Lisa
Hello,
I am afraid they will change your email day to today, so I wanted to at least send you a small note to say hello.
I have some photos to send you of Alex leaving for Washington this morning. I have to send them to my email before I can send them to you.
We haven't had anything too exciting happen this week. Spencer, I think, may have finally sold the Honda. That is good.
We had Heidi over for dinner last night with Levi and Sawyer. It was supposed to be their whole family --- but Kate and Oliver were still asleep so Justin stayed home with them. I felt bad. They were bringing Ashley back - she helped with the kids all week, and we invited them for dinner, or to meet them half way. They were all coming but didn't get to.
During dinner, Shelley and Taryn stopped by and Julie and Blake and Seth and Eli - so it was fun. We wrote little notes to Alex and Diane Buma took them to him at the airport today! Eli has been in Hawaii with Nathaniel the last 10 days and they were just on their way home from picking him up. He was so happy to be back with his family. That was a positive experience for him.
Julie got to talk to Alex and she said he sounded good. He was very excited to leave the MTC. He didn't love that much at all!
Well, this is sooo boring. I just don't really know what else to tell you.
Spencer is getting ready to start school on the 20th.
WE LOVE YOU! I Hope you have had a great week. I hope your contacts with investigators have been positive ones. I hope that you have good results from those visits. I am still hoping that you get to stay another transfer, but, you're right, if you go there is a reason.
Take care of Morgan - how is your health (feet still good??)? Please be careful what you eat and drink. I want you happy AND HEALTHY for the rest of your mission! Well and after that too!
Love you Morga! Tell us EVERYTHING! We want to hear it all!
Love you!
Mom
HI FAMILY!!!!
Well it has been quite the week! I cant wait to tell you. I don't have tons of time, but i will try and get it all in!! I DID SEND SPENCER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH!! I am so sorry you didn't get it!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! i don't know if you changed emails or what but i never get responses and now i am thinking you never get my emails?
I am so glad Alex is finally in Washington. I know he is going to enjoy it way more than the MTC. I am sure of it! What a great missionary he will be.
Marisol and Angel are set for the 30 to get married and the 31 to be baptized. THEY ARE SO EXCITED! and so are we!!
TOMMY IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON THE 24!! We are sooo excited. He went to church Sunday. We went to go pick him up at his house and knocked on the door at 730 am. Well he came to the door rubbing his eyes. He had just woken up. We told him we would wait for him. 5 minutes later he left and we went to church. Turns out that a little over a year ago he had been to church with the missionaries when he was living with his mom. Now he lives with his aunt and uncle. Well he accepted to be baptized and he is so cool and excited!! What an incredibly prepared young 14 year old.
The other day this girl asked me if i could help her with an interview she had to do for her school. She had to do it in English. IT WAS SO FUNNY. I felt bad, but i couldn't understand anything she was trying to say to me. But we ended the interview and taught a lesson. It was a good lesson!! We will see what happens with the cute girl!!
The other day Hermana Funk completed 1 year in the mission. We went to pizza hut. The 4 of us and we bought this pizza that has 16 portions. HUGE. Well we ate it all in 15 minutes. We have urgency in the work which includes our eating. You will see in a couple of months...we eat fast here!!! hahaha but, it was a really good pizza.
The other day we found this man. Renee. He is like 50 or so. Well we were teaching his mom Olivia, but Olivia hides from us now. The other day Renee told us she was sleeping but that he wanted to listen. So we taught him. He is incredibly prepared. About a year ago he received a Book of Mormon from some elders, but they never taught him, he just received it in the street. She he has never talked to missionaries for real. He has family that are members. His older sister and her family are all members. Well yesterday he told us as he prayed he felt very strongly that he needed to go to church. That he would know for sure that the church was true as he went to church. At the end of the lesson he said, its interesting. My sister is a member, and has never taken 10 minutes to sit down and explain to me a little bit about her church.
"Amy's family went to Disneyland and sent some goodies! hahaha"
(Maybe for Amy's one year celebration?!?!?)
