Things are happenin down in the south.

So freakin tired!

 we are just exhausted and pass out on the pillow! woah! we're workin hard haha well what has happened this week? Not all of our gators were able to make it to church this week :( but some part member families we're workin with came!! hurray! one we didnt even know was coming! the Loveilles, and at the end sis Loveille was super happy and she was sayin how she forgot how good the spirit was here! than her husband told us that he wants to take the lessons!! and so sweet!! this past week we have done alot of divide and conquer. so much to do! so i do one thing in the room while sis ch does the other thing :) crazy!! The baptisms for this saturday are still a go!! sis suddeth is entering into the waters of baptism at 11 as well as doug peterson! ahhh!! stressin out ma friends, so much to do, so little time! we just keep askin our WML what do we need to do now? how about now? how about now? haha 

ive been workin on trust this transfer, so im puttin all my trust into Heavenly Father that all will work out this week. we have alot of plans!!  It is interesting to see the effect that you have on people. just one person can make a difference! to us missionaries, just one person who is willing to listen to what we have to say can make our day so much better! one person can change generations! its pretty cool! hmm idk im just thinkin about contacting approaches, we have to do things a little differently down here in the south, so many people believe in bein with families forever, and the apostacy, and prophets and apostles. hmmm anyway! what else happened? so much!!!  Our gators sister is my doppleganger? haha we look alike freaky! but i love the bain family, they are sooo awesome! definitely need the gospel!! than adam came to church when he said he wasnt! he surprised! us!!  he is studyin the gospel hard core, i dont think ive ever met anyone who has studied the gospel as hard and as wide as adam has. we use an analogy with him concerning faith. you need to have faith that when you flick the light switch, the light will turn on. you cant just sit there with faith hopin that the lightll turn on, you have to get up and go flick the switch!! so faith with out works is dead. but adam is a deeper kind of man, and he wants to know so much about it! so we twisted the story a little bit. 

so he grew up let say learning that there was magic that turned the light on. but we tell him through modern revelation we know that there is a wire that runs from the light switch to the light bulb. you dont need to know what the wire is made out of yet, you dont need to know every crunchin detail. you first have to believe that there is a wire! than you can learn about what the wire is made of etc.
OR you can give an anology about how you can look at a tree and know its beautiful! you dont have to know every leaf, every limb, every inch of the tree to know. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a HUGE! and sooo deep! but you dont have to know all of it to believe!     we're workin on tryin to help our gators see that they wont know everything but that you just have to take a leap of faith!

We had a lesson with some people who are tryin to "save" us. bless their hearts. #nuffsaid. the wife wrote out all this anti stuff, all this false doctrine she said she found out. all the stuff that is contradictin itself. haha oh my just even thinkin about it brings a sad feelin! i wept over this! durin the lesson i thought i was ganna burst into tears! soooo sad! they are rejecting the most beautiful thing in the universe!  The Gospel of Jesus Christ isnt as different as people think. It makes me sooo dagum sad!! 

OH i was reading in BoM 2 nephi 4 and from vs23+ Lehi is (what i think) bringin up a pitty party. ya know. "why me!' why why why why!!! than he slaps himself in the face and prays. very very specific things he asks the Lord. so im ganna try to pray more different and specific!!  Things are happenin down in the south. i can feel it! ahh!! and yes it is gettin hot down here! woo!!! im gettin strange tan lines in the oddest places! eek! hahahaha Party down in NV

LOVE YALL
have a blesses week!

Sis Milne

SIS MILNE THE Sun burnt... haha

Hey!

sorry for emailing so late. this morning was crazy we had to bike 5 miles into valp to help an elderly sister do service, its like 85? 90 degrees outside plus humidity! so we're pretty gross haha now we're here! tada!!

So happy to see my family yesterday! hurray! happy mothers day!! best. day. ever!!

