O How Great the Plan of Our God

HELLO 

wow such a whirl wind week I don't even know what all happened. The days are weeks and the weeks are days they say:) 

-Sister Adams and I have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off all week. Sister Drown left on Tuesday and President handed me the keys to the car and said to get to work! Luckily no accidents yet but it feels so strange to be driving after a few months of sitting in the back seat. The area is a chaotic mess and we have lots of 'house keeping' to do. We have been making calls and running around trying to get new lists for everything and set up appointments with people. I am so excited for this transfer with Sister Adams she is hard working and ready to put everything on the table!   

-On the way home the other day i was driving and i see this spider crawling on the windshield. Then it starts getting closer and closer to me im still trying to drive and focus on the road and flipping out that this spider is almost on me so Sis Adams grabs her shoe and starts frantically trying to swat at it as she smacks the steering wheel and honks the horn. Im still trying to drive and not look like we are drunk driving because there is no where to pull over and then the spider lands in my lap and Sis Adams is whacking my lap with her shoe over and over and over till it finally died hahahha

-We have some lovely neighbors who are more of the nocturnal type. they love to stay up all hours of the night and our bedroom walls touch so this week Sister Adams decided to drag our beds out into the living room and now we have this cute squished room with desks and beds and tables and such, i feel like we are 'glamping' hah:) She designated the bedroom to be our craft room! We threw all the thank-you notes, paper goods and what not into that room and only use it when we have to. Its always fun to mix things up! 

-There has been some bumps in the road with our special ops, gang banger, red neck extraordinaire investigator Donald. We had a lesson with Ray the recent convert and things did not go so well so this week President Passey is coming in to help us work out some stuff. We really want to make sure he is ready for baptism May 10th and right now we feel like that is a stretch. He is keeping all his commitments but we want to make sure this is 100% for him and that he has the best heart making this commitment. It has been really hard to back track but we have felt very strongly that this is what is best for him. 

-On the flip side of things, we had the most incredible lesson with Edgar last night about the Plan of Salvation. He set his baptism date for May 2nd. He is one of the most prepared people I ever thought I would come across. He has the biggest welcoming heart and loves his Savior. He is willing to make sacrifices to follow Christ and it has been incredible to watch his love grow. During our lesson he kept exclaiming, "this is BEAUTIFUL. I can't believe I never understood this before, but I feel like I have known this all along.' The Plan of Salvation is indeed BEAUTIFUL.

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, 

"... think of how you felt when for the first time you believed and understood that you are truly a child of God; that Jesus Christ willingly suffered for your sins so that you may be clean again; that priesthood power is real and can bind you to your loved ones for time and all eternity; that there is a living prophet on the earth today. Isn't that wonderful and amazing? "

I know that the Plan of Salvation is perfect, beautiful, and flawless in every way. I can't describe the joy I felt as I watched Edgar understand his role here on earth, his endless possibilities to improve because of the Atonement and for him to more fully understand why there is a temple being built here in Tucson. I love this gospel and I love the opportunity I have to help others understand that they are a child of God. 

All my love, 

Sister Carter 

1. Dad i found your favorite place!

2. Perfect treat for 100 degree weather;) 

-- 

Sister Emily Carter

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Arizona Tucson Mission

939 West Chapala Drive 

Tucson, AZ 85704

He is Risen!

Hello!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend! 

TRANSFER WEEK 

The trio is splitting up! 

Sister Adams and I will be staying in this area and Sister Drown will be heading to North West. It will be strange not having so much going on but I am excited for whats ahead with Sister Adams! 

Sister Adams explanation of her in a trio: "Being in a trio is like straddling the bar between two seats on a tandem bike"

THE FARM

This week at the farm we made some wonderful cccooommmmppoossttt!!! haha SO nasty. We had layers of hay and chicken poop and llama poop that we would spray down with water and turn it. As we were doing this we got covered in chicken/llama poop and other goodness from our waist down. Our car smelt beautiful on the way home:))

Another service activity we had was for a part member/ less active family. We raked their rocks for a few hours... haha the landscape here is so bizarre to me!! 

