Week 50 (3/17/14)

This week has been AWESOME! As always. Surprise! :) 

As I get emails from more and more missionaries I realize that my mission is SO different from a lot of others! Our average is teaching 20 lessons a week and I've heard from a lot of other missionaries that they're teaching a lot more than that! It gets pretty discouraging at times thinking that I don't get to teach as many people, but we still do our best! Apparenly we are one of the most obedient missions. President Cusick has done wonders to all of us. He keeps telling us how proud he is of us :) I'm not gonna lie, it's been hard to change and be exactly obedient, but we are doing it and seeing miracles! 

Here's some crazy things that makes our mission so different…. 

We don't tract. At all. We stopped doing it back in September. We actually are not allowed to. But I've heard that other missionaries still do! We thought that was everyones rule! I haven't knocked on a door in FOREVER! But we didn't see any real success from that anyways haha 

We aren't allowed to eat dinner at members houses AT ALL unless they have an investigator or less active member there. Sadly… we hardly ever get to eat at members houses :(

Uh… we have iPads and get to check our emails every single day! I just don't get to respond to them until Monday. So if you want to send me hilarious emails though the week you totes can :) but we also have to take a bunch of surveys every week cuz they're testing everything on us so that's fun! 

We are on fb… so that's crazy! 

We have online Elders that just do online work. 

We teach online lessons. 

We went to a baseball game with our whole mission. 

Our mission conference was on the beach and we're allowed to go on the beach on pdays! 

We are running in a 5K next week wearing mormon.org shirts to get our name out there! 

We have a metro training center. 

We can't listen to music. 

We have to park our cars once a week and bike to talk to people. 

We spend usually 6-9 months in an area and 3-5 transfers with our comps. Which is a lot longer than Pres Summerhayes used to do… 

We can't hangout with the Elders on p-days and sometimes we can't even call them…. 

We basically have sister AP's 

Crazy! It's so different. But I love it :) I know it's where I'm supposed to me that's for sure! 

Uh. I'm like out of time. I had a lot more to say. But I just have so many awesome people emailing me! 

I got to go on an awesome exchange with our SL Sister Kenegy. She rocks. I'd send you a pic… but I just stuck my memory card in the wrong place and it's stuck in the computer… so I hope we can get it out… 

Also- this work is so all about love! I just have learned so much to love people! That's what everyone needs is a bunch of mushy love. Tell people you love them all the time! I don't really think it gets old! I've realized how much this work really is about loving those around us :) and that love comes more and more naturally to me as my mission goes on :) 

Just love everyone and you'll be so happy in life :) 

I love you all so much! 

Oh yeah and and put this scripture at the bottom of the email…. 

D&C 64:33 I found this scripture this morning. It gave me a lot of comfort :) 

Love, Sister Calder :)