June 30th

So this week was good! I went on exchanges with the Sister Training
Leader, she is sweeeet. We went to a taco truck that is super
authentic and so so so good. I love Mexican food more and more
Everyday. Americanized Mexican doesn't stand a chance against
authentic. When I get home I am going to make you some legit good
food. I love it so much.

There is this family, the Garcia's. They are amazing. They are recent
converts and they are seriously so so so great, they feed us at least
once a week and we get, carne asada, sopes, mole(Mole-A), and, amazona
salsa. I love it. You guys would love it too. I am getting more
accustomed to spicy food too! WOo.

I have stayed strong and not gotten sick which is so so so nice. I
really didn't want to get sick cause that is the woist. We find out on
July 4th ('merica) if we are getting transferred or not! I will let
you know!

I love you all so much! Thank you for the prayers and everything you
do! We feel the prayers of everyone every single day! We feel
protected daily and we know it is from the prayers of our loved ones!
I love you all! Thank you for all you do!

Feel free to write me! If you want to send me a letter at anytime the
mission office is the best place to send them! The address is
5301 Badger Rd.
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
I love you all!!

Below is the taco truck. You can tell it is authentic by the Hispanics
in the photo. I'm all about that candid lyfe. #candidsohard.

broken retainer

Tacos for dayzzzz!

A real live wolf!

June 23rd

On Thursday night we got a text from one of our investigators Teresa.
We hadn't seen her in about a month because she was going through
family troubles. In her text she said, "hey can we meet tomorrow I
need someone to talk to." This was just the thing we were looking for!
I was so excited!! :) so on Friday we went and visited her and she
told us what was going on. She poured out a lot but it was really good
cause she needed it so badly. We comforted her and gave her advice. We
told her to turn to God and include Him the decision she was making.
We let her know that coming to church would help her join the ward
family and she liked that a lot. She needs prayers!!

On Friday we did exchanges with Sister Eisert and Sister Afoa. I went
up to middle town.... It's crazy up there. I'm pretty sure I drove
through a time warp coming up the mountain. It was nuts. We were
Switzerland in a non-violent and non-contentious hippy fight. Then, We
were on a old rotting wood porch and Sister Afoa stepped and the wood
collapsed and she fell (not all the the way through. But it was was
scary. Then we got fed beef stew after doing yard work in 100 degree
weather. It was awesome! Then right before we exchanged back, Sister
Van Wie got bit by a dog! She was in the ER. And so we had to end our
exchange late. I missed out on the ER, by just an hour.
It was nuts. Sister Van Wie has a gnar cold too, so I am just a
ticking time bomb.

I looooove this area, and the people here. I don't want to leave! I
think I am probably going to get transferred though. Make you guesses!
Transfers is on the 9th. This transfer went by really fast.

June 16th:

This week was AWESOME. So the first few days were DRAGGIN because I was looking forward to Friday. We had Elder Falabella from the quorum of the 70 come talk to us. And it was a half mission conference so I knew that Sister Whimpey was going to be there. I was STOKED to see her. So we had to drive to the stake center in Fairfield. When we got there, there were some missionaries there already and we talked with them. Pick waited and waited for Sister Whimpey and I couldn't find her. I was looking all through this. Crowd of missionaries and finally I see one last car pull up, and I see Sister Whimpey stand up out of the car. It was the GREATEST reunion ever. We ran half way across the parking lot to each other to join in a awesome embrace! It was the greatest thing. I needed it so bad. We talked and talked like we have been friends forever, it was amazing! She is amazing! 

Elder Falabella's talk was amazing as well. He is an awesome speaker and he is very down to earth. He helped us with all the things that we seemed to be struggling with. 

Then on Sunday we finally broke ground on our branch mission plan. It has been stressing me out since week 1. We finally started! I'm so so so happy!!

It's been such a good week. I love you so SO SO much! 

Father's day fun!

So Taylor moved out and she finally is teaching me how to update Dev's blog.  I won't put all of her letters on here, but here is a few: 

This if from June 9th:

Well, this week was crazy. So Sister Van Wie, brings with her a curse. hahahah. SHE HAS BAD LUCK. It's hilarious. She tells me all the time, "The people in heaven are just watching my life going, just wait look what happens next!" She is hilarious. So on Tuesday she ran out of medication, and we had to drive all the way to MIDDLETOWN. Which is like an hour away, but if you haven't ever seen the road to Middletown, I invite you to googlemap it. It's a joke. hahah. So that was fun. Then Wednesday, we drove to Napa (an hour away), to teach an investigator in Jail.. (Sorry Mom) and the Jail was closed for visitors... So we had fast food! (WOO There is no fast food in our area) so that was a good old waste of miles. Then on Thursday... we were out contacting and tracting, and we stopped at a street corner and said a prayer to see which way to go. We felt prompted to go to this house of a former investigator. So we walk to her house and Sister Van Wie is sayin, "the people in heaven are watching my life saying look what happens next!" and we walk up to the glass front door... we knock and no one answers... but we know they are home cause we can here, "wild love" playing really loud! So we ring the door bell and then we see the lady with a wine glass, and a shot glass in her hand, so we think, "Oh they are having a party!" and then her husband come strutting out, BUTT NAKED. and right we realize he is not clothed, she just frees herself of her clothing as well... safe to say I have NEVER ran so fast in my life. hahaha. We plucked each others eyes out shortly after.... hahaha. IT WAS HORRIBLE. Then friday we had weekly planning and got trapped in our apartment because they are redoing the walkways and stairs. So we were stuck in our apartment planning every hour of everyday this upcoming week. There will be video's coming shortly. Then on Saturday it was completely normal. ha we even hit the 20-3-1! woooo! Yesterday, was normal until 10 minutes before curfew... we were walking down the street and SPLAT, Sister Van Wie gets pooped on my a bird. hahahahahahahha. I was trying not to laugh really hard because she would have wiped in on me. I was laughing soooo hard on the inside though. hahaha. We had an EVENTFUL week. Pray that we don't see any more nudity this week, or that we don't get pooped on. hahahaha! Just pray for us!!