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| "Happy 21st Birthday Sister Steadman!" |
Area: Bloomington
Minnesota
Tripanion 1: Sister Sorrel Dumas
Hometown: Mission Viejo
California
Triapanion 2: Sister
Abriel Steadman
Hometown: Boise,
Idaho
Snail Mail:
Minnesota Minneapolis Mission
5931 West
96th Street
Bloomington,
MN 55438-1715
Hey!
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| "Sister Nightingale" |
Hope y'all
had a good week and a good Valentine's Day yesterday :) This week was a little
bit different but, the lessons I learned will stay with me forever<3. Tuesday
we had specialty zone training in Lakeville, so that was good. We had just your usual training's on Safety,
Consecration, and one on Urgency! It was good; those things are always really
long winded though! Sister Steadman and a few other missionaries did a musical
number that was quite magnificent, if I do say so myself! Later that day we
were able to go to dinner at our ward mission leader's house, the Dunkley's. He is a Pilot so that is pretty legit....
They have 2 little kids and their daughter who is 2 is teeny tiny! She is so
cute. She kept calling us beautiful
princesses and gave us hugs! We all wanted to hold her really bad! Anyways we
shared a story called "A potato for the teacher" It is so good guys!
You have to read it but, the moral of the story is that we need to listen to
our promptings and we need to serve when we receive the prompting. It doesn't
have to be extravagant. We need to follow the example of this little girl and
give what we have with all of our heart. It also reminds me of Pres. Uchtdorf's
talk in conference about simplifying. As we listen to the still small voice of
the Spirit we will be able to help bring others and more importantly ourselves
closer to the Savior. Oh hold up I forgot we had FHE with the Jensen Family. Their
baby is the one that reminds me of Aaron. It was so fun to be over there! We
talked about the Holy Ghost and we did the glove thing and their kids ate it
up!
Wednesday was Sister
Steadman's 21st Birthday! We started off the day by dropping our car off at the
Ford dealership for another dang re-call. While waiting for our ride to come
save us we ran over to Starbucks in the -30 weather and as we were hustling
over I biffed it on the dang cement! Oh my gosh, it hurt so bad. I got a nasty
bruise, huge scrape on my legs and knee! My knee started to swell within
minutes! I was so ticked! So we walk in to Starbucks to get hot chocolate for
Sister Steadman's birthday. Sister Dumas
and I didn't really want one so we sat down while Sister S. grabbed hers. Little
did we know the stinker bought us both Hot Cocoa on HER birthday! It was so
nice of her! We got in our ride’s car and headed to the church. I took a sip of
it and it was DISGUSTING! They messed up our order and gave us Hot Molten
Chocolate Latte's instead of Hot Molten Chocolate Hot Chocolate! We were so
ticked for Pete's sake that stuff was nasty! So we turned around and went back
and had them re- do it. They also overcharged us $4, so she got that refunded
as well. Moral of this story; check your drink when you are at Starbucks. We
then were stranded at the church. We had a training to give to the New
Missionaries that afternoon on “STRIKE” We planned for that, went over to the
mission home and ordered a pizza. Sister Steadman threw up! We thought it was kinda funny since it was
her 21st birthday……it was kinda ironic ha-ha! So, we gave the training and that
went well. I got to see my bro from
Anoka, Elder Johnston and his greenie, so that was fun! We then had dinner at
Sister Nightingale’s house. She made a cake for Sister Steadman's birthday! She
does nail art for fun and showed us some of her pictures. It was sooooo coool!
Any-who after that we had Bishop's meeting. Elder Nang brought fresh cut mangoes for us all
as a birthday treat! It was soo good! We also went to Feed my Starving Children
to do service this week! It has been f o r e v e r since I have gone so it was
really fun to go and serve! When we left we tried to find Sister Dumas's ti-wi
card aka the card to let us drive in our car aka Satan in a box's log in thing.
We couldn't find it anywhere. We knew she
put it in the cup holder but it was gone! We searched and searched and asked
people, but nothing turned it up. We
decided to pray and still didn't find it, so then we were like well it's not
here so I got in the driver’s seat with my ti-wi card. For some reason I opened the sun visor and
the mirror and HER CARD FELL OUT OF THE MIRROR!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so God has a
sense of humor because WE DIDN'T PUT THAT THERE! It was so crazy! I guess
Heavenly Father needed to stall us for a few minutes for some reason! We said a
thank you prayer and headed back to our area.
So because Sister Steadman's birthday was a
flop (for a lot of reasons that I just don't want to include) we decided to
celebrate it again on Friday! We started the day by serving at VEAP. We went through rotten cabbage….. so that was
great fun... We had a reservation for the Cheesecake Factory for lunch
afterwards! Sister Dumas had a gift certificate, so we were able to split 2
entrees. One was a spicy Chipotle chicken penne thing that was sooo good! We
also had cheesecake which was delightful! I got the Salted Caramel
Cheesecake. It was the best! We then
weekly planned and found out that we had a dinner apt. with a family! Oh gosh,
we had to pray to be able to eat! We went to the Hartranth’s for dinner. They
were pretty funny. They made banana orange smoothies and yummy tacos! We shared
a message on the sacrament and the Spirit was so strong! Saturday we had more planning because we
didn't flipping finish. We were all starving and the gift card queen sister
Dumas had a gift card to Chili’s. So,
naturally we went and had their delicious nachos followed by molten chocolate
cake. Yeah, we were super healthy...not! But, it was so good! We had dinner
with all the missionaries at Bishop Christensen's house. They made yummy salad,
cornbread and Lion House Chili! It was super good! After for dessert, we had French silk and lemon merengue pie.
The Elders were all being
So later that night after
I said my prayers and climbed up into my tower/crib/bunk. One of my comps was having a hard time. The Spirit was like; “get out of bed and go
write her a note and include 2 Nephi 5:11”. Okay, so I was kinda like I don't
want to crawl out of my bed after I just got up here, and the Spirit slapped me
upside the head! So, I climbed back down out of bed and went and looked up the
scripture...the first part is great and is very encouraging. The second part
was just funny, but I listened to the Spirit and put it anyways. Let's just say
2 Nephi 5:11 has been a running joke
Today during my studies I
read about how our cute President Monson served so many people. The summary of
my studies was to go after that one lost sheep. One person matters. That story
of the Starfishes... you changed that one’s life. You gave it hope. We need to
all serve one another and look for opportunities to serve our Brothers &
Sisters. I am so grateful that I have the
honor of wearing Christ's name every day and telling people that they are
loved. Have a happy week!
Love you all to the
Moonisota and Back!
Sister Ashlee Young
2 Nephi 5:11 “And the Lord was with us; and we did prosper
exceedingly; for we did sow seed, and we did reap again in abundance. And we
began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals of every kind”.
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| Birthday celebration at the cheescake factory! |
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| p-day waiting at the Doctors office |
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| "Sister Dumas painting nails" |
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| Zone conference |
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