Sorry, people are still sending me MTC pictures and this is my favorite one ;) 

Kg shrub

Hello family!
I hit some buttons until they gave me a subject, so you're stuck with
kilogram shrub.

First off can I just say HAPPY PAPPYS DAY!?!?!? People kept asking us
at church if we got to call home for Father's Day and I wanted to cry
every time because I wish so badly that I could tell you in person (or
at least in voice) how much I love you and thank you for being the
absolute best dad ever!! I sure hope those fools (the rest of the
family) treated you well on your big day! Sorry it's a day late but
pday will be pday... I love you so so so much!! *virtual bear hug*
also I'm glad you had so much fun! Besides, everyone can use a battle
scar from their fight against aging! I've never been wake surfing, so
don't worry, you may be older than me but you'll always be cooler than
me too! Oh and by the way I thought of 2 more dadisms a little too
late.... "My name is Dewey" and "chocolate pie, for me?" (That one
probably already made it in though)

I'm probably the epicenter of all the rainyou have heard about hahaha it's crazy down here! Ohio is like thesame Utah stereotypes except way worse. The weather is 10x more
bipolar the Utah, people eat 5x as much ice cream as utahns, and
everyone is 7.5x worse at driving. It gets up real close to 100
degrees with the sun shining and crazy humidity, sister Bradford got
fried hahah, luckily my skin does fine. I'm still white. But the rain
has been on and off absolutely pouring, and the drops are huge. But
it's still warm and humid. We actually helped a lady move in the rain
a few days ago. I don't have a rain jacket.. Or a jacket.... But I'll
probably look for one at goodwill today. And I've just been wearing my
tan plasticy flats from ross, but we trek around in some major
puddles.

Whale this has been a good week! We got to go to the temple which is
way cool because we are also going in July! It was the best! When I
first got to Ohio an elder told me that he got the urge to climb it
every time he sees it because it is so cute and little. I thought that
was a super weird urge... Until I saw it. ITS SO TINY :D but that was
a super cool experience! We've been trying really hard to get ahold of
all these people that we want to teach, but it's just not working out
so well so this week we are super nervous and pumped, but we are
taking a huge leap of faith and basically throwing everything out the
window and finding new investigators! It'll be hard but it'll be so
good! I'm excited for it cause I feel like since we got hear we've
just been trying to track people down that aren't home and aren't
putting in the effort. They'll be ready when they're ready but THE
FIELD IS WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST, PEOPLE. So we're goin hunting.

Miracle story if this week: We were out with a goal of finding at
least one new investigator (it's not easy here) but we felt impressed
to go to this one neighborhood and decided to have the faith that
behind every single door was someone who was ready for the gospel.
Behind each new door was an even less interested and less kind person
than the one before, but we kept going! After a while we decided to
pray for more guidance. When we opened our eyes sister Bradford was
like "'the one with the white car' the spirit said" so we found the
one with the white car and met an extremely nice man who is catholic
but "kind of searching" ;) and he would live for us to come back and
seemed super interested! So that was pretty awesome :)

Here's my challenge to you for this week: reach out to everyone in the
ward that you can and search for specific people with specific needs.
Not someone that you want to help out because you like them, but
because they need help, support, and a friend. I've seen too many
people get too distracted with their own busy lives to reach out to
people who are really hurting, and I want you all to go and find
them!!

Love you all so much!!
~Sister Han~Swaggy

Pictures

  we had a mini missionary for the week, Sister Nufer!

 EW. I was hopeful for tornados, but the wind let me down

this is one of the pictures I tried to send in the MTC. Temple walks.. Woot!

Hey fam!

Well this week has been super good! To answer some questions.... We live in an apartment complex called Bear Pointe and its a good time. There is just me and Sister Bradford living there, she told me "Sorry its a little small" but its bigger than foxy hall offered for 6 of us, not to mention they have the same amount of bathrooms. Its a good place! The healthy things we are eating are mostly salads. Haha Sister Bradford gets worried for me when I eat reeses puffs, shes really into produce so I've been eating a lot more of that and a lot less of everything else. My blood sugars have been super good actually! Sister Bradford keeps telling me that she forgets I have diabetes because her other diabetic companions had it WAY worse, so I've been pretty lucky! Yeah I wear my sensor most of the time, but I've resorted a little more to testing more because the sensor is a little.... not always accurate. I will talk to the other diabetics when I can, but the office has already called me about which doctor you chose haha but to be honest I don't really know what they want from me.... so you might want to just call them. It'll take at least 4 months to get in once we choose the doctor supposedly. 

Our numbers this week haven't been the best in the world but thats ok! The potential investigators we are trying to work with keep telling us they want to be involved, and then end up being pretty flaky so we don't really know what to do about it. This really nice lady and her 2 year old son were really excited about coming to church with us and planning a time to come over, she even texted us asking about the time and address of the church and we had it all planned, but she didn't show up and won't answer any messages, but we know that coming to church and having the discussions would bless her so much! So that was sad. We have however done really good about tracting this week and running into the right people at the right time, and we have given a lot of book of mormons out and gotten a lot of contact information from people. We met a very nice lady who was interested and we planned to meet with her last Saturday, but she called us because she had to cancel, but wants to reschedule... so we'll see. Luckily success isn't measured in numbers, its measured in COMMITMENT. So I'd say we're a pretty successful bunch :) 

We had a mini missionary with us for all of last week, her name was Sister Nufer! She was very very talkative and wasn't afraid to let anyone know what she thought. It was a joy to have her around, and she was very good at talking to just anyone, which I am extremely envious of. She was with us until Saturday, so now we are back to our little twosome companionship.

