My week in Norman, Oklahoma

So funny thing when I get home, if there are not tortillas with ever meal, I might be really sad. My future husband will just have to live with it. A meal just is not complete with out your tortillas! 

Spiritual: Remember the lord has called you to succeed not to fail. Sometimes it may seem terribly hard, but he wants you to grow. He will not abandon you. He inspired your call. He knows who you are, he knows what you need. He knows what he wants you to become, and this life experience is an opportunity he has given you to discover things about your self you never knew. Capacities you never knew you had, strength beyond what you felt you had and the capacity to love and serve which will sustain you throughout the rest of your life. Remember you have been called and he will fit the fast to your capabilities I testify in the name of Jesus Christ amen.- Elder Scott

I read that little message everyday, It was originally written for the missionaries in the MTC in 2013, but I like to think that we are called to our life. The family we have, the body we have. Its exactly like a mission call, but it is our earthy call. So don't forget you fit the task that your life was called to do. 

INV.: hna. meld rums foot has been a bit of a bump in the road, we haven't been bail to go out as much as we would like, 
********: cancelled on us
*******: he has a mouth, and sometimes we don't feel good around him but then he loves the LDM (libro de mormon) and he loves what we say. But we need to figure out how to tell him we are missionaries, don't act how you are cause sometimes your odd…
*********: Meeting with her this thursday, still doesn't know about the idea of a profeta.
*******: is reading the scriptures, and is working on getting HNA. a divorce, and was awesome!
********: some kids that were baptized before i came are the only members in the fam. But FINALLY the Granpa came to church so that was a MLAGRO!!! So awesome when he walked in the door!

Funny: what do you do when you are forced to break a commandment? Yesterday Hna. ******* and ******** were gonna have dinner with us, the elders were in the North for a baptism, so they picked us up cause the elders took our car.  We were in the car and  ***** says " I know this is breaking a commandment, but we are taking you out to dinner"

hna. Meldrum and I look at each other like deer in head lights 

****** "What you don't like this place?"

Hna. meldrum "We've never been…"

******* " Just like little kids. Hate it before you try it."

So we went out to a pizza place last night (sunday) and so we have some repenting to do even though technically we didn't "buy it" but who takes the missionaries out to eat on sunday? it was crazy….

Reading assignment Judges 19:24-end (happy halloween!)

real reading assignment: Alma 48 SO GOOD!

libre soy is my favorite song, and i am back to rule #1 cardio. Burpiees everyday because I want my belt to buckle not my chair. 

LOVE YOU! 

Te amo! - fresita fresa

Strawberry short cake. (thats the new name elder guzman has given me )  

Fit 20 piece of gum in my mouth. Told y'all I was addicted… 

The parrot costume!!!!

First Transfers

what it esss doe young cuzzz?

I have a confession I have become gangster out here. Yup. I am a chola. 

Inv: We finally got in with *****! we have on been able to talk to her at the door, but we taught her the 1st lesson and I asked her if "When you know this is true for your self will you be baptized" and she said yes! But she doesnt know if its true yet haha... But she got super excited about the lesson! 

*****o was super drunk and just was not good this week.. He is going through some sad stuff, so all that day we smelled like whiskey. Guess he needs to hear about la palabra de sabiduria. 

*******and **** and hna. ****** still wont figure out her divorce so they still cant get married... 

spiritual: the lesson with Rosa was incredible! Just full of the spirit and she was awesome! 

Funny: Not so funny, Hna Meldrum fell while we were playing mop tag (we throw a mop head at each other cause we cant touch each other its super fun! we play at a wooden park kinda like the one we have in utah) But she sprained her ankle super bad, and I have pictures. So we have kinda been stuck in the house for the past few days cause she cant walk on it and it needs to get better!

Transfers happend this week, I forgot to tell ya that I am staying haha, only cause im training. Then Hna. will go home Nov. 20th and I will take over the area. Start praying my new comp knows spanish! Elder Johnson left and we got Elder Guzman now, he is from Mexico and so the % of Spanish weve been speaking just raised up by 75%.  I better learn now or never! 

Your prays dont go un-noticed! Thanks for supporting me and my crazy ideas! Somedays I have no idea what the heck im doing out here! but then I go meet these crazy people and I have some pretty awesome friends that I hope to keep for a long long time and thats why I am here. 

Theres a lot I need to fix, and a lot that I am learning, But if it wasn't for these people I would be back home, they need my help. I think more, I need their help!
Missionary work is so hard to do in utah! thats why I loved traveling with Dance magic! I did lots of missionary work there haha! 

Yeah not a very interesting email this week but it happens! 

Hope ya'll are doing good! Hope you stay safe! I miss you!

P.S.   I still HATE EATING BEANS.  I will always hate them. But im a good little missionary and I clean my plate.... nasty little hobbitsies... 

La hermanita.

WEEK 12!!!

Bueno, habla hermana Snowden


Thats what you say when you pick up the phone. I don't know why you start with bueno, but thats what my beans do.

First when we come back, after I am home, we are going to Big Dog Daddy's Ice House. I think its Toby Keith's Bar but I'm not sure… But it looks like they would have good wings! haha

Funny: so this week Hna. and I thought we were going over to a members house to "set heads straight" because the elderes said that a less active they work with wanted us to help her with her grand kids. So yes we are thinking "Come to Jesus Talk" because that is our specialty! We are missionaries! BUT.. We ended up picking Lice outta three hijas hair for 4 hours. MY WORST NIGHTMARE IN THE WORLD. But I didn't even cry. I cried on the drive home. Because BUGS ARE AWFUL. Get bug in your hair you cut and you burn that sucker OFF. YES!  I picked lice out of hair. Everyone needs to send me peanut M&Ms because I faced the biggest fear of my life this week and have to repeat the process this up coming saturday.

