White Christmas!

December 13, Baptism! Sister Wise and her son
Family & Missionaries

We Love our newest member of the Galt 2nd Ward!

GINGERBREAD HOUSE?!?

I received this box, and there was a letter and Spanish Fork News! Wow, I was excited! Packing peanuts! It's snowing in California!
Looks good! The roof is broken but it still looks good! I can fix it with a little frosting mom sent and I can even put the chimney on! Where is Santa?!?

Looks so good, and we could not resist the Rudolf trick!

Pictures from my area!

Love MAIL!!!
All the Sisters serving in Sacramento!

Sacramento Temple- We get to attend every other transfer!

I miss the mountains! Nice Vineyards!

Check out these campain signs! Amos, SMUD (aka Kristen) and Pearson! Wow I felt right at home!

Welcome to Galt!

Greetings!

McCleave, Olson, Anderson, Moss

Thumbs up for Galt Med center & Dr Damon!

Learning to use inhaler

Thanksgiving-these headbands were our place cards on the table

Cold in California?

I am absoultely freezing!!! I didn't think California would get cold, but it is!

We have a babtism this saturday! We are so so so excited! Her son joined the church 30 years ago, she has had some problems recently and moved in with her son. We met with her several times. She has never seen the prophet speak before but has been reading every ensign article for the past while! It was so neat to go to the church with her to see the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional. She was able to listen to the Prophet! It was so neat! She has asked to be baptized!

Two other investigators...we tract into them one night, they were talking about the need for God in their lives. They both had members of the church in their families. They said they knew we were sent from God!

We had a live nativity at the church, it was after the city light parade. They used a real baby and real animals. It was so cool! It really put me in the Christmas spirit!

Love you all! Church is true!!!!

Memorable thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving here was great! It was definitely memorable! We had the whole day off! We went to dinner and it was interesting! Lets just say that the family was different than ours! After dinner we went and played games with our district. It was a lot of fun. My stomach hurt so bad from laughing! It was great.

Transfers were this week, we are all staying. My comp is great, but we just have two very different ways of working! I am only the second comp she has been with longer than one transfer and I am finding out why. But it is all okay, really.

We are starting to see some progress in our area. We are working with a sister who comes to church all the time, everyone thought that she was a member, loves the church, but says it is not necessary to be baptized, she already was in her other church.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

With it being Thanksgiving time, I will share with you one thing I am thankful for this beautiful fall day! I am thankful for my name! Yes my name! The name Amy. I sure do miss it but love reading it at the top of my letters! I have never really appreciated the name much, it was just my name. Now, I really miss hearing it. I never thought of it before. Sister is plain, especially when every other sister is sister! So, yes mom and dad, thank you for naming me AMY!

Plans for Thanksgiving include dinner with a family, visiting with another family in the ward and getting together with our district tonight to play games! Yes, we are playing games.

I love it here! Yesterday, we helped a member who just had heart surgery and can't lift anything. When we left, she gave us 3 pies! How does that happen? Good thing we are seeing the elders tonight!

Me with my Mission President and his wife

Members we stayed with, my comp and I, Neighbors from home.

The first stop we had in California was the Sacramento Temple. We ate lunch there then hustled to the mission home. We met with President Jardine. That night, Sister Moss and I stayed at a members home. Then the next day we met our companions and went to our first area. Sister Moss was my comp in the MTC and she and her comp live with us in a house.

Some neighbors from my home ward used to live in this area and were coming out here for business so, they brought a package from home. It had my coat- that was just going to be sent to me. The people who we stayed with that first night, were the same people that bought the house from my neighbors that now live back home, 15 years ago! It is such a small world! So we got a picture of me and my comp, the members here and my neighbors at home!

Arriving at the Mission Home!

I Love this Temple!

Pazookie! Cookies, ice cream, chocolate, caramel, and Reeses pieces-Amazing!! 4 Sisters, 4 spoons, no more Pazookie!! Happy Birthday!!!