Magda and her cute kids.
At the zoo with Hermana Newman (MTC companion)
Remember the foot fungus - these are the promised photos-gross! Sorry!!
Hello,
I am afraid they will change your email day to today, so I wanted to at least send you a small note to say hello.
I have some photos to send you of Alex leaving for Washington this morning. I have to send them to my email before I can send them to you.
We haven't had anything too exciting happen this week. Spencer, I think, may have finally sold the Honda. That is good.
We had Heidi over for dinner last night with Levi and Sawyer. It was supposed to be their whole family --- but Kate and Oliver were still asleep so Justin stayed home with them. I felt bad. They were bringing Ashley back - she helped with the kids all week, and we invited them for dinner, or to meet them half way. They were all coming but didn't get to.
During dinner, Shelley and Taryn stopped by and Julie and Blake and Seth and Eli - so it was fun. We wrote little notes to Alex and Diane Buma took them to him at the airport today! Eli has been in Hawaii with Nathaniel the last 10 days and they were just on their way home from picking him up. He was so happy to be back with his family. That was a positive experience for him.
Julie got to talk to Alex and she said he sounded good. He was very excited to leave the MTC. He didn't love that much at all!
Well, this is sooo boring. I just don't really know what else to tell you.
Spencer is getting ready to start school on the 20th.
WE LOVE YOU! I Hope you have had a great week. I hope your contacts with investigators have been positive ones. I hope that you have good results from those visits. I am still hoping that you get to stay another transfer, but, you're right, if you go there is a reason.
Take care of Morgan - how is your health (feet still good??)? Please be careful what you eat and drink. I want you happy AND HEALTHY for the rest of your mission! Well and after that too!
Love you Morga! Tell us EVERYTHING! We want to hear it all!
Love you!
Mom
HI FAMILY!!!!
Well it has been quite the week! I cant wait to tell you. I don't have tons of time, but i will try and get it all in!! I DID SEND SPENCER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH!! I am so sorry you didn't get it!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! i don't know if you changed emails or what but i never get responses and now i am thinking you never get my emails?
I am so glad Alex is finally in Washington. I know he is going to enjoy it way more than the MTC. I am sure of it! What a great missionary he will be.
Marisol and Angel are set for the 30 to get married and the 31 to be baptized. THEY ARE SO EXCITED! and so are we!!
TOMMY IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON THE 24!! We are sooo excited. He went to church Sunday. We went to go pick him up at his house and knocked on the door at 730 am. Well he came to the door rubbing his eyes. He had just woken up. We told him we would wait for him. 5 minutes later he left and we went to church. Turns out that a little over a year ago he had been to church with the missionaries when he was living with his mom. Now he lives with his aunt and uncle. Well he accepted to be baptized and he is so cool and excited!! What an incredibly prepared young 14 year old.
The other day this girl asked me if i could help her with an interview she had to do for her school. She had to do it in English. IT WAS SO FUNNY. I felt bad, but i couldn't understand anything she was trying to say to me. But we ended the interview and taught a lesson. It was a good lesson!! We will see what happens with the cute girl!!
The other day Hermana Funk completed 1 year in the mission. We went to pizza hut. The 4 of us and we bought this pizza that has 16 portions. HUGE. Well we ate it all in 15 minutes. We have urgency in the work which includes our eating. You will see in a couple of months...we eat fast here!!! hahaha but, it was a really good pizza.
The other day we found this man. Renee. He is like 50 or so. Well we were teaching his mom Olivia, but Olivia hides from us now. The other day Renee told us she was sleeping but that he wanted to listen. So we taught him. He is incredibly prepared. About a year ago he received a Book of Mormon from some elders, but they never taught him, he just received it in the street. She he has never talked to missionaries for real. He has family that are members. His older sister and her family are all members. Well yesterday he told us as he prayed he felt very strongly that he needed to go to church. That he would know for sure that the church was true as he went to church. At the end of the lesson he said, its interesting. My sister is a member, and has never taken 10 minutes to sit down and explain to me a little bit about her church.
