayin another day. he has a thick country southern boy accent. so we left. he slammed it closed again. we walk back to the car through the fog and blackness and laugh in the car!! sooooo dagum scary!! ahhhh!!!!

ok... so i may or may not have clogged our kitchen sink... i was cleanin the sink and next thing you know the other side fills up reall fast! crap! so i turn the disposal on and it comes up in both sinks even higher. so i ruined the sink... :P me and sis lloyd tried to fix it with the toilet plunger! it worked until we tested it out with the dishwasher. the dishwasher flooded.. so we left it. whatever! it was like that for 3 days! until the maintance guy came. i washed all the dishes in the shower. fun eh? than essic came to fix our sink and he told us after he fixed it that there was a candle in there!! ok now how does that happen? well one night sis milne was creative! i was gonna melt candle wax and put it into a santa thingy. but it mixed in with too much water so i dumped the water and wax into the sink. WHY?? idk. i didnt even think it would do nothin! the floor even flooded! hahah oh my so that was fun!!.

We had missionary leadership conference this week! so much fun! it is usually 1 day but this time is was 3. the first night we had a bbq, played some games than had a bonfire! super spiritual! like seriously it was incredible!! than day 2 we had 2 representatives from the missionary department come and they talked to us. and we were there for about 5 hours! super powerpact!! they spoke, sis smith and pres spoke and than the APs spoke! it was awweessooommmee!! seriously awesome! and they had really good food for lunch! gangus grill is delicious! mmm. than 2 days later we went to bonifay fl for part 3. and Elder Kopischka from the area 70 came and did a Q&A with us! and elder munns from one of the 70s came!! itwas Incredible!! oh my. we had 3 hours wiht him. he said that he didnt come with an agenda. so we asked him questions!! it was perfect! he is sooo adorable! love him!!!  so in the 3 days of meetings. i feel like i have a lot to do in a little amount of time! but it was just amazing! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i took tons and tons of notes!! family history is explodin down here as well as church tours! we're ganna bring it!! my soul trembles because my body cant contain it! ahhhh!!!!!!!! hahahhaha

Bro Keith is doin good! we had a laurel go out with us to his lesson yesturday! he gave me a jacket because it was cold outside and i forgot mine :) but it was fun! courtney is awesome!!! bro keith is in ether right now.  he still wont come to church but he's gettin more and more! we're teachin too!!!

bro bell is the same. we need to spiritually kick him in the butt!! so we're workin on it! :)

Bianca is hiding from us. but we found her so we're ganna try to get back to teachin her again! her LA boyfriend stayed in the room for a lesson we had with his mom! ben is his name! he is absoluetly amazing!! we helped sis childers out with cleanin dolls she is donating. i never want to see a doll again!! old creepy dolls. we were livin a horror movie again!! hahahaha i love the members here!! i love my sisters here! i love being a missionary!!! im still tryin to do my best no matter what others do. it hard!! doubt your doubt before you doubt your faith! and be kind to yourself! we do much better than we think we are! so congrats on bein awesome! thanksgivin is this week woooooooooooo so stoked!!! we have a member feedin us and its ganna be a huge gatherin! so excited hahaha oh my life it good. its real good! Keep it real smalls! dont do drugs and also pray at least 2x a day!

Have a blessed week!

God bless you!

Sis Milne

 

quote: i know the problem, those aint your rooster chasin shoes! -bro parker

sis hamilton was chasin a drunk LAs rooster to pet it but she couldnt catch him... so bro parker said this!! so funny

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This week has been so strange! on monday we went to empty nesters. its a group of basically old people who dont have kids in their "nest" anymore lol it was a thanksgiving dinner! yumm! we were the youngest people there woah!! HAHAHA IT WAS SUPER FUN THOUGH. oop caps on :) and i love hanging out with old people though. i dont know what it is about em that makes me feel like i can be myself more! haha anyway! we did trade offs with cairo sisters! sis wells came down here to tally. it was super fun! she is so cute! i feel like all my trade offs have ended with sisters in tears! except 2 ithink... idk i love my sisters! they are my sisters too!!! so much love!!! Quote of the day we knocked on this house and the guy opens the door startled looking. he looks around and than looks us up and down. sis Wells is sayin who we are n such. he simply says " you didnt light up into flames!! you alive from walkin up here!!! you feelin ok???" hahahahaha so funny we were like nope we feel fine :) but that was a great response.

