Tomorrow is a new transfer.... What the heck.

We got transfer calls. I will say.. at the end, what is happening.

Monday

I dyed Sister Coltrin's hair Monday night. I had been bugging her about it for a while. She had never dyed her hair before and I asked her for probably three weeks straight "Well why not?" So.. She let me. We dyed it auburn. Her daddy is a ginger so it looks really good on her.

OH! And last (FORESHADOWING) P-Day we played assassin. It was fun. I seriously miss Eli so much every time that we play dart wars. People will fight for him to be on their team when he is on his mission.. in less than a year.. Whoa.

Monday we went to dinner at the Schwankey's. They are a Polynesian family and people are serious when they say that they make a lot of food and want you to eat it all! Lucky for us they usually have half the zone there for dinner.

Tuesday

ZONE TRAINING! What a blessing zone training is to us! A lot of them in the past have been focused and specialized and so it is hit or miss whether or not they are applicable to our area. Our zone leaders this time gave an awesome training on relying on the Lord and Heavenly Father for inspiration and trusting in the promptings of the Spirit. :) IT was super pumping and inspiring!!

Let me copy and paste what Sister Coltrin wrote about Tuesday night: "After that we went to the far away Viking Chapel to do exchanges... JOKES. Okay so this is what happened... Our Sister Training Leader called us halfway through the transfer to schedule exchanges. We called her three days before to find out which one of us needed to pack to go to their area. They didn't call us back. We called the next day. They still didn't call us back. We called three times and left three messages that morning. Didn't get a call back until 4pm. It was her companion who didn't know what was going on. She said that her companion (our STL) was on exchanges and she would try to get a hold of her. She also asked if we could change the day. We couldn't because we had stuff Friday and Saturday. She got a hold of her companion and called us at 6pm. They said they would be late and asked if we could meet at 9:30pm. Remember that we are supposed to be home at 9pm, 9:30pm at the latest. So we decided, whatever, we'll meet them there. The chapel is about a half an hour away. So we were sitting in the chapel parking lot, waiting. We called them at 9:50. They weren't even on their way yet, they hadn't been home to pack clothes, nothing. I started to drive home, and Sister Fields just told them we would just forget about doing exchanges. We were so so mad. So mad. It was late, we had wasted miles, and we were just frustrated. But in good news, we called Sister Neider and she told us to sleep in a little longer in the morning because we had to be out so late. Also, that sister is no longer a STL.... awkward." (FORESHADOWING)
So that's that.

Wednesday
We had dinner at the Peterson's. We always have it combined with Johnson III and Rogers. Rogers has been in that area for a long time so we all knew it would be his last dinner, and maybe mine or Sister Coltrin's (FORESHADOWING) last also. We had AWESOME steak, and mashed potatoes, and squash and steamed broccoli. It made me miss Dad's cooking.

Thursday

Carmen Vega, one of our mini-missionaries, got her mission call to CHILE! She is super stocked! She reports to the Chile MTC in the beginning of December. What a blessing :)

Oh, and that day we had NINE mps planned.. and got 1. It was stupid, and it was a long day. No worries. It's over now.

We had dinner at the Boyer's and during dinner they got a call that their 4 year-old niece's appendix burst and that she was in an ambulance on the way to a hospital. We all automatically stopped and prayed for her. It was an awesome experience for it to be such an instant reaction. We are going to call and check up on their family today.

OH! And Sister's luncheon. We had trainings on the following; exchanges, flirting (or rather, not flirting), how to avoid gossip, how to meet our challenges with a smile, testimonies of those who leave soon. Lunch was super delicious!! Probably... DEFINITELY the best I've had my whole mission. It was soup, salad, and bread. I loved seeing everyone and being spiritually uplifted. We have 60 sisters in the mission now (FORESHADOWING)

Friday
In the morning we had house inspections. We got a ten, again. They asked us to write our parents addresses and I wrote Mom and Dad's and Jenny and Nathan's. hahaha. I figured you would all like to hear from the lady about how clean I am being. :) They always feed us awesome breakfast before. Biscuits and gravy for the win!!

Saturday

KEVIN'S BAPTISM!!! It went so well. There were just the right amount of people there. 

Ms McDade gave the talk on baptism and Chris Swan gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. Kevin bore his testimony after the actual ordinance was preformed and let me tell you it was an amazing spiritual experience. He talked about how he came into contact with the church> he said "I just want to thank my awesome leaders for being a good example and a good teacher to me." It was super cute! I am so happy, happy, happy for him!!!

THEN... transfer calls. I am...... Staying. I am staying in Temple View YSA, Sunrise with special assignment to be with my new companion Sister Crowe :) Sister Coltrin is heading to Anthem, the richest stake in the world. And that lucky girl will be there for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. YEAH! Oh, and I am a Sister Training Leader. whoo hoo!

