Awkward moments and office hermanas

September 7th


HEEEEEYYYY YALLL!!!! Here's a play by play of my week:

Tuesday? fantastic. Just fantastic. I had a dr. appointment in the morning, and then we hung out at the offices for an hour. Then we walked home and made a BOMB stir fry. Aaaaand then Hna D. had an appointment. Familia Johnson (the senior missionary couple in our mission) took us. After that, we went back to the offices and worked a little bit on President's laptop on a project. We hung out til the evening with the 6 office elders and helped out where we could... then we finally left to walk home. On the way home, we stopped in a little kiosco to pick up some bread. We left the kiosco and what do we see?... 2 of the elders standing outside our pench down the road! They saw us and started running as fast as they could over to where we were standing. Apparently, they had a lesson that night with three 9 year old girls.... but... the girls had brought 5 FRIENDS!! So the elderes came running to find us so we could help them teach! We ended up teaching with the 4 elders, and it was soooo much fun!!

Wednesday-another good day! We worked a little in the offices and I got to see my mtc homie elder sheen and chat a little while... so that was fun.

Thursday: Hna D and I hung out in the offices all day, doing random office stuff for the Elderes. This was both good and bad... good because we were helping. Bad because when anyone is around hermana reeve for extended periods of time, an embarassing experience is bound to happen. Exhibit A: Here in Argentina, automatic scent-sprayer thingys are really common. So I was standing in the doorway of the offices, leaning against the door telling a story to all of the elderes AND the 2 senior couples. The darned sprayer thing was located about 2 inches from my face and decided to go off mid-sentence -_- I jumped about 2 feet off the ground and gasped... really, I almost fell over because it startled me so much. I don't think I've ever seen anyone laugh as hard as they all did :P Anyhoo, we helped cook for like 4 hours in preparation for the meeting the next day. Part of food prep was chopping onions. So, as if the whole scent-sprayer thing wasn't enough, how great is it to have everyone walk in on you and your comp bawling your eyes out.. over onions!! I didn't know it was possible for eyes to leak so much!!! But, we got to teach the little girls again with the elderes that night, and it went so well!! We really started to bond with them, and I just love them so much!!

Friday: we spent the morning in the offices cooking some more and then serving the food at the meeting. We spent the late afternoon in the pench cleaning and dancing to church music... ya know.

Saturday: woke up, went to my LAST dr. appointment, then treated ourselves to some delicious argentina pizza!! whoooop!! So much better than in the states... for real. We went to the offices and I played the piano for an hour or so, then the elderes asked us to teach with them again. For the hour before the lesson, we just kinda relaxed w/ the office people (cuz it was their pday) and I played this little keyboard in their offices... then we met the little girls for their lesson!! They were SOOOOO crazy and hyper... the poor elderes were having such a hard time hahaha. Hna D and I helped as much as we could, because the girls listen to us pretty well. The elders were like "thanks, moms!" after the lesson... and in truth, I really did feel like a mom :P AWKWARD STORY TIME! Hermana Dos Santos (an hermana we are living with) has this dvd of farm animal songs... and they actually really help with learning castellano! So I was sitting in the pench while my comp was cooking, and singing at the top of my lungs about a frog sitting under water singing. I got to the chorus and just belted it out: "LA RANA QUE ESTABA SENTANDO CANTANDO ABAJO DE AGUAAAAA!!" Well... the window was open... and little did I know that the office people were all outside working on the pench next door, completely within earshot. whoop dee doo.

Sunday: we went to the ward in Ramos Mejia and immediately upon arriving, the little chicas we have been helping teach found us and demanded that we sit with them. Trying to keep 3 hyper girls quiet during sacrament meeting is hard, but somehow we managed. During the sacrament, the girl named Daniela (apparently I belong to her...) asked me what the Sacrament meant. I explained to her about it and then we read Mosiah 18 together about our baptsimal covenants. She had not wanted to read the LdM in every other lesson... but by the end of Sacrament meeting, i finally convinced her to read it, and she was excited about it! It felt incredible to be able to teach and help someone so eager to learn... aaand it kinda made me really excited to be a mom :)

Well.... that was my week!! Today I will be talking a little more with President about my foot situation. My tendonitis is better, but yesterday was pretty hard... a lot of pain in my heel, to the point where I couldn't really sleep. I'm hoping we can figure something out! Thank you all for your prayers :)

this is Tomas... he hates pictures. but he loves us :)

with all the sun, my face has been gettin a little pink!

typical missionary picture... la capilla en ramos mejia!

-Hermana Reeve

Annnndddd now..... I'm on house arrest

August 31st


Well.. this week brought another change. I found out I had tendonitis in my OTHER foot, and that it could be caused by walking funny due to my bone spur in my LEFT foot. The dr. said if my bone spur is hurting, I should get surgery. President found out, and told me I should go home. I told him no... politely :) He told me again that it was a good idea to go home, and I told him that I didn't want to do that (my words exactly: "you know President... no, I think I can stay. I am physically able to walk, so I am GOING to walk."). He agreed to give me two weeks to make it better... if it didn't get better, or if it got better but then worse when I went back to work, I need to get it taken care of at home. He also tried to get me to stop working that night, but I told him that wouldn't work because we had appointments... Let's just say I have a reputation in the offices and with president now for being really stubborn. But, I think he finds it amusing, so it's all good! ANYHOO, Hermana dockstader and I are now comps for 2 weeks because she has foot problems too! and *drumroll please*.... we are working in the offices -- on President's laptop!! Sure didn't see that coming haha.... but yeah. It's kinda weird being around office elders all day long, and just sitting around, but at least I'm still here! I got to go to transfer meetings on Wednesday for the first time and MY WHOLE ENTIRE MTC FAM WAS THERE!! It was amazing!! Words can't describe how incredible it was to be together again... or the scream that Elder Harris (jaQuavious) let out when he saw me, and then heard me talk in Spanish. haha oh my... but yeah, we are living in a little pench 2 blocks from the mission offices. and we are living with another trio of hermanas... one of them is Hermana Howe, my MTC comp!! We have so much fun and I'm so happy I get to live with them for these next couple weeks! Thursday was a really interesting day. Since I can now speak pretty well in Castellano, President is sending us by ourselves to our doctor appointments. It was kinda scary at first because hermana dockstader doesn't really speak castellano yet... so I do all the talking. But it has helped me become more fluent, thank goodness! An interesting experience that happened thursday... we were walking  I thought it might be a good opportunity for references to give to the missionaries of this area, so I stopped by this little ring stand. I saw a little ring that looked like wheat (and I thought of the scripture in DyC about the field is white already to harvest) and asked the guy how much it cost. He was like "it's a gift, you can have it!" I immediately thought WHOOOA this guy is bomb, he's so generous..., I have to get his info to pass on as a referencia!! So I did, and then we left and I looked back down at the ring he had given me.... I looked at my comp and said "I don't think this is wheat...." Yeah, it was weed. MARIJUANA. I, as a missionary, SOMEHOW ended up with a RING WITH A MARIJUANA DESIGN ON IT!! The office elders got a pretty good laugh out of it... and so did my district... ok pretty much the whole zone. This would only happen to me... hahaha oh man. Never a dull moment when you're around Hermana Reeve! So now I have a weed ring as a souvenir. I have the weirdest luck in the world.... ugh. haha and then a bird pooped on me on the way home, so that was interesting.

