Me and my Companion...the Spirit. (December 2, 2013)

So yep.......................STILL don't have a companion...........things have gotten WEIRD.

but awesome.

Since we are in the middle of a transfer they are waiting until the 18th to send me a companera. WUT.

So I've been bopping around town to all these different companionships which is fun.......................and exhausting.

Had a miniature melt down yesterday at Church (which sucks because OH who is in my Ward?? Prez Bell.)

But we talked it out and isss all good now! I mean I just question my purpose and my calling of life on a daily basis but you know....whatevs! Got the Spirit as my comp.

It's actually KIND of fun because blessing from da Lord this girl named Merriah moved home from BYU Idaho early and has been my pseudo-comp a few days?? So that's been weird/fun because she is TOTALLY NORMAL. Love her.

MURRCLE!! (get it like a Murray Miracle HAH just came up with that omg I'm so lame IT KILLS ME)

Ok so we get this HQ referral named CAROL. love her to pieces. Go to meet her, she's in a wheelchair, she's also like 68 and has CURAZY eyeliner....teach the first lesson....getting BAPTIZED December 15th-24th......baaasically any one of those days. Her cousin from Florida wants to fly in for it??? YEAH. All this...and we've only met the lady ONCE. #prepared #literal.

My old comp Sister Call and her new comp were my companions for a few days and she has this crazy intense GPS and her life is a little bit crazy intense like her nick name is the Russian Assassin.....ANYWAY they figured out to do "voice command" on the GPS.

NEEDLESS to say I was in the back seat literally dying like snorting trying to hold in my laughter as she is yelling in the most robotic voice "VOICE COMMAND- FIND DILLONS, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, No UP, DILL-ONS, no not drive thru, DILL-ONES, CANCEL,"

..................silence........................

"VOICE COMMAND"

So I only speak to her now in voice commands and I think it is super funny but no one else does......IM LIKE HELLO this is funny. No comp to reign me in. ITS TERRIBLE (my text messages are literally just off the wall now, no filter i.e. no comp to check them.)

SWO-K.

Took Judy to a baptism on Saturday.

With me and make-shift "Sister" Endsley (Merriah).

So.......we go to pick Judy up. She's in her fanny pack. 2 knit sweaters on that she has made. TWO. (it is 60 degrees outside #kansasweather) she just got eye surgery so her left eye is black and blue with a HUGE slash down the middle with stitches..........just dyed her hair maroon because she left the red dye in too long.

So yeah she looks like totes her greatest.

Take her to baptism.

Cue: Elders who were in charge of finding this sweet Sister being baptized her baptismal suit. FAIL.

She is .................endowed....with largeness????

So none of them fit her.

So she has nothing to wear.

Baptism starts in 5.

SO THE ELDERS decide it would be a good idea to send her home to put on white sweats and a tank top and throw a TABLE CLOTH OVER HER cut a hole for the head...belt it...........THIS WAS REAL LIFE ABOUT TO HAPPEN. And they are so sure this was the best solution.

!(@*$&%^#$)!(*() %^(#)&%)!*#)$!&@ $

So after that was shot down in about 3 seconds some Sister offered to go get her Temple dress (the tent kind) and she wore that.

45 minutes LATER baptism starts.

Meanwhile amongst the crazy JUDY is just basically peddling her sweaters to everyone waiting for the baptism.......business cards in her fanny pack....scaring little children cause she looks semi-crazy. But SOME people were sweet.....mainly the Zone Leaders because they were trying to finagle her into knitting them matching ties.

Ok baptism finally starts....first talk...great...spirit really strong......cue Judy: "Can I make a comment?"

(speaker) um sure...?

asdkfja sd;lfkj;s dsomething about defining "righteousness" that she learned a bible college--just thought that would suit well in your talk."

*high fives me* 

....im like WHAT. whatever embrace it.

Moves on, baptism of Karen....shes sweet has overcome a TON to be here....baptized....2 Elders in the water to ......make it happen..........dunks her.....comes up..............................

.................grey sweat suit on underneath???

At this point....no on questions it. Its been done.

While changing they open the time up to bear testimonies. NOOOOOOOOOOOO

First one up.

