Preparation People - December 3,2018

Hey y'all!

Here is the big news! My new companion is *drum roll please* 

SISTER LARSEN!!!!!!:) 

Okay y'all but for real, she is the literal best. She is totally pre-trained and she is killing it. She is from Roy Utah and she is actually a convert of a year and a half. That's right, she has only been a member for a little over a year and she is out spreading the good word. How amazing is that??? She is so much fun and we get along great.

Here is a quick spiritual story... 

Last Sunday when President called me and asked me to train I was able to see a list of all the new missionaries. We were on the phone with the office elders discussing the new missionaries. They asked me who I thought I would train. I told them confidently that I would train Sister Larsen. They both said that they thought I would train Sister Livingston. I told them that only time would tell. Later that night we talked with another set of Sisters both saying I would train Sister Livingston. I still stood proud that I would train Sister Larsen. We arrive at transfers and I went into my meeting.

After an hour or so of training we met for breakfast with the new missionaries. We met our companions. Sure enough, Sister Larsen was called out to be my trainee. I have a firm testimony of inspired callings. I know that God calls and directs his work. I have been praying for Sister Larsen since September. I had a feeling I would train and I knew that she would come in time.

We have had so much fun these past few days. We participated in a huge stake event. The event gathers over 10,000 people each year. Basically what happens is everyone in the stake brings their Nativity scenes and they set them up. Over 400 nativities in one building with various music performances. All of the missionaries sang for two of the days. It was a beautiful event that happened over 4 days. It was incredible.

We also had a mission conference this past week. Elder Bednar came and spoke to all of us. It was AMAZING. He basically led a giant discussion. He asked us questions, we responded and it was amazing. I felt the spirit so strong. I even raised my hand and sparked a discussion, it was amazing to sit there and have a conversation with an apostle.

We talked about having a discussion filled and founded on love. He stared me in the eye and said "I can feel your love for me, the Savior, your family, your companion, and the gospel. I can testify that the Lord loves you too." I am still in awe.

I love feeling the spirit and I know that God loves all of us.

Hannah had her baptism this week and boy, was it a struggle. We arrived to the baptism that the Elders had planned and they had changed the time without telling us. We laughed and just did studies until it started.

Hannah arrived and was so excited to see us. She cried, I cried, we all cried. She forgot underclothing to change in to so we ended up running to the store to buy her some dry under clothes. It was hilarious. The elders were so embarrassed and they thanked us like 800 times. We are a pretty tight knit group. The baptism was good, the spirit was so strong.

We are continuing to teach Maria. We had a great lesson with her and reminded her of the love Heavenly Father has for her. I love her so so much. We meet with her tomorrow and I am so excited.

Well y'all. I have had a great week. I am super excited for the holidays. I love Christmas. I hope you all take a chance to participate in light the world this year. It will be great.

Have a great week y'all.

Love,
Sister Gray

Stake Nativity Activity

Stake Nativity Activity

New Missionaries

Sister Larsen and Sister Gray 

Lunch ? 

Big Eyes !

Oh Baby Baby - November 26, 2018

Hey Y'all!

Man oh man, this week has been a week of emotions. This week has been amazing but also it has been the longest week of my entire existence. So lets get right into it:)

Thanksgiving was this week and I hope you all enjoyed it. I will be honest, turkey day is my favorite holiday but on the mission its almost like a death wish. We had over 6 families want us to come and visit. 

We were really really excited but also slightly terrified. I don't know if we count this as a tender mercy or something really sad but I woke up Thanksgiving day feeling like trash so we didn't do too much.

We basically went to half of the appointments and then we came home and did our weekly planning. It wasn't too bad. We had a lesson that night with Holly. She is absolutely amazing. She has finished all of the lessons and is anxiously waiting for her baptism in December. It has been so much fun teaching her and growing close to her family. 

