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!
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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!
YMCAMonday, October 27, 2008
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!!!
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!!!
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