Judy.

literal 10 minute long speech about I don't even know what just PRAYING that it stays appropriate (because she has a really rated R terrible theory about what Adam and Eve's "original sin" was that she decided to whip out last week when we bring our first team up ever from the Relief Society)

Anyway everyone ..... confused.......

she sits down whispers super loud "great speech wasn't it" DYING.  

Beautiful musical number....she claps.

COULDNT BE MORE CLASSIC.

But I could tell everyone was totally judging her as she sat in her 2 sweaters she knitted. fanny pack still on, her magnifying glass she brought from home to read her program with her black and blue eye...but I LOVED her. Even more as I sit and reflect on it.  If those people just KNEW what this woman had gone through--the kind of life she had to live--THEY would be applauding for HER even being able to stand and testify of the blessings she has received from the Lord. In her own words "being one of the Gods spoiled rotten little brats!"

God's love is so real, I pray for that now because it truly changes you.

LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Love,

Sister Murray

SHOUTOUTS (mini version FORGOT IT AGAIN---I had to move like 40 times this week FORGIVE ME)

KIM RASH- KILLED IT WITH THE MOST SPOT ON USEFUL PACKAGE EVER!!! THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU

HAYLEY BRADLEY- THANK YOUUUUUUUUU for the package everything ETC! LOVE YOU

K Clark- loved the ledder, writing one today!!

Markell............................#stillnothing

DUH. (November 25, 2013)

ok. seriously WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

where.to.begin.

 

NUMERO UNO- I just had a baby child. Well not really...but I've been out for 9 FREAKIN MUNTHSSSSSS$$$$$. It's actually the weirdest ever. Like one more pregnancy to go and im doneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

WHAT THE HECK NO NO NO MAKE IT STOP!

Literally like time flies by so fast it makes me die inside.....but I realized something, like the DAY I hit it....it just clicked in my mind. Like wait, I LIKE being on a mission---matter of fact I LOVE it!! AND i'm half way done....which means I'll never get those 9 months back...which means I probably should work harder...which means i'm half way over with gaining eternal blessings for my children...crap have I done enough? Are they going to come out with all sorts of problems?? Like will they know how to spell and stuff? Will my husband be totally hot because I've said like a DUH-load of prayers?? even though I hate public praying??? (isn't that a thing? like the more you pray the better looking your husband gets? like efy thing? right??)....which means every day I pass by means less and less time in the field...which means less and less time to be the HAPPIEST ever...which means i have to be EXACTLY obedient...which means since we accidentally went to bed last night at like 10:50 7,000 fairies just died and 23 investigators just got off date!!! WHICH MEANS I HATE HOW FAST TIME GOES BY!! AHHHHHHH

 

But in the mean time I took the classic pregnant pic which is a tradition amongst....myself. Since we are a new mission WE start all of the traditions...so like OOBER PRESSURE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING GREAT...........10:15 still got nothing.......on exchanges so I have NO MATERIAL TO WORK WITH.....*commence prego pic*

 

Anysways enough about THAT.

 

THIS WEEK.

Literally.

like HOW to describe we saw SOO many miracles it KILLS ME! Sister Beus as you know left for Brazil.....34 minutes ago....which means right now I am FLYIN SOLO in the fam history center.  Jk there are 5,0000 missionaries that serve here so its just crawling every p-day so I just bunk up with random sisters until....tonight....when ...........I go back trio-ing?? Still figuring it out but apparently as of now we are double covering two wards for the last 3 weeks of the transfer......STRESS.

 

BUT OK BACK TO MIRACLES

one word. DA GHE.TTo.

ok technically two...but WOW a literal goldmine of people searching for the truth AND DONT YOU DARE TELL ME THEY ARE LESS ACCOUNTABLE because they aint. I love them will all of my heart and EVERYONE here neglects those areas because they say you can't depend on them (which sometimes is a little bit true)

But me and Sister Beus were like so inspired and just thought lets go for it!! (PS DID I TELL YOU HOW EASY MISSIONARY WORK IS WHEN YOU AND YOUR COMP ARE BASICALLY THE SAME PERSON!?!?!) we literally had so much fun like I had to sit in bed at night and think...wait....am I still on a mission?? Like she will talk to N-E-ONE and knows JUST where to chime in when I cut out and it was like walking around on giant puff balls frolicking in lilacs Wichita remix edition.

you get the picture.