Our first home-check out the yellow roses!


My first companion-Sister Anderson



New missionaries on the front row, trainers on the back row.

Last Goodbyes At MTC

On the airplane-The Elder next to us had never flown before!

So excited to see Dad at the Airport!
Getting ready to leave the MTC-the Elders stayed with us. They did not leave until the next day.

Last Goodbyes!

Last pictures at MTC

District 53D with our Branch President-Bailey
Where did they say we are going?

Provo Temple Trip

Must have been a great lesson!

YMCA

First Letter from Sacramento!!!

Greetings from the land of the trees!!! So I'm officially in California! And I'm loving it! Oh how I love it! From the minute I got off the plane it has been great! The flight was bumpy...really bumpy! The poor elder next to me, it was his first time flying! The attendants took great care of them, two of them were members. As soon as we got off the plane, it felt awesome! I was so excited!!! We got to the other side of security and the assistant was waiting for us, he told ;us to get in a asingle file and go down the escalator. At the bottom was our mission president and wife and the 2 other assistants. It was so exciting! They were taking pictures and smiling! We got our luggage and took a trip around Sacramento. Interesting place! Then we went to the temple to have a picnic on the grounds. It is such a pretty temple! Then the assistant put in a cd and it was a song from Remember the Titans. As we drove up to the temple it kept getting more and more intense, then as soon as we pulled up to the temple it had Gordon B Hinckley's testimony. We soon had to meet back at the mission home so we hurried back.

I love my mission president and his wife, they are wonderful and so fun! Sister Moss and I spent the night at a home near by. It was a beautiful home and we got the best sleep in three weeks!

At the church, we had some training and then it was time to meet our companions. We started walking down the hall to the chapel and could hear , "Called to Serve" being sung. Then we walked in and saw all our trainers. We sat down on the opposite side then one by one, the president called us up, gave us a letter and read where we were going to serve. Everyone clapped, then our trainers ran up and hugged us, it was quite the experience!

My companion is Sister Anderson from Provo. Sister Moss and her companion will be sharing the same house with us. We are the first sister missionaries to be there in about 15 years! Everyone is so excited, they don't know quite what to do! Both our trainers are Spanish speaking missionaries and were pulled out to train us. I'm learning a bit of spanish so I can pray and bear testimony. We are living in a house where elders have been for a long time and its gross! The RS has a service project going on right now to clean it! Love you all! The church is true!!! Don't forget to write!!!

MTC Memories

Sister Olson at the MTC!

MTC!!!

MTC pictures

Sacramento her she comes!!!!!

Yes! We do have proof that she was at the airport! She called me (mom) and while I was talking to her, Dad walked off his plane, he was at gate D5, she was at D8. Directly across the hall! He took this picture of her talking to me with his phone! He was not going to look for her, but if he happened to run into her, fine! That was too good! He was able to be with her for about 45 minutes then he watched her board the plane. I was so happy that he was able to be there and it worked out the way it did. It was never planned this way. There were 8 Elders, 2 Sisters. The DL was good at keeping them all together. While she was talking on the phone, he went over and talked to the elders. They asked if he knew her, they could not believe that she had found someone already to talk to and they were looking around to see who they could go find! True missionary spirit! He also got pictures of her plane and stood and watched in the parking lot as she took off! She gave him her camera card from the mtc, so watch for photos. I'll try to get them up soon!

She sounded so good on the phone and Jeff said that she was so bubbly and ready to go! The elders in her district were so great and she said it was so hard to leave them. They got up early to be with these two sisters. Helped them with their luggage and waited for them to leave. Those 8 elders and two other sisters leave on Wed morning. They have already planned for a disctrict reunion! The MTC was a great experience for her and she has no doubt about going on a mission! She is so greatful for the opportunity! It will be fun to hear all about it the next 17 1/2 months! She so wanted to talked to everyone, especially the little girls, but had such little time to, so she is looking forward to Christmas!!!! She loves us all, and ,"oh by the way, THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!"