Niceville

Niceville

It has lived up to its name so far hhaha so this week has been crazy! we're on a car share so we are biking a ton.... no. i am so fat!! seriously! so out of shape! sis C is just like a 6 yr old. so she is bouncing around 24/7 not even playin!! so i also get to feel super old! hahaha. this week we had the 1/2 mission xmas conference! me and sis H sang a song....... i was ganna pee my skirt!! seriously! so scared!! i haven't ever shaken so hard in my life!! ahhh!! it was crazy!! i recorded it so i'll send it home this week :). the party was super fun though!! i loved it!! i feel like when im hittin a rut and i want to just die! Heavenly Father helps me out in ways that i can make it through to the next trial!! i swear, we are biking more than driving!! yet the elders keep askin us for rides when they are suiper close to home hahahha funny elders!!

we were at this crazy members house and her bf looks like santa. but he wasn't very nice! he totally said i was on the naughty list :P lame pants!! elder brewington said he was flirtin with me... this just got awkward!! than santa was bein all sassy, and it was fun until i got here. blah blah blah!! later that night he said im on the good list now and gave me a hug! i just stood there, i was with sis C and the elders! i was left to fend for myself! ahhhh! so yes. i hugged santa... i don't know how i feel about it! we are still tryin to get our groove, we're visitin people. i have received like 4 more gmas and gpas and 1 more mamma! hahah my family tree is growing faster than i can comprehend!

im learning more about sis C every day!! its the funniest movie of my life, i really would like it to be recorded all the time. that's my mission, to record her! hahaha

we went to choctow bay Saturday to visit a LA member. than we ate our lunch on a dock out in the water!! sooo muucchh funn!!! it was cloudy and windy and possibly a little sprinkly!! but it was sososo beautiful!! i have confirmed my fear of the ocean, but i still wish i was a mermaid hahaha than we went and found a beach area to run around in the sand :) we took some sand! halla!! hahahhaaha,

so we were biking our brains out right and sis C is way faster than i am. but i talk to more people than she does. so this one time, we were on our way home, she was already a good chunk in front of me, too far to hear me! she rode past some people but i stopped and talked to em!! super awesome and prepared, she took a BoM and i talked to her about it for a few mins. sis C is long gone by this point! so this lady isn't from town she is just workin here for the day. sis C finally i guess realized i wasn't there and came back. but by the time she did i was sayin goodbye!! hahaha. this is interesting!! we have decided that im ganna make a giant child leash :) that way we will never loose each other! and we can stay together!!!

in conclusion i have discovered that there is something different about this area. it feels... different idk how to explain it lol. like i feel the love in the air. there is great potential here, its strange!! tons and tons of people keep tellin us that we're doin amazing and that we're tearin it up and that they love us!! shu. what is goin on? idk my heart starts to stir just thinkin about it!! what is goin on!!! hahaha this is ganna be an interestin transfer!!

LOVE
Sis MILNE

ps i realized that i should probably say something xmasy!! so Merry Christmas!! sometimes, people just need a friend first not a preacher.

Also How great is it that we get to party on Jesus's Birthday!! so many signs and billboards sayin happy birthday Jesus. hahaha JOY TO THE WORLD THE LORD HAS COME!! Let Earth Receive Her KING!

Transfer/Being Brave

Well!

so a lot has happened since last Monday! im here in Niceville with a new companion. sister cooper. Monday late afternoon the ap's called us sayin there was a mistake on the transfer sheet and that me and sis h were getting separated! I am still whitewashing, now im doin it with sis cooper! she is from  northern California. she is like nobody ive ever met! seriously! hahaha I made some videos so when I send it hope ya'll will understand! I love her.  so we live in a 2 story apt with 2 beds and 1 1/2 bath. its a big place! haha tile floors so its chilly in the morning I get to wear my slippers everywhere! im nervous that ill forget to change shoes when we go out. we had nothing when we got here. no gators, a couple LAs they were workin with, a couple pages of potentials, the elders cleaned the apt hard core apparently. it was way messy I think hahaha the desk drawers were full of crap!! and nasty stuff that I won't mention because it makes me gag! why are girls so gross!!! haha. seriously. we're gross! anyway the last few days in tally were sad!! everyone was so upset that we were both leaving!! like seriously upset! we had a lesson with bro keith one more time and lets just say I teared up!! we made a video of explaining the experience because I cant type it. nothing comes to my mind!! it was a sad last few days though. I didn't know we made that big of an influence until we told them we were leaving!! anyway!! here in Niceville. where everyone is super nice!