So we go to the ghetto where no missionaries have gone for months and find gobs of new investi's and are outta our minds teaching people who have the LITERAL GREATEST VOCABULARY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

and then we top it off with our LAST lesson together yesterday.

His name is Erico.

And we begin to teach the Restoration (he met with missionaries years ago...tried to take his own life last year by jumping out of a car....survived but got brain damage/amnesia so forgot like TONS of stuff...basically didn't remember what Mormons believed but knew he had met with them) anyway...TAUGHT with such unity it was like we were the Olsen Twins, Erico is EATING IT UP like so involved ACTUALLY ASKING QUESTIONS NOT JUST TALKING TO A WALL!?!? at the end says....im just so ANXIOUS to learn more...like I've never felt like this...I should have gone to church with YOU today! (he is a choir director at this Protestant Church where they love to shout praises)

I'm like

CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH AMEN!?!?!?!

*grandslam*

Seriously so in love with this man who by the way has gotten all 8 of his family members to his new Church because he thinks that Church is meant for families and it will bring them closer together!?!?!

*dumbfounded stare*

UH YEAH ERICO BRING THEM ALL TO OUR CHURCH!

PRAY FOR HIM PLEASSSSSSEEEEE!!!!!

 

Speaking of prayers....our mission is doing this thang called Noche Blanco. Basically a Mass Baptism on December 24th. Our goal is to get 40 in the month of December (which is DOUBLE our average) so it means EVERYONE will have to stretch...and we'll need ALL of the prayers we can get...but after 3 million miracles, a SUPER inspired conference with Elder Nash who basically dedicated our mission to perform miracles I KNOW it will happen. So please feel free to pray!!

 

Wow, I continue to be in awe of the Lord. Even though me and Sister Beus were only companions for 12 days we learned SO much and were able to accomplish EVEN MORE and she was EXACTLY the boost I needed as I hit the middle "sag" of my mission.

I feel so refreshed and recharged and so so in love with mission I'll never leave!

 

This basically includes no specific detail of our week but know that it was UH-MAZING.

 

LOVE YOU ALL

(PS next week is going to be like ulti-shout out day because I keep forgetting my list but if you sent me something KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU AND I WILL AWKWARDLY GIVE YOU THIS LAME EXCUSE OF A THANK YOU THROUGH THIS EMAIL)

 

-SISTER MURRAY!!!

 

                                    1. Typical Kansas.....random patch of grass in the sidewalk

 

 

4. Our favorite group of minions. Literally LOVE them. There are 6 kids all under the age of 6.....she's prego with the 7th. One of us has to entertain the masses while the other teaches...#layindowndalaw

 

2. Once again.....the hood.

                                                                 4. Me....pregnant.

THIS. (November 18, 2013)

IM ALIVE.

S. BEUS (my bestie/comp) GOT HER VISA THE SAME DAY as transfers.(wednesday) (shes been here 8 months....everyone banking on her visa never coming.....THE LORDS TIMING.)

So in other words.....we are companions for 10 days......so we're trying to make the most of it....aka MOST ACTION PACKED PDAY OF MY LIFE.

 

So yeah....

I'm alive.

 

MUCHO AMOR

-Sister Murray

LIGHTNING (October 21, 2013)

I swear one of these days I'll finally get the system down of time management and then.....it'll be over.

 

OK.

 

Visited a lady on exchanges. She has the FATTEST cat on the earth. fat.es.t.cat. She sings this little song to it "you're my honey bunny....my honey..bunny...." that she made up.
"Oh...cute.......?....his name is Honey?"

"No. its Flurry."

oh.....of course..it...is?

 

Ok so shes like "yeah FLURRY. He has an eating disorder...thats why he is so fat. I forgot to feed him for a week so I think he hoards food now. So I have to keep it up on that really high shelf so if he really is hungry he has to work for it."

SO SERIOUS *clamping my mouth so tight trying not to laugh*
"So sorry Flurry is a binge eater...."

NEXT: also I fed Flurry baby formula when he was little because I couldnt afford cat food.....so I know it sounds crazy...but he has now created a human brain. I know! I know! but it's true.