My thought this week: Mosiah 3:7-- "And lo, he shall suffer temptaions and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death..." we often just focus on the whole "Jesus died for my SINS", and that is the main focus of his suffering. But... he died for even more! Pain, hunger, thirst, fatigue. Every sorrow we feel. And why did he do that? he did it so that He could know more perfectly how to help us in our times of need! So whatever you are going through... He knows. And knows because He WILLINGLY went throught it all for us :)

I'm sorry I don't have many teaching moments but... being stuck in the pench all the time doesn't really bring many of those ;) have a wonderful week everyone!!



the ladies of the casero pension! (before hermana tidwell left)




MY MTC FAM!!!




the new ladies of caseros.... HERMANA GULL is replacing hermana tidwell!! (ps I've kinda thinned out a lot from walking haha)




Hermanita Reeve-ita

I'M STAYING IN CASEROS!!

August 24th


Well... how do I put this - I like the city. Now, before yall start wondering where on earth Hermana Reeve went, lemme explain - I like the opportuniteis that come from serving in the city around SO MANY people!! Honking horns aren't music to my ears, but the sound of sharing the restored gospel IS! I also like walking so much... because I'm losing all that chub I got from the pasta in the country ;) so there are some very good things about the city! fun fact... la palabra "caseros" means "homemade". So I am serving in a homemade city! Haha! My comp is AWESOME, we get along fabulously and teach together in a harmony that is crazy good. Also, our apartment complex has a roof that we go on to do exercises in the morning sometimes. There are few thingsmore relaxing than stretching and yoga and headstands on the roof as the sun rises. Luckily, I bought fleece lined leggins to keep me warm :)

I don't have many teacing stories this week, but something really cool did happen. I was walking down the street and a random paper flew in front of me. It had the name "ELISA" written in caps. I don't know why, but this name really stuck with me for the rest of the day. Later that night, we knocked a random door of this lady. She was sad, and we found out that her husband of 63 years had died recently and she just wanted to be left alone. I started carrying a book of mormon in my hand whenever I'm out proseliting (i can't remember how to spell anything), and so I held up the book and told her that when my dad died, i found comfort in this book. She watched me for a while and said "this book REALLY helped you?" I nodded and said "and I promise it will help you." she accepted it and agreed to let us come back at another time. Guess what her name was....? Elisa. Yeah, God is real, and he is directing our eyes, feet, and thoughts to lead us to people. I know it!

Sunday was really great! I was asked to share my testimony in the ward because I'm new, and I had a bunch of ward members come up after and ask how long I had been here. When I told them two months, they asked how long I had studied Castellano before the mission. And when I told them I didn't, they didn't believe me!! One lady was like "well ok then, you definitely have the gift of languages, no doubt about that!" Then after this little 8 or 9 year old girl came up and started talking to me and was all shy... I told her she had beautiful hair and she said "no, you do! yours is soooo rubiacita (blonde... even though it's definitely light brown :p) and your eyes are such a different light brown color! que linda!!" haha I just love people here!

Anyway, I'm about out of time, but I love the poeople here, I love being a missionary more and more every day, I have an INCREDIBLE COMP!! The other day we were laughing about something, as usual, and she said "I haven't had this much fun with a comp in 9 months!" and I am so grateful for the help of my Heavenly Father in learning this language!! 

Love you all so much!!

my view from the pench!

MY FACE!! I decided I'd send one picture of myslef a week so I can look through them all after the mish and see how I've changed!

Hermanita Reeve-ita :)

FLASH!

August 17th


Well I am pretty sure that God just really likes throwing curveballs in my life!! It's a good thing I like baseball... So as some of you know, I have been having problems with my heel these last few weeks, and it was pretty scary not gonna lie. BUT I am still here in the mission, and I am planning on fighting to stay here for as long as possible! So sit back and enjoy this crazy week :)

Lunes: Well, monday night we tried to go visit some families... but we couldn't.. because there was 5 feet of water in the street! yep, not even exaggerating. Really. There was a stinkin boat in the middle of the street for people to get out of their houses. Sooooo... that was nuts. I wish I would have gotten a picture but that was the ONE day I didn't bring my camera!!

Martes: We went to the capilla for our district meeting that day, and then we also cooked spaghetti with the elders so that was fun :) after lunch, we stayed at the church with our branch pres, his wife, and a couple others to bake some food to take to a shelter where people were staying because their homes were flooded. So that was fun!! After we baked for 4 hours, we went to the shelter and handed out the food. These little kids were in a room watching a minion movie and we walked in with the box of food and they literally just swarmed us and started chattering and stuff and it was just the most beautiful thing I've ever seen :) So that night was pretty sweet!!

Miercoles: we went to visit an investigator that lives in campo campo..like way out in the country. and as we pedaled away, my bike slipped in the mud... so i went to put my foot down and it just sank. I don't think I've ever seen anyone laugh so hard as my comp and our investigators back on the porch... glad I could provide entertainment hahaha ;) later that night we visited our other investigator Raul and his menos activo sister Ariseli. My stomach always hurts after we leave because the two of them are just so hilarious together! they are totally brother and sister because they fight like cats and dogs! speaking of dogs... Ariseli has a dog named Lucila that always jumps on the table. sometimes she just gets really irritated with Lucila and in the middle of the lesson yells "LUCILA!!! BASTA!!!" and Hermana Mickelsen and I just get into laughing fits! Like I said before... EVERYTHING is funnier in Castellano!

