Pictures 12/28

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Rain. So. Much. Rain.

December 28, 2015

Hey Fam!

Oh my goodness it was so fun to talk to you guys! You're the cutest
ever. I guess I'll start by answering questions from the last 3 emails
;) so I would NOT be sad at all if you sent me every single picture
from the wedding. Seriously. I don't get trunky so SEND DEM PICTURES
:D I think I mentioned this on Christmas but we had a big missionwide
Christmas devotional on the 22nd and that was our celebration! It was
super great to see everyone all together. I have theee coolest mission
ever. Yes I did get the plan of salvation and it's the best thing
ever!! THANK YOU! It's so good for teaching and it smells like cabin
and pure joy. We opened presents on Christmas morning (after our 30
min exercise of course #obedientbabes) yeah when sister Farmer leaves
I will likely receive another STL. You don't stay that your whole
mission always, sister farmer is but she got called just 2 transfers
ago. Sometimes they'll release you and re call you later, you never
really know... The weather is very interesting, actually it's been
pouring rain for like 4 days straight. I don't know how the sky hasn't
run out of water. It's really cold when the wind blows because of
humidity. More about Sister Farmer, she is super awesome! She's was
chill and awesome and we have a good time. She's a year older than me
and went to BYU and Viewmont. As far as fasting she does her best but
her blood sugar is crazy low all the time so yeah. And as far as
updates on survivor I don't need real updates... BUT HOWS MY BOYFRIEND
JOE?

Well ok so since we finally had a more chill p day we took a well
needed nap but accidentally didn't wake up to the alarm so yeah. I
have no time haha. But uh, have a great week!

Pictures 12/16

So remember that one time Quinn woke me up at college because she
thought that the constriction noises were bombs going off outside our
window? I had a very similar experience 3 nights ago except when we
looked out the window this was there hahaha his picture is not edited
or zoomed at all. We thought it was the building that Nancy and some
other investigator lived in at first so it was actually really scary
but it ended up being some big empty warehouse thing right by us. The
neighboring apartment building  just to the right of us got evacuated.
But everyone was safe! So it's all good, sorta.

The sacrifices you make in people's homes to have a kneeling prayer
hahaha we think most of it was burnout cigarette dust

Tell McKenna we found a pita pit close to campus. I made Sister
Farmer eat there with me, but it's ok she really liked it. Their only
downfall was that they don't have artichoke hearts :(

We also found Popeyes which was the best day of my life. Everyone
thinks I'm ghetto for loving Popeyes :( but it's ok because I live in
the ghetto now. WOOOO!

I got emergency toenail surgery this week haha. It had been ingrown
and infected for like 2 weeks so our medical advisor said "I don't
trust diabetics with foot problems. Or your immune system" so I got
the dang surgery (I told him I could probably dig it out myself like
my mom has always done but he didn't buy it) but yeah his is a few
days after, looking much better! :)

But I had to shower.... :}

December 16, 2016

Ok, so still no wifi, whateva I'll just tell you some things about this week:

So we were able to have a lesson with this super nice lady named Pam.
Her husband just lost his brother and it was really cool because we
invited him to stay and listen with us but he said no and went in the
kitchen. A short time into the lesson he came and sat in the chair on
the other side of the room! Then, he even chimed in and got involved
with the lesson! He asked if we had another Book of Mormon so they
could both read it and he really opened up about his brother, which
Pam said he has NEVER done with anyone. People are prepared everywhere
and just waiting to hear the gospel! It's amazing how much the spirit
can come through truth and the way to encouraged him to learn more.
She has a baptism date now in January which makes 5 I believe!

We also had a lesson with our investigator Sam. Her boyfriend just got
out of jail and we got to meet him this week. We were a little worried
about what he would think of it all but he thought what we do is
awesome and like really sincerely thanked us for our service. Sam has
been struggling to keep her commitment to read the Book of Mormon and
Bob said that he would makes sure they read it together! He even said
the closing prayer and it was so sincere! You really can't judge a
person by anything,there is so much good in everyone! Being on e west
side of Columbus you can really gain a testimony of that.

Well we had a lot of other cool stuff too, but running low on time. In
zone conference this week we talked a lot about the sacrament and its
importance in our lives. That's something that has been pushed so much
and that I've gained so much of a great understanding for, but for
some reason it just really hit me extra hard this time! I never have
fully taken advantage of d sacrament in my life and the opportunity to
repent daily. I don't remember where I heard it is week but there was
a lady cleaning the temple and was all discouraged when she was done
and her cloth was still perfectly clean. The next time she went back
they explained to her that the temple isn't cleaned because it's
dirty, it's cleaned so that it never becomes dirty! I know that as we
really understand the sacrament and repent daily we can be spotless!

I love you all so much!

~Sister Hill

December 7, 2015

Hey fam!