OK! i have had so many epiphanys! woah. like seriously. so many.  Have you ever wondered why all the people in the BoM and Bible weep? most of them weep over the people and their wickedness, or when a heart is changed and they rejoice! so in our zone conference our mission pres has stepped up the bar of what he expects of us. he wants us to become powerful teachers of truth and rightousness! sick right?? so i realized this morning actually haha that everytime we get dumped by a gator, or someone tried to bible bash, or when the spirit is really strong and you can see the gators changing, i cry! i always thought it was because i was a cry baby!! but its not. its more than that... Never be afraid to cry! Jesus did it, alma did it, ammon did it! so many weep! but its more than just cryin, its feelin the sorrow on the inside! like when bobby dumped us last week tears were welling in my eyes! he just turned away from the truth and denied everything we had taught him! he put all things aside! pushed the feelins he felt out!! how SAD is that!!! so we weep! haha yep im a cry baby! haha oh well!!

We're steppin it up a ton in the area!!  we are movin through people. siftin and findin the wheat that is ready for harvest!!! So much is happenin though, i really dont know where to begin. im at a blank, im lookin at my planner and i dont know which to tell yall!!!!! we have some rockin gators! our southern family is mulitplyin! mamma E is absolutely amazing! i love being a missionary!

im almost finished with jesus the christ. hardest dagum book ive ever read!! i need to take more pictures. (HEY MOM CAN WE SWAP SD CARDS??) hmm we are pushin ourselves though, so much harder and stretchin so much farther! every time i hear that i think of laffy taffy hahahaha but its true we're strivin to be more specific and on the dot with certain things. makin every lesson count. teach em like they have a bcd!

OK ill tell yall about this LA sister we saw. she grew up in utah in the church, her whole family is active. but her lol she is so bubbly and fun! super la though, still follows the basic principals though. goes to methodist church with her bf. when we shared the message at the end of our dinner, we showed her the easter.mormon.org video and talked about how regret becomes relief! and why she stopped comin to church etc. she broke into tears! she told us so much and we gave her a chapter to read in the book of mormon  to read. she has had a change of heart! i did get teary eyed in there ;) but she is bein effected by the spirit and by the prayers of her family! she is so special. we just loove her!! she is feelin the spirit again and is turnin towards Christ again! happy day! all is well!! haha

Adam is doin well, he got his quad and a few other books about us. he is doin so much research! we just need to help him notice what the spirit is like! our last lesson i got the feelin of the bible bashin feelin. not from him, but from us! we need to keep our cool and take a breathe! he is still readin! he even came to church yesterday!! wooohooo!!! we had 10 of our gators that made it to church!! ahhH!! it was chaos!!! but so so soooo good! the spirit was there it was the best sunday ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not even playin! TJ smith he told us to come over after church because he had somethin to tell us. dun dun duun!!!n we go over with jamie bradley and he takes us outside my thoughts were "awe crap not again"  sis ch was the same way she told me later! but he brought up some of his past and why he thinks the way he does. we tried to help explain things, bouncin back and forth so that no one got bored of the other :) but he just had a question on pre earth life and the priesthood! sweet!! haha love him!!

than Sis suddeth has a bcd of may 24!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooooohooo!!!! Peterson has the same date!!! MAY 24!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its ganna be awesome awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my 2 down 5 more to go!! we're runnin out of time though!! gaah!! hahah i heard you know your bein a good missionary if when you come home at night your exhausted and ready for bed. but so excited for the next day that Heavenly Father has given you to work! story of our lives!!! I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is true. it is! it simply is! all things are here, the whole picture! not one part of it fuzzy or unclear! its perfect doctrines change the hearts of men! its helpes turn them to their fathers! and the hearts of the fathers to their children!
Life

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Good!

LOVE
SIS MILNE THE Sun burnt... haha na! THE GREAT!

xoxoxo

alma 48:12-13, 17. let us all be like Captain Moroni! hes boss. #nuffsaid

HEY!