Jueves: We had a lesson at the house of this really sweet couple (members). She makes the best pizza, and we had a really small lunch... so I found out that it was possible for my stomach to hold 7 slices of pizza! oops... I think I have a problem.

Viernes: We get a call from president Robertson... "Hey Hermana Reeve. what's your mom's phone number?" soooo basically that scared the living daylights out of me because I thought I was going home or something. He called me back a little bit later and said he was like 5 minutes from our pension (thank goodness we cleaned that week!). So President shows up. He asks if we have any investigators... we tell him we do. He said "Oh. Because if not I was going to have you pack your bags and come with me. We're having a flash." A flash is when a missionary gets moved in the middle of a transfer... aaaaand this is the second flash I've been in! haha! So apparently I will never be in a bicycle area again, which means I'll be in city city for the rest of my mission :( the city is way more dangerous than campo... so prayers would be appreciated. Haha

Sabado: we walked. everywhere. which took a while because we live in campo, so it takes forever to get around our area!! but I LOVE WALKING!! it's so much easier to stop and talk to people on the street!! We had a really good day that day.. lots of contacts and talking to people on the street. so much fun! I actually felt like a real authentic missionary! haha :)

Domingo: We had our branch conference which was nice. AAAAAND I totally sightread music for our little choir. So that was also fun. But the real fun happened in the evening... one of the families in the ward was flooded, so they were living at their parents house. It's way far out in campo, but I wanted to say goodbye so we made the trip on foot. We clapped outside and they opened the door and the 7 year old benjamin saw us and just started jumping up and down! then the 15 year old girl Bella saw us too! Benjamin just ran up and threw his arms around me.. I didn't really know what to do because technically you're not supposed to hug kids, so I just kind of stood there because I didn't have the heart to tell him to stop! Haha anyway we went in their house and visited with them and the other hermana who is 16 or 17 named Lilen. It was so sad when I told them I was leaving... they cried. And benjamin just came over and held my arm and laid his heahd on my shoulder and said "but I don't want you to leave, hermana reeve." MY HEART!! AHHH!! I got a very sweet letter from one of the hermanas and it was just so emotional. I never knew I could be an instrument of God in having that big of an effect on someone, but this family proved me wrong. I'll definitely never forget them :)

TODAY! Today was flashes! We met in Ramos Mejia and I got my new companion! Her name is Hermana Frogget, and she has 9 months in the mission. She's really sweet and quiet and I'm really loud and outgoing and stuff, so we make a good team!! We got to the pench and did some shopping for the week, then we went bowling with our district. Our district has 6 elders and 4 hermanas, but the other 2 hermanas didn't go, so it was just us and the elders. Kinda weird, but fun :)

This week has been really really great. I think I've had more changes in the last 2 months of my mission than I could have imagined, but I know I'm here in Caseros for a reason. Someone is here for me to find, and I felt that the second I found out that's where I was going. I just knew :)

I'm out of time, but until next week!!

 

 when we were baking!

 

-Hermana Reeve

The rains came down and the floods came up.... in Argentina

August 10th

Hey fam and friends :) this week was really crazy, and by crazy I mean not much happened. Tuesday, we had a zone meeting in Lujan. It was great and I got to see Elder Schoonover again!! After the zone meeting we did a division... which means I switched companions for a day! I was with Hermana Alvarez from Columbia, and she was actually in the CCM with Dallin which was kinda funny! haha but yeah, she didn´t speak english, and that was a little terrifying at first. BUT - I managed to get us home on the collectivo AND tell her about our investigators and stuff and that was a pretty huge confidence boost :) I directed the aread too, and I didn´t even get us lost!! We didn´t have much time to work, but we found this reference from a member... i thought he was an old investigator. He was really welcoming and we taught him a lesson on the book of mormon.. and he was like "oh I totally have all your church books!" and brings out the Bible, Libro de Mormon, doctrine and covenants, pearl of great price, and principios del evangelio!! We were like WHAT ON EARTH! THIS GUY IS GOLDEN! and I sacked a CPV with him and I was so excited! We had english classes that night too and those are always fun because all the ladies like to take selfies with us americans to put on facebook.... it´s pretty hilarious! The next morning, we got on the bus to Lujan which was another miracle because I had never done the bus by myself before, and hermana alvarez didn´t know how to do it from here in mercedes. So when I saw my comp again, I told her all about this new investigator and she was just laughing. I asked her why and she was like "hermana... he´s a less active! He´s a member of the church, that´s why he has all the books!" I just sat there in shock and then started laughing too. My life....

Thursday we were in the pench all day because my comp was really really sick. I studied for about 4 or 5 hours and wow, I never knew reading the scriptures and conference talks for that long could be fun!!

Friday and Saturday, we had an activity of the branch where we all invited as many nonmembers as possible to watch "conozca a los mormones" (meet the mormons) on a projector in the capilla. It ended up being a really nice activity even though not too many people showed up :)

Sunday was just..... weird. Good weird. but weird. Here´s why:

1: it was super rainy. Like... really wet. Everywhere. So we get a call from the branch president inviting us to ride to church in a remis (taxi) with them. THAT NEVER HAPPENS! So that is a real good indicator that we´re on good terms with our presidente del rama :)

2: we were just chillin in class, and I look out the window and who do I see? Our mission president. No biggie. I guess he just randomly decided to visit OUR branch that day for church! My comp thought I was nuts when I leaned over and said that I just saw president. She didn´t think I was nuts when we walked outside and he was standing there! Haha but yeah, and then president drove us home. So that was weird also, because we went to church and returned in a vehicle... which never happens.

3: a herd of 7 or 8 dogs walked up to us in the street while we were standing at a door knocking... normally, this isn´t that weird for argentina, but then they tried to hide under us and our bici´s.... and we aren´t very big people, so it was a pretty funny sight!!

3: we were at the home of a less active family, and they were fixing us maté and torta fritas and just chatting before the lesson... when the ELDERS came to do home teaching. What great timing... haha so the 4 of us were just sitting there and under my breath I said to one "we were here first, whatcha gonna do?" We ended up teaching a lesson with them, which was weird. real weird. But it was a great lesson so I can´t complain! 

Overall, this week was pretty good :) saw a friend from the mtc, talking more and more in the language, and overall a lot of growth!

Love you all :)

-Hermanaita Reeve-ita (this is what my comp calls me... haha)

Short and sweet... like the week!!