WHAT A LESSON I LEARNED. Wow! There are people there ready and prepared, and sometimes we just don't say anything. I invite all of you to look around. There are people who don't know what they don't have. We just need to open our mouths so they can know what they are missing. The people are there, we just have to find them. The spirit is preparing them. I can testify of that. The mission is amazing. President Markham told us that the miracle of the mission is the spirit. It is so true. We are missionaries do nothing more than share what we know to be true. The spirit does ALL the work. The amazing people that we have been finding are just prepared by the spirit. Tommy, Marisol and Angel, Renee, and Ana Lucia. They all had the seed planted earlier by family and friends and now look where they are. All preparing to be baptized. WE plant the seed as family members and friends, THE SPIRIT WORKS HARD, then they make the decision. It is an incredible to to experience. I know for a fact that this is not my work. This is the work of the Lord and i have the opportunity to help in it. In Jacob 5 verse 72 we learn that. It is the Lord vineyard and we get to help, and he is right there with us the whole way. What a great thing.
Yesterday we went to Santa Lucia. We woke up at 330 am to get there for a zone conference. Santa Lucia is the coast. IT was a LONGGG bus ride and hot. but it was well worth it. The zone conference was amazing and i learned so much. I learned so many things i need to do to improve. So many things i need to change. Ah, I just love the mission. I am so grateful for the chance my Father in Heaven gave me to train. The 12 week training is coming to an end. This is the last week. Changes are in 1 week from today. We will see what happens, but i trust the Lord. I know that whatever happens is meant to happen.
Not much else to say this week. I am sorry.- It doesn't seem super exciting but i promise that it is the best. We are seeing miracles left and right. THE SPIRIT IS THE BEST COMPANION I HAVE EVER HAD.
Love you all so much!!
HERMANA OLIPHANT
After Monday night I wrote Morgan another note because our boring week changed - in one foot step . Here is my note and her response.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Lisa Oliphant <balfoliphant@comcast.net> wrote:
So instead of things staying boring, Ashley decides to fall off a curb last night! She has probably broken her foot. We will go to Dr Lyman hopefully Thursday to find out for sure! X-rays! She was walking with friends home from Maverick. I thought they were watching Shark Week at her friends HOUSE!
That's what we get for not having family night... Right? I know!
Say a prayer it will be ok---if it's what Bro Dahl thinks it is, (a Jones fracture) it is the hardest foot injury to heal. Ahhhhh! I like boring better!!!!! Pretty much the same thing Jer did to his hand, but in her foot!
Love you, from your whiny family, and
Mom
ASH WE ARE TWINS. I fell off a curb Monday too. I will tell you the story quick. Please don't worry, i am fine. I fell off, i don't even know how, and my knee popped and hurt and i was reallllly worried. The whole day i was in a lot of pain, and just wanted to cry. Well Tuesday morning we had to wake up at 330 and we were in a bus for 2 and a half hours...lotsss of prayers we said. My knee was stiff and sore and it was not looking good. Well i stepped off the bus, and my knee popped again. But this was a great pop, because i could bend my leg after and the pain wasn't so strong. Í asked my district leader for a blessing. The pain has been going down and down each day and as I continue to pray i find peace. I will be honest I was REALLY worried. I cried in the bathroom all morning worried about the results. But I literally feel at peace. There is nothing wrong with my knee. I know its just fine. Prayers are appreciated, but I PROMISE I AM FINE!! DO not worry. I feel bad for Ash. I will be praying for her. Tell her to pray a lot. I KNOW PRAYERS ARE POWER. I have seen more miracles in my life than i ever could have imagined! LOVE YOU. Funny part of this story, yesterday we knock on a door and there are two guys down at the end of the street. Two teens and Hermana Zamacona says they are talking about you. I was like, Nah, they aren't. Well i turned around and one of them was showing his friend exactly how i fell and they were laughing their heads off. I just laughed and smiled! hahahahahaha
Morgan
Is this your surgery knee?
