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Dear Baby Jesus

Another week down & another email titled after ethan. he is a very interesting guy. this week was a wild one !! I got to celebrate my 20th birthday and I can honestly say, it was the best one I have ever had. I was able to spend it with some family who live in Lakewood && my zone spoiled me with 3 different surprises ahahah too good of souls. 1. They snuck into our apartment and decorated it along with cupcakes & treats. 2. They got me a card, cake, and a lovely potato to remind me of home. 3. They all set up a zoom call to sing happy birthday 🥺💕 Sneaky. But sweet. After this the week started to slow down and we got to go to dinner with Ethan and we asked him to bless the food and thats where this infamous title originates. Then we had the next day filled with meetings from 9am - 9:30 pm. It was so boring. We had a training about asking questions and I hated it so I stopped listening about 10 minutes in & grabbed my pillow and blanket and took a nap. Then we had a mission leadership council which lasted 6 hours lol...but hey we can text & call friends now so missions are just changing. I decided they're trying to make missionaries members and members missionaries...because most missionaries go inactive once they're done and most members doubt their ability to share the gospel. Wild. Then we had a million meetings afterwards for our ward & zone. Isnt my life so exciting ?!! 

This week as I sat in sacrament meeting I was asking God a lot of "why" questions. Ya know, I could find many reasons why not but never the why. But after much chastisement by the spirit (literally lol) , I was told I did not have a strong testimony about the things us missionaries teach. That will be changing as directed by the Lord. So I encourage each of you to question the things you can #StartToday :) have a great week, love yall !! 

sister fin <3


- Frankie the turd lil dog 

- yummy and free joes ice

- bathroom selfies w sis smiff

- fam <3

- elder carpenter !! fr my bestie lol. he is one of the only openly gay missionaries and he is fr the coolest !!

- happy bday to me


☆ for this last week of the transfer I'll be in a trio with sister gordon and sister ferris :) rip to the coolest duo there ever was. 















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