Yes we're alive and well! Nobody panic! nobody panic!! so this past week was a little crazy haha so on Tuesday we usually have district meeting right? well we were up and ready, it was cloudy and rainy but that is normal. but then we got a call that said district meeting is canceled! ah! haha what? but the conference call was still on! so we called in at 10. and pres was tellin us about the flooding warnings and the tornado warnings. every missionary was to stay home with their 72hr kit ready!  you know I changed into my sweats! party! haha then we were insntructed to call in every 4 hours to make sure we were still alive. ok to be honest it wasn't hit hard here in Niceville! we're in a special place with bayou all around us and the high elivations we did pretty good!  the worst we got was the lightning storm!! so we baked cookies, watched every movie we owned then stole the elders movies and watched em! then we read scriptures for like EVER!! we made videos and were goofy! our phone was goin off a ton closer towards the end of the day!. 'immediate alert' 'immediate alert' 'immediate alert' with this awful/scary beeping noise! it was scary then the alert! the alerts were just warning. there was a tornado touch down or something not far, Niceville didn't get like any of it though. but we got txt msg from pres sayin to stay in the middle of the house and away from windows. so we moved our beds into our little hallway and had a sleepover!!#2by2 halaa! we did pepto bismal face masks (bad idea. it dries and hurts so bad!) than I gave sis ch a makeover. (she looked like a 3yr old had done it... haha) and we watched more movies!! the lightning storm was crazy though! k wait so all day was cloudy and on and off raining. #noahsark it was pretty sketch. but the lightning was like a strob light! constant light! the sky didn't get dark! ahh! and the thunder shook the house non stop! needless to say, we didn't get the best nights rest that night haha than on Wednesday we called in safe and sound, no one was allowed out still. but we still got up and did the normal routine. at this point of our lives we had done all that could be done and now we cleaned and made more videos! ahh! we're going a little crazy. I think I took a nap?... hmm but! around 4:30 we were released from prison! #prisonbreak so we bounced and went out! ooo how freedom tastes sooooo good! all our plans had canceled because we just didn't know so we went out to find people! we found sis diviney again! woohoo!! she is alive and well! we're goin over for dinner Wednesday! oh my how much ive missed her! its weird. I didn't know until I saw her. and it was like my life was back into place!! I love her!!!!!!!!! vini and gracee canceled. gracee had an allergic reaction to some make up and had to go to the hospital! sad day!! they are so tough! grr! but I love em and that is what makes it so hard!

Jamie came out with us Thursday because the whole town closed up due to the weather n such! sketch dun dun duun! we were on foot, and it was raining! we were ganna bike until it started raining. so than we walked. our poor feet were soaking and sore! lol but we got 2 new gators. zac and talon gamblin! I felt like we needed to knock on a house! (weird right? aint no body got time for that! haha) so we did this house and they let us inside! we helped em paint their house! their parents helped start a pentacostal church. sweet? but they both took bom and said they'd read and pray. they canceled our next apt though due to family comin in lol anyway!! we had another lesson with bobby and aj at wendys. it ... well ok

so he got a "calling" as a youth minister person in his old church again. so he has rejoined his old church and has decided to not read BoM anymore, he had prayed about it and it wasn't true, and he wont read it anymore. Ok what?? our last lesson went good! ga! so we got dumped and it was sad. we tried to talk about it, to see what happened, but it was just confusing. so we got dumped!! :( :( :(  sis ch wasn't happy at all. she just went off as we were walkin. Idk why I also get in these moods in bad times haha I was makin jokes and tryin to cheer up sis ch. so as we were walkin a car comes up behind us! what the! And it is Rashad!! hurray!! he said that he lost his phone! and that he has been looking for us! :) he wants to meet up again!! awe!!!! so we set up and apt!! heavenly Father LOVES sis Ch. she prays and He answers!! crazy! haha but yay!

than we went to chactaw beach. everyone down there that we met was politely rude! seriously! wouldn't even hear us out! no fun!! but we had an amazing lesson with adam guiles at bro simmons (the amazing) with sis pitcher(the amazing) and it was really really really good!!! Adam ordered a quad! and found the teachings of joseph smith and brigham young at a book store! and now he is goin to order a long restoration movie! haha who is this guy! we just love him!! he is doin awesome!! awesome awesome!