Sis H was sick this week again so there was a bit of resting. thats ok though :) updates on gators

Bro. Kieth Highsmith!! We had a lesson with him  outside his apt as normal but this day was FREEZING!! it was soo cold! i pulled out a blanket for his lesson!! so da gum cold!! but we love him. so yall know. tallahassee gets CoLd!! like real cold!! its a wet cold though so when you get cold its like nothin gets ya warm. after his lesson it was time to plan. and sis H wasnt feelin good she took like a 45 min shower warmin herself up while i bundled up in socks a huddie and blankets! crazy!! than today it is super warm and cloudy! its still hurricane season so thats why there is crazy weather i think...  BUT! Bro Kieth has really bad anxiety and thats why he wont come to church. so saturday we gave him a church tour with bro goehrig (WML) and bro goehirg talked the whole time! it was aweosme! best tour ever! bro kieth said he was really impressed how the church utilizes its space, and that it was a beautiful church building! ive never heard a church of ours called beautiful! bro kieth has so much potential! when he gets baptized and recieves the priesthood. look out world!!! he'll convert everyone!!!!! hahaha

This week we got yelled at. me and sis wells actually. by a less active member who has hard core bitter feelings about the ward because of somethin todo with her son and his family? not sure she just got so mad at us!!! so mad! i felt it right away and tried to get us out of there but sis wells was gettin fired up. my thoughts were oh no... so i kept tryin to end the conversation and leave but sis Wells wasnt havin that. so i just about died inside!! when we left i was like you are a fire cracker!! hahaha lets not go back!!!. people if you have hard feelins for a ward or people. dont take it out on the missionaries! we got no idea and it aint our fault! so that was fun... ;/

Bianca. An active members less active sons girlfriend. does that make sense?? we had met with her 2x. she is solid holy flip! she is readin and prayin right now about it!! wowza!! hahaha she is the sweetest thing ever! i love her!!

Met a partmember family who was a referral. i love them and i want to live with them and be there best friends!! its not in our area though. dagum elders get on it!!!!!!!! my new word for life is Hoo-z floo-z hahah i love the schank family! the first time we met them it seemed like they didnt, but i think theyre startin to love us!! sis schank is amazing! love her! and her family!! LOVE THEM!!

so we have a couple new gators that set up apts for this week. but they bailed and werent there :( sad day! but we aint givin up on em!! bahahhahhaha. the schaffner family invited us over to help them decorate for xmas! wooohoooo! so excited for xmas! all the lights! we found xmas decorations in a closet in our apt so while sis h was sick i decorated :) FUN!!

church was amazing. all 11 missionaries sang infront of everyone during sacrament meeting. the armys of helaman. all i could hear was elder mcpherson haha i was standing next to him but still!! this week my epiphany (spellcheck) was that nomatter what the sitaution is. you can always blame others but what can you do to make the situation better?

So that is my motto for the time being.

what can i do to make the situation better?

WELL thats all for now folks

LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!
SIS MILNE THE BESTEST

Another day in the life

Hahahah if only yall could hear me say that! funny funny funny

we're emailing at a members house today because the dance studio we email at, the members are not goin in today :( so sis H is talkin to bro bell (distracting him) so i can email. i did it for her the first hour! hhahaha funnnn

So our gator named Virginia Bill is a part member she has had lessons also before, her husband lives far away and she is moving away on thanksgiving. time is crunching to get her baptized!! but she likes taking us out to eat. we dont complain. she loves us! but our WML told us to try to help her with praying. that was a struggle before. so we talked about prayer and how its important to pray. and to love it! than we asked her to pray. and SHE DID! in the restaurant! in front of tons of people!! so awesome! i felt like crying and jumping into her arms with joy!!! hahah so good!!

Mr. Kieth is now in helamen 13 as of last tuesday. he had read through all of alma in a week!! INCREDIBLE MAN!!!! he said in his prayer that he loves us and that we are his sisters!! and he said he Loves Us!! wooooohooo!! so good! we got into the car and said. Awe he loves us!!! we're his sisters!!!!!!!!!! he's ganna get baptized soon!! we're finding out what is keeping him from church. 

dinner at the millers house is always my favorite! they are the bestest example ever!! kind of makes me excited to have a family! which is weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but their kids are the cutest and we laugh so much!!!! oh my i love them!!!

We did trade offs with spanish sisters. i went to the spanish area again. and it was a full spanish day!! half of the lessons were in full spanish! no english so i sat there and smiled and tried to distract the kids that also spoke no english hahahha i know. No espaniol lo siento, el libre de mormon.... hahahhaa this one woman was going off on me in spanish. she was smilling and holding my hands hahah i think she was saying how i look like her grandpa?? Hermana richardson only told me part of what was said. so i look like a columbian womans grandpa... i pray thats a good thing hahaha it was also my hump day!! woooooooooooo! its weird that ive been out 9 months. time is going too fast!!! and it was a spanish day. hahahhahaha hola!!!!! i came home that night and there was chalk art saying happy hump day! nine months! sis h and hermana dawe opened the door with a brownie with 1/2 candles on it!! singing happy hump day!! it was so sweet!! there were signs and a card!!! seriously i teared up a wee bit. it was the sweetest thing ever!! its strange having people think about you. i like doing it for others. but others doing it to me?? i dont know how to repsond!! it was incredible! i felt loved here. there are moments in mission time where i see all the ones i love and the ones that love me. i feel like its a glimpse of the spirit world.... incredible!!!!!

quote by sis helms. "it was fun to bundle up and look like a terrorist" she was talking about biking in the morning! its getting chilly down here!! definetly sweater and snuggle weather :) 

Sis Copelin said to her smoker father before he died "do you realize that you cant smoke when your dead?" hahaha so funny :)

Had lunch with Jenny reynolds from 1st ward!!! she works over here in 3rd ward. she was telling people that she loved me in church. she has gone to church 3x in a row!!! hahahah oh my just take a step back and think about all that is done and all that has hapened and you just get an overhwelming feeling of love and gratitude for Heavenly Father!!