August 3rd


Hey fam and friends!

This week is gonna be kinda short and sweet :)

On friday we had a meeting because my companion is a STL, so we woke up at 3:30 a.m. to travel to Ramos Mejia by bus and then by train. Luckily, I didn´t puke this time ;) haha!! But yeah, the meeting was real nice and it was good to chill with some other hermanas and elderes. FUN FACT: I taught a piano lesson is Castellano! This cute little Brazilera was trying to play a song, and I was sitting there and this thought just came to me "she doesn´t know how to read flats." So I went over and was amazed that I was able to teach her how to read music, and about sharps and flats...and by the end of it she could play the top hand in the hymns! haha it felt so good!!

Speaking of talents, I was able to use my talent in choir on Sunday night and be the pianist! It was so calming and relaxing... 4 LESS ACTIVES CAME TO CHOIR!! and one of them is this little 8 year old kid named benjamin. He´s so dang funny, and he loves us! One time someone asked us why we were such nice people, and he said "because they´re misioneras, and misioneras are GOOD CHICAS!!" hahaha but yeah, he sat on the piano bench with me and put his hands over mine because he wanted to feel like he was playing the piano. Their family is so fun and the mom is finally coming back to church now that we are befriending their daughters, and now that her visiting teachers are actually visiting! haha but yeah, it was a good sunday... we had 1 inverstigator come to church, and we had like 4 or 5 less actives come that we committed to come this week. WE have 75 people there, that´s triple what we had my first week! Overall, a really good week, and a week of growth and a lot of faith :)

Thank you all for your prayers!! I love you all, and also, Jacob 2 & 3 & especially 4 are super good chapters in the Libro de Mormón. Read em :)

-Hermana Hailey Reeve

One incredible week!

July 27th

Well, this week was pretty darn amazing. My faith grew a ton. I am the happiest i´ve ever been, and I finally have acclimated to the cold... halfway ;) but it´s all good! I for reals love this south american culture!! My favorite thing is that everyone rides motos. My favorite... a mom, dad, and kid on a moto, with the kid smooshed between the dad and mom. the kid is holding their dog, and the mom is holding a tv. what..... ANYWAY! time for the week!

First, a little about this miracle that we had last night. A few days ago, I was looking in the area book and found this antiguo investigator named Gaston. We put him in the plans but never really got around to visiting him. the other night, one of our plans fell through and we went to visit him but didn´t have a solid direccion, so we asked around. we asked this family where he lived and they told us (because in this campo area, everyone knows their neighbors and it´s awesome). after they told us where he lived we started talking, and all of a sudden the guy was like "do you wanna come inside?" so of course we accepted!! we went inside and sat down and this couple has been married for 22 years. that´s HUGE. No one here gets married, they just live together, and it´s extremely hard to find someone that´s married. They have 4 sons, with ages 19, 14, 7 and 2. They´re so, so sweet. They don´t have a religion as a roadblock, which is also rare because we get rejected a lot because everyone is catholic. They agreed to read it together, and the husband said the prayer. This is also really rare for someone to agree to pray in the first lesson. He just looked at us and said "I don´t believe that this is a coincidence that you couldn´t find gaston. I think God sent you to this house." WE ARE SO SO SO EXCITED FOR THEM!! Seriously, they are such an incredible family and I´ve never felt so warm. ahhh man :) 

Another cool experience was with a menos activo. He has really bad health, and that is why he doesn´t go to church. He´s only been a member for a year and a half, but he still reads his scriptures every single day and everything. He lives in a house with 3 walls, had a pot of food cooking over a fire that was burning on woood and garbage, and just didn´t have a lot. He had this light in his eyes though, and he said "I know I have a very humble home, and don´t have a lot, but you hermanas are always welcome." I had never felt so peaceful than when I was sitting there, in the dirt, on a broken bucket talking with this man. I love these people so, so much!!

Fun fact: my comp and I went to a bday party this week of the 1 year old hija de our investigator! We had eaten this huge lunch (i´m not even kidding, I ate 3 heaping plates of food because you can´t say no here and I´ve never felt so sick in my life. bleh), and then right after we went to this party where they fed us more food! it was the first party my comp had ever been to, and we just couldn´t stop laughing... we never thought we´d be in this random house eating cake pops and celebrating the birthday of this little chiquitita... but it was so fun! i´ll try and send pictures next week :)

Now a bit about me... :) this week has been one of so much growth. My comp said "I don´t know what happened hermana, but I don´t ´feel like I´m teaching with someone who only has a month here after being home for 3 weeks." my language has improved dramatically!! I read an old letter from Elder DuFort this week, and he said "when you put that nametag on your chest, you´re Christ´s hands. You do what HE does, not what YOU do." That has made the difference this week. I´m forgetting myself, I´m loving the people, and I´m seeing MIRACLES!! It´s so beautiful. One of my favorite songs that my comp and I have been listening to this week is called "blessings." It says "what if your blessings come through raindrops, what if your healing comes through tears? what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know you´re near? what if your greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can´t satisfy? what if the trials of this life are your mercies in disguise?" I love this song. Let us all try to remember that sometimes, our trials are what bring us more joy in the long run :) thank you for your prayers. I feel them. Thank you to those that write me, and I´m unable to write back! I get so many emails a week, and I appreciate them all. I read them all, even if I don´t have time to write personally :) 

I love this work. I love this language. I love this country, and I love this gospel!

Love, Hermana Reeve

Short n sweet :)

(7/20/15)

Hey fam and friends! This week has been really fun. It really has! The weather is like 2 degrees warmer so I´ll take any improvement I can get.. haha. Funny things that happened this week: I fell off my bike in the middle of the calle while my comp was knocking a door... don´t ask how, just imagine it in your heads and you´ll get a good laugh. Also, I ran into a pole, and lost my shoe while biking, and tambien I was attacked by a tree. It was an entertaining week for my comp :)

We saw a shooting star this week, and the shooting stars here are WAY BETTER THAN IN THE STATES!! I love the sky here!!

spiritual things: I´m opening my mouth more, and therefore... I´m teaching more effectively. I love the people more and more and more!! And I´m understanding more and more too :)

This week I want to invite everyone to build a more sure relationship with God. I´ve talked with God this week more than ever before, and I think that is the most valuable thing I´ve learned so far: talk to God. Pray to Him, all the time. He will always respond, the answer just might be different than expected :)

I´ve had computer problems today, so this is a little shorter, but just know that my health, both emotionally and physically, is doing really well :) I´ve had a little bit of pain in the foot that I was supposed to get surgery on, but I´m hoping that fades away. Either way, I definitely know that I´m in God´s hands, and that He knows best for me :) I love my mission!!

sorry it took so long, but here are some pictures finally! most of them are at the ranch that we ate at this week... it was incredible!

