A year in the mission field on August 22! (Parts of her letters)

My comp and house comps and 2 elders were very sweet and gave me cards and treats for my one year mark! Then that night we watched a church movie and ate ice cream! That is awesome that you are talking to people about the church. You are right we have to be bold. The senor missionary asked me last night compared to a year ago was I as brave as I am now, as bold. I'm probably a bit more bold now, I really  just tell people how it is but in a way that I hope won't offend, unless they are not willing to change at all and are just contentious, then I let them have my wrath. But if they just don't understand I tell them how it is. We are suppose to have a marriage and a baptism of a family this Saturday! We have their interviews tonight so I hope all works out! Also our other investigator, who I'm pretty sure we were best friends in the pre-mortal existence, he was suppose to leave for Belize but I fasted and that day he told us he could leave until September because he has passport problems! Haha! Yeah that's right! Don't mess with God!

 I am happy and healthy! I don't think I really need anything...maybe shoes. but I think I am good!  That was so nice of the Hermana Hodgman to write that to you. They are so sweet. They are moving 3 hours away this week. I'm so sad! And they are going to a place where they don't send Hermanas!

( I shared with her that I(MAMA) had been to IHOP and she assumed I had PANCAKES and shared this with me.) Did I tell you once my comp brought a bird home with us and we named it Panqueque, I'm pretty sure the thing jumped from our roof and committed suicide. It was tragic. Sometimes I just say panqueque to my ex comp and she starts crying! ha! (I TOLD Emily SHE IS MEAN)

August 21, 2013

Dear Rose,

My husband and I are senior missionary's here.  We have just been put in the mission Presidency.  Your darling daughter Hermana Krueger has helped teach us Spanish since we have arrived.

We came not speaking any Spanish so she has been a dear friend in helping us during some of her lunch times.   I am an artist and she and her companion wanted to paint something for the Young Women's personal progress.  So I helped teach them what to do.

We love Hermana  Krueger she is one of our favorite missionary's 

I am sure she will explain more about the picture.  I tried to send it to her myldsmail .net but it would not go so I send thru my personal email .  Sorry I did not explain more about sending it initially.

You must be great parents because Hermana Krueger is a wonderful person

Best regards

Hermana Hodgman

August 12,2013

This week was good. We met with Jose with one of the members named Dennis and that night he told us he wanted to get baptized! I was not expecting that but he says he feels like it'll make his life better, that he feels something when he reads and prays! I was thrilled, but the member we were with was so chill afterwards, like oh yeah that always happens, I wanted to smack him but I just yelled at him instead and told him to be excited! Our other investigator on the other hand, Freddy, I might hurt him. He was suppose to enter the waters of salvation this week but chickened out, so I went to teach him with our district leader (he helped somewhat but most of the time was drawing mustaches on his finger with his comp and pretending to have a mustache, because Freddy has one, all this of course was done secretly) but I taught most of it and macheted him a bit and we read the Book of Mormon and then prayed and he said he would get baptized this week, so we shall see! I thought it was hilarious that they were doing it! One of them was like, we kept trying to show you Hermana Krueger but you wouldn't look at us! And I was like I'm sorry I'm trying to save someone's soul! But it was funny!
My comp was also sick this week, but is feeling better! The big thing we did was plan and put together an activity with another ward. We had worldly and churchy games and in the end based on the number of tickets earned we sent them to a kingdom of glory! It was fun, but somehow I was like put in charge of everything! I don't know how that happened, but I made like 120 cupcakes with a pan that didn't fit in the oven. It was a miracle! I don't know how we pulled it off! An investigator that we have had for like 2 months came all by himself!
And he kinda came to church, well he came but during the sacrament so the doors were shut and they didn't let him in, so he freaked out and left! But things are good here! Just working hard! Love you all!

CUPCAKES, CUPCAKES, CUPCAKES!
 

My Family HERE!



What we do here!

 

Someone Vacationing took this picture
 and texted it to Mama for me.

August 5, 2013 Not a lot of news today

We haven't baptized anymore families but we have a date for this Saturday! WE have been with this guy for a while and he just asks for more time, so we went to visit him the other day and it was same old same old. I asked him if he was praying, reading, going to go to church etc. Then all of a sudden he was like I feel good with you guys, I feel calm, and now he is getting baptized this Saturday! It was totally the Spirit!!! Gotta love it!

Things are good here! We have a baptism this Saturday (its a miracle! It took forever, but once he actually recognized the Spirit he accepted! It is always the spirit!), an English class, and a ward activity, so I don't know how Ill do it all but it'll be fun! Also we went to play mini golf today and a volcano erupted this week! Oh and I went and did some painting as well with the Senor Missionaries and they made us BLTs for lunch, they were so freakin good!

Hermana Goddard is still quiet but I found out her name and it is quite lovely! It is Emily. That was so nice to have a granddaughter named after  me! I don't know what I want for my birthday. Cliff Bars please. Maybe earrings or shoes. Idk, I don't need anything. Or you can just save up and get me something when I get home!  I will try to take pics this week! And yeah I can print emails out!