We also received some exciting news this past week. We were teaching a girl named Hannah a couple of weeks ago. She is absolutely amazing, unfortunately she had to move to Lewsiville. We were pretty sad but we knew it was for the best. So, we did a pass of lesson with the Elders and she has been meeting with them regularly. ANDDDDDD..... she is getting baptized this Saturday!!!! We are so excited. '

Because she is still in our district we will still be able to go to her baptism because we taught her most of the lessons. I am so proud of her and her decision. 

 
I was informed by my Father that my emails have gotten shorter and shorter.... I apologize. I have some exciting news. 

Last night President Whitney called me and asked me to train a new missionary for my last two transfers. I am really really excited for this opportunity. I am also completely terrified. I have done some training in the past and it is really really fun, its crazy that I will end my mission as a trainer. I am pretty excited. 

SO Yeah. I will be staying in the Carrollton area for the rest of my mission. I cant believe how fast time has traveled and I cant believe that I am almost done, 12 more weeks. I cant wait to make it count. 

I am so grateful for all that you have done for me. I am deeply grateful for all of you. 

Have a wonderful week and stay safe. 

Love y'all. 

Sister Gray

My cute District

I promise we actually do missionary work 

Sister Gray and Sister Naea

Two for One - November 19, 2018

Hey Yall!

What a great week it was this week! So much has happened and it has been really awesome.
We spent most of this week with Joy and Ryan. Since they were both getting baptized we were with them a lot. 

We met with a part member family this week. They are seriously the cutest couple in the world. They are trying to get back into church. With this happening, they decided to feed us. We told them that we don't really get a lot of bbq because everyone thinks we get that so they want to switch it up.... which basically means that we get pasta every night with a few casserole dishes. Its awesome. Anyway, 

Maria and Shawn said that they wanted us to have some good brisket so they bought brisket at a joint outside of the mission and brought it to us. It was amazing haha. After dinner we had one of the coolest conversations I have had in a while. I have been studying peace lately and I have been reading from a talk titled "Peace a triumph of principles". 

It talks about the impact peace has and how even in a world of anger and sadness there is still peace. I felt like I needed to share this with Shawn and Maria. We proceeded to have a conversation focused around God's will and his plan. 

Maria had been praying for peace that same morning and Shawn had lead a bible study that same day about peace. It was incredible. At the beginning, Maria wasn't ready to meet with us but after that meeting she wanted to meet with us and we set up a lesson for Wednesday. I feel very grateful for the chance I have to help others, especially through my studies. 

Ryan and Joy's baptisms went so well on Saturday. Basically the entire ward came. I have never been more proud to be a missionary. I loved watching my two friends enter into the waters of baptism. To make a covenant with Heavenly Father. I am so grateful for everything I have been blessed with and I'm thankful for my family. 

Have a blessed thanksgiving y'all.

Love,
Sister Gray

Short and Sweet - November 12, 2018

Hey my friends!

This is gonna be really short and lame but this week has blown by!
We had two baptism interviews this week which means that Ryan and joy are set on track for baptism this saturday!!!! Yayyyyy!!!! 

We also had a pass off lesson with the Elders this week for Hannah. The lesson went great! We talked about baptism and we set a date with her. We feel really grateful that she moved somewhere in our zone. We have the opportunity to attend her baptism. 

We spent all day Thursday home being really really sick. It's bad enough when one companion is sick, but when both are sick it's really bad haha. So we just crashed all day. 

We had interviews on Friday and they went really well. We learned a lot about planning and it's importance. I'm not great at planning so it really helped me. 

We spent all day Saturday in Euless. The sisters there are having a hard time with finding so we decided to stay the night and help out. It was really fun. 

Well yeah, that is about all I have right now. Sorry this is so short. Not too much has happened besides the intense planning for the people we are teaching. I am grateful for the chance to be a missionary and learn. 

Love y'all! 

Sister Gray


Breakfast in Euless
The mission conference

Sisters ? Naea, Gray, Keller 

Elder Holland Mission Conference
Texas, Fort Worth Mission

Watermelons for Pumpkins - November 5, 2018

Hey Y'all!