I am super hungry or I would type more. (Mon 10/14/2013 12:22 PM)

Smiles from Sunrise! ...still!

~Sister Fields

October is gettin' chilly... I put on a sweater at 68*........ #VegasBaby

In honor of general conference this week we wrote verses to "Follow the Prophet" for all the Elders in our district while driving from place to place. I will share a couple... They are all super funny, though, and chalk full of inside jokes!

Tongi was an elder

he called Coltrin fat

but we guess in Tonga

girls are fine with that

In the morning sports
he is our number one
we love when he yells

"RUN BOHLING RUN!"

Mojica was an elder

has a cute girlfriend

her name is Breanda

will she wait for him?
When we call the ZLs

we don't know where they're at

but one thing's for certain

Mojica's gotten....

funnier.

Just a little laugh to start off the week. I hope every one had the opportunity to listen to our Prophet's voice! (big exclamation point) I loved the focus on member-missionary work of course. I also really enjoyed the talk on the sacred role of women in God's plan. I super duper love how inspired the talks are! I wrote down a few questions before conference started to receive direct revelation, I guess. I asked what is missing from my prayers? It was cool how, in about 8 different talks, they talked specifically on how we can improve our prayers. I have already seen that effect my work. :)

A night this week we had dinner with Abraham and the teachers (Hannah, Emily, Aimee, and Brittany.) He made super delicious and authentic enchiladas. Anyways, since we were out of miles (the end of the month) we asked for a ride to out next appointment. (Him, Hannah and her mom came) Since he has a truck, and we never do any really fun things as missionaries, we decided to ride in the back. It was awesome because the night wind is slightly warm and we could see the strip the whole ride. He drove OFF ROAD, though. It was a little scary. There is a part up near the mountains where there is a lot of bumpy, and unused land. It was fun. I will send a picture :)

Kevin is so super awesome, too! He came to FHE without us reminding him. It cool when you see people start to progress on their own. He is looking forward to his baptism this week! We are also teaching this new kid named Juan. He just graduated in June. We had an awesome Restoration lesson with him. He has been on our potentials list for a really long time. We caught him just as he was about to leave for training ( Marines ) last week, and set up an appointment with him. He is a miracle investigator for us. A little ray of sunshine in a difficult time of teaching.

We also FINALLY got to meet with Dillan to teach him the Restoration. He was the guy who bore his testimony in church last Sunday. It was weird because we had our lesson in his garage... But King (a member.. his name is actually Chris) was at the lesson with us and he testified with such power! It was amazing!! :) I am grateful for all the awesome returned missionaries that are examples to us. So many people look up to us, and we look up to them!! :)

We also were able to stop by Jamie's and teach the Plan of Salvation. This would have to be my favorite lesson to teach. I love to see people's reactions when they are told that they can live with their families together forever. Jamie's older sister was at her lesson and so were, like, 8 of her little, baby, girl cousins. :) They were paying close attention. You could tell that they were feeling the spirit. AHHH! I just love being a missionary! :)

Sunday was Chaunee's 19th birthday!! We had taken our lunch hour on Friday to take her to 7-11 for Slurpees and Target to get us all matching shirts. I love Chaunee so much. She is a wonderful example to me. I love that she instantly turns to her Father in Heaven for advice. I love to see her testimony grow as she becomes a more perfect Daughter. This week she went to one of Kevin's lessons with us and she bore a powerful testimony of tithing. She talked about how you don't need to struggle financially to see the blessings of tithing. :) She is super legit!!!! I will miss her. She goes into the MTC on October 23rd.

After conference Sunday morning we (the whole zone) walked over to the Petersen's for a huge waffle breakfast! :) It was delicious. I will send a picture of that, too. There were waffles, strawberry, ice cream, peaches, apples, bananas, grapes, chocolate syrup, maple syrup, and a bunch of juice. I was in HEAVEN! :)

OH!! AND WE HAD STUFFED CRUST PIZZA WITH KARINA AND MS MCDADE!

I am happy. I had a really hard day this week, but I have learned so much as well. It's hard when people don't want to learn about Christ's church. But that doesn't make me less of a person and I know that! :)

I LOVE THE GOSPEL!

Smiles from Sunriseeeeeeeee

Sister Fields

We also went to young women's in Morning Sun Ward. You say something nice about the person, throw them the yarn, and you make a web after a while. It's so cute!! :)

Forget the fact that I look terrible...

We were walking and saw Elder Johnson and Elder Rogers... hahaha

LOOK MISSIONARIES!!!

This is our matching T shirts :) Chaunee, me and Sister Coltrin