1: it´s really cold here.....

2: my comp and I were trying to take a picture, but the dog kept jumping up and getting in the way... this is the first pure lab I saw here, and I just fell in love with her!!

Love, Hermana Reeve

Appendicitis and other adventures...

(7/13/15)

Well, this week won´t be too interesting because I was on bed rest for almost 3 days! I´ll start with last monday...

MONDAY: so... p-day was weird. I felt really bad for like an hour after emails because I can´t write everyone back AND I couldn´t send photos for the second week in a row... but the rest of the day was nice because we went food shopping and stuff!! We got oreos and dulce de leche, which is like nutella here, but not.... i think it might be better!! haha Anyhoo, I also dyed my hair!! I´m finally brunette again!! Well mostly... Hermana Mickelsen calls it strawberry brond. Our first lesson was with Nacho. Yes, his name is Nacho and it makes me so happy every time I say it. He was baptized in Lujan and when he moved here he turned inactive. His bro died a year ago, so his nephew lives with his fam. His mom is never home, so we always sit outside with them. He has 3 little sisters, and then his nephew. His nephew is 2 and literally the cutest little chiquitito I´ve ever seen in my entire life, and I´ve seen a lot of cute babies. His thick black hair makes him look like the little mushroom guy from Mario Kart!! haha anyway we taught allllll of the little kids too, and we taught them the 10 commandments. Sitting there, surrounded by kids just made me realize how much I want a family of my own and to teach them the commandments and values that I know to be right. It was a sweet moment :) Later, we were looking for an old member and happened to knock on the "wrong" door... the door we accidentally knocked was this guy with for kids, who had just recently gotten them back. He had done drugs and drank a lot, and his wife left him and took the kids too. But he had quit those things so he could get his kids back.. the sunday before, we had fasted to find someone that needed the gospel but didn´t know where to find it. And then we found him, and he said he had been wanteing to talk to someone about this for a while but didn´t know who! Fasting is great!!

TUESDAY-In all honesty, I had a huge page to write about this but ended up just scratching it and making it a short story. Here´s what happened: Went to zone conference, felt sick. Hna Robertson ordered us to go home and rest for the rest of the day, which meant that it was pretty bad, because she is the kind of woman that says to take tylenol and keep pluggin along. But she sent us home, and on the bus on the way home I turned to Hna M and said "I don´t feel good..." and then she handed me a plastic bag and I threw up like half a gallon of stomach fluids, and I also threw up blood. So that was a little scary.. we went back to our house and I slept for a good 8 hours, with a fever that kept climbing until it reached 103.5. Hna Robertson and the mission nurse got really worried because I had stomach pains too. Hermana Gull (the mission nurse) prayed about it and stuff and she said as soon as she prayed she felt it was appendicitis. We took a taxi over to the mission offices so I´d be closer to a hospital, and we stayed there for a day and a half. Not much happened because my fever broke and the pains subsided, so it was most likely appendicitis that just subsided, according to doctors.. who knows, but basically I had to eat rice and cornmeal for a day or so. The last time I was that miserable was when everyone thought I had mono :P but luckily I´m better, and was only out til Friday!!

The rest of the week was really uneventful to be honest, and I didn´t really write in my journal about those days so I´ll just leave it at this: we ride our bikes, talk to people, and try to find people that wanna hear the gospel. All day every day :)

My Castellano is a little better, but still really rough. Keep praying for me, and thank you to those that do pray for me :) I love you all!! I don´t have much time, but here´s my spiritual thought: Read and STUDY st John 15. It´s my favorite chapter in all of ever that ever existed :)

Hermana Reeve

I MADE IT TO MY SECOND P DAY!!!

(7/6/15)
Ok... ok.. ok. This week was a lot better than last week in MOST aspects :) I´ll start with my journal on TUESDAY!!

Martes (tuesday): today we had our first district meeting, and it was a little rough because eeryone could speak castellano and I couldn´t. but after, we had lunch at the church with the elders and this hermano made us pizza... it was INCREDIBLE!! we just worked for the rest of the afternoon and stuff... we weren´t having much success, but then we started knocking on the doors we couldn´t find. we came across this sweet old lady that looked asian and argentine put together haha. her husband had just died of cancer five months ago, and she was really just sad. she didn´t let us help her trim her bushes or even talk about our message, cute we left her with a song "tengo gozo en me alma hoy". She just started crying and everything, and i offered the prayer that we left her with and it was just really beautiful :) I kept having the thought about everyone that day... "he/she is my dear friend". When Dallin left on his mission, in his farewell talk he shared a story about this elder in germany that had a dream one night. I´m really gonna paraphrase because I don´t have time for everything, but basically this elder had a dream that he was in pre earth life with someone he recognized as his dear friend. they had both recieved letters of where they would be called to live in their earthly life, and this elder was just so excited. he was called to grow up in an lds family, be born into the church, and have a very good life. his friend was sad and crying... he asked what was wrong and his friend said sadly, "i will not be so privileged. I will grow up in germany, where my father will die when I am very young. my family will be poor and i will need to start working very hard, very young. I won´t have the gospel of jesus christ in my life. Promise you will find me, and teach me about this gospel that will change my life!" this elder, in his dream, hugged his friend and said "don´t worry, my dear friend, I will find you. I promise I will find you." I had that story in my head the whole day, and i just imagined everyone we talked to as that person that I was supposed to find. It helped me have a better attitude, not gonna lie :) BUT THAT NIGHT WAS THE BEST!!! We had english classes at the capilla with these two old ladies... It had been a long day, but the second I walked in this old argentine lady yells "WHICH ONE IS FROM CALIFORNIA?!?!" I raised my hand and she just ran over and kissed my cheeks and said in a think accent "I LOVE california!!" haha apparently, the elders told their class about me and this lady has been super excited to meet someone from california... hahah ohhh man. i just cracked up! also, funny story... that night, I was in bed, halfway asleep (i sleep all wrapped up in a sleeping bag) and all of a sudden i found myself falling out of bed. The worst part was that I couldn´t even move or do anything because my arms and legs were all zipped up! it was the WORST! I scared my companion so badly.... haha.