I hope y'all had a great week this week with the Halloween holiday. Honestly Halloween as a missionary in the Fort Worth mission is kind of super lame. We aren't allowed out proselyting after 5 so it means that unless we have appointments... we have to stay in. It really is kind of lame. So, because most of the people we are teaching have kids we didn't have too many appointments. We spent the night at a members house talking with their non-member family. It was fun, afterwards we had a Skype call with the some other sisters. It is always fun for us to do those. 

We were going to carve pumpkins as a zone last week for Halloween but we got distracted and played volleyball a little too long. It was still really fun though, we bought a watermelon to carve since I am allergic to pumpkins. We got a text on Tuesday asking if we would come and carve pumpkins with Ryan and her family. We were super thankful that we didn't carve the watermelon early because that meant we had something to do with her! We had so much fun with her as we talked and taught and carved. It was so much fun. Ryan has a set date for baptism on the 17th. She is literally the cutest person I have ever met. 

We attended young woman's with her this past Sunday so she would feel more comfortable and meet more girls in the ward. She came up to us after the block and said that she had a great experience at church and that she was even more excited to be a member. I'm thankful that God works in mysterious ways. One of the turning parts for her was a song we had sung in sacrament meeting.. a secret prayer. She loved it and it answered some of the prayers she has been asking. I love that heavenly father is actively helping his missionaries with the people we are teaching. 

We had exchanges this week. I went to Euless to the Tongan wards. It wasn't too exciting. The sisters didnt' really have anything planned so we spent most of the day contacting Tongan people and planning. It was still fun to be in someone else's area. I haven't done that in a while. As we were exchanging back I witnessed the biggest lighting storm I have ever seen. The sky was very angry and it was lit up all night. It was really cool. 

I feel very blessed to be in this area. The members here are seriously so awesome. They spoil us sometimes haha. For example, we walked into second hour for one of the wards and a faithful member walked up to us. His name is Bro. Moala. He is a convert from Tonga. He has a soft spot in his heart for sister missionaries. He came up to us and shook our hand. He was the most sly person I have ever met. As he shook sister Naea's hand he slid some money in her hand, we tried to give it back and he simply said "Don't take away my blessings sisters. I love you". we were amazed. little did we know that he slipped a 100 dollar bill in her hand. We tried again to give it back but failed. I am thankful for the generosity of the members.

I love y'all so so much. Especially those that muster through and read the whole email. y'all are true friends haha. Have a safe and a blessed week. I appreciate all of the emails and the letters that you send. They make my whole week better and it helps when things get hard. 

Love y'all. 

Sister Gray

PICTURES:

So we had no food in our apartment because it had nothing in it to start and a member decided to give us stuff to make pizzas. She totally followed the spirit because we never told anyone that we had nothing. god is good.


Our beautiful watermelon and terrifying pumpkin


This is Douglas. we do service at a rehab center and they had a Halloween party, we were in charge of painting faces. so, we drew a star on his face and he is our best friend. I miss being in health care but Heavenly Father has provided me a way to still work with my friends in the homes:)

Watermelon Halloween

Pizza for Dinner

Douglas, Sister Gray, and Sister Naea

Zone Conference - October 29, 2018

Hello my friends!

This week was a pretty slow week. I mean, things are still going really well. We are super, super busy but things are still going great.

We had the second ward halloween party this weekend, it was a total hit. Last week we attended the other wards party and we were totally reprimanded for not dressing up. They were all super disappointed that we came as missionaries. SO, we were not about to make the same mistake. So we decided to dress as best as possible, so Sister Naea went as a cat:) I went as a hippie:) we had a bunch of fun. All of the youth came up to and were making fun of us and wanting to be around us. It was a lot of fun, we had a few non-member people show up.

We had zone conference this past week as well. It was absolutely incredible. I learned so much, I had a really awesome experience with this conference. Our zone has really been struggling lately with charity and love. There has been a lot of drama lately. SO, one night earlier in the week I was up late thinking. I couldnt really sleep so I was just pondering. I was getting a little uneasy about having a zone council and setting new goals. I was so easy about that I knelt down and asked God if he would help me with it. I was expecting something like " you will be fine just go to bed". Wrong. 100 percent wrong. I was simply told to go read. So I did. I spent the next 3 hours studying and searching for an answer. I recieved some powerful insights and was prepared for the council. I was SOOO nervous, oh my gosh. Yet we gatherred together are started to make plans. I won't go into details about what was said at the meeting but I will say, I have never been more scared to speak in my life. Things were discussed, and let me tell ya. The spirit was felt. I have never felt the spirit more present in a council. We set some amazing plans as a zone and we are actively working towards. 