SUNDAY!! SIS BILL CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7 Weeks in the area and finally 1 gator came to church!! sooooo gooooood!!! After church we went to the methodist church again and helped make christmas boxes full of things for kids around the world. so sweet! it was really fun! people were coming up saying that they know the mormons. and so and so is a mormon hahah so good!!! One man wouldnt stop talking to us! he was ganna point out all the strays to us so we could get an easy picken hahaha we said sweet point us in the right direction!!! pastor ken loves us!! someone told us we were the life of the party! what? we just showed up! and also people were always like oooh we heard about you two!!! hahahah and it was a good thing! awesome! so awesome!! they love us! the old man said somthing that made me think though. they were telling us to come to church and we said we would if our church wasnt on at the same time. and the old man said your church is already saved you need to come here! hahahhaha so awesome! well thats all ive got for ya this week. tips to survive. Dont run up hill early in the chilly morning. dont eat sweets late at night. always say your prayers before bed. 

Thanks for everything!! LOVE YALL!

Sis Milne

Another transfer has ended

HEY!

is it weird that another transfer has ended already? whop no! ah! too fast! i wish i could slow time down! anyway so much has happened this week!! ahh! it was an awesome week! better than last weeks! so i have been tryin to figure out what i need to learn from sis h and tally 2 and bein an stl. because i feel like i aint gettin it! so ive been prayin and studin my scriptures tryin to figure it out. woah i dont know the answer yet but i feel like its gettin close! yay!!

So we did a bunch of service this week! so i got to wear my pants more than i have my whole mission! it was weird... we helped at a pumpkin patch at the united methodist church because we became friends with Pastor Ken. that was fun. alot of the volunteers from that church were makin faces for a bit until we forced them to like us :)  we touched some nasty pumpkins! BUT  we got to take 2 for free for helpin! yay! so at district meetin the next day we carved them! me and sis H tried to make a captain moroni... but we failed so we called it good hahhaha it was super fun! i cant use a knife with out stabbin someone ive learned... this might be an issue. my mission pres and his wifes new name is mom and dad :) they respond and they dont get mad! ... yet so its pretty fun :) it was also transfers! we baby sat one of the sisters were over as stls so it was fun. sis chambers is aflippen ray of sunshine!! RAY OF SUNSHINE! its awesome!! than we did service that night at the first catholic church with baptist members! a man who said he was a heathen invited us hahah he really isnt a heathen... he lied lol he said hed be mormon if the WoW didnt exist! me and sis H looked at each other and than at mr bruce and told him we could help him with it hahaha he laughed! he loves us! we know it! Than we went to a dinner for all the volunteers at the homeless shelter at the first baptist church!! awesome! the shelter has a band and so they were playin! so much fun! it was crazy that we knew a few of the band members! sis G and sis west were there too! me and sis G would have totally gone up and sang with em if we could.. and if they sang songs we knew. but it was super fun! so than one night! last monday actually and we became friends with a man named reverend Hall! he is supposed to call us so we can eat breakfast together! he was soo sweet! sweet old man buyin his fav ice cream at 8:00 pm! hahah so fun!

Mr Kieth is doin well! he is gettin closer to comin to church and he has prayed about baptism but doesnt feel he needs to be rebaptised! so we asked him to pray about what to do with the info he's gained. basically baptism again hahah WE love Kieth!! he told his sister that he is gettin converted to the mormon girls hahahha we're gettin him friends in the ward. but its always a risk. you never know what the member is ganna say durin the lesson! one lesson a while ago. a member brought up slavery... and we were talkin to a black lady... awkward. me and my comp sat there prayin in our heads for the member to stop! hhahah anyway!

i love the members here! on halloween i got sick :( so i was stuck inside. we watched videos all day haha. we dressed up that night and ate candy and watched the restoration movie with our voices lol than we just watched it and cried! it was horrible!!!! hahaha super fun day though. i hate bein sick!  so hallowween was fun! i was a scarf ninja and sis H was batman.. batwoman! i dont have my planner here today so i honestly dont know what we did this week haha oh sad! oh we were at dinner at the schaffners house and it was a girls night. so much fun! me and sis H were makin everyone laugh! so they signed up to feed us again.. we get fed the most! what is this! so grateful that members feed us though! i would starve and just eat candy.... hahahha ok well. my epiphany this week. oh also we taught relief society. it went really well!! but while i was preparin i realized the BoM and the bible are all about missionary experiences. all of it! has to do with sharin the gospel! bein a missionary! whaaattt!! so that was really cool! anyway! prayer and scriptures are ture! i cant spell still but im too shaky to try anymore! i love yall!!! stay safe and dont go crazy! happy halloween!/christmas!

 

LOVE
Sis Milne #1