24089115-86d2-4ba7-95c6-a17680e1cfd1 Elder Riley Waite Back to Missionary Letters Last Email from Elder Waite Hey everyone I hope everyone has had a good last 2 weeks! I sure have even though it's been tough! This is my last full week as a missionary and I go home the next Thursday on the 9th so I can't wait to see you all! The mission has honestly been the best experience of my life and I wouldn't change it for anything. Not much to say here except love you all Previous Letter Next Letter

b18bb0ca-61e7-4031-872e-899cf62c972a Elder Talon Easton Back to Missionary Letters Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that after 6.5 months of missionary service in the Colorado Denver North Mission, I am being sent home to receive medical treatment (stomach stuff, ill be good). But no matter what happens in these next few months Colorado will always have a place in my heart, and I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who made these last 6.5 months special🤍 Previous Letter Next Letter

af92e6b0-c191-48d1-b21b-a363b57a3ee6 Sister Jasmine Bundy Back to Missionary Letters That's all, Folks! Jacob 7: 26 "And it came to pass that I, Jasmine, began to be old; and the record of this mission being kept on jasmine.bundy@missionary.org , wherefore, I conclude this record, declaring that I have written according to the best of my knowledge, by saying that the time passed away with me, and also my mission passed away like as it were unto me a dream." That right there is the dumbest thing I've ever thought up, but there ya go ^ I don't really know what to say. Other than thank you for subscribing to this email campaign, I hope that you giggled at least a few times. Never have I had a better experience than serving as a representative for my Jesus. You would never be able to pay me enough money for the mental and physical exhaustion of missionary work, only true faith and deep love motivate this work. Just like the Atonement. Only love could have sustained the God of Nature as He suffered for me. All sacrifice is a similitude of the Sacrifice of the Messiah. I could never out-give the Lord. I've come to understand the power of words. The power of a testimony, the power of true doctrine correctly understood, and the power of the gentle whispers of the Holy Ghost. I want to share one more story. When I was a new missionary I was seriously convinced that I had made a mistake to serve. The weight of my "wrong decision" sat square on my shoulders and I was mortified. I knew that I would never go home early, so I was facing the thought that for the next year and a half, I would be wasting my time and I was stuck. A year and a half later, let's all turn around peer backwards. if you'll look closely at that lil sister, you'll see that there was an innocent, naive, IDIOTTTT who had know idea the impact that she would have on others, that Christ would have on her. I was eventually slapped in the face with the realization that my life was never mine, and it was never meant to be. It didn't matter the opportunities I had in front of me, true disciples leave their nets and follow Him. Christ's life was never His, and it was never meant to be. Are we not all supposed to become like Him? I'll be giving a report on my mission on March 22nd at 10:15am PST Here is the address :) 355 W. Virgin St, Bunkerville NV 89007 - much love, Sister Bundy Previous Letter Next Letter

a2fdd0a3-d874-45b6-9d9b-9e2d06fb9bc5 Elder Shane Zarate Back to Missionary Letters The final countdown Well people this I have officially started my last transfer in the mission, which is crazy. The time has definitely flown by, and it's been great. Im in an area called Sarmiento in the city of Mendoza now, and I'm with a peruvian companion which is sweet. Im sorry i havent written much, I would like to have a good excuse but its mostly laziness. We have been teaching a goup of people in this area who have very good potencial of being baptized. We dont find a lot of new people because this area is a little difficult in a lot of ways but its still good. Im very greatful for my time here and for everything ive learned. My spanish is good but im still improving. Its always good to have a latino companion. Anyway thank you guys for all the support and I will try too write at least once more before I end. Elder Zarat Previous Letter Next Letter