We had an amazing lesson this week with the Chibuzor family. We showed up to teach them the restoration and we walked into something I have never seen before. We walked in to an apartment that had nothing in it. No chairs, no table, there weren't even beds. Just a pile of blankets used every night. We walked in as they were finishing up dinner, a few bananas with a scoop of peanut butter. Very humbling experience. We sat in the floor gathered in a circle and preached what we knew to be true. Sitting in the circle together made me realize how blessed I really am. As we talked, we felt impressed to invite them to baptism. We did as prompted and they were so excited. All 5 of them are on date for the 24th. 

I feel so blessed to be were I am. I feel blessed to be doing what I am doing. I am so thankful.
I hope y'all had a great week. 

Love,
Sister Gray

Happy Halloween 

A Cat and A Hippie

Sunday - day of no rest - October 22, 2018

Y'ALL.
Oh my goodness I don't even know where to begin. This week has been a spiritual whirlwind. It has been phenomenal. It all started with Monday night...
So, we left the church on Monday after having a great preparation day. A few of us got together and decided we were going to eat Habenero peppers. If any of y'all haven't done this.... don't do it. It was incredibly spicy and hot and it melted my insides. All was well though, we each had fun. We left the church and went to a lesson with Joy. We taught her the word of wisdom and the law of chastity and all things went great. She agreed with what we had taught her and is getting more and more excited for her baptism.
After Joy's lesson we went to go and read the scriptures with Ryan. I have said this before and I will continue to say it, the book of Mormon changes lives. It was one of the best lessons I have had as a missionary. We read in 1st Nephi about Lehi and his dream of the tree of life. At the end of the chapter we were going over the symbolism and she was just smiling. Afterwards we asked her how she was feeling and she opened up. She shared that she found out that the book of Mormon is true. We went through the steps... if the Book of Mormon is true, then Joseph smith is a prophet, which means the priesthood is restored, which is means it's on the earth today and so forth. The light flicked on and she knew what she had learned was true. We set a baptism date with her that day. November 14th couldn't come quicker:)
We had the conference with Elder Holland on Tuesday. It was incredible. I know for a fact that he is a called apostle of the Lord. The power he speaks with only comes through the power of the holy ghost. He screamed repentance to us reminding us how important out calling is. It made me think about how long I have been out. 13 months is a really long time but I would stay out forever to continue holding my title as a missionary. I love being a missionary. I love the things I have learned and I love the Lord. I learned so much in this conference and I am grateful.
Fast forward to Sunday. I know I have said this before but Sundays are the biggest lie. It is not a day of rest. It is the busiest day for a missionary. We start our meetings early in the morning and don't leave the church building until dinner time at 5. Yesterday we were expecting a slower Sunday, we were expecting one investigator at church. We were excited, she was a referral from Las Vegas and she is pretty solid. We had a lesson with her earlier in the week and taught her the restoration. She enjoyed it and has enjoyed reading the book of Mormon. We showed up to sacrament meeting and we had not one, not two, not three, but SIX new people at church this week! We were running around like crazy. We didn't know what to do haha. We had to herd kids to primary, herd investigators to class, and teach primary kids what it's like to be a missionary. It was amazing. We feel so blessed to be in this area. We received transfer news last night and me and sister Naea will be staying in the Carrollton area for another 5 weeks. We are really excited and look forward to being here and continuing the work.
Y'all, I love being a missionary. It's so much fun. The things we see, the people we talk to, the spirit we feel, it's amazing. I love my calling and I cherish it. I will work my hardest for the next 4 months and represent Christ the best I can. I sure do love y'all. Have a great week.
Love y'all!
Sister Gray


Sister Naea is a great comp haha
Sister Naea went as sister Gray for our Halloween party this week
Our investigator Mr. Lee surprised us with some doughnuts out of the blue
Sister Naea doesn't believe me that my eyes change until we got a picture of them green

Crazy Girls

Halloween costumes?  How would one Know?  