To answer some questions: yes we did get to watch the Christmas
devotional! It was supposed to be broadcast at our church but I guess
it wasn't because everyone watches it at home so us and the other two
sets of missionaries just pulled out a tv, AirPlayed it to our iPads
and watched it in the relief society room which was pretty.. Great.
But we missed the first 15 min or so for set up. Anyone else catch
Steve Martin? ;) yes crystals baptism was absolutely awesome! Her mom
came to the baptism but I think the rest of her family is very...
Unsupportive about it :( but the ward has been awesome at taking her
in and she is SO strong in her testimony! And yeah, I'm a sister
training leader. Good times. They said they were sending letters out
about it so I figured I'd let ya figure it out ;) but it's great! I'm
actually extremely underqualified and wanted to throw up when they
announced it in transfer meeting but the Lord knows exactly what we
need to grow best! It's really to help me.

This week has been really good! I actually don't have my journal with
me (not that I was good at my journal this week) but I'm gonna just
have to try to remember some things... Well we had a super good lesson
with an investigator we met maybe two weeks ago named Daniel. He's
super nice and we've had a few lessons with him and he came to church
yesterday! Luckily, the testimonies were very good and very Christ
centered. You never know with those fast Sunday's and the west side of
Columbus ;) we also have an investigator named Molly who is great! She
has been reading the Book of Mormon, has a ride set up to come to
church next week, and has a baptismal date of January 9th! We also had
a really good lesson with a lady named Christina who is praying about
baptism and planning on church next week. We had a lady named Bethany
working towards January 2nd to be baptized but basically dropped us
until the holidays are over :/ but for he most part things are going
really great! A sister once told me "when you get out of Powell your
going to think 'wow, missionary work is really easy!'," needless to
say she hit that one pretty spot on (but I loved Powell to death and
am so grateful for it!)

We had a cool experience yesterday, sister Daines has said before that
miracles come in the last hour of a 24hr fast, so we planned tracting
in for our last hour. We knocked on some doors, met some weird college
kids, didn't have very much success, and our hour was coming to an
end. As we were heading back to the car there was this girl outside
and we were like oh let's go talk to her. So then she like looked at
us and look away and we were on the other side of the street like "oh
man, she saw us she's so creeped out, this is weird" and sister farmer
was like "do we go creep her out anyway?" And I was like "eh, we creep
everyone out why not?" So we talked to her and she was SO excited to
talk to us, and when we set up a time to come back she asked if she
could bring her friends! It really was a miracle :)

You guys are the best! Love ya!!
Sister Hill

Pictures 11/30

I PROMISE I haven't gained this much weight. That's my worst arm
angle hahaha :}

The district 3: coming soon to DVD

November 30, 2015

Ayye!

So not a whole bunch of time again, we had 2 lessons already today,
and have 2hrs of service plus another lesson scheduled before p day is
over at 6.... Life is a crazy mess haha but I'll fit in what I can!

To answer some questions: the lady we did the service for was Nancy.
We actually met her tracting and she let us right in and told us
everything that had happened and we offered if we could help with
anything so... Yeah! That's how that happened. But we gave her a
Book of Mormon and she even referred us to her sister and we've been
teaching both of them! So yes, that was in our area. We have exchanges
every week, but we had two last week and we'll have two next week
because things are crazy haha. Having a companion with diabetes is...
Interesting haha, but awesome! Our average blood sugar is like
perfect, but That's because I'm always like 200+ and she's always like
40- but somehow she doesn't feel her lows. She has been out 16 months
so she'll probably die in marble cliff because she's only been here 1
transfer. We knew who each other was at Viewmont sorta maybe... But
that's it, she's a year older than me. She's so great!  The ward seems to
get along pretty well as far as I have seen! For thanksgiving we went
tracting hahah and actually got a ton of lessons and return
appointments! Then we are with members. The lady that sent the picture
is actually cousins of the members and I didn't see the picture but I
kinda sensed that it was taken at a really good double chin angle.
Members haven't really freaked out about the sugar thing much thus
far, but everyone asks us how long the mission has had pagers (because
we both have one) hahaha it's was funny.

Ok seriously so low on time but let me share my favorite part of the
week.... CRYSTAL GOT BAPTIZED!! It's was so amazing and so powerful!
She was so prepared for this throughout her life and it was a really
cool experience! Watching the confirmation the next day was my
favorite part. It was seriously like the whole whole room filled with
the spirit and you could literally feel her receiving the gift of the
Holy Ghost, what a privilege! She told us how peaceful she felt, and
the blessing she received with her confirmation was absolutely
beautiful. I always wished I remembered the difference before and
after I had the Holy Ghost, and I think Heavenly Father was able to
give me a taste of that yesterday. THE CHURCH IS TRUE!

Love you all, have a great week!!