SLOPPY JOES

You never told me you were going to Maui!! That sounds like so much fun! Did you get another hole in one Golfing out there? That bike ride sounds great though, That would be sweet to start on the Volcano!

This week has been amazing though! We have had so many awesome things happen! So on Friday we went on exchanges with the Crystal Lake zone leaders and I loved it because I got to go to the suburbs for my very first time!! I had gone up there just to switch and drop Elder Foster off but on Friday I actually got to serve there!  We had a blast up there, I got to go with Elder De la Cruz and he is from California but he grew up in the Philippines! He is one of the funniest kids and we were just laughing so hard the whole entire time! My favorite part of it was that we went to dinner with the Bridges family up there. Last week Elder Foster was up in the suburbs too and he told me he had sloppy Joes and I started laughing because it's a classic white person food so of course this family gave it to us while we were there hahaha. But it honestly was the best! I forgot how good sloppy joes were and they had baked beans and everything! It was weird though because I felt so much like home there just because it was a bigger home and it was all nicely done with nice hard wood floors and paintings in the bathroom and everything, it was so great to be back in a situation like that! I now why I was serving in the city now my whole mission because if I would have started up there I don't think I would have ever gotten over homesickness! It is way too much like home! I remember when I started I just prayed to get sent to the suburbs and of course that was when they sent me to Chicago 3 which is in the heart of the city! I just loved being up there for the day! I would love to go serve up there one day!

Then yesterday was one of my favorite days of my whole mission. So we started off just by going to church and I just felt happy yesterday! It was so much fun to talk to all of the members and I just felt so happy to be there! I loved being there and then after we went to President Woodburys house and we had some transfer council so all of the sister training leaders were there and we talked about each of the sister companionships and how they are doing so that was fun! It's going to be a crazy transfer this time and also next because there are so many people going home! All of the Hermanas that I came out with will go home this transfer and the English sisters next transfer-- so it is crazy! They all came out in the wave so we will have to close lots of areas and change some of the sister areas to Elders.  It is going to be a lot of work but I am excited! Then we ate dinner and headed to a Book of Mormon fireside. It was a musical fireside and the spirit was so powerful there, the missionaries all sang I'll go where you want me to go.  I loved being there and it was with the whole Stake so I got to see lots of the members from Chicago 3 and 4, but my absolute favorite part was that the Vazquez family came!! I love them so much and I was so happy to see them!! I still think and pray about them constantly and have missed them so so much but they came!! Their family just has my heart because I love them so dang much!! I want you to meet them so badly! It makes me so happy too because the missionaries there right now are amazing and they have so much love for them too, They couldn't be in better hands! I just loved seeing all of the members though!

Everything is great out here though! I love you so much Mom! Have a great day today! Oh and today we are going down to Indiana to say goodbye to all of Elder Fosters Peeps.

Here is the picture of Vazquez yesterday along with Elder Randall (left) and Drebing (right). I'm kind of butt hurt that my suit coat was crazy but it's okay!