Doughnuts! ! 

Pretty Green Eyes

Grumpy Gus?

2 in 1 - October 15th

So apparently my email last week never sent so... you get two emails!
This week was really really good! The weather has officially turned. It has been super cold and rainy all week. Things are going great with the people we are teaching are doing well.
Joy is doing fantastic. She is super stressed out but she realizes that when we come over she feels less stressed and is happier. We identified that as the spirit and she just laughed and said "duh! I know!". She is fantastic:)
Christine is doing amazing as well. We had a super spiritual lesson with her this week's. She asked us how long we had been out and she was amazed at how long we had been out. She started crying and said that she was so sad that we hadn't seen our families for that long. So, she sent a picture and text to our moms:) it was a very spiritual experience and she now knows a part of the feelings we feel. It was amazing. Shout out to my mom who bore testimony to her through text. It made her cry.
Ryan is doing great, we are setting a bap date with her this week. We read with her over skype and she really enjoys the scriptures. She is going to the Elder Holland conference tomorrow for the youth and she is actually looking forward to it.
Honestly all went well. I am so thankful to be here on a mission. It is blessing me so much. Thank you to all who have supported me along the way. I sure do love y'all.
Have a great week. Be safe. Remember who you are:)
Love y'all.
Sister Gray

Last week's email:)

As my mother would say....Holy crap Batman! Conference was so great! I absolutely love conference but watching conference as a missionary is like 8000 times better. We watched the Saturday session of conference at the stake center. Not a lot of people were there so it was basically just us and the Elders in our district. We all just sat around and ate jelly beans and oranges. We were so amazed by the announcements that were made. All of the missionaries are pretty excited about the 2 hour block. We are always trying to get people to come to church but they are always intimidated by 3 hours of church. We think it will help with attendance.
Is anyone else pumped for the 12 NEW TEMPLES??? I started crying as soon as he announced them. I know this is what God wants. As a missionary we don't have the opportunity to attend the temple as frequently as we would like but... most of y'all do. Please take President Nelsons challenge and attend the temple frequently. It will bless your life dramatically. I love that he pointed out that attending the temple will not only bless your life but those on the other side of the veil. Be a missionary. Help others come closer to Christ. There is no reason to why those living within 30 minutes of a temple do not attend the temple regularly. Always and forever put God first. Get past your fear of going. Stop procrastinating. Just go.
We watched the Sunday sessions with Ryan. We talked with her about prophets afterwards and hope they bless our lives with their knowledge. She is progressing well and her testimony is growing. She will have an opportunity to attend a youth devotional on the 16th where Elder Holland will be speaking. We are so excited for her.
Not only is Elder Holland speaking to the youth but he will be speaking to all of the missionaries as well. We will get to meet him and shake his hand that same morning. It will be all of the missionaries in the Fort Worth Mission as well as the Dallas mission. It shall be interesting, there is a rival between the two Dallas missions. They are simply jealous of the true Dallas mission which is Fort Worth 👊.
We went on exchange this past week and I got to spend the day with my favorite human ever. Sister Keller came to be with me. The dream team was back together once again. We had so much fun and we didn't fall asleep until 5 a.m.... let's just say it was a really long day that day. Yet, we had fun and we accomplished a lot.
We are working with a lady named Alma (it's predestined). She is married to a member who hasn't attended in a while. She invited us over and we helped her through some of her trials. She made a comment about how peaceful she feels at church. It made me ponder about how I feel at church. Since we are over 2 wards we usually start our Sunday morning at 8 in meetings and attend church all day until we leave for dinner at 5. Sometimes it is very draining and we start to lose focus during hour 4. It made me want to focus more on the reason to why I am here. Why I am on a mission but also to why I am at church. I'm not coming for the people or the social interaction but I'm coming for Christ and to come closer to Him. I invite all of you to ponder your church attitude and culture and change the things that could be improved upon. It's life changing:)
Well my loves. There is still a lot to do this P-day. I hope y'all have a great week and that you remember the things we have learned this past week. I sure do love and appreciate all of y'all.
Be safe, remember who you are:)
Love y'all!
Sister Gray


