Hello Friends I finally found
the time to write this as I am currently 29,000 miles in the sky and the free
movie “luxury” in my basic cheap seat isn’t working but I’m happy eating
pretzels and m&m’s going to see my sister. ((UPDATE I totally wrote this a
week ago and forgot to send it when i got back oops :))
Okay now let me tell you
about my mission… It has BEEN SOOO AMAZING and I am LOVING it!
I am going to go through each
assignment because if I went through each day we would be here for a while!
Interfaith:
Okay wow it has been lots of
office work, working with files, archiving old volunteers, printing hours,
writing receipts, making name badges and the list goes on. I love working with
all of the volunteers and hearing their stories and learning how they all serve
for a variety of different reasons but we are all coming together to help those
in need in any way that we can! This past month I got to help a school group
come in and make sack lunches for the people who come in and need a meal! These
High Schoolers were so awesome (even though they were from my rival HS haha)
and were so willing to do whatever was needed to make and finish the lunches
for the homeless.
Camp Wildwood:
About a month ago my stake…
the Escondido stake came up for girls camp! I got asked to speak during their
Monday night devotional on the topic “angels among us” I talked about my story
and the MTC and how I have seen so many angels that have helped me get to where
I am in my life. Because the devotional was late and I was going to be up there
serving the next morning I stayed the night and it was so fun hanging out with all
the girls! And now I am so so so so so sad that the time has come and Tuesday
the 13th was my last full day up there with girls camps! How in the
world did the summer go by so fast! I have enjoyed every minute of it and am
going to miss it a ton!
Temple:
The Scaffolding came off and
the beauty of the top of the temple is brighter (and whiter) than ever. This
past week I got to help with a wedding of a couple getting sealed and it was so
fun to help the guests and see the excitement in all of their faces! I also got
the opportunity to perform sealings for my ancestors and I just felt the
spirit, that they were there with me and proud of me, it was an amazing
experience.
Family History:
Good ol Family History, we
finished the project that Salt Lake gave us “yes or no project” and we are all
super happy. Not because we don’t like it but because we love serving and
helping the work progress on the other side of the veil. And we are excited to
be starting a new project very soon, but in the meantime we will be working on
our own family history and indexing!
Old Town:
Summer is hot and being in a
time appropriate dress makes it even hotter but don’t you worry I got a $2 fan
that I carry around so we are chillin! Cool thing that happened 2 weeks ago I
was in the schoolhouse with sister Dotter (A new missionary who is shadowing me
and who I love so much) and we saw over 300 people that day! We got lots of
people asking about our name badges and when they ask we answer! A mini miracle
that happened there was that there was this guy who was trying to communicate
with us asking questions and what not, he only spoke Spanish and if you know me
you know I do not speak ANY Spanish… like at all but thank goodness heavenly
father always watches over his missionaries! Because I was able to understand a
little bit of him talking about some of the things in the school house, like
how the alphabet in Spanish is different from English and then (a total tender
mercy) there was a lady who walked in who totally saw we were struggling and
helped us translate! He was asking us if we were “the Mormon
missionaries”, It was so cool and I love it when people know who we are from
out name badge!
Other:
New Sister.. Sister Dotter
she is from Carlsbad and is so much fun! She is going to be amazing and such a
bright light in the mission.
July Mission Conference: was
so amazing seeing all the missionaries I got to go and pick up my BFF Sister
Barnson and take her. For this mission conference we got to help clean up
felicita park it was pretty fun but super-hot so sis Barnson and I went back to
the church a little early to get her out of the sun and out of the hot weather.
You guys time flies when you
are having fun I only have a little over 3 months left and I definitely have
mixed feeelings!
<3
Sister Owsley
1.Speaking at Wildwood
2.Sister Barnson and I
enjoying the AC after Conference
3. Sister Lee's Homecoming
Talk... we are going to miss her tons in the mission (oh and carter's farewell)
4. Mission Conference July
5. Welcome Sister Dotter!
6. Fun little mission
"reunion" with some awesome sisters
7. Running the Zip
Line @CWR
8. Sister Hollman and I at
FHC
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