Miércoles (wednesday): Hna. M and I got up at stinkin THREE IN THE MORNING. Why? well, we had to travel to ramos majia to get my trametes (papers that say i can legally be here haha)... and we had to take a collectivo and then a train. lemme just tell yall a little about trains. the collectivo (bus) was fine, but the train.... imagine a new york subway, 10 times worse. I was almost touching cheeks with a man and it was so uncomfortable hahaha. On some trains, if you cant squeeze inside, people hang off of the outside. IT IS NUTS. people here are crazy.... anyway, I walk into the mission office and who do I see? Elder Schoonover adn Landon!! haha I think we both kinda yelled a little louder than we should have and shook hands like 5 times. It was hilarious! In the middle of all this, in walks elder sheen with his chill little head nod and such, and then hermana howe! Turns out that we all were getting our trametes on the SAME DAY!! So we all spent the day together as our little mtc fam (well, part of it) together trying to speak in castellano. It was the best thing ever! Hna M and I left at like 2 pm and went home and worked for the rest of the night :)

Jueves (thursday)-well, today we woke up at 3. again. more collectivos, more trains, and more MTC fam reunions! it was great! after like 6 hours of trametes and stuff, hna m and i went to the sisters pench in Ramos Mejia to do weekly planning which takes like 3 hours. It´s really really long.... anyway, that night was hna m´s 1 year anniversary in her mission, so we called in pizza and ice cream and man oh man I have never been more content. Let´s just say I was a really happy camper :)

Viernes (friday): since hna mickelsen is a sister training leader, she had like a 6 hour long meeting the next morning, which is why we stayed the night thursday. During her meeting, we did personal study and practices and we also helped make lunch! I was feeling way sick that day, and I´ll keep it short so I don´t sound like i´m complaining, but I think the cold and humidity just got to me and I was just feeling terrible the whole day. And after that bus ride, I was so nauseaus.... it was gross! I got my first kiss from a guy here though. We were on the train talking with this deaf/mute, and he was so sweet. I gave him a Book of Mormon I had in my bag and he said he would read it and was so excited that before I could do anything he just leaned in! I turned my head and luckily he got my cheek, but it was scary man. Haha the hombres here are really bold... guys make kissy noises at us all the time. anyhoo, the second we walked in the pench, we went out and worked! That´s missionary life for ya haha. So yeah... today was a bit rough, simply because I felt really sick :/

Sábado (saturday):FOURTH OF JULLYYYYYY!!! MERICA!! I represented by wearing a blue sweater, red skirt, and white scarf. I try to be festive ;) this day was beautiful because our hot water got fixed too. God is good, He really is :) nothing much more about the day then that!!

Domingo (sunday): Sunday was just BOMB. we went to church and A) I understood more, B) all the odl ladies love the hermanas, and C) THERE WERE 42 MEMBERS THIS WEEK!! I was sitting in sacrament meeting just thinking wow... the gospel is the same here, in california, in russia, in paraguay, in england, everywhere. The principles are the same!! Also, I´m gonna take a second and be direct with any youth that read this ( i guess it applies for others too): we have it SO. GOOD. In America. You don´t even understand unless you´ve been to another country. The youth really need to appreciate the support system in the church... Here, there are like 5 youth in our branch. In the city, they wake kup at 5:15 to ride their bikes in the freezing cold to go to seminary. Every day is a risk because it is so dangerous in the cuidad. In one branch, mutual was indefinitely canceled because the YW pres decided to go inactive and no one else could fill the position. so yeah... we have it really good. DON´T take it for granted. On another note, I feel a lot better today! I got a blessing from an elder and it really helped me with my physical sickness and some thoughts that I was having that were kind of scary. It helped me put my trust in God a lot more with whatever he has planned for me in the next little while :) After church, we ate with this super fun and adorable couple, the 2nd counselr in the branch presidency, and a recent converso. I have literally never laughed so hard in my life... I understood their Castellano really well, and they were so friendly! as you know... people here eat a lot more. ALOT. And you can´t really say no.... so. It was fast sunday. therefore, we were starving. she made these incredible little pasta noodles with sauce and bread and pollo, and oh man... they were so good. so so good. I made the dumb decision of eating fast, so she just kept filling my plate. Finally it was gone and I just looked at my comp who is totally accustomed to this and whispered "hermana... creo que voy a morir..." which means "I believe I´m going to die...". Apparently the husband heard and just started dying of laughter and saying how it was so sad that I felt so horrible! then he said that he hoped one of the buttons on my shirt didn´t pop off and hit him because the pasta made my stomach swell so much! by this time I was dying from laughter and so was everyone else, and then he started telling how one time HE ate too much and his buton hit someone... that was it, we all just started crying haha. I told him I didn´t believe him and he kept saying "no, inserio!!" Hahaha oh man.. I love the people here. I really started to love them this week :)

I like never have any time to write much about investigators, but right now we don´t really have any progressing ones :/ we met this guy that is around 20 whose father died two years ago, and another 16 year old named alexis. his whole fam is way Baptist, but he is the only one that doesn´t go to church... he reminds me of what I think Joseph smith was probably like at that age :) I can´t wait to have lessons with them!! Everyone else is just kinda dragging along. The people here are a lil bit lazy and are so caught up in the catholic traditions that it makes it a bit hard to share the gospel without them bringing their previous religion up.

Today we´re probably gonna go play some fútbol with the elders (possibly), and I´m kinda way excited. Everyone here loves fútbol and it´s really rubbin off on me!

To all those that have written me, thank you. I read all your letters, but it is so hard to find time to respond. I never understood that until I got here in the mission field! It was so much easier to have time in the CCM for some reason!! Anyway, I love you all, and keep yalls chins up :) Thank you for your prayers, I can feel them :)

Love, Hermana Hailey Reeve

Hola de Argentina!