Miracles with Donald: 

Our lesson with Donald this week began quite hectic. There are a lot of people living at their house which makes for loud distractions. During our lesson we asked the teenagers to turn of their music. One of them, Brandon, walked over and happened to mention something about golf so I jumped on that! Thank you Aunt Rose for updating me on the Masters.. little did you know that information would be a small and simple miracle because Brandon ended up joining us for the entire lesson. Everything we had planned directly answered questions he asked. It was an incredible teaching moment, all that occurred because of the beautiful game of golf:) 

Easter Sunday was such a unique experience being a missionary. I was missing out on the family egg hunt and eggs benedict but the joy and love I felt here made up for it times a thousand. The members here reached out to us so generously and we jumped from family party to family party. There were many opportunities for missionary work with extended familys and I was amazing at how accepting they were of us! I truly saw many Easter miracles! Plus we had a German dinner with the Wienzinger family thats was one of the best meals ive had in my life!! 

I loved to see the purest Joy that comes from Christs resurrection. He already paid the price so that we can receive the priceless gift of being with our families for eternity. If you are not jumping for joy at this thought, then get on your feet and do so now!! We are promised so much light at the end of our journey here on earth! Our journey also contains an immense about of light itself. Easter has brought so much light into my life as I focus on Christ and the gratitude I have for all he has done. Easter symbolizes everything I am living for! Christ is the King of Kings and he stands triumphant over death, He is risen! What Joy this sweet sentence brings. I hope each of you can see the joy in your life that comes from our Savior and the sacrifices he has made for each of us. Look to His Light for hope, continued faith, and undoubting JOY!

All my love, 

Sister Emily Carter

1. In the STL's area we found the mosr beautiful GREEN pecan grove!!! Reminds me of Gwa and Grandpas orchards! 

2. The Sisters made us all a cute little fort for transfer calls💛

3/4. The District 

5. Easter with the Padillas 

6. Easter 

Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus

Hello I hope everyone had a wonderful week

Though there are no spring tulips here, this week I found out there are beautiful flowers blooming on cactus!

EDGAR:

We had dinner with a family named the Scotts and their daughter brought her boyfriend. HE IS THE MOST PREPARED PERSON I HAVE EVER MET! 

He worked at taco bell when they met and is the most genuine loving person. He even offered to teach us how to home make crunch wrap supremes... haha YES! 

He texted us with some questions before our lesson on thursday and he asked what he needs to do to be baptized and its something hes always wanted!!! Then he asked a bunch of questions about prophets and how their called, then about temples and families then about God's love for him. He kept texting us all these questions for us to answer, finshing with telling us he has never been so excited, peaceful, and curious in his life!! We are SO excited for him! He is YSA so we will have to pass him off to them soon but we get to start teaching him for now. 

Zone Conference!

We were combined with the spanish zone so lots of translating going on which made things interesting. I am so luck to have President and Sister Passey as my misison presidents, they are incredible. It will be so sad to see them leave this summer. We went over our Book of Mormon reading challenge for majority of our meeting. After lunch we went into the chapel and he called on 2 people to share  their experience with reading... and guess who was one of those people.. me! I had this feeling the whole time that i really wanted to share what i had learned and I think he had that same feeling. The topic I have been studying as I read the Book of Mormon these last two months has been 'how can my trials bring me closer to God' I cant even describe the things i ahve learned nor the gratitude I have gained for trials. God wouldnt give us anything we couldn't handle and out of love for us he sent Christ to help us walk every step of the way and even to carry us when needed. For this next month President challenged us to begin a 40 day fast. A fast from something that is keeping us from being a missionary that turns their heart and will to the Lord. I am really excited to see the progress that can come from striving to be exactly obedient and becoming the missionary the Lord needs me to be. 

This week I was studying to answer all of Edgars questions and read an incredible talk by President Uchtdorf, 'O How Great the Plan of Our God' it spoke of a time he traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland. While there he noticed the Belfast coat of Arms "Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus" meaning "What shall we give in return for so much?". This sunk incredibly deep into my heart. I truly have been given a tremendous amount. I am so blessed with an amazing family and life. For me to give up a year and a half of my life is hard but in return I have already been given so much. To help make a difference in even one persons life will be worth it. I love personal and I am so grateful for the opportunity we have to draw closer to our Savior and understand our roles as children of a loving Heavenly Father. 

I want to ask you all to think about this week what you can give in return for so much?

