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They will never end.

Hahaha better? :)

January 25, 2016

Ayye,

It was fun to hear a few ways you were able to serve others this week!
#proudmissionary also that's super cool that you got to hear from
president Nelson and elder Soares, Elder and Sister Soares actually
spoke to me in the MTC! Also that skis on couch was funny, I remember
in high school during college week they said that everyone does that
at snow college because there is literally nothing else to do hahaha.

Yeah the bruise was pretty cool, it still

hurts though. It was fine except it hurt super bad when he pulled the
needle out and then after a bit I got this giant golf ball sized blob
of Nast status bulging out of my arm haha so they had to wrap it down
real tight. Yeah it's crazy that sister Farmer goes home next week,
it's like the worst ever haha cause sometimes it makes me feel like
I'm going home and gives me anxiety and makes me terrified for 10
months from now. The weather actually isn't bad right now but last
week it's was pretty cold. Like the coldness is fine but the wind and
humidity make it so that when we are tracting in 4 degrees the real
feel has made it a bit into the negatives. But it's a balmy 43 today
and I'm like, roasting to death.

Well worst update of all time. So I think I have mentioned before that
Molly has a learning disability so she has just recently been living
on her own and she works at goodwill and all but she is just so great.
Well she told her mom the day before her baptism and her mom got
absolutely furious at her so she called us to let us know she can't
join our church because that's what her mom said and what mom says
goes. It was really sad, we asked if we could come pray with her that
night and she said we could but texted is later to let us know that no
one was allowed in her apartment. So that like crushed me. Anyway I
was praying for her that night and I was all sad and stuff when the
words came to me " don't you know that she is my daughter and that I
have a plan for her?" The plan of salvation is always full of plan b's
so life will go on but keep praying for her!

Well here's an awkward funny story. So you could basically go ice
skating in the gutters here if you wanted and sometimes there are
really wide smooth spots of ice so we were walking to go see a
potential we had met named Jason and there is this really great spot
of ice, so of course I had to moon walk on it. Right as I am so in the
groove I look up and this guy in this house makes eye contact with me
and closes the drapes to his HUGE window. I turn to sister Farmer and
I'm totally kidding like "please tell me that's not Jason's house" but
then it actually was. So we knock on his door and have the awkwardest
contact of all time, both of us knowing he just watched me moonwalk on
his ice but both of us pretending it didn't happen. Needless to say
our return appointment so him fell through hahahaha.

Anyway everything is going great. The church is true, the book is
blue, and Jesus was a Mormon too.

~Sister Hill

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This is from the a1c I got a week and a half ago. It looks a little
bit better now.

Everyone says "apple cider vinegar does wonders for your face" this
was after it went down a ton after my panic attack but it looked and
felt like someone concentrated all the sun of the carribbean onto my
face for 64 hrs straight. I almost had sister farmer call 911. Wonders
is a subjective term.

this is my mission president

January 18, 2016

Family,

Hey doods! So I'm trying really hard to remember the things that have
happened this week but it went by so fast and I'm also low on time
haha. But it's been really great!

We have Molly getting baptized this Saturday and it's going to be the
best! She had her interview and is all good to go. This is the hardest
part for investigators, so pray for her Por favor!! We have had a hard
time meeting up with Daniel but he still wants to get baptized so
we'll have to get a new date for him. We also haven't been able to get
ahold of Kim and Kyle but this week was when their work schedules
changed and they also have a daughter in the hospital so we just hope
everything is going ok.

I hit my 8 month mark last week.... OH WHAT? Time flies when you're
putting your whole heart and soul into helping others. Hey I have a
challenge for you fools. This week, pray to know some ways that you
can put your needs aside and help others. I promise the joy and help
it brings to your life will be much more worth it! *Missionary mode*
will you do that? How can I help you do that? Ok, I expect a report
from you next week. :)

Well, I love you all a whole ton and hope you have a great week!

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The district 3, coming soon.

We keep trying to take cool pictures in front of the ghetto hilltop
sign but we keep ending up with things like this. Don't ask how my
hair got like that

So since I got to this apartment I've been trying out how to empty
the lint in our dryer and after many many long searching hours I
concluded that it self-empties somehow. Sister farmer apparently came
to the same conclusion but our dryer was taking like 4 cycles to get
the clothes dry so we further investigated.... We have no idea how
long it's been but the whole thing is filled with a giant mass of
contended lint. we could warm almost every homeless person in our area
(which is about half the population)

January 11, 2016

Fam status,

Ooooooooooh the wedding looks like it was SO PERFECT! Hahaha I'm glad
I could 3rd wheel everything via picture, even from across the country
:) WHY ARE THEY SO CUTE? And yes I got the pictures, thank you so
much!