Hola my amigos y familia!

so... this week has been crazy. Rough, difficult, crazy, confusing, and a whole lot of other things. This letter will be a combination of my journal and my planner, and I´ll start with wednesday! (ps, i´m sorry about capitalization and punctuation, and I´m sorry that i can´t send pictures this week, and I´m sorry that this is so long)

WEDNESDAY

So. I´ve decided that I DO NOT like the ATL airport... at all. why_ because after an almost 5 hour flight, my poor little legs don´t exactly feel like walking 100 trillion miles just to get to my departure gate! haha for reals though--that place is enormous. once I finally got to said departure gate, I realized how starving I was... all i had to eat since morning was cherries, a naked drink, and granola bar. So I loaded up on dinner: beef jerky, trail mix, and life saver gummies. Our flight got delayed til 10:30 m, which was ok because I totally made friends with this adorable lady from el salvador who served her mission in washington dc! so that was nice :) when we finally got on the plane, it wasn´t full, so i snatched the row behind me to lay down on and sleep. the airplane people are really nice to people that have long flights... I got a little rice and chicken dinner, and it would have been good if it stayed in my stomach -_- the second we hit turbulence, I ran to the bathroom and lost all my dinner. So that was lovely :p haha but yeah... I got like 1 hour of sleep. I watched nacho libre and laughed out loud at it all by myself! I probably shouldn´t have done it, because I was set apart, but I kind of didnt realize that until the end... oh well :p I did get to wake up to a sunrise above the clouds though, and it was gorgeous!!

THURSDAY: I got to the airport and somehow my president and his wife missed me, so I was lost all by myself for 10 minutes... it was scary, not gonna lie :( I finally found them and they took me to the temple to walk around, and I got to be outside the argentina mtc too! It was crazy knowing that dallin went there, and now kaitlin hodgson is there too. Haha I seriously felt so weird... anyhoo, after that we went to the mission office, and I met my  new companion from Utah named hermana mickelson. she´s really cool and about 7 or 8 inches taller that me! haha she always calls me hermanita :) after that, our presidente took us out to lunch with his wife, and then we got dropped off at our apartment and took off on bikes. we had a couple visits with people and i literally understood absolutely nothing of what anyone said. Gosh dang Castellano accents. It was rough and I was so happy to get home and go to bed..

FRIDAY: I got to know the area more on friday... and talk about culture shock! part of our area is kinda city ish, but it´s not even considered city compared to the actual argentina cities. Everyone here drives motorcycles more than cars, and the "city" is pretty much more like extremely poor, short building version of brooklyn new york. the other part of our area is ALLLLL shacks and dirt roads. It´s so crazy. We bike through mud all day when it rains, to be honest... and I get so dirty! There are dogs roaming EVERYWHERE and anyone that knows me knows how much I love dogs... but I can´t do anything about it because they all have diseases and are gross and stuff. It breaks my heart :/ it´s freezing here, too, but I´m getting accustomed to that a little bit. The rain goes through everything, even if it is ¨waterproof". Traffic rules barely exist... and our taxi that took us to our apartment from the mission office was an old, beat up car that rocked all by itself. There was a cockroach that I sat on, and it was kinda duck taped together... and the guy was driving at least 50 miles over the speed limit down the middle of the freeway lane. I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE!!! also, EVERYONE KISSES HERE. it´s considered kinda rude of you don´t greet someone with a kiss on the cheek... that´s soooo weird for me to be honest :o we don´t do it to guys but all the women do it and it threw me off the first day when this random lady just grabbed my face and went for it haha. ah man... but yeah... i won´t write much about saturday because it was kind of the same honestly haha :)

SUNDAY:

Sunday was church. I was so excited!!.... and then I got there and I couldn´t understand one word of the lesson, or the sacrament meeting, or relief society. Nothing. I tried so hard to hold back tears, but on the way home I just cried and cried because A) it was raining, and my face was already wet, and B) my companion was ahead of me so she couldn´t see. I wanted so badly to understand Castellano, but I just couldn´t. The only thing that kept me sane was the hymns that we sang... it brought peace, and a lot of it! After church we had lunch with our branch president and his wife. She cooks really well and it was AMAZING!!! I ate ton because dinner doesn´t exist here... so if you don´t eat a good lunch, you are starving by 10:30. the rest of sunday went really well... we taught this woman that grew up in the church but is no longer active. Her best friend is on a mission in bolivia, and that was the only reason she let the sister missionaries into her house about a week before i got here. During the morning planning, I had a feeling that we should share the story of the stripling warriors with her. I had never met this chica before, and I knew nothing about her, but that is what I felt. Hna Mickelson taught her once before, but that´s it. We got there and she was so, so, so cute and happy and energetic! she is one of my favorite people EVER!! I love her so much (fun fact.... uptown funk is playing in english on the radio right now in the computer library. hahahaha oh my gosh I am cracking up). anyhoooo, I started to share with her the story and she just shook her head and chuckled. We asked what was wrong and she said "I don´t believe this... today, someone on facebook talked to me about this story, and then you guys come and teach me about it." She paid attention the entire lesson and almost cried. She even said the closing prayer!! after we left, hna mickelson said "you are inspired. This lesson was different, and it was because we taught that specific lesson that you wanted to this morning. She´s thinking about her life now and it´s because of your prompting." soooo I felt kinda great that even though I can´t really speak very well, the Lord is still using me in some way haha ;)

anyway, that was my week..... a couple other things that are random:

-whenever anyone sees a picture of my dogs, i tell them that blizzards name is Blizzard, and they don´t understand so I have to tell them that her name is "tormenta de nieve" (a storm of snow hahaha)

-my new name is (the triple r´s stand for the rolled sound) "rrr-eh-eh-veh". No one can say reeve so I´ve officially changed my name! hahahaha

-the branch president wants me to train their perrito

-nose goes exists here and it makes me so happy

-minions also exist here and I may or may not have sung the minion song with a little familia on Friday...

-everyone goes nuts over my blonde hair. They don´t believe that it is just from the sun, but they love it

-I tried matte/terere and DALLIN WAS RIGHT!! I love it!!!

-I´m always cold, so when I am at home, I wear sweats, leggins, fuzzy socks, a skirt, a sweater, a jacket, a scarf, and a blanket. and i´m still cold (todd I know you are laughing right now--STOP THAT)

My spiritual thought is short and comes from elder bleak. He said in an email: when you hesitate to stick up for christ, just remember that Christ didn´t hesitate to stick up for you or die for you." I think that´s gonna be my mission motto :)

I miss home, and I miss my family, and I miss my friends... but I love being here, despite the fact that I can barely understand anyone!! I´m so glad I finally made it to Argentina!! I never knew that preaching in some random Castellano language could bring me so much happiness :)

Please keep me in your prayers.