I hope it is okay! Don't ignore it - take care of it. Put deep blue on too maybe!
Mom
Ya its the surgery knee. but its all good I am taking care of it!! I'm not. I promise. I know i don't want any worse problems, but i really feel fine. It is getting better each second!!!
Morgan
Each second? Now you are just saying what you want your worrier mom to hear! I can read between those lines my friend!! =)
Mom
No i am not kidding. Every one keeps telling me i am a walking miracle. Trust me. Its real!
Morgan
Yesterday we went to Santa Lucia. We woke up at 330 am to get there for a zone conference. Santa Lucia is the coast. IT was a LONGGG bus ride and hot. but it was well worth it. The zone conference was amazing and i learned so much. I learned so many things i need to do to improve. So many things i need to change. Ah, I just love the mission. I am so grateful for the chance my Father in Heaven gave me to train. The 12 week training is coming to an end. This is the last week. Changes are in 1 week from today. We will see what happens, but i trust the Lord. I know that whatever happens is meant to happen.
Not much else to say this week. I am sorry.- It doesn't seem super exciting but i promise that it is the best. We are seeing miracles left and right. THE SPIRIT IS THE BEST COMPANION I HAVE EVER HAD.
Love you all so much!!
HERMANA OLIPHANT
After Monday night I wrote Morgan another note because our boring week changed - in one foot step . Here is my note and her response.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Lisa Oliphant <balfoliphant@comcast.net> wrote:
So instead of things staying boring, Ashley decides to fall off a curb last night! She has probably broken her foot. We will go to Dr Lyman hopefully Thursday to find out for sure! X-rays! She was walking with friends home from Maverick. I thought they were watching Shark Week at her friends HOUSE!
That's what we get for not having family night... Right? I know!
Say a prayer it will be ok---if it's what Bro Dahl thinks it is, (a Jones fracture) it is the hardest foot injury to heal. Ahhhhh! I like boring better!!!!! Pretty much the same thing Jer did to his hand, but in her foot!
Love you, from your whiny family, and
Mom
ASH WE ARE TWINS. I fell off a curb Monday too. I will tell you the story quick. Please don't worry, i am fine. I fell off, i don't even know how, and my knee popped and hurt and i was reallllly worried. The whole day i was in a lot of pain, and just wanted to cry. Well Tuesday morning we had to wake up at 330 and we were in a bus for 2 and a half hours...lotsss of prayers we said. My knee was stiff and sore and it was not looking good. Well i stepped off the bus, and my knee popped again. But this was a great pop, because i could bend my leg after and the pain wasn't so strong. Í asked my district leader for a blessing. The pain has been going down and down each day and as I continue to pray i find peace. I will be honest I was REALLY worried. I cried in the bathroom all morning worried about the results. But I literally feel at peace. There is nothing wrong with my knee. I know its just fine. Prayers are appreciated, but I PROMISE I AM FINE!! DO not worry. I feel bad for Ash. I will be praying for her. Tell her to pray a lot. I KNOW PRAYERS ARE POWER. I have seen more miracles in my life than i ever could have imagined! LOVE YOU. Funny part of this story, yesterday we knock on a door and there are two guys down at the end of the street. Two teens and Hermana Zamacona says they are talking about you. I was like, Nah, they aren't. Well i turned around and one of them was showing his friend exactly how i fell and they were laughing their heads off. I just laughed and smiled! hahahahahaha
Morgan
Is this your surgery knee?
I hope it is okay! Don't ignore it - take care of it. Put deep blue on too maybe!
Mom
Ya its the surgery knee. but its all good I am taking care of it!! I'm not. I promise. I know i don't want any worse problems, but i really feel fine. It is getting better each second!!!
Morgan
Each second? Now you are just saying what you want your worrier mom to hear! I can read between those lines my friend!! =)
Mom
No i am not kidding. Every one keeps telling me i am a walking miracle. Trust me. Its real!
Morgan
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