Pictures
Dream team
Dream team part 2 cause Naea is my other half haha

Dream Team... Sister Gray and Sister Keller

Dream Team 2...Sister Gray and Sister Naea

Big Eyes - Big Hair

Testimony Meeting - October 1, 2018

Hello!

This has probably been one of my busiest teaching weeks of my whole mission. NO COMPLAINTS. Oh my goodness it was so much fun. We literally had to run from each appointment to the car and speed away to make it to the next. It has been positively exhausting in the best way. 

Things are going great with Joy. She is still on date for baptism and she came to church again yesterday. Its always interesting having investigators at church for fast and testimony meeting. You never really know what is going to happen and who is going to say what. Its like a terrifying surprise. Some testimony meetings are exactly what the person needs to hear....others...not so much. For instance... once upon a time we were teaching someone and he decided to show up to church for the first time on a fast and testimony meeting. We sat with him eager for him to take the sacrament for the first time. The spirit was strong, all was well, we had made it through more than half of the meeting and everything was working in our favor. Thats when things changed. An older gentlemen approached the stand and began to give a 20 minute talk on polygamy and why we should bring it back. Throughout the entire talk we simply leaned over to him and whispered "We dont do that"...."We actually don't do that either"....."So...how was your week haha?". 

It was so embarrassing. Eventually the meeting ended and we had no clue what to say to him. He stood up, shook our hands, and said "Ill be back next week". We had no clue what that meant but we went with it. Time travels on and I am transferred. I see an old companion and transfers and I ask how this investigator was doing. Turns out, he found the true church, he was baptized, currently holds the priesthood, and is raising his family in this Gospel. My mouth dropped. What was said next is what made me cry. God is so good. I was informed that his turning point in conversion was that first testimony meeting. As that older gentlemen was giving his testimony the spirit whispered to our investigator that the church was true and that it held imperfect people. I know God prepares his people and that nothing will stand in Gods way. I love being a missionary.

We had so much fun last night with Ryan oh my goodness I love her. Last night we skyped her and somehow we got onto the topic of pancakes. Moral of the story is we were like "Hey we are gonna go make pancakes, can we bring them over to your house and read the scriptures with you?" and she said yes. SO we made pancakes last night at like 8 and went to her house and ate them with her. We had a great lesson over the scriptures and she is progressing quite nicely. The scriptures make a huge difference in someone. It isn't hard to decide and see if someone is reading the scriptures. Their whole countenance changes. 

 
We met with an awesome lady this week. Her name is Jermarilyn. She went to her friends baptism and felt an overwhelming spirit. She wanted to meet with us and come to church with us. We met with her for the first time and all went well. The spirit was strong and we knew she was feeling it.
Things are also going well with Christine. We are super excited to have her watch conference. We think it will be a huge blessing to her and it will answer a lot of her questions. She decided that the reason she isnt praying is because she is scared to receive her answer. So we are working with her on that. I personally believe that she knows this is where she needs to be but isnt ready to make the change. 

GREG GOT THE PRIESTHOOD YESTERDAY! We are so proud of him. The next step with him is the temple and we are super super excited to go with him. Greg has such an amazing testimony and it has been great to see him grow. 

Well everyone. I hope Y'all enjoy conference this week. There will be some incredible changes that will come forth. Be prepared haha. I am thankful for the prophet and his inspiration. 

Love Y'all,

Sister Gray


Pictures!
Us eating a brisket quesadilla.... Thanks grandma! :)
Sorry we don't take too many pictures here:(
Love y'all!

Brisket Quesadillas 

Blessed - Sept. 24, 2018

Hi Hi friends!