Found an almost lost sheep named casey lee nelson! he knows the church is true and wants to be baptized, just has wow issues! where do you come from??? he lives in crestview though:( but we got his number and are ganna try to get him dunked asap!!
TEMPLE DEDICATION!! wooohooooooo! fr Lauderdale temple is now the house of the Lord!! it was sooo good! it felt just like the temple! well not as good but as close as we can get! It felt sooo good! and I even had answers to prayers! hahai love love loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also love the halls. they are the cutest couple ever!/parents ever!

over all this week was all over the place. it was also a super long week! I cant believe all that happened in one week.... weird!! well that's all for now folks haha

LOVE
SIS MILNE
alma 48:12-13, 17. let us all be like Captain Moroni! hes boss. #nuffsaid

What God does all day every day is for the happiness of us! immortality and eternal life for us!

Hola

This week was interesting to say the least we missed out weekly goals by 2 lessons! noooo :( so that was a bummer :( but we still had fun this week for sure. highlights... dagum I don't know!! haha Alyssa Hagewood came out with us on Tuesday! hurray! I absolutely adore her! oh my I freaken love her! ahh!! she is soo amazing! love love love!!

Vini and Gracee Febus. where do I begin... I don't even know. I love em soo much yet they are tough gators! hard core and just tough! gahh! but we had a lesson at sis stockmans house and had a recent convert Donovan black come. he is amazing. we finished teaching the PoS. there came a point where we were talking about eternal marriage and families. and they were having a hard time because its not what they were taught growin up n stuff. so we asked em to put everything they know aside and than we asked em if they would want to be together forever. Gracee said yes, Vini said no. (aw crap) than grace said no. his reason was that he just doesn't believe in that!

Here is what they said they believed. family is important yes. when a man and woman get married they become as one flesh. we are all imperfect! so when we die and go to heaven we will all be perfect and just praise God forever! we will know who each other are but there wont be any relationships.

Ok so than we did some research and askin around. because I can see where they are comin from but lets look at some facts.

Moses 1:39 Gods whole purpose is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life to men. What God does all day every day is for the happiness of us! immortality and eternal life for us! This is what God does! It would be selfish of God to make us all worship him in that sense. Yes he does need to be worshiped I mean its Heavenly Father for cryin out loud but not  just that forever and ever! Why go through all of this earthly life! why go through trial and tribulations if at the end were ONLY ganna be worshippin God!

A member used and example to help visualize :) so his daughter who is the cutest 2 yr old ever.  she is ganna go through trials, and hardships. she is ganna learn while she is growing up! but when she is grown up and off. he doesn't want her here praising him all the time! no haha he wants her to go out and progress keep growing in life!!

Now imagine that 100 fold. this is what God wants for each of His children!

 

anyway I just realized I went off... so sorry! haha but

Bobby hebert we finished PoS at dannys fried chicken.  it was fun :) haha than We had a cute fun lesson with Bro Palmer! I love that sweet old man! seriously! so stinken cute! He didn't do any family History but he did read some of the Book of Mormon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We also had a sleep over this week. I went to crestview with sister leifson and sis g came here with sis ch. it was good :)

Friday night we had the coolest lesson ever I think!! the power was out! k and we went over to bro simmons house with sis pitcher and Rachel we were meetin adam. we get there and we all have flashlights and candles! haha a candlelight lesson! very appropriate since we were talking about Christ! it was a really good lesson the spirit was definetly there and he read! he did so much research! its a little crazy!!!!!! oh my goossh! he is flippen amazing!! I wish there was a secret camera in there so yall could have witnessed it :)

woo!

There was a ward 5k run. that was cool!! than we had a good lesson with Peterson! we emphasized the spirit and we did alot of feelings n stuff haha we asked em what makes him happy and how he feels when he is happy! at the end we all kneeled down and asked if it was true! every one prayed! it was cool. Peterson said he felt locked up :( sad! so were ganna try another tatic! :) take him into a nother persons home! :)

OH AND that night we went to go see Vinis dance performance! never have I been to a dance recital with so much religion and God in it than this one! it was awesome!!!!!!! so so good!

Sunday was fun! we had 3 little tiny kids that came to church with us! than there was TJ camerson and josh that came. Peterson came too! hahah we were multiplying and replenishing the church! it was funny hahaha I love being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ahh!

ok thzats all. I think ive typed the max!

LOVE
SISTER MILNE
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