One time I was sleeping and I have ceizures. So i heard this voice MOM! Mom! I woke up it sounded like a little boy...no one was there....went back to sleep heard it again! MOM! this time it sounded like my daughter....woke up....there was Flurry staring right into my face.

He is telepathic. I know! I know! it sounds crazy....but he is.  And he has the voice of a small 8 year old boy.

 

"...........................................................

...........*dumbfounded*

............................

....................*loss of words*..................................

........................."mhmm!"

 

 

I came up with a new term for all of the Sisters that are going home

MANDICAPPED.

I'm so proud. it came to me like LIGHTNING one day. Its like how returned missionaries cant talk to boys and are thus dating nightmares. YEAH! so, so proud.

 

JUDY- Ok she is the German investigator who went missing.

WELL found her. She called us. So we went over.

DISCOVERED: long story short, she is like 70, she HITCH HIKED to Armarillo where her daughter is because she was strugglin emotionally. Took a bus as far as she could, went to the turnpike stuck out her thumb. Jumped in with a truck driver who was SO tired...told her he needed something pretty to look out or he might fall asleep....."i appreciate the compliment but its going to stop there.  I'll drive your truck."

What?

"is this a 13 speed double overdrive?"

Yes

"Yep scoot over....went through all the gears as smooth as pancakes!" <----wha? "..and off we went! I mean i was pulling 100 mph....turned on my ham radio found out where all the cops were. Made it there in 7 hours flat! (ATTN ATTN SHOULD TAKE LIKE AT LEAST 14?!?!?!)

Although i did stop off for like 3 hours in Oklahoma City to drop off a partial load....all while the drive was asleep! And then he paid me 100$ for the service and off he went!"

 

SAME lady who has to use a MAGNIFYING glass to look at the phone every time it rings to make sure she knows the number.

 

SAME woman who owns 88 of the 224 John Wayne movies who only goes to bed after 10:00 on May 20th because she stays up all night watching the John Wayne 24 hour MARATHON because it is his birthday. 

SAME woman who always says "Amen and A WOMAN" at the end of prayers.

SAME woman who answers the door in a swimsuit..."Oh did you go swimming?" "no."

Oh..............................(she keeps her house at like 80 degrees....always...just wear a swimsuit....like taught her a lesson that way.....dont question)

SAME woman who is now so so so in love President Uchtdorf...like I'm pretty sure he was ordained an apostle JUST for this woman. Like basically gave her her testimony. We watch his talks ....like .....all the time. "I like to think the language we spoke in Heaven was German" --yeah she DIED at that line DIED!

 

I.LOVE.HER. but unfortuantely she wasn't at Church because she teaches deaf people the Bible every other Sunday in someones BASEMENT but she ALWAYS comes for Choir practice. always. SHE IS NOT BAPTIZED..............yet.

Shes had like 3 baptismal dates we've set.....but she keeps dang EVAPORATING so this week she is living at a hospital because her friend has pneumonia........#prayforJudy

 

LOVE YOU ALL

so so out of time.

LASTLY with all the exchanges i have been doing it is truly AMAZING to see how well the Lord knows every.single.one of us! LIKE PERFECTLTY. How did i mis this concept before?? I pray every time to know what the Lord would have me say to these Sisters and like LIGHTNING something comes into my head every.single.time. half the time i have NO idea what context I could even share it...but then i do....and there are tears and they are like HOW DID YOU KNOW and its so so so humbling and I'm like SUPRISE i didnt know. it was the LORD.

So just ASK THE LORD. PRAY. PRAY WITH ALL YOUR HEART for ANYTHING. and he will answer you. EVERY TIME.

 

love love love

love

Sister Murray

Nightmare ROUND 2 (October 14, 2013)

ok library situation in grand old WICHITA! = kill me.

 

OK first off FATHER - wait before that a lot of te keys on this keyboard DO NOT wok unless i type like an enthusiasic secretary so BEWARE you may need a urim and thumim to translate.

(mainly the "r" and the "t")....

 

last week i said we had 12 TRANSFERS in h next  weeks....i meant EXCANGES. so yeah 3 down 9 o go! we have 3 a WEEK and i lierally kills me. BUT ITS AWESOME but i kills me. I feel like i haven slept in dayssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

so much i want to say but this dang keyboard! i'll save all he good sories for next week because om-- no OMG this kills me.