This week was a whirlwind of excitement. I cant even believe it. Its crazy to me that we are back to Monday. We had a GREAT week of finding and teaching. Every single day this week we were in multiple lessons with multiple different people.

We taught Ryan this week and things went great. She is still actively searching for her answer and it has been so fun to watch her learn and progress. We taught her the plan of salvation and she was completely shook. She was amazed at some of the things we were able to teach her. The spirit was so strong and she was so excited to hear more. We read the book of Mormon with her over Skype and it is awesome. Every time we read with her my testimony is grown, every time we read her testimony is grown. It is fantastic.

We also had a really solid lesson with Joy this week. We met with her yesterday. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and she sat and listened. Near the end of the lesson she sat there in silence. Then she piped up and said "I need to apply this to my life. Now." we felt prompted afterwards to invite her to baptism. She happily accepted. We are excited for her to make that next step.

We met with a lady this week and it went great. Her name is Christine and she is engaged to a member in Utah. She really truly wants to know for herself if this is where she needs to be. The lessons with her are great/ They are just discussions about Christ and its amazing, the spirit is so strong when we meet with her. I love her so much.

We also met with a lady this week named Evelyn. She hasn't been to church in a while but her ministering sister reached out to her and she said she would be interested in coming back. That is when we swooped in and visited her. We had a great visit with her and near the end of the visit as we left she asked if we could come and teach her the missionary lessons. We happily accepted.

Well y'all, I hope you have a great week. I sure do love you and miss you all. Talk to you soon.

Love,

Sister Gray

Us at 2 in the morning when our whole apartment reeks of weed from our lovely neighbors
The things we find at parks
Us driving at 11 p.m. to go to the Euless apartment for an emergency
Skyping the STL's and my best friend Keller

 

2 AM unhappy Sister

Sister Gray in the Park 

Emergency run to Euless apartment 

Skyping the STL's 

Fun with Sister Keller and Sister Naea and Gray 

City Life - Sept. 17, 2018

Hi Hi family and friends!

I hope y'all had a fantastic week! 

This week was so good! Carrollton is such an amazing area but boy it is strange! There is a lot that goes on. Being so close to Dallas we get to meet a lot of city drunks and homeless people. It has been really fun to interact with them but sometimes its a little sketch. All is well though, no one has died in this companionship. We live in a super sketchy apartment complex, it makes for some really really interesting experiences. For example (I don't remember if I have told y'all this already or not but here it goes again!) Whenever we walk up the stairs to go to our apartment Every. Single. Door. Will open the door look out to see who is walking and then lowly start to close their doors when they notice it is us. Another situation... We come home at 9:20 from a lesson and we have to park far away from our apartment because someone took our parking spot. As we are walking a car drives right besides us and just looks at us. A 6 foot black guy doesn't say a word but just drives next to us and watches. As soon as we pick up pace he speeds off. We see him almost every night and every night he watches and he drives next to us. Super creepy right? 

It's super fun being in the city. I definitely am starting to get to know where I am. I actually like driving in the city. The only thing that stinks is, something that is 10 miles will take like 30 minutes to get there due to all of the stop lights and traffic. It's interesting. We spend a lot of time in the car. Me and Naea are doing great. We have a lot of fun. We play cards a lot at night, we sing Disney songs and we just have a great time. Finding is cake with Naea! She has such a fire! It's great. 

We found 3 new people this week. All of them are pretty solid. We are teaching a 15 year old named Ryan. She is pretty great and we love teaching her, we have taught her the restoration. While teaching she simply just said... wow. Joseph Smith is like me. Wanting to know where to go it was amazing . The spirit was so strong. Things with Joy are going well. We meet with her today and we are so excited to teach her the plan of salvation. This will bless her family so much. She is super excited for her baptism, we are happy for her:) 

I know my emails have been garbage but we play basketball with the Elders all day so I don't have a chance to write as much. 

Love y'all! 

Sister Gray 

We do service at the bishops store house as a district.
Zone conference:)
Pet Bird Molly
17 pound cat

Bishop's Store House Service

Zone Conference

Molly the pet bird

17 Pound Cat