932a7cc9-0067-4c2a-b791-a313db954f0f Sister Kallie Graves Back to Missionary Letters Standard works At church this week the man speaking was sharing a story about his Russian neighbor. This is what the man speaking said, "My neighbor came to me and said, 'I feel the Spirit but I'm atheist.' Only 50 years of communism can get someone to say that." We got a good chuckle out of that. When I had only been out for a whole 3 months on my mission, I made the decision to read the entire standard works. Flash forward one or two months (or 13 months), and I turned the page to my final page of my final book. I have now officially finished the entire standard works. If I had to sum up everything I learned, it would be this: All things denote there is a God. Everything. Everything from the trials to the sunshine to the relationships to the thoughts we have. God is such a big part of everything The scriptures are true. God exists. He is there and he is aware of you. I invite everyone to read the scriptures. Why? Because they are true and if you don't believe them or if you don't believe in God, then read the scriptures and look me in the eye and deny it. Previous Letter Next Letter

6ad2c467-b582-4deb-a92f-c470f1da71dd Elder Stetson Ludvigson Back to Missionary Letters Wow the time is running down real quick, also depending on how crazy next week is this might be my last email. Because next week we have new missionaries coming, missionaries going the the Temple in Phillippines, missionaries leaving and transfer, all within a few days. So that will be wild and we are still not sure what the plan is. But this week was as usual, amazing! I dont have too much time right now so I will keep it short and sweet. This week we helped the youth in the Surakarta stake with filming a music video for the church, it was pretty awesome we were able to meet with everyone, and we also were able to go and see the big soccer stadium here in Solo. Also one of the youth forgot his church shoes so I let him borrow mine for most the day while they filmed, and so I just walked around barefoot, which is really normal here haha! This week was also filled with a bunch of member visits, I am trying to visit everyone one more time before I go home. The members here are the absolute best! This week we also helped a lot of the missionaries with their family history for the temple, most of them only have one generation of family history completed. We also were able to visit one of my all time favorite families this week! They just got reactivated in the church and their 15 year old daughter was just baptized, they are the best! Sunday was wild this week, so one of the returned missionaries that used to serve here came back and visited with his wife and he wanted to visit a ton of members. So we helped them out and basically biked around all of our area visiting members both active and inactive. One of the members we visited has been inactive for about 3 years but he made a promise that he and his family will be at church this next sunday, which is one of the greatest feeling ever as a missionary! He also is an artist and has some awesome paintings that he did in his house! Crazy literally only a few more days left! I am going to miss Indonesia and the people here sooo much! It's been really hard coming here but so worth it, and I am really bummed because right when I am getting the language and starting to make awesome relationships with people they ship me home haha, grateful for the time I spent here! Hopefully I will be able to see a lot of you next week!!! crazy I know! Love y'all Sampai Jumpa Previous Letter Next Letter

e284fdea-e096-434d-978c-d56d68ad9e98 Elder Nathan Abbott Back to Missionary Letters Hey everyone! Sorry I was busy today and that I don't have much time to write more but yeah. It was also a pretty boring week. Not much happened. Love you all! Previous Letter Next Letter

