Dec. 23, 2013

hey howdy hey!
i will reply to the questions first...

1. Yes i DID get the letters from you and mom! they printed out the emails from you two, and we all got out Christmas letters at our Christmas party!

2. i got my package with my gifts last Monday after noon! so excited for Christmas to open them!

3. the missionary party was awesome last Thursday! we went and did a session at the mesa temple AS A MISSION! so many missionaries in white... president and sis Nattress wanted a "white Christmas" haha. that was really nice... then we went to a stake center in Gilbert, one of the wards from the area served us ham, potatoes, and corn for dinner/lunch. the entire set up honestly looked so nice - probably nicer that what my wedding reception will look like haha!  after we ate, we cleared the tables and did minute to win it games... so like eating an oreo from your forehead with out using hands, emptying a tissue box as fast as possible, and using a straw in your mouth to move m&ms from one bowl to another (that is the one i participated in... i lost. haha)  then each zone did a skit for everyone... they were all hilarious! our zone did a reenactment of nephi and the brothers getting the plates from laban... but it was from laman and lemuel's point of view!  the sisters really just wore scarves on out heads... but i was okay with that. ha!  to wrap up the day, we got our Christmas letters, then had a devotional in the chapel. president's big surprise was that we all got balloons for each baptism we had as a mission this year (just over 200) with a mini light on the end and sang silent night then let them go outside... SUCH a cool thing to witness! and we got gooey cinnamon rolls and i was happy. :)

4. i have my language study for an hour each day and i usually do it from 8-9pm. some days i feel good about my productivity during it, and other days i don't... last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday i wanted to cry... actually i did cry because i was so stressed i was losing the language. i ended up talking to president last Friday during a training meeting about it and he told me not to stress, and that it would all work out (this was BEFORE i got the call Saturday obviously, its so funny how the lord works, isn't it!?)

5. with skype... it'll be anywhere between 10 and noon. we haven't heard back from sister Davis yet... but we are going to her house at 9 or 9:30 for breakfast, then we will skype after that. i will have her either text or call mom's phone that morning so we can get it all set up! yay! so pumped!

6. I GOT MY VISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO EXCITED, but also VERY BITTERSWEET! i was hoping to stay here for the temple open house! :( and I'll miss sis K a ton! the crazy thing with this situation is that after I leave sometime next MONDAY at 5 or 6 pm... they aren't doing an emergency transfer with sis kemmerer! apparently president Nattress wants sis k to go on splits/exchanges (with the members of our two wards) all day every day for the rest of the transfer (first week of feb!) =O have you ever heard such a thing!? needless to say she is stressing about it... bad. and I'm stressed for her as well! I'm sure it will work out fine if president wants it, but definitely a huge curve ball for sis k. as for me i have a lot to do before i fly across the world! there is a to do list at the end of this for MOM to get done for me....

7. the temple open house is jan 18- feb15! I'm so bummed i won't be able to help with the tours now!

8. Christmas will be an all day p day. so NO proselyting. :) a true day off. we will get up open presents then skype! then hang out, nap of course, and then watch NARNIA as a Zone at the stake center! :) woop woop!


let me fill in the gaps that i haven't told y'all yet....

-DAD, MITCH!!! how did your talks go!? Mitch i got yours in the mail, it was AWESOME!!!!! i actually studied hope this week in personal study! cool huh!? we are all on the same page!
- I'm speaking in montelena ward next Sunday on the light of Christ! pumped for that! :)

that's all for now! I'm saving stories for skype! :) merry Christmas!

love forever,
sister camilletti


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