Well I should probably tell you something spiritual since I am a missionary haha ;) I've learned since I've been here just how real prayer is. Maybe its because I've never prayed 20+ times a day but they mean so much more when you put so much faith in God. I have actually seen a change in the way I receive answers and I've never felt so heard and loved. My answers aren't just some ambiguous thing anymore they actually come as I pray through thoughts and words and its amazing to see! So my challenge to all of you would be to pray often and sincerely, its really such an amazing gift that God has given us!

I hope you are all doing well, it was so fun to see those pictures! Tell Dad and Cam to have a blast in Lake Powell! I love you all so much! See you in 17 months :) (can you believe I hit a month last week?? Me neither.)

~Sister Hill

PS Good news! remember that giant white hair that grew out of my forehead? And how it has stopped growing for the last like, at least 6-8months? ITS BACK. 

Pictures

New iPads =car selfies? 

Me and my new crew. (Elder segle in the back there has the suga)

Hey sista slow sista yo sista bowl sista!

FAMILY!

Whats up?! To start, here's some answers to your questions:

 Mom: yes the bike came, and it is blue! The front brake is kinda... not right haha so it rubs against the tire when I bike and makes annoying noises, but its okay because the biking has gone great! No Yes, Ellie is in Ohio, and in my ward! Shes on vacation right now apparently, but I'll see her next week :)  I LOVE JON JON. So I'm really jealous. Thanks for putting us on the prayer roll! I know it means a lot to all of us :) and I love those Elder Perry Quotes so thank you! 

Dad: Yes we sure did get our ipads! WOOOOOOOO! It makes preachin soooo much easier. So our mission is a bike and drive and walk mission so basically almost everyone has a car, but with limited miles (we get 950 a month) so we still get to bike and walk quite a bit. Can you say CALVES? Our area is not really sketchy at all. Its soooooo rich its not even funny, so we don't have any limits to where we can go. I hope you have a super great time in lake powell! (I'll be in powell, so it'll be almost like we're neighbors.) 

Well this week has been pretty great! Oh, to answer your question about diabetes, 5 in our ward, and 10 missinoaries in our whole mission. Everyone and their cat is diabetic. (Literally. Sister Debbie Ashok in our ward has diabetes, and so does her cat. The cat takes insulin. WEIRD.) Ohio is super pretty, and very green! Not to mention the wild life.... Welcome to Ohio, where the ants are the size of squirrels and the squirrels are the size of dogs. Also I think if you averaged pet dogs here their would be about 3.5 per family. My companion is extremely...healthy. So I've lost a ton of weight. I don't know how much, but all of my clothes are falling off of me and I look super homeless hahaha (I gained 6 lbs the first week of the MTC. I think its safe to tell you now since its gone.) But its so amazing here and I have met so many awesome people!

Want to hear my miracle of the week? So Sister Bradford and I were just kinda lost at who we should go visit so we prayed and she was like "what are you feeling sister Hill" and the name Steve came into my head so I was like "Do we know a Steve?" and Sister Bradford is all like ".......No." haha so we just kept on visiting people and had a great day. Two days later we were having a really hard time with people just being mean and stand offish and we persevered anyway until dinner. At dinner we got a message saying we had 2 new referrals! Can you guess their names? Lisa. And Steve. hahahaha so we went and visited them and they had no idea about the referrals so we talked to Steve and he was super nice and his wife used to be a member, so I have no idea how that'll go but it was still super cool! MIRACLES ARE EVERYWHERE. 

Love you all so so so so so so much!

-Sister Hill

Week 1

Whats up guys!!!

 

Ok so Ohio is like the actual best place ever created. Right now I am in the Powell area, which is full of all the rich people, which is good when it comes to the fact that we get awesome dinners every night, but it is really hard to find people to teach because everyone is extremely busy, and extremely content with their lives. Also remember my friend Ellie from college from ohio? I AM IN HER WARD! :D Ohio apparently has a super bad bed bug problem hahaha but luckily we are in Powell, so no bed bugs (yet.) Funny story, the first question sister Bradford asked me when she met me was what my nationality was hahahaha she thought I was Asian. This mission is probably the 2nd highest diabetic concentrated mission ever (next to the scotland/ireland mission) so 3 of the 16 diabetics in our district have diabetes. I am also the 3rd diabetic companion that Sister Bradford has had so she loves diabetes. There's about 5 in our home ward, and 10 missionaries (3 of the missionaries have been to the ER since being here hahaha) But everyone here calls it "the suga" (like sugar) and everyone gets really excited when they see that I have the suga. My companion is probably the best person to ever walk the earth, and we've gotten along super well! She's way cute and nice and likes to get things done so its perfect. Our mission is a bike and car mission, so we do both because we have a car but with limited miles. It's extremely hot and humid here (90 degrees when we were biking the other day) but today it has cooled down to a nice breezy 60 and it feels great! We have had a few lessons with investigators and they are all so amazing. The one that is closest to baptism was excommunicated when she was 16, and now shes 40 something. Her name is Stacy and shes awesome!! Hopefully we'll get a date set soon. A lot of what we do is meet with new members and less actives. We have done a lot of tracting, but it doesn't do much in an area like this. But everything has been super great and I really love it here!

It was so good to hear from you all, especially on the phone! I love you all soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!

~Sister Hill (People keep calling me sister hill and I'm like "weird. thats my mom")