First off, to clarify, there definitely was rapid gunfire in the
night.... It was just celebratory gunfire (as far as I'm aware. I
don't watch the news)  to answer other questions: yes the weather
finally decided to be winter and it snowed and it's the worst haha. 12
degrees isn't that bad, except that it's humid and windy.... Therein
lies the problem :) but sometimes it makes people nicer to us when we
tract! And I'm glad you liked the card! I totally didn't make it
haha there was an investigator in Powell that made a few for me.
Aren't they cute??

Well this week has been pretty dang good! We finally got in contact
with Daniel which is a Christmas miracle and he's just been really
busy because of all kinds of things at work but he said now that
things are slowing down he'll be reading and coming to church again
because he's "gotta prepare for the big baptism!" So yeah. That's
good. We've been working more with Kim and Kyle too which has been
awesome. We decided to teach the full word of wisdom asap and it
actually went really well! They are super interested in the addiction
recovery program and they said their hardest problem will be sweet tea
haha so we're trying replacing it with mios :) they are so awesome and
they are still praying together! They're super cool. Molly is on her
way to baptism as well and we have a few more people working towards
dates in February.

I seems like I hit a wall of exhaustion lately (like more than usual)
which is weird but it's crazy because even through tiredness you feel
so much happier when you are working harder. I really do think God
puts challenges in our way so we can find joy in overcoming them. It's
extremely merciful, really. We just need to do all we can to put our
trust in him and leave it all in his hands! I learned this week from
Ether 8:7 that sorrow is putting our efforts into things that can't
last, but as we push forward in Christ we can receive an eternal joy!

I love you all so much!
~Sister Hill

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When you are running early to MLC and this drive shows up.
#bornforthisplace.  Ohio must've forgotten how to spell my name.

This is both of our first times having White Castle. Don't worry,
we both survived. :S

January 4, 2016

Familia,

This week has been super good! Yeah New Years was a good time, we went
to bed at 10:30 and woke up to a brand new year #obedience first.
Actually, want to hear a funny story? So I wake up in the middle of
the night because of rapid gun fire and commotion so I freak out and
wake sister farmer up to tell her that there is a shooting and I'm
looking out the window to figure out how close they are and then.... I
realize that it's 12:02. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Hahaha good times.

Also thanks for filling me in on the reception and wedding!! It sound
like it was just the cutest thing ever! IM SO EXCITED FOR PICTURES :)

Well besides the fact that literally every member was out of town and
it was hard to get members to lessons, everything went really well!
Something I've really learned about missionary work is that if you
invite people to be baptized they say yes haha. Sister Farmer and I
have been making sure EVERY first lesson/contact that we are inviting
people to be baptized and EVERY 2nd lesson to extend a baptismal date,
and we have 8 people with baptismal dates! I know it doesn't sound
like a lot but for a mission that gets 10 baptisms total in a month
it's pretty darn good! When people realize exactly what we are here
for they work harder to obtain it. It's really awesome, FOLLOW THE
COUNCIL OF YOUR LEADERS!

I had a really cool experience on exchanges. We were in my area and we
were talking to this lady named Kim and her boyfriend/husband Kyle. We
talked about the restoration and how it can bless their family and it
was really cool, Kyle said he didn't know about his beliefs in Christ
but that it's something he would be interested in finding out. Then,
point blank he asked me if drinking was a sin (this family has a few
things to change haha) and another thing I have learned on the mission
is to be bold and that the truth never needs to be sugar coated. These
people need to know exactly what they need to change and how they can
come closer to God and partake of salvation and they can't do that
unless we are bold with them. So, I told him that it was and we talked
about why God gives us commandments. At the end we invited him to say
the prayer and he was super reluctant at first but once we taught him
how and explained it more he agreed and his prayer was amazing! The
spirit was so strong as he asked Heavenly Father to help them make
changes to bring them closer to him. We went back on Saturday and had
another lesson where they accepted baptism for February 13th and we
had Kim say the prayer at the end and they had their little kids
praying with us this time. They couldn't make it to church because Kim
and one of the kids woke up throwing up in the night (Satan is the
worst) but she was so excited as she told us that they started reading
the introduction to the Book of Mormon and prayed with their family
that night! It's amazing to see the way God changes lives in small
significant steps.

Our investigator Molly is getting more comfortable with coming to
church and reading the Book of Mormon which is awesome! She is
scheduled to be baptized on January 23rd and on her way! Daniel is
supposed to be baptized that day but he has missed church 3 weeks in a
row now and we can't get in contact with him so we are worried. He
texted us telling us how grateful he is for us to have helped him get
closer to his heavenly father but we don't know what is going on
now. Please pray for him!!

Well, THE CHURCH IS TRUE! I promise.
~Sister Hill