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| "Hives Gone!!!" |
Companion:
Sister Macey Jolley
Hometown: Alpine,
Utah
Snail
Mail:
Minnesota
Minneapolis Mission
5931 West
96th Street
Bloomington,
MN 55438-1715
Email:
ashlee.young@myldsmail.net
Hey Everyone!
This week has been really good! I
love it here in Anoka!!! I wish you could all be here with me enjoying
the beauty of Minnesota!
Monday, August `17, 2015: To
start out P-day, we met the Elders at the church at 6 am to do
advanced yoga as a district! Advanced... yeah we are only beginners... I think
I died a little, let's just say I am already hurting! We went to breakfast at
McDonald's afterwards, which was counter-productive in my personable opinion
haha….. oh well it was good! We spent the rest of our P-day running errands
because we were pretty much out of food, so we had to re-stock our kitchen! We
then had dinner with the Anderson family! They are so awesome. Their daughter
Nina goes “joint” teaching with us. She
is leaving for BYU on Wednesday. We are so sad! She is awesome! Sister Anderson
made a really good salad and we had this yummy yogurt called "noosa"
for dessert. You have got to buy some to try! The Anderson's are so great,
their daughter Hannah is on a mission in Utah! They are so
wonderful to us. They
get that being a missionary isn't always peachy, so it's nice to have someone
be real with us! We then went over to Peggy's house for a goodbye party. She is
going to Finland tomorrow to be with her son for 11 days! Man, she bought a
bunch of food for the 3 of us, and she had us take all of it home since she was
leaving in the morning. She was pretty nervous to go because she doesn't like
flying. Not only that, it was her first time traveling alone. We assured her
Heavenly Father would protect and comfort her!
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| "Me with Nina Anderson & Sister Jolley" |
Tuesday, August 18, 2015: Today
was kinda crazy. During lunch we cleaned
our basement because, we didn't have time yesterday. We couldn't feel the Spirit with it being
dirty. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, so we felt that it was important to
get our place spic and span! We had dinner with Brother Petersen at Perkins, he
is in his 80's or 90's but he is so adorable! It was really fun to sit down and
chat with him! It was pretty cold and rainy today so that wasn't the greatest.
We went finding but didn't have much success. At least we showed Heavenly
Father that we had faith so that was good. I am so grateful for the priesthood!
Oh, and a huge shout out to GRACE on her 16th BiRtHdAy!!!! Love you!!!!!
Wednesday, August 19, 2015: Today we
had ACBC which stands for Anoka County Brotherhood
Council. We volunteer every Wednesday there. It is a food shelf and clothing place. It is
really fun! We get to help out a lot and meet lots of interesting people! This
week we had the meat counter so that was new! At least we didn't have to do
eggs again...that was nasty! We then went and saw Sister Roades who is less
active. We shared the October 2014 “Jadeite Cabbage” story with her from the
Ensign. She loves the Ensign and reads
it often! After that, we went tracting for an hour, and then met Sister
Petersen at Famous Dave's for dinner! Bishop was out of town but she decided
she would still feed the four of us! It was so yummy! After that we went to our
appointment with the Ongoros, I hadn't met them yet. We
went and they bailed on our appointment! Ugh! I really don't like it when
people do that. Honestly, it has been happening a lot this week. I wish people
weren't so flakey! I mean c'mon we have something to share that will change
their lives for the better!! So, we had to take a survey on our iPads. We went
to the church and we walk in the doors, and all of the sudden Elder Johnston
pops out and startles us! We freaked out so bad! Get this, he got it on
VIDEO!!! We were so ticked! He and Elder Anderton have been showing everyone! I
will admit it is pretty funny though! I will have to send it so that you can
see it! It is kind of pathetic how jumpy Sister Jolley and I are ha-ha!!!!! All
in all it was a good day though :)
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| "Yammah and her family at church!" |
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| "Holding a cute little froggy we found!" |
Saturday, August 22, 2015: Today we had
studies and our normal workout routine. I think today is the first day that I
wasn't sore from doing yoga! Woohoo! Anyways, we went to the library and did
our Mormon.org time and I watched this really
good video called "Strive". You should check it out. I loved the message it gave! Then we went and
saw Bette Rinke! I just love her! She is 92 years old. She has dementia but she
remembers us and that we come on every Saturday to read with her! She loves the
Book of Mormon especially Nephi! We read 1st Nephi 16 with her and had a great
discussion afterwards! We then met up with Becca Burton to go teach Mckenzie. The
three of us walked up to the door and she wasn't home. L
This is the 3rd time she has bailed on us. I think it is time we give her a
little rest. We then tried a bunch of other people and no one seemed to be
home. So, we thanked Becca and took her home. We then went out to Elvie's house
who is a part-member family and her husband doesn't like us at all but he let
us in. We couldn't find her so we
went
downstairs and she was talking to her friend on the phone and she stood up and
turned around and SCREAMED at the top of her lungs hahaha! We scared her so
bad; on accident of course but it was so funny! After we calmed down we read
Joshua 1:9 and had a great discussion about it. Then we went to dinner with
Christy! I love her so much! We went to Famous Dave's and had a great time!
Meanwhile there was a tornado alert, but we didn't really care ha-ha!
Afterwards we went to Tina's house. We talked for a while and then we watched
the Mormon Message "The Lost Purse." It is a really cool video; check
it out! We then went home and called it a night.
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| "Sister Jolley & Sister Young at dinner with Christy!" |
Sunday, August 23, 2015: This morning
after we got all ready for church we went to stop by
Yammah and her family to
see if they needed help getting ready. To our pleasant surprise Gladys (the
mom) opened the door and she was all dressed up and ready to go! We were so
happy! She said she would meet us at the church! Hallelujah!!!! They were a
little late but that's okay at least they came! They looked so cute! And they
all were singing “Families can be together Forever!” The Spirit was so strong!
The Kastel’s gave their homecoming address. They just got back from the
Independence, Missouri Mission. They are
now ward missionaries and they love Sisters! We are thrilled to have them back! Sis Jolley and I taught the 16-17 year
olds Sunday school about temples and eternal marriage. It was a really great
lesson! After church we had a “linger longer”
which was fun #freefood….. got to love it! We had dinner with the Dailey family
and had a really good discussion about standing up for what you believe in. They
are an awesome family! We tracted after dinner and did some stop bys...no luck.
It was a rough night but I am grateful for prayer, and for my companion. She
really cheered me up. When we got home
we did facials and that helped as usual!
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| "Dinner @ Famous Daves, thank you Christy!" |
All in all it was a really good week! I
am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary here in Anoka. I
am truly blessed to be a part of the greatest army in the world!
Thanks to everyone for all your
support, prayers, emails, letters and packages, I am really behind on
individual responses. I promise, I haven't
forgotten you guys, I am just really behind. Until I get to the top of my pile
THANK YOU AND I LOVE YOU!!!!!
Love you all to the Moonisota and Back!
Sister Young
Love,
Sister Ashlee Young
(P.S. note from editor "HIVES FINALLY GONE!!!)
(P.S. note from editor "HIVES FINALLY GONE!!!)
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