Happy Easter! I hope you all have an 'eggcelent' week;) 

Lots of Love, 

Sister Carter  

1. Last P-day a member in the Elders ward taught us how to sword fight!! Their family is really into LARPing(?) live action role playing i think its called? and they told us about these crazy battles they are preparing for.. i had no idea that was a thing! 

2. my favorite Hargreaves 

3. The sweetest Sister in the ward gave us Easer baskets!

4. my cilantro at the farm is growing so well:)))

5. pretty pink flowers 

6. cacti flowers 

Spiritual Frying Pan

CONFERENCE AS A MISSIONARY IS AMAZING!!

So uplifting yet eye opening at the same time! SO many things to improve on... therefore we decided conference is much like a spiritual frying pan to the face haha😮😊

So exciting 5 New temples!!!! Sister Adams thought President Monson was going to say April Fools after announcing the Pocatello temple (her hometown) haha. 

I loved every minute of conference. I wish I could share every thought of mine but that would take entirely too much time and I am hoping most of you gained your own insights:) One talk I did love was Mark A. Bragg who spoke of the Light of Christ. He compared seeking light as part of our spiritual DNA. We need to take comfort that there is ALWAYS light to be found. He mentioned a quote by President Boyd K. Packer: "The Light of Christ is as universal as sunlight itself. Wherever there is human life, there is Spirit of Christ. Every living soul is possessed of it.... It is the inspire of everything that will bless and benefit making. It nourishes goodness itself" 

I have been witness of this Light over the last few weeks. When light is discovered-better yet uncovered-,love shortly follows, understanding of the gospel occurs, love of the Savior is recognized and conversion evolves. I am so lucky to see this light consuming individuals in the Arizona Tucson mission. With the temple open house around the corner so many doors are being opened, hearts softened, and evidences that the work is hastening TODAY!!! 

I hope each of you took to heart President Monson's powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon. The day I got to the mission field they made us run half a mile up a hill to a Mormon battalion monument with a Book of Mormon in our hand. I started reading this copy of the book that afternoon and finished it this conference weekend. What a steadfast testimony President Monson added to my own. This book is true and I can tell you that with every bit of my heart!!!! 

A little update on the area: 

We received an online referral from mormon.org- this does not happen in our area so we were overjoyed!!! Turns out this mom named Olivia Holt referred herself and her 2 sons! WHAT. haha she is amazing!! She got baptized 8 years ago but fell away shortly after because of unanswered questions. After all these years the last 2 weeks her and her husband decided this is the church for them and we are so excited to help her come back and answer her questions! And her sons are our 2 new investigators!

Donald is doing great. We had the most amazing Plan of Salvation lesson at the church with different rooms set up for each step of the plan. It was so powerful!! 

Sunday morning we watched conference with a less active/ potential investigator family (the 2 9yr olds are potential investigators) It started off in spanish for the first little while and we read the english subtitles hah but no worries we figured out how to change it to english. In opening song the little boy Aiden (he has ADHD and a little autism but watched more than half and was so good!) but he stands up and said

 "Oh my gosh I see Donald Trump!!!" 

hahahhahahahha he saw a man in the choir that had hair that look similar to Donald Trumps and assumed it was him. We had a conference bingo to keep him focused. At one point he looked over at sister Admas and slapped his hands on his face exclaiming

 "Ah I cant stop thinking about mind craft but I know I need to be listening to this so bad and I know if I get baptized it will make all my problems wash away" From the mouth of babes hah🙃

Sunday afternoon we were just sitting at the church doing our companion study and a woman walked into the chapel and started talking to us. We found out that she was homeless and hadn't eaten anything. We had the veggie tray in the fridge that had just been given to us and were able to give it to her along with water bottle. It was so humbling to see someone being so kind when they had so many needs. The worst part about being a missionary is there is a rule that we cant give money to people. It was so hard to see money in my bag that i had no need for and couldn't give it to this woman. 

Luckily we saw Bishop walk into the church he offered to let her stay the night at his home and to feed her dinner. She didn't take the offer I think she was a little overwhelmed by everything we had offered her she kindly declined. we gave her a list of libraries and our mormon.org email in case she needs anything. I hope that she stays safe. 