 

TEASER: we have som QUALITY investigators here. One named Judy (68 yr old German woman) who went missing.

78 yr old Mama Harris who is a self proclaimed "quartikan" (a quarter african......she's black and we LOOOOVE her)

 

We had a TON of meetings this week with President so the other Sisters came down for it.....sleepover--I mean midnight devotional......AND pitch black girl starts freaking ewwww whats on my leg! (sounds like some one is throwing a waterbottle around) flip on lights.

Puke.

Everywhere.

From her comp.

THE PROJECTILE....i mean. wow. just cleaning up for hourzzzzz ON THE WALLS?!? like 20 feet across the room wall?? YEAH.

Lesson= I  knew all along that Red Robin is the plague and now it has been confirmed.

 

GAHH so many things....so litle keys to work with....

 

LASLY i swallowed a bug and im like PRETTY sure i have throat cancer now bc omg it was like TERRIBLE OF TERIBLE i could feel it fluterin around my non-existant tonsels and i literally DIED.

 

OH yeah and i have no time because im using an Elders session (he only got one email soooo sad but i'll take it) because

 

.....................................i may have lost my wallet! YIKES

but lieral this just happened .01 seconds ago the other STLs jus texted and said the Lawence Sisters got a call from a lad who found my wallet!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!a ;ogkja ;gaokjf ;aslgh;alkfjl askdfj;klaj gapiwrgjas kl;fj

 

TENDER MERCIES. holy of holies that was a miracle in fron of your eyes. more tome come abou it next week because we have o go reieve mah goods!

 

MOM HAPPY DANG BITHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE ALREADY 35!!!!!!!!! :)

LOVE YOU

 

love Sister Muray

 

BOWENS: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! loved loved loved LOVED you package THANK YOU

gma brown LOVE YOU! dont ever feel bad about taking a long time to respond I LOVE YOU LETTER NO MATTER WHEN THEY COME! love you

WEIRD (October 7, 2013)

HOW MUCH DID YOU LOVE CONFERENCE AND HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO KILL FLIES NOW????

literally. If i create a world THEY will be absent. Pull a stunt like that at Conference and expect to be created again???? no. 

Lawrence - painful to say goodbye but did. 

WICHITA....no words to describe. SO busy all.the.time. now dont even know what to say about the week it went by SO fast im like wait...what even happened. 

I was put on a Greyhound bus = TRAUMA. they are trying all of these different ways to transfer people because new mission = CHAOS and President puts a TON of responsibility on the AP's/leadership....as in they were in charge of transfer transportation. so they thought this would be great to proselyte? NO. 

have they BEEN on greyhound?? sat next to man who had really long fingernails and was going to repo a guys car somewhere and everytime i closed my eyes acting like i was sleeping so he would stop talking to me he would go "WAKE UP" 

omg i am so serious. it was like borderline the wrost thing that has ever happened to me. Mainly because his breath smelled like a dead animal. 

and i TRIED to convert him...but he said the Temple was really pretty in SLC...but i couldnt be a Mormon because you can't shoot things.

I just did NOT question that and moved on....... 

OMG seriously this library is fetus sized compared to the one in Lawrence and double the amount of missionaries so we get 50 minutes on the computer today i think?? like i have no idea. 

BUT pray for me. we have 12 transfers we have to do in the next 5 weeks......so thats bascially one every day. 

SO MANY TYPOS FORGIVE ME

love sister murray 

sister randall THANK YOU 

elder HAMMOND LOVED IT

CHAYLA LOVE YOU SO MUCH NEXT WEEK YOU"LL GET MORE

The Word is Humbled (September 30, 2013)

7 Ways to Humble Yourself - By Sister Murray

1. Speak at a Conference for the Sisters about "fashion"...........and just crash and burn. CRASH.AND.BURN. But the color wheels were a smash hit so thank you Mother! And the tips from Aunt Colette were on point. THANK YOU. Tried to just wing it because my energy level to plan anything was at a -47...........NOT the greatest plan. whatev. over it. ^___ (get it, OVER ^ it ____)

Just humbled....so...humbled... 