there is a great and spacious building. the big Methodist church that basically runs the community! its not a very big town. the ward is huge!! so many people were talkin smack about it, but I rebuked them and stopped listenin. the ward members here are sooo nice!! they haven't had sisters here for a while. so they have grown relationships with the elders. we're comin in empty! hahaha but the ward is super super nice!! we have friends already! there is sooooo much work to do! so much work to do! its just us 4 missionaries in the ward. the ward is on the verge of splitting if you get what I mean. BIG! we have gotten 5 new gators in 3 days.  the elders were flippen out!! elder brewington and elder Swenson.(new missionary).  lol oops! I still don't know how to act around elders! awkward! but we had a member come out with us yesterday and have gotten member referrals!! people are flockin to us! im feelin a bit overwhelmed hahah like soooo much to do, but not enough time!!  we are on a car share. so we bike every other day! legs of steel are comin back baby!! legs of steel! so here is a crazy story, we had an apt to do service at a members house, we had the address in our roster, clear on the other side of town so we started out early!! HILLS  are Alive!! there were so many hills! I haven't biked like this in forever!! oh my gosh!! so it took us like an hour to get there. we knock on the door, the member doesn't live there :( but we got a new gator from the new owner of the house! super nice!!. we called the member, no answer, we called the elders. they were makin fun of us a lil bit. haha they came to our rescue and picked us up. the members house was clear on the other side of town! we biked in the wrong direction. ugh!! so I feel like a lot of the time these past 5 days we were damsels in distress's! we met with part member families and got new gators from them! and we have like tons to do!! yet with bikes, its limited. also its freezing! wet wind is so cold!!!

me and sister cooper are workin hard. sis cooper is fearless! not even playin. fearless! so that is good! this area is about to explode with awesomeness! hahahaha its weird workin with elders closely again, also its weird not havin to refer gators and potentials to other wards! there aint nobody around!! so we're in the fort walten zone, that's all I got for you! we were at a ysa dinner (also weird that we can go) and everyone was sayin which ward they are in. I forgot em all. as well as their names! I am getting better at directions and the basic land marks! hurray!!! hahahaaha this is ganna be an interestin transfer!!! that's all ive got to say about it!

XMAS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CLOSE!! we have a lunch apt on xmas day! I still want to get breakfast and dinner apts hahahah we're on it!! OH another thing is that like 1/2 the ward is military! there is a base here. so lots of people in and out. fun! thisll be fun! until next time

LOVE
SIS MILNE THE BRAVE

Shortest Letter

well. im getting transferred to Niceville!!

its a pro con type of thing. anyway!! this past week has been fun!! so much has happened and I don't know what to say! dagum main points though? well we found out that bro bell has been reading BoM!! like really reading it!! that is incredible!! bro keith is done with BoM! hurray!! we got 2 new gators! wendy and alia! a yws friends!! theyre ganna be taught onfriday with the other sisters. this area is bein white washed! so is Niceville!!  we taught a guy about family history at the center this week! it was awesome! he is another prepared potential gator!! than we went to a bell choir in a Baptist church with a member! super fun! I made a video! the bells make really cool sounds! than there was the ward xmas party! it was super fun!! good food! and there were tons of people there!! on sunday we saw the xmas devotional! different this year. why is this email so short?? lame pants. well be sure to look at it next week. there will be lots of juicy details of Niceville! ahhhh! this is crazy!!

SIS MILNE

Newest letter this week!

HELLO!

