Abby's Mission to Orem

From Abby: Mission Leaves the Mission... Heyyyy,  It may  seem  as though I forgot to write a weekly email but the truth is this week is a hybrid week because of American Thanksgiving!!  So this Monday was a half P-day and today is the other half that includes writing emails and calling family etc. :)  This email includes November 18-November 24!  so that the email I send on Monday can be  November 25th- December 1st! If that makes sense  I have a goal to shorten this email, or at least only to recount the most vital of events instead of going on about this that or the other (Be prepared for that goal to crumble before your eyes)  And like I said I'm going to leave Monday Tuesday Wednesday and today as well as Friday Saturday Sunday for this Mondays Email... its confusing.. Yeah. Anyways! MONDAY November 18th. Last Pday Elder Howard and Elder Bye wanted to introduce us to one of their ward members named Buddy. We were forewarned of his strang...

From Abby - Sister Heaton Translates Mosiah HELLO EVERYONE  What a joyous day for today is preperation day. I'm currently munching an avacado toast while feeling pretty proud of the fact that I'm starting the weekly email this morning instead of last minute (Whattt...) Its almost like when you don't procrastinate things get done when they need to... true principals always prevail it sucks. As I flipped through the radically extensive journal entrees of this week I was shocked at my lack of memory, if it wasnt for my journal these emails would be void of detail I assure you. Last Pday I busted my Missionary Support Fund budget on a cookie scooper (It was like $7 but I'm broke don't judge) and it was WORTH it, I believe cookie scoopers to be an absolute necessity of efficiency. I laughed to myself as i looked at the picture of the recipe (Shoutout the Day Family and Megan sending her fam oatmeal cookie recipe over snap chat way back in the day. Love you Megannn)  anyw...

From Abby - Sit tight Sisters! HELLO ALL  I am not missing another week.  This week has been something thats for sure.  Last Pday we went shopping at DI and I purchased a shirt i definitely didnt need but its literally whatever (Budgeting who?)  Culvers is half off for missionaries so best BELIEVE we're always there and everytime we walk in i see the look in the employees eyes "here they come" the culvers visit this week included me trying to get a concrete mixer that was only PICTURED on the menu with no description, I pointed and explained with all my might and the employee and I laughed at the awkwardness as he figured out which icecream matched the picture (#humbled)  The first couplle days of this week have been rough for the appetite. Something about being sick too it OUT of me and I think I realised how much i yearn for a good three meals a day. the worst day was when i literally had one tomato toast for the ENTIRE day :)  My blood sugar is like the ...

From Abby - I'm actually ... Sister Ellis ;) October 21st -27th (last week  ) Guyssss  I'm currently composing this email looking down at my 13 pages of journal entries and having a brain malfunction  I can say with the upmost confidence that this week has swiftly and abruptly ended the quickest of any other week in my entire life. I cannot believe it's been a week since last preparation day and I'm now convinced that I'm running out of time and I'll be home before I can blink or think or fathom  This will all soon be a fever dream.  But for now let's not have a crisis  After calling my Father and sobbing my eyes out to him last Pday I figured that his ever consistent advice to put my shoulder to the wheel and endure with faith and obedience was probably correct :D  The week started STRONG with a mission wide meeting with the mission president which opened with him saying "time for a large dose of chastisement" and proceeded to drop LINES about inv...