2/3. Oh yeah, last week in Interviews President Bell told me I was being transferred...he is known for not being able to keep a secret.....like at all......so everyone knew where they were going before we even got the Transfer list today.....LOVE HIM. 

-----> EXCEPT I heard I was going somewhere else??? To this place called Manhattan.....KANSAS. aka "Man-happenin" aka to me called "Man-crap-anin" Because......home of K-State. and it just looks like a knock-off version of Lawrence. 

WELL mentally prepared for that ALLLLLL week.  humbled....so...humbled.....going somewhere ELSE. But more on that to come.<-----

Went to Salvation last Wednesday being my LAST goodbye......announcing it before they eat....expecting tears to be shed.....ask to take a picture with everyone.....

SLOW MOTION (picture this) 

Walking over to line "Ok! so like just crowd in...."

-random girl #1- well, i dont WANT to be in your picture...so can i just stay here...?

-random person #3- yeah me neither! 

-random crowd- yeah....picture....ehhhhh.......no.  

Me *just slowly backing away getting smaller and smaller until I am the size of an ant and I just scurried back to the front and got smashed/stomped on/rolled over by someones shopping cart they were pushing through* 

Just like humbled...so.....humbled......... 

But seriously. All the missionaries were dying laughing....because it went from like YEAH PICTURE!! LOVE! Joy! HAPPINESS!...to like Yeah heres your freakin mashed potatoes OHHHK.

But it WAS the end of the month so there were tons of randoms i didnt even know so yeah I DIDNT WANT YOU IN MY PICTURE ANYWAY! right? right? 

But my "regulars" came up after and were just like a little TOO excited to take a picture? like turned in to a photo shoot?? That I somehow have been asked to email to a list of like 30 people so they can facebook them? .............#somanyinappropriateemailaddresses #fail 

4. Called to be a Sister Leader.  I can barely remember to wear my NAMETAG every day. ...........hum...bl...e.d.....#crap

5. -Saying goodbyes- "Aw yeah....we'll totally miss you Sister Murphy!" ................................just..............yeah...hum.BULLED. 

6. Falling over in this dang chair in our apartment......x3.........#humbled 

7. 5th Sunday, special HUGE missionary Sunday introducing our new Ward Mission Plan...asked to give a little shpeel for the Youth.....did some "role plays" where they practice what they would say ALL AMPED that we were conducting a mini District Meeting.....finish our bit...Bishop gets up..."Great! So how was it? Was that helpful?" 

"ehhh......no." 

Alright then! Yeah! Missionary Work! ....lets hear it....for the .......Sis..ters!! 

humbled....so humbled.... 

BUT then I look back to being in this area for almost EIGHT months. And all of the people the Lord has blessed ME with to help, to teach, to share experiences with, be able to work with...and yeah. HUMBLED. 

I'll miss Lawrence....but I'm goin to...........(drum roll).......... WICHITA. 

Home of...the...............uh...

Ho..me....of...the......................................? -nothing-

.......Yeah! Lets hear it for Wichita!! 

Being humbled is like being thrown off a cliff. You're like 

WHAT THE! I HATE THIS! Like i'm flying through the air and i'm going to die. Like death is upon me and I'm just supposed to be OK with this. 

And then you land in water.....and you are confused.....and you come up for air and you realize that you are in Lake Powell....and its AWESOME and fun and exciting and we're laughing because homeless people won't even take PICTURES with me!! Like I have sunk so low in desperation for friends PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES EVEN THINK YOU ARE WEIRD.

But it's funny. And you still love them to PIECES because you realize...............they are the ones who taught you HOW to be humble. 

So yes.....I will miss Lawrence. Like CRAZY. But I'm excited for this week. 

Nope I'm terrified but thats what Missions are all about. 

Making people feel uncomfortable.

So yep, KOKO.

:) 

LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Love, 

Sister Murray 

SHOUTOUTS! 

ERICA TANNER! loved your letter!! and your airhead HAPPY BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY! more to come. 

GRACIAL! LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEd words can not express my appreciation THANK YOU

Papa Bob! Are you out there?? Can you even decipher these emails??! I'm sorry!!! Thank you SO much for your letter! I loved all of the updates!! THANK YOU! 

JESSICA....Sister Randall?? :) LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE you!!!!!! 

ELDER SUMSION. Made. my. day.