We also found out Hefsy is going to jail... :(( but no worries we got permission from president to go teach her there!!! should be interesting..she could really use a spiritual frying pan 

Our neighbor moved out of his apartment & happened to move 30 minutes away into our area! (And in a non stalker like way we found out his exact house😊😊) So we got a new neighbor and he thinks its the most awesome thing in the world to either blast music, turn the tv on or chat (loudly) with friends outside every hour of the night💙💙💙💙

Sister Adams is soo not happy with this so every morning at 6 she blasts hymns right back at him hahhaha.we are working on our Christ like love:)

Some of my favorite things from conference: 

Gary B. Sabin - "Be ALL in and stand up on the inside"

Yonn Hwan Choi - "Look UP during challenging times!"

L. Whitney Clayton - "He knows the way because he is the way"

Dieter F. Uchtdorf - "Let us replace fear with Christ's perfect Love" 

My challenge to everyone is to share the Prince of Peace Easter video with at least 1 person this week!!! 

https://www.mormon.org/?cid=HP_SU_2-4-2017_dPFD_fMORG_xLIDyL1-C_

LOVE YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL SPRING WEEK 

Sister Carter 

1/2. The hike we went on last monday in this little creek in the middle of nowhere!

3. Golfing with sis schot she is the best 

4. Elder burns cousin of a highachool friend 

5. Sister Spencer / Haskins

6/7. THE PADILLA kids! They wanted to give me 'missionary super powers' hence the goggles hahahh

By small and simple things Great things brought to pass

Hello from sunny AZ!! This week has been golden!! Not just because of the sun but the people!

We have been working with 1 investigator and since I got here we haven't had any luck in finding anyone new to teach. After 8 weeks of being here, working hard, and searching high and low... WE FOUND AN ABSOLUTE GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR. GREAT things are coming to pass!

DONALD: 

His name is Donald and he practically fell into our hands. Lary (the texan cowboy convert) texted us before our lesson and said change of plans, can you teach the restoration? So confused we said sure??? Once we got there he explained that his son in law was back in the picture and wanted to learn more!! 5 minutes into our lesson Donald bore his testimony of his love of our savior and set his own baptism date!!!! WHAT. this is the kind of situation missionaries dream about and I am so lucky to be apart of his conversion! Saturday we had a church tour with him and the spirit was incredibly strong as he shared his reasoning behind investigating. ALL SUCH GREAT THINGS! He came to church on Sunday too!! And Blake he is from Ohio:) 

The Knight Family: 

On Monday we had an FHE with a part member family the Knights. The dad is from england and has the coolest accent, he is the non member in the family. So right before we got there there was this  huge fight with the dad and the son. We sat down with the younger son and the parents and just talked for a while. Bro Knight is an engineer and when they first moved to tucson he owned a guitar tune up shop- the only one down here that fender guitars would let work on their guitars. Because he was an engineer he came up with these crazy cool ways to fix things and was so good about it.They have a ton of really cool guitars at their house and the pool is even shaped like a guitar!! the lesson we had planned was the restoration but we had 2 activities that were all about family bonding. So finally the older son came out and we had this activity where one person was blind folded and was trying to eat this donuts tied to a string and there we 2 people telling him what to do: one leading to the donuts and one away- it was so funny!! Then we had this activity where we wrote things about the apostasy on the outside of balloons and tied them to their ankles. They had to pop each other balloons to figure out what was on the inside that was restored. It was so funny to watch them run around trying to pop the balloons! after brother knight got a little teary eyed as  we bore our testimonies of families and the blessings we have in them because of the restoration. he even said that he has never had so much fun with missionaries before and he has been taught by a ton of missionaries before (i hope this means we can come back)! I can tell that his heart is softening by these small and simple things.

Peter Pan: 

Friday While we were cleaning we saw this little boy about 6 years walking down the street with a little rolling suit case, some flippers, and a rolled up yoga mat. He was running away from home haha!! We began talking to him about where he was going and why he ran away then he unrolled his handy dandy yoga mat bed and started showing us yoga moves he learned in his kindergarten class like 'the dog' and 'the warrior' hahah. Then soon enough up drive his parents and he promptly told us he wasn't going home and he never wanted to grow up. His parents said he had been watching a little too much home alone. It was so cute and so funny!

District Blitz

 i finally got to go knock doors for my first time ever! Most the people were really nice to us, some just saw our name tags are were like oh not interested and shut the door so sinking fast. haha. Another missionary said that when people would do that to him he would say "oh wait were selling organic tree frogs!" and sometimes people would laugh at that and let him talk so we were going to try this out but no luck so far getting people to listen haha... 