6760ebae-2774-4cb4-a389-9ac0157c6dfe Sister Marian Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters My bishop is the coolest person I know!! I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR THIS ETERNAL EMAIL! I know i say this every week but this week went by SO FAST! we were so busy! Splitting english ward and persian branch we barely have any time to actually plan in our day. We have been bombarded with lessons which is an amazing problem to have! Teaching the persian people has been the best experience! Their history is SO INTERESTING! our rules are we cant baptize perisans who arent citizens or if they have family back in iran/ Afghanistan because their families will be killed for them coverting to Christianity. Its so sad but those who are baptized have such amazing faith and they all remind me that my trials arent that bad. Most are very scared to be baptized because if they ever go back to their country they will be killed...valid! Our Facebook work has been POPPING OFF with perisan work. We had a FULL english class this week! The lady i worked with is 7 months pregnant and she asked ME to name her baby! I felt so honored hahah! Shes so young and sweet. Shes technically the elders friend but she wants us to come around more often so she can teach us how to cook like a persian... poor elders, we take every woman from them haha! Some highlights from this week! - one of our favorite members sister kerby took us to CHEESECAKE FACTORY!! We definitely do not go hungry in this area! If you know me you know I LOVEEE cheesecake factory so that made my entire week!! At dinner she told us about our bishops job because we were very curious (hes very smart and rich as most government workers are). He used to write speeches for hilary clinton, joe biden, and obama. Then switched jobs but now hes not allowed to say what he does but he has frequent dinners at all those houses! I think its so funny because his wife is very conservative and works for the republican party but they're both so humble and supportive of each other #couplegoalsfr - we got a persian referral for this 80yr old lady who is SO CUTE! we went to her house to visit her and she is HILARIOUS! shes very brutally honest and says things how it is. Explained how she hates the muslim religion and everything they do is wrong..slay girl! She also gave me a gift (persian people either bombard you with food or gifts) and mine was a POMEGRANATE! she gave me this class pomegranate with her beautiful calligraphy persian handwriting! How did she know they were so special to me?? God is GOOD - There was a forcast on saturday night that we'd be getting 2in of snow on sunday so they canceled church... literally the entire state shuts down when the weather app predicts any slight bit of snow! - it has been crazy with traffic for the Inauguration Day today. Lots of our members are going to it which is so crazy that its literally 20 minutes away from me lol. Pray for me today!! -we helped tami move with the RS president sister holland who is a professor at georgetown and she convinced me, I'm now going there! Please start the donations hahah! - i also got a new nickname from navid (recent convert in persian branch and also my bestie) he was lecturing me on how english names have no meaning and i made a joke said marian comes from mary, the mother of Jesus and he makes fun of me all the time for it now ans calles me "sister mother of king" and when people ask why he says that he proceeds to make fun of me for making that up hahah SO SORRY THIS IS SOOOO LONG! but i want to share a few thoughts from my personal study this week! I have been studying a lot about Jesus Christ and why I love him and a scripture that kept coming to my mind was Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Christ is here to make this life easier! He's already been through your hard times and then some! LET Him give us rest!!! I LOVE YOU ALL https://photos.app.goo.gl/S2KwiGxpSdFowZuA6 Previous Letter Next Letter

1df2eb91-3a2e-4a3f-a36e-553e2411a356 Sister Hanna Haviland Back to Missionary Letters How COVID affected my mission I have loved having the chance to really focused on how my experiences as a missionary have strengthened my testimony of the Restoration. In this time of doubt and question, I have had great peace of mind and have never had much of a doubt that God is using this to build His kingdom here on Earth. I love getting to see families spend more time together and people start to realize what they really need to prioritize just strengthens my testimony that YES! the Lord really can turn anything into an experience for our good. We really do have a living prophet and God, through him, has been preparing us for this time when we can not gather together physically as Saints. But this is a new generation and time to become spiritually strong as we learn together how to have a more home centered and church supported learning system. I have loved being able to still keep the sabbath day holy and hold our own Church Service. As I sat down to write this, I had all of these wonderful moments of revelation flood back to my memory and a sincere appreciation for my mission and the restored Church and Gospel of Jesus Chriest fell over my heart. One of the most important truths that I have come to realize is the importance of the sacrament. My first sunday being home for quarantine, I showed up to our "church service" an hour early to prepare spiritually. It felt wonderful to have a sacrament meeting. It has been two Sundays since I have been able to take the sacrament and oh how I have missed it. but it didn't hit me hard until we started to sing the sacrament hymn and my Dad started to prepare the sacrament. My voice was lost in the tears that streamed down my face and I had an overwhelming portion of the spirit engulf my soul in a wave of love, forgiveness, peace and understanding. The understanding of how important the sacrament, priesthood, living prophets, and the restoration really is. I have had many of these witnesses within the first 14 months of my mission but none of them had ever hit me quite this strong. I am so grateful for the priesthood and the fact that God loves His Children enough that He allows the priesthood into each of our homes. Is is so important to live worthy of this blessing in each of our lives. I know President Russel M. Nelson is a prophet of God. I know the Book of Mormon is true and through it we learn many more restored truths. I know that Jesus Christ is still guiding His people and He will never leave us aimless. This is His plan, and we are a part of it. He is still leading us home. I was blessed to serve in the two places that I needed the most. The Philippines will always be my mission, but the lessons I learned and the people I met while serving in Iowa will forever hold a special place in my heart. Even before I got my reassignment, I knew that my mission was not over. I was so close to the deadline that I really thought that I might not go back, but the spirit testified to me otherwise. He was preparing my heart to serve the Lord’s children in Iowa from the moment I learned we would be leaving the Philippines. I was only there for a short twelve weeks, but the moment I met my new companion I knew that I was where I needed to be. It wasn’t until I went home that I realized WHY I needed to be in Iowa, but God knew the whole time. I was learning line upon line but God was guiding ever step. COVID changed my mission because it changed how I did missionary work. From knocking doors 24/7 to sitting behind one, I learned that no matter the place, no matter the circumstances, The Lords work will go forward boldly, nobly and to all nations. Our missions do not start when we put on a tag and stop when we take it off. Each of us has the responsibility to gather Zion however and whenever we can. The spirit will always whisper to us how we can take part in, what our dear prophet refers to, as the greatest work. There is no greater work especially in these last days. COVID is our Father’s wake up call to us to stand up, get out and go to work. The time is not far distant that our Savior will return to call upon His sheep. So the question we must as ourselves is “am I ready?”. There is no greater way to prepare ourselves that to help others be prepared as well. Through teaching we learn, and by giving we receive. How we react to this challenge will greatly reflect our level of conversion. Have faith. Forsake pride. Repent. Forgiveness freely. Be more careful and less casual in covenant keeping. Follow the prophet. Read the scriptures. And do it all little by little in the strength of the Lord. I testify that these things are the things that will help us to have happier lives and bring us closer to our Father in Heaven. This is our Savior's Church. I testify these things are true in His name, Jesus Christ, Amen. -Sister Haviland Previous Letter Next Letter