This week was a lot of ups and downs! so sis H has still been sick. :P and that means alot of alone time... my brain just Runs!! its aweful! hahaha im goin a little crazy!! oh well nothin i can do about it :) Our gator Sis Bill moved!! :( we went out to eat with her one more time. i seriously miss her! she was so sweet! she bought us hats and gloves and scarfs as a goodbye present! because it is cold here!! haha Tuesday we had zone training and me and sis h taught for 30 mins!! it went good i think! i wasnt as nervous as i thought id be which was good. i wasnt ganna pee my skirt or nothin lol. than we did trade offs with thomasville sisters! so i went up to georgia! it was fun! sis swanger (my sister) it was fun. we biked in a rainstorm got soakin wet. taught a lesson to the cutest family ever! the 3 girls were so dagum cute! one little girl was playin with my wet hair hahah oh my i just love them!! went to dinner at a members house and got the grandaughter who is less active and never listens to anything spiritual i guess hahaha but she did!! we're now friends :):) she gave me her fuzzy socks because i liked them so much hahahaha so sweet!!! i love her!! thomasville was way fun though!! So on wednesday we went to dinner at the livingstons and they are the funniest family ever! it was just sis livingston and her 2 kids. jj and isaiah! i got a video of isaiah winking his eyes. and jj tryin to. so funny! oh my it feels sooo good to laugh!

Thanksgiving was so much fun!! we ate at lori bergstroms! so much food! delicious! yummmmm.  me and sis h got to make sweet potato casserole super sugary and heavenly!!! hahaha it was just like home. lots of noise and screamin kids and food! it was definitely a good thanksgiving day! loved it!!  sis h is still sick so we went home and i read more of jesus the christ... dagum i dont even know what i did! i was doin things! im workin on diligence and obedience this transfer! how in the world can you do that when your stuck inside!!!!!!!!! grrrr its a lil bit frustrating lol. not bitter at all :)

than we did another trade off with tally 3 sisters! sis irons came here with me :) ok i just love sis irons. kk? seriously love her!! there are only a few sisters in the world i could see workin out together. 2 of them went home and sis irons is one of them! she is so sweet! i want to be a better person around her! it was awesome!

we visited a members home. Candace sirmans actually hahah her mom never opens the door for us so she txt us when she was home so she could let us in lol. we got in!!!! beautiful home!! and her mom, sis sirmans, was soooo nice!! i hadn't laughed that hard. and that real in a while!! me sis irons, candace and sis sirmans were havin a good time!! she fed us left over thanksgivin dinner :) they are the best family ever! i really love them!! candace has a really good heart! love her!! oh my i love them both!! it was just a super fun time.

than on saturday we did a family history booth!! we borrowed a table and some chairs from the church. squished them in the car! it fit!! hahaha and set it up outside the library! we split the day up with the our elders. so we got the morning shift! oh my it was so much fun! a member let us borrow their tablets so we could pull familysearch.org up on it. we had a lot of success!!! sis irons was so prepared for it!! but it was crazy cool because i could see who had the spirit of elijah and their ansestors pushing them over to us! it was really cool!! it is hard to explain but i could just see and feel who had it and who didnt! yes it had partly to do with who came up to us and who didnt but it was still awesome!!!

than we traded back. and we went over to the schaffners house to help them decorate for xmas! and dinner! it was so much fun!! i love christmas!! it is so takin on a different meanin this year!! its powerful!! woo!! and than we ate dinner with em! so good!! they invited us over for xmas morning! so were ganna go in our pjs and bring our presents and open em with them!! than eat breakfast with them! all in our pjs!! that means i cant wear my cute pig shorts :( too short!! hahaha im super excited!!!!

me and sis H pray we stay here another transfer!!

on sunday night the stake had a christmas concert and we all got to go and sing one song in it. like 50 missionaries were there!! we sang far far away on judeas plain! it was awesome!! i got a recording of it on my camera in my bag hahahah. so yall can hear it!! there were so many 1 ward members there! i nearly cried!! so much love in my body and i cant contain it!! i miss them. i miss them alot. but i love members here in 2 ward too! haha so much love!!!!

well that is pretty much it for this week! not much on gators. except we're tryin to find them!! i shouldnt be mean to myself because sis h has been sick and so we havent gotten out much! but still its so frustrating! and i want to be dilligent and use the Lords time wisely so i can be accountable!! but im comin up blank! blah! thats where im at today. some days its good and other days its not so good.

i have fallen in love with praying! i can be normal in my prayer and tell Heavenly Father everything!! HE IS REAL!! there are no coincidences! spell check please :)

LOVE
SIS MILNE THE AWESOMEST!