General Women's Conference was amazing!!! If you didn't get a chance to listen to it, do so now! One of my favorite talks was giving by Sister Bonnie H. Cordon. She focused her talk on 

Proverbs 3: 5-6

5 ¶ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

This includes 1. A warning: lean not unto thine own understanding 2. A promise: He shall direct they paths

When we lean we move to one side or the other and as a result are off balanced. If we can trust in the Lord and acknowledged him always we will stay balanced and centered on Christ. As you do this you will come to know the Savior and nothing in this world can defeat us. 

I am so grateful for this gospel and the balance it brings to my life. I know that when I am truly trusting in the Lord I feel grounded and that sense of equilibrium keeps me diligent and joyful! I am filled with gratitude and love for each of you and I hope you never doubt the influence you have on me and many others!

Love, Sister Carter

~Stay balanced and centered on Christ ~

Small and Simple, yet Huge and Profound

Hello I hope everyone is doing well and know that I love you each so much and I am so lucky to have each of you in my life!! 

Happy Late St. Patricks day!! 

This week has been full of lots of crazy but lots of good!

Prissilla: 

Prissilla is the girlfriend of a less active member that we met the first day I got here. Which was SO awkward. haha I will tell you that story next summer. But ever since then we have been teaching her and we have a baptism date set for April 11th!! We have to work out a few things, like living arrangements and getting her to church. She works as a care giver on the weekends and can never come to church. But guess what..... she came up with the money last minute to take her nursing board for the third and last time... and she PASSED!!! And is now looking for a new job!!....And we brought a member with us to one of her lessons that just Happpened to be the secretary at a nursing clinic in central tuscon..... and they are HIRING!! And Prissilla went and applied!!!...And she is HIRED AND STARTS ASAP!! AH  m   i   r   a   c   l   e   s The lord really does work in mysterious was, I have no doubt that he has so many more blessings waiting for Prissilla!!!! 

Half way through our lesson with Prissilla this week some Jahovahs witnesses come knocking on her door and we were like woooaaaaahhhhh there back off. Sis Adams casually stood behind Prissilla. haha 

Birds & Lemons & awesome crazy people: 

Our lessons all fell though on Wednesday so we decided to try some people on a part member/ less active list. We only had this name of a family and literally no idea their background. We knocked on the door so see when we could come back and have a lesson with their family (after we figure out what on earth thier situation was and why they name was on this list) only she willingly threw open her door and told us to come in. Whattt?? that doesnt happen. so of course we headed in. She is literally a crazy bird lady. She has sooooo mannnyy peeettsss. Including a a giant mccaw, all these other mccaws, a grey feathered africian, and a ton of tropical birds with lots of colors and it was nuts. they fly all around the house. and she just sat us down and had us hold on to a bird and talked to us. We still had no idea her story with the church and if shes a less active or non member or what, but she was sooo nice to us! Her husband showed us to their back yard which is this insane little oasis and filled us with grocery bags of oranges and lemons and told us all about every cactus in their back yard. They were so crazy but so kind!! 

Timing and Tanita:

We went to go see Tanita our recent convert today, we havent seen her in about 2 weeks, literally right as we got out of the car she drove up because she had forgotten something so she was stopping at home so quick and we HAPPENDED to be there at the SAME time.  Shes been having a rough time and it was really good that we got to talk to her. 

Mormon Super Bowl: 

We decided to stop by Sis Charters house who is a recent convert and SO FUNNY. She is so out going and incredibly strong. While we were there we basically had a lesson with her friend Leah over this video app that sends minute long videos. Leah stopped taking lessons from the sisters in central becaue they were too pushy with her and she got pretty offened but she was willing to talk to us! 

Leahs kids have been hearing about General Conference so Sis Charter was trying to explain it to her. Leah was calling it the 'Mormon Super Bowl' and just saying all these most funny thigns about it. haha this was one of the best nights of my mission becaue of Leah and Sis Charter, their love for food at any function, and their love of the gospel!!! She is amazing. 

And she's so excited for this 'Mormon Super Bowl'  next weekend haha

The scripture I have been ponderizing could not have tied in better to the weeks work: In Alma 37:6 we read "..., that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.." 