62d66833-0c13-4a06-a826-e9396ad7d393 Elder Jacob Nelson Back to Missionary Letters The one where they went to the doctor 4 times🩺⚕️👨⚕️😷 What's up yall!! This week was awesome! So 2 weeks ago we had transfers and I'm still in Rupert. I'm comps with Mr. Dennetts son!!! Ik crazy right. Small world. It's been super fun. We both love fishing so we have been going during our lunch breaks and its awesome! We have done a lot these past couple weeks so let's get right into it! 🤝: We had MLC last week and it was awesome!! We learned that in the next 2 transfers there are around 35 missionaries going home and we are getting 50 more! It's crazy. We are going to be a young mission. So at MLC we discussed how we need to be examples to the other missionaries and be super diligent and obedient. We also had President interviews and President is so awesome. He told me exactly what I needed to hear. 👨⚕️⚕️🩺: Ok I'll explain the Doctor visits. Elder Dennett has been having stomach problems and so we went to the urgent care in poky and they didn't help much and then we went to the real doctor in Burley and they did some tests and we have to go back on Wednesday. And then I had to get a cyst removed and I have to go back on Monday to get staples removed. It's been interesting that's for sure. Word on the street🛣: _____________________________ Kat: Kat is so awesome!! We found her a couple weeks ago but she went camping for a week and shes back and now we are teaching her again. She came to church with her inactive friend and they both loved it!! They said they will definitely be back next week!! Prayers up for Kat! Jackie: Jackie is awesome! She has been coming to church with her reactivating husband and they are awesome! They got out of jail together and they just love learning and they love the gospel!! We are working with a lot more people so prayers up for them too!! ______________________________ Highlights: 🌟Fishing!!!🎣🎣🎣 🌟Golf⛳️ 🌟President interviews🤝 🌟Made homemade chicken fingers🐔 Spiritual thought🌌: I was reading in personal study this week and I read in Alma 26 and I love verses 10-12! "10 And it came to pass that when Ammon had said these words, his brother Aaron rebuked him, saying: Ammon, I fear that thy joy doth carry thee away unto boasting. 11 But Ammon said unto him: I do not boast in my own strength, nor in my own wisdom; but behold, my joy is full, yea, my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God. 12 Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever." Ammon saw a lot of success and he was so humble and said it is Gods work and he could only do it with Gods help! I think sometimes in our lives when things are going good we forget to rely on God. God will give us strength in all things as we continue to rely on him!! Thanks for reading!! I love you all!! Have a great week!! Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JBkr7fgP3Uafyi4E9 Previous Letter Next Letter