-Love, Hermana Hailey Reeve

PS... a couple more things: we don´t have hot water at the moment, and probably won´t for the next two weeks because the heater is broken. so we boil water and dump it over our heads and try to wash our hair the best we can... also, our hair is always gross because they don´t have a water softener here :p so my hair is just always dirty, not oily, but dirty!! also, I found out I´m in the same zone as elder schoonover, so I´ll get to see one of my CCM amigos at zone conference!!

-i´ve learned that it is just pointless to try and match clothes here, so I wear the most ridiculous outfits. I also always wear leggings because I am always freezing.

-this is the first time I´ve been homesick in my life, but I can´t even explain how much emails helped!! It´s weird--I´m never distracted while working, but when I am laying in bed at night it´s way hard. but this is the happiest I have been since I got here, so thank you all for your emails.. they really do help me :)

-peanut butter doesn´t exist here, and I forgot to bring some so I think I might die before the month is up. Seriously though... I miss peanut butter. And we don´t get packages here, so I don´t think I´ll be tasting it for the next year and a half haha

I think that´s all for now... If i remember anything else, I´ll tell you next week! haha remember.. pray for me. please.

love y´all :)

ONE WEEK LEFT IN THE CCM!!

HOLY DANG! WHERE DID THE TIME GO?! I'm scheduled to leave the CCM in one week! I'm so excited, but I'm so heartbroken to leave my beautiful companions and the amazing elders in our zone. I'm lucky that I get Hermana Howe and 4 other elders to take with me to my mission, but I'll miss the other 3 dearly :( It has been a week of answered prayers though!! I'll start with Tuesday!

TUESDAY - So as I mentioned in the last email, I had Achilles tendonitis. It was really, really painful and to be honest, I thought I would for sure be going home! It was suggested by my branch president that I ask the elders for a priesthood blessing. I asked Elder Bleak to give me one, and he was more than happy to. And let me just say, it was one of the most beautiful and most comforting blessings ever (I feel like I say that about each one though :)). Some of the things that he blessed me with were:

-my foot wouldn't get any worse... in fact it would progressively get better and that the functions of my body (wrist AND heel) would be able to function without problems or delay

-that I am entitled to the Spirit and the presence of Christ in my life

-that everything would happen in it's appointed time

-that I would be able to feel peace and not worry about anything, especially the language... that I may not know all the words in Spanish, but when the time comes that I need to use them, they will be in my mouth and they WILL be heard

-when Satan tries to lead me astray in thoughts, Christ will always be there

So yeah, pretty much... after that I felt really peaceful. And 2 days later, I woke up with my foot completely pain free!! Kind of a miracle, not gonna lie :) I have a recheck appointment on Tuesday and another on Wednesday, so hopefully I will officially get the all clear! Tuesday was also fun because that night, we had a group of international missionaries report to the MTC. As a STL, I was assigned to a sister until her companion arrived the next day. Her name is Hermana Antunes, and she is from BRAZIL! Not too far from where my momma served her mission! It was so fun! She spoke English really well and is such a sweetheart. AND, the speaker at the devotional that night was a guy from Brazil (one of the members of the quorum of the seventy), so it really helped her feel more at home :)

WEDNESDAY - On Wednesday, our zone got to host a bunch of new missionaries that were reporting to the MTC! It was so emotional to see them all say goodbye to their families, and I cried with every single one of them! It is really weird to see myself in that leadership position now, and it helped me to see just how much I have grown in the time spent even just at the MTC! It made me realize that I really do have a love for everyone, or at least almost everyone ;) Another fun thing about Wednesday was that the Zone Leaders and I got to do a little orientation for this new zone that came in. They're right down the hall from our classroom and we LOVE THEM! There are 10 in their zone--6 sisters and 4 elders--and 3 of them are from California! 2 are from northern california and 1 is from southern california! strangely, I get along with the elder from southern california more than the nor cal people.. It's really funny though, because while we were orienting them the elders were going hardcore about rules. I get that rules are important, but it's important to relax and be yourself too! So when it came to be my turn to share some advice, I looked at them and just said "laugh at least 10 times a day, smile at everyone, and be obedient. Also, take advantage of ice cream on Sundays and Wednesdays." Elder Bickmore (the southern CA elder) later told me that I was probably the most chill sister he had ever met, and to be honest, that has been my reputation for the last little while! So I'm glad that I'm no longer coming off as stressed :) 

THURSDAY - On Thursday, Hermana Smith and I had our last lesson with Raul :( I really hope he continues to learn about the gospel. He's such a great guy, and he was our REAL investigator! I feel so privileged to have been able to teach him about what I hold so dear to my heart. Nothing else really happened except for everyone found out I was homeschooled. None of them believed me. The conversation went something like this: 

"Yeah, I was homeschooled all through high school."

"What? NO YOU WEREN'T!"

"I'm not lying."

"But... you're social. And normal. And you don't look like you're homeschooled."

It was kinda funny, not gonna lie ;) OOH OOH! FUN FACT! On Thursday, Hermana Smith and I SKYPED someone that lives in Argentina and taught them a lesson! Coolest experience EVER!!

FRIDAY - Friday was a little rough, so Hermana Smith and I grabbed some popcorn and sat on a bench outside in the sunshine and read the white handbook. It's amazing how much the little things can do to make your day!

SATURDAY - nothing really worth noting for satuday :)

SUNDAY - So on Sunday, I was the lucky human that got asked to give a talk on the fly in Sacrament meeting. In Spanish. Whoop whoop. I made a couple elders shed some tears though, so I'd say mission accomplished! Success! At lunch, JaQ managed to drag his arm through BBQ sauce -_- so I whipped out a tide pen and took care of that sucker! I felt like such a mom hahaha :)

Other than that, this week hasn't been too exciting! I mean, missionary work is always exciting, but week after week gets a little bit... well... the same. Haha. I do love how comfortable I am with God directing my life now! When you think about it... He knows EVERYTHING, so naturally, we should be most comfortable with His will for us rather than ours :) So, that is my "challenge" for the week: DON'T WORRY! Just do what you're asked and God will take care of the rest. One of my favorite scriptures will always be Psalms 37:4-5. Read it :)

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!! AND I LEAVE THE MTC IN A WEEK! AN APOSTLE IS GONNA SPEAK TO US TOMORROW IN OUR FIRESIDE! So yeah. Life is good :)

 this is our zone, and I love them!!

 this was from the other week at the temple... soooo beautiful!

my outfit the day I looked like easter!

-Hermana Reeve