Going to Coloma

President and Sister Jardine took some of us to Coloma. It is an old gold mining place. We panned for gold, and played horseshoes. I was the champ and won these M&M's.
This is a picture of all us that went to Coloma. Everyone gets to go up before they go home.
What a crew!

Stockton Stockton Stockton!

Found this PDM Steel sign! Where are you Blaine and Cody?

We LOVE SISTER Luncheons!

We had a temple tour within our Zone. We had 170 people attending.. Every language was represented including Hmong, Cambodian, Laotion, English and SPANISH! There were 3 tours, one in English, two in Spanish. We ate dinner then had an amazing baptism! 4 people were baptized! The church is at the end of Temple Hill. The event was well organized and everyone did their part! It was great! This picture is of me, my comps and one of our investegators.

What do you get with three sister missionaries in early
on halloween.....BOUNCE!

Rough & Ready Island "Stocktons Spanish mystery"!

New Comps and temple trip...

Mi Hya's! Hna Olson, Ramirez, Copier Hna Ramirez' primer dia!

Las Hermanas in Stockton! Abakite, Pack, Olson, Copier, Fangupo

Spanish District at the Temple!

Entire District!

More Stockton pics!

Fun bowling with the Zone!

We were So Sick! Spent the day in drinking our thermaflu! Bad day

Dinner with the Elders and this family. This was transfer call night! But I'm staying in Stockton!

Original owner of the truck below! Bro Lefty. He always has a treat for us!

He has an interesting background

Still in Stockton and loving it!!!!

One of these days, I'll tell you about this guy!

I just love these girls! Elsie y Jasmine!

This is by far one of my favorite pics! She was holding me sooo TIGHT!

This was at a ward activity & I thought I was leaving. Look at her face! It is priceless!

Cooking food for Noche de Barrio. Fish tacos...SO GOOD!!!

One of our good friends! She is the one that had a 2 lb baby!

I Absolutely LOVE THE TEMPLE!

We had a Great day! Our entire zone got to go up to the Sacrmamento Temple! We woke up at 4 so we could be ready and be on time! It was a miracle for us all to be there because it is so far away and it is hard to find members in the spanish ward with a car to take us. We found a perfect member with a big 8 passenger van that could take half of us, so we found a car for the other 4. Well, the driver picking up the elders got in a wreck, so we piled the elders in with us. It was so funny! I sat on a lawn chair (no seat belt) and we squoze 6 elders in the back. There were shades that pulled down on all the windows so no one could see in! I have a new appreciation for those that cram in the back of a van to cross the border!

Here are some fun pics!

Icecream after Zone Conference!

New and old comps!

BREAKFAST!

Out of Miles again!

Awesome Zone!

Ah what a great birthday!!!

Check out all the flip flops! My comps gave me a crown & sash too!

My new Comp...Sister Copier

My birthday cakes! Check out the green turkey poop!

Thank you, thank you for the flip flops! It was so cute and I loved them so much! It was so fun receiving them in the mail! One day I received 25 letters! Wow! Talk about making my day! So my birthday was great. We pretty much celebrated it all week! On my birthday, we ate lots of food! We went to a members and she made me the funniest cake EVER! I don't know where it came from but somewhere they got the idea I grew up on a turkey farm so she made me a cake with "turkey poop" on it! It was soooo funny!

We alos had dinner with a member that night and my first companion showed up! It was so fun to see her, she was visiting the mission with her mother. The sisters had decorated our apartment, gave me a crown and sash. Anyway, it was a great day and I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone that sent a flip flop! I loved everyone of them!

I'm expecting your last 9 months were as good as Mine!

I was too cheap to splurge for the $5 extra French Tip!

Random picture at the Big Trees

Unity Day

Girls day out!

Tough life being a missionary!

I love this gospel!

One of my favorite things about serving a mission is the extra spirit I have when I teach. I love the feeling I get when I open my mouth and I can feel the spirit working through me, expecially in a language I don't understand! This is seriously the most amazing time in my life! When I get home, I am extremely exhausted! It takes about 2 seconds after my head hits the pillow to fall asleep! Most of the time, I don't even make it in the covers!

I have experienced every kind of emotion and find myself turning to my Father in Heaven more than I ever have before! It is amazing to only worry about my investigators and the people here and how I'm going to help them have the gospel in their lives! I love the spanish program! It is amazing that I am somehow able to contact these people in a language I have only been speaking for 12 weeks. I am so blessed!!! I love this gospel!!!

My Mission Is Amazing!

President and Sister Jardine. It was their 1 year mark. They are amazing . I love them!!!

This is our AWESOME Zone!

We had a great week and an awesome UNITY DAY! It was fun to be together with the entire mission. We met and played sports in the morning, had lunch, talent show and unity activity, then President will tells us about our transfers. We have been working all week with early morning and evening practices for our part on the mission talent show. It was a lot of fun, I was proud of our Zone, they all got into it! I will be staying in the same area, my comp and I will be training a new sister. She is from Bluffdale, a dental hygienist. She is going to be amazing to work with!

Happy Fathers Day!

Dad and I at the airport!

Thanks Dad for everything! I love you so much and hope you enjoy your fathers day! Sorry you do not get a phone call! Thanks for helping me become the person I am today, for supporting me with the greatest experience in my life! Not a day goes by that I don't regret my decision to serve a mission. It has been the most incredible journey! Every morning when that stupid alarm goes off, I can't help but be happy it does! I love you DAD!

A Great Sunday in the Mission Field!

Sunday was a very strange missionary sunday! It felt like a real Sunday! We had cheesy potatoe casserole (funeral potatoes) for lunch -first time for my companion!, We had a sunday nap (short but good), A Sunday drive (we got lost in the country), and even a sunday visit from Sister Jardine. She brought strawberries and chocolate and we all had a good talk!

Hanging out in Stockton!
Some fun people in our ward

Fathers Day Program!

Cultural Dance!

Here is just a quick update! I am really loving being in the Spanish Ward! They really know how to party! We had a Fathers Day Activity, they killed a beef for the dinner. I felt like I was at the M.C.C. (Mexican Cultural Center)! There was a fashion show with beautiful dresses from their countries. Then they all did a dance together. After, the highlight of the night was when they all came out and did a dance from Pakistan! It was...well, a belly dance! I think the fathers enjoyed the performance! It did not end there, thats when the dancing began! We enjoyed watching! It was hard not to dance!

New Area, New Language!

Its official, I'm a Hermana!

Learning a language is brutal!

We know you are home!

Making Sopes!

I was trusted with a spanish womans tortillas! YUM!

As Sisters in Zion...

Hermanas Bateman, Olson y Cordero- Moche De Barrio

All the Sisters at Brunch