Don't worry every night we check each other for lice, and we boiled our clothes that we wore that day.

Spiritual: We had stake conference this week and we haD a Seventy come and talk to recent converts, before the sunday session. He was from mexico, so he also spoke to the branch after conference. He was probably the coolest guy I've ever met! Super Funny. But He talked a lot about missionary work, and how everyone is a full time missionary! Our job with the name tag is to be the teachers, others job is to be the friend and the example. So be an example, invite the missionaries to your home, and invite a non member to come over also. That is a missionaries dream!


Inv: Coolest story this week, ******** is really hard to meet with cause he works all day everyday! We were talking with him and he just got really excited to learn more, and learn about where we go in the after life. So we didn't have time to teach him the plan of salvation, but we gave him a pamphlet. He also told us he wanted to come to church, we told him we had "niche de deportes" and him and his son wanted to come!
They ended up not coming, but he texted us asking to come over on tuesday, so we know he is really interested, so that is cool! Elizabeth was sick so we didn't meet with her, but she called us and said to come Thursday hopefully…

Read: alma 23 Its good and I like it.

hna meld bum accidentally slammed my face in the truck when she was closing it, so I have a hole in my nose and on my forehead. I look pretty funny, she feels terrible but I just have been laughing haha!

Love you!

tena una buena semana!

te quierro! -La hermana

Week 5 Conference Weekend!!

Hola! como están?

esta semana fue muy bien. Conferencia General, y asian comida! y mucho mucho guía por el espíritu. 

This week: General conference, missionary super bowl! We all went to the stake center, and prayed for members and inv. to show up, unfortunately none of ours did, peru los elderes tienen una familia que son my bien investigadores! so that was cool for them! so about 14 missionaries and 4 members watching conference on saturday and it was the GREATEST! I did end up listening to a few talks in spanish cause I wanted to, I got a lot of different things out of it then I think I would have had I listened in ingles, so it was muy bien. I like spanish. And how cool was it that they had people talking in their native langua! so that was really cool, 

Holland was probably my favorite on saturday, but I have too many! 

Sunday we had some spanish branch come! so they finally quit being a little lazy and came! bien hecho! sudnay Eyring killed it for me. But i think Bednar has been my favorite speaker through out my mission thus far. I love that man. Buy Eyring for sure gave me what I needed! 

Assignment: read the talk elder holland gave on saturday I think… Read it over and over! 

Spiritual: Person revelation is a real thing. If you don't believe me pray for it your self. I dare you. 

Investigadores: we had to drop a family this week.. It sucked and Im not gonna lie some tears came down my face. I loved that family, but they are just not willing to try and its been over a month that they won't commit to anything. so that was hard. But we got in with Elizabeth! she is the lady that I found when we did splits with ward members! she sounds like she could have a TON of potential! so pray for her, Fernando is hard cause he has from 2-4 open everyday and no other time, So we couldn't get with him this week unfortunately. But pray for them to be milagros! 

Funny: talking on the phone last night with our DL Elder birch, I was wearing Hna. Meldrums glasses, and we said something about it and elder Birch said "hey I'm wearing mine" and my big fat mouth blurted out " you would look cute with glasses" stupid me. I only meant it as a compliment but silly missionaries have to give me the "lock yoour heart" joke. So if I get emergency transferred soon thats why hahaha. so not that funny but to me it was really embarrassing. 

We ate at Pei Wei and I love chinese food. So thats all for this week folk!

Te quiero! pray for your missionaries to see milagros! thats the best thing you can do for us! 

Oklahoma week 4 :)

Hola! ok womans confrence, Uchtorf KILLED IT! Dear Women, yes. read his talk or listen to it. Because really it can apply to us all! But seriously it was awesome. I need to pull my self together and that's basically what I got from his talk. Get off my high chair. I love that man. 

This week was good, had STM and it was great, did some knocking, Found out One of our investigators really likes us to go over to his house. Not just because we kinda force ourself to him, but he likes us! haha so thats always good! 

I didn't eat anything spicy still. I love my zone, district and everything, life is good. I wish I could ride my bike more but everyone is too far away from us ha:-( like 15 miles away in all directions! Spanish is getting there, I FINALLY got to use the first vision in spanish! It was incredible! There is a lot of power when you get to say those words! You can just feel the spirit so strong and it was incredible! so far Venezuela food is my favorite! 

Funny Story: On Friday HNA.Meldrum ran over and killed a squirrel. yes. Real Life. Squirrel soup YUM! no gross... We cried, the elders laughed. I also was laughing, but crying i think cause I was laughing... Hna. was crying Very funny I have a picture. First "real" hunting I've ever done haha! 

Spiritual:

There are more ways to be Good than Bad. We just don't exercise that goodness that is in us!

Life is perfect for no man. Have the pure love of christ for all - Monson.  Use that Goodness that is inside of you. Don't let envy get in your way. "Envy is the one sin that nobody really confesses. We always need to be more, better looking, have more things, we never think of ourself as being enough. Count your blessings, applaud the success of others" - Holland and most of all the greatest thing to feel you are of worth is to serve others. Sacrifices, service, prayer, and hope bring miracles. heavenly father sees your effort. he sees your sacrifice. he loves you and he knows you. Don't forget that your sacrifice though may seem small in the worldly picture, is great in the sight of God. 

Watching assignment: 

"A father Indeed" Mormon Messages. This is my Papa, my Ol' Man, the guy I hang out with on weekends and this video summarizes him perfectly in every way. So enjoy, and know how cool and great Papa is!