Monday, August 11, 2014

One Year This Week!

Well I will be completing one year this week! I cant believe that a year ago was my farewell when I said goodbye to you all! Its crazy to think about all of the things I have or haven{t done for a whole year now. Like wearing a skirt everyday. I haven{t painted my nails in a year. Haven{t gone swimming. Haven't had a day off (because we even work pdays and its a suuuuper busy day) Just crazy crazy to think about it all. I'm excited to complete a year though, I'm with hna bohman who will be completing a year with me. She was the first hna I met in the mission and the first one I took a pic with! I'll attach the pic haha. So weird. sooooo different. 
Well. So mom and dad I already sent you an email a little bit ago asking you for your thoughts but yeah. Im thinking about extending. Not sure yet. But thinking about it.Anyone else have any thoughts? 

Agh mom good to know you guys got the letters(Kyrst wrote everyone a personal letter to open at Cedar City)! I wasn't sure if they'd get there on time! Haha did you guys really cry? that's sweet :)

As far as Curt goes, hey bud be good! I sent you a letter in the mail a few weeks ago so if everything goes right you should have it any day now! I looooved getting your letter I cried when I read it! Remember its soooooo important to just keep trying your hardest to do what is right. Man I am SOO FREAKING GRATEFUL that my parents cared about me enough to restrict things, be strict, etc. It has changed my life and helped me to make it this far and helped me to be doing what Im doing now. I know you are capable of making GREAT decisions. And if you want to make those great decisions I can promise you that your parents and my parents will help you know what they are, they've been through the same times and they know what they are talking about even when it seems like they totally don't! (haha trust me I know!) And most of all when you feel upset, before reacting go to your room, say a prayer to feel better and think more clearly and then make decisions. It always helps! 

Alex! I was thinking the other day and I realized you are totally gonna turn 16 in a few months! WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!?!?! When I left you were a little 14 year old and you are now driving and gonna be dating?!?! Crazy. But hey man way to go with the acapella thing! 

Mom. I still don{t have the package. I have my fingers crossed hoping to get it tomorrow when we get the mail. If not it may be another week or so. We will see!

Katie! That's so freaking awesome! How fun that we are all gonna be STLs together! That's so great :)

Other cousins: Freak I wanna know how cedar city went TELL ME!!!! Show me pics of your new clothes! I'm not dead! I promise Ill read and look at whatever you send me!!! I hope you had the GREATEST TIME EVER. I cannot wait to be there next year! 

Well this week we helped out with a capilla abierta in the Los Prados ward (its an elders ward but they needed hnas to do the tour) it was sooooo fun! When I did the capilla abierta in Pocuro it was fun but I loooooved it even more this time. We honestly only gave like 3 tours but we contacted like CRAZY and we had a great time. I'm a happier missionary when I contact. But its just hard to get going sometimes. My companion is so great at helping me with that though! I am so glad to be serving with hna contreras for that. One of the greatest miracles of the capilla abiertas was when we went inside to grab coats before continuing to contact and invite people to take the tour and right when we walked out a man passed by. We had already talked to a ton of people that said no and we were expecting the same thing from him but when we asked him if he wanted a tour he said "For reals? Can I?" We were like HECK YES YOU CAN! So he came in and we had the AWESOMEST TOUR EVER. He like already has a testimony of the church he just never found a church that believed that. He talked about how important his family is and his testimony of basically the word of wisdom and how he knows that Christ lives and loves us personally. He asked us about eternal families and when he was taught by the elders about baptism he just told them I BELIEVE! (he said it in english haha) it was super great. The whole thing was worth it just for him haha. The sad thing is he is not from our sector (the bummer of this teeny mission we got like 10 addresses of people we contacted that couldn't go through the tour but were ok with missionaries passing by later and not a single one was in our sector its not like many missions where basically everyone you find is from your sector, here its a VERY SMALL chance that the people you contact in public places within your sector actually live in your small boundaries haha) but its all good it doesn't matter which missionaries teach him as long as he is receiving the gospel I am happy! 

We also had interviews with pres this week which was super awesome. I love having interviews with him. We basically start off asking whatever questions we want and you learn so dang much about the scriptures, the gospel, and just life in general. what a good week. 

Well this week should be great with my year mark and I'm gonna get to go to the temple to see Nancy (recent convert) do baptisms for the dead. Im soooooooo happy!! The rule got changed so that people can enter to do baptisms with recent converts or less actives that came back if you help them to prepare their own names. Yay. I looooove the temple. 

Well I have to go write a few more emails but I love you all!!!

With love


Hna Kyrstin Millett

Pictures:
Pic at the capilla abierta (the open house mini visitors center thing just like the one mal did in her ward)

The cinnamon rolls that went wrong...... haha I killed the yeast so they didn{t rise!

Pic with my comp in the National Library of Chile, us (all of the hnas in Sotero) in front of the national library :)

 First day in the mission in the airport with Hna Bowman






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