I know that with out a doubt God leads and guides this work. I have seen so many small things that are either planting seeds, developing into miracles, or helping to strengthen a testimony; even my own. There are many great things that are coming from the smallest of desires and actions!! Many people here being prepared and I am so lucky to be included in even one conversation along the path of individuals conversion! 

All my love, 

Sister Carter 

1. Yummiest oranges 

2. One of the small birds, a africian grey i think?

3. The cutest Coleman kids💕

4. Said bye to our awesome ward missionary sis williams, her and her husband are in the olympics and have to move for work to sacramento:( she is one of the most loving, charitable people I have ever met in my entire life. I am so grateful to have gotten to know her!

5.shamrock sakes for st patricks day🍀

6. We found our street!! (Sis Adams first name is Emily too😊)

I LOVE TRIOS

Hello family and friends!! 

I heard some pretty exciting news from Jeff and Alicia, YAYYY CONGRATULATIONS! Will is going to be the best big brother💙 

Sister  Adams is amazing, awesome, adventerous, active, and always sweet:) She is from Pocatello Idaho, is 22, went to BYU-I for several years, loves to clogg and irish dance, says the funniest sassy comments, is the hardest worker and I am so lucky to have her as an additional companion!!! I LOVE being in a trio!

The two week spring break started here which is a blessing and a curse! Our wards looked like branches yesterday because almost everyone heads down to mexico, but anyone  who stayed has been outside making it possible for us to talk to people in all the areas that we can't knock doors!

We had an amazing experience with prayer this week. As we were trying to contact people who got lost in our area book we met an older lady named Jenny. A few months ago some Elders ran into her and gave her a Book of Mormon. We have stopped by her house so many times and never had anyone answer. Come Wednesday we tried again and she opened up the door! We had a long conversation with her and learned that her grandaughter was recently killed in a shooting down town and her family is having a really hard time. As we began to share a message about the plan of salvation I had the feeling that we should ask if we could say a prayer with her. I offered the prayer and I know that all the things I was saying came straight from the Holy Ghost. I know that she needed to hear those things to feel comforted. It was an emotional experience to feel such strong power of the Lord through myself as I testified of His love and concern for her. Never doubt the power of prayer!!

At zone meeting this week we talked about burying our weapons of war. Our zone leaders went outside, dug a big hole, and had us throw a piece of paper with whatever our 'weapons' were that are holding us back from reaching our potential. No you don't have to dig a hole, but I want to challenge eveyone to think of one thing this week that is possibly a distraction or limits you in any way and try to burry it for the week! I have noticed my abilty to focus is much more effective with just one of my 'weapons' stuck in a hole out in the middle of the desert! haha rip with the scorpions  

We taught a few lessons about faith this week and i love this quote by Elder Andersen, 

Faith Is Not by Chance, but by Choice By Elder Andersen

"Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is not something ethereal, floating loosely in the air. Faith does not fall upon us by chance or stay with us by birthright. It is, as the scriptures say, “substance …, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith emits a spiritual light, and that light is discernible. Faith in Jesus Christ is a gift from heaven that comes as we choose to believe and as we seek it and hold on to it. Your faith is either growing stronger or becoming weaker. Faith is a principle of power, important not only in this life but also in our progression beyond the veil. By the grace of Christ, we will one day be saved through faith on His name. The future of your faith is not by chance, but by choice."

Boy oh boy do we have to make the choice to have faith every day! Satan really hates missionaries and throws stupid stuff at us every day to make us doubt. Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith!! Choosing to have faith is probably the best example of agency we could be given on this earth!! 

I love you all SO much! And please let me know if I can do anything for any of you!

Xoxoxo 

Sis Em Carter 

2 Corinthians 5:7 

1. Bahama Bucks snow cones to welcome Sister Adams!

2. We were in central to pick up sis Adams and studied at an actual GOLF COURSE!

3. HARGREAVES FAMILY

4. Real Sonoran dogs from this awesome mexican food truck in the boonies

5. London Rocket. Aparently its a weed here? But everyone puts them in their salads. It tastes like horse radish- yummmmm!

6. Less active gave us a blender.. i guess people know that we dont have appliances haha (crock pot now a blender... though we have 0 time to use them💕)

7. The Kallatsas all dressed up for their missionary work lesson

8. Either really good Egyptian dancing or really bad cacti mimicing

9. For entertainment: its a tradition to make all the trainees hug a cactus... i DO NOT suggest trying this😮