0d557936-52b4-42c3-9b4d-0d9e2ba3af52 Sister Dantzel Park Back to Missionary Letters #NinjaTurttlesEnTacna Wow!! Another week comes and goes… this week was so full. I can't believe we are in the last week of January!! But as always I have some fun things to tell so let's go! Bulletpoints ▪︎ Another zone conference <3 I learned so much from President Elliott and all the amazing missionaries here in la misión Perú Arequipa!! ▪︎ I gifted a hair clip to hermana Asley (nuestro misionero del barrio). She loved it and wore it the next day! It made my heart so happy <3 ▪︎ Divis con hermana Bautista de Iquitos la selva! (She is from Iquitos in the jungle). I taught her how to make no bake cookies and it was so good!! ▪︎ In our relief society class or teacher told us she counted the people sleeping in sacrament meeting and there were 15!! Haha ▪︎ We invited two of our friends to be baptised this week :) It's so powerful to see the desire of our friends to follow the example of Jesus Christ. ▪︎ We had a miracle Saturday night. We decided to go try and visit a less active family. And we ran into an inactive member from another ward! She told us that we were her ángeles and that she would go to church instead of work on Sunday. There were tears and hugs but I know that the spirit lead us to her so she could renew her covenants <3 ▪︎ Divis con hermana Olortegui from Bolivia!! She is so cute and has an amazing voice :) I learned the importance of having an open mind to talk to everybody. ▪︎ Asley blessed me by breaking my 50 soles into 5's and 2's <3 This is a true blessing now I can take buses way easier :) ▪︎ Carlos who sings!!! He sang us a beautiful song and then sent us 42 tik tok videos… He is just a little weird and off key… ▪︎ Someone rejected a baptism date because he thought that we didn't believe in God? I was super confused… Spiritual thought Ok analogy time! So I always have my backpack, and water because it is summertime! I realized on Sunday after the sacrament meeting that my water bottle was slightly open… because the bottom of my backpack was all wet! I, like anyone else, immediately took everything out of my bag and drank the rest of my water that was in my bottle. I didn't want it to leak anymore! I pulled out my books and papers that were all slightly wet but not completely ruined. It was all ok because it leaked a little less than half of my water bottle that spilled. It could have been worse! Ok, now the question, how does this apply? Why is Hermana Park obsessed with her water spilling in her bag? It's because it reminded me of how we can feel when we sin. It was my fault my water spilled in my bag because my bottle was not completely straight up. I got a little lazy and I had consequences for it! I wouldn't have noticed that the water was spilling if I wouldn't have taken off my bag looking for something. Just like a small decision I made in the morning, not double checking my water bottle, sometimes we make small simple mistakes. Today I am going to compare it to lying. Maybe you say a little white lie and it slowly keeps leaking. You don't even notice because it is something so small! You could go days or even weeks without feeling an impact of what you said. Until you take off your bag to check something and find it all wet! Something that seemed so small weeks ago has made a bigger impact than you realized! The things in your bag are all wet and not the same as they were before. Papers are easily torn and writing is impossible to read because it has been washed away. Something small that we say can have big consequences!! But you can take out your bottle and drink ALL the water. Take responsibility for something you did before and make it right. That doesn't mean your bag will dry instantly; you will have to wait for a bit so things can dry out. But, if you leave things as they are it will only get worse. I invite you to look at the small things in your life! And to be more responsible than I was and put your water bottle in your bag right the first time. And if it was out of order the day before, fix it now so you won't have worse consequences! I love you guys. I hope you have a great week :) <3 Hermana Park Previous Letter Next Letter

febe9949-772e-4d11-b3e0-509d645bdbb7 Sister Savannah Price Back to Missionary Letters my last mass Hey everyone! This is gonna be short, but I will go home next week! I am very excited to see everyone again! I can't wait to tell you all all about it next week! Previous Letter Next Letter