January 23, 2012 Letter

Dear most wonderful, fun, loving, prettiest, best mother in the universe!

Hi Mom! I know you are telling me. Does it seem like the weeks are just going faster? I cant believe that we are in the last full week of January. How weird is that? Time seems to be going so fast lately. I am sad that Dad is feeling sick. I was a loser last week and didnt get to send him an email. I will make sure to do that today.

I am glad to hear that everyone is doing so good! It makes me so happy to hear that everyone is well. I am so sad for lauren! Poor girl! I cant believe that that keeps happening to her! I will make sure to keep her in my prayers!

This week we had a great week! I feel like the more we are obedient the more miracles we see! Even when it comes to the simple things. THere are moments when I just dont want to work anymore. When I am tired and want to quit. Or I dont want to knock on that door because I am scared of what they are going to say. But in all those moments when I just push on an do it the most amazing things happen! I feel like the Lord tests us from time to time and as we push forward and show him we are willing to do even the hardest things he blesses us so much more than we can imagine! I love that about him. Sometimes we do things and feel like we are "paying him back" but we can never ever pay him back. As we do those things he blesses us even more. We will always be in His debt. I love my Savior and my Heavenly Father. They do so much for me. I am so grateful.

Carefree came to church this week. HAlf way through he leaned over and said he wasnt feeling it. WE will see what is going on when we go see him this week.

Mayo is doing good. He is reading every day and doing waht he should. I am grateful for that. WE might need some word of wisdom prayers. Maybe....

WEll I am sorry I am so short this week! I promise to havea good long email next week! The Elders are waiting on us.

I love you so much mom and I miss you so much! I think you are amazing and I am so grateful I have you! Thanks for all you do!!

I love love love you!!

loves hugs and kisses

love. sister bailey

January 17, 2012 Letter

Dear Most wonderful, fantabulous, beautiful,funny, fun, smart, talented, courageous, hard working Mother,

Hi Mom! It's funny just last week I was thinking about that line in my blessing. I was thinking about what a dork I am. I wasted so much time feeling down on myself. I think the Lord knew it was going to happen because he tried to tell me to be happy. When I read my blessing it screams out to me to just be happy with myself. I am so grateful and you know what I love being Kiley and even more I love being a Bailey. I feel so lucky to be Sister Bailey. That name makes me so proud. I love being in my family. I think...well more like know..I have the best family in the whole wide world!

I am so glad to hear that everyone is doing good. I cant believe Wessey is walking. He is so big! They all look so much bigger. I can't believe it. I feel like they should have stayed the same. I guess a year will do that. I honestly can't believe I have been out a year now. I don't know what happened to that year. It went so fast. I never imagined it would. How strange. And Tosha has been gone a year too! Man we both survived! Yay. Well we have survived to this point. :) McKay is so talented; I love bragging about him to everyone. He is amazing! I can't believe Laurens elbow is still bothering her. That is so crazy! Why? Wasn't that surgery supposed to fix it? Man that is weird. I am glad she is tough. She is so cute! Tell her to keep liking every boy and not to have a boyfriend..boyfriends are lame!! Tyson is so cute. Holy cow 10,000 bullets!~ That is insane. Where does he shoot them all? I love that McKay has Samoan cousins. He is too funny! I love my siblings. They are wonderful. I am glad that Dave is loving Weber as well. That is good. I bet tis fun having them right there. How is JaRelley doing? Is she a good prego girl? Or is she sick? I am glad to hear that Larah's baby is doing ok. I honestly had no idea she was even pregnant. So it was quite a surprise to hear she had a baby...what the...Where did it come from? But that is so fun!

So for life here...we set a baptism date with Mayo!!! Yay!! And have I told you about Carefree? He is quite...carefree. It makes teaching him fun. Today he said some of the funniest things. He always has some interesting comments when we teach him.

We taught Mayo the Word of Wisdom today.....he threw us some curve balls. He had issues with all of them but....illegal drugs! WHEW. Those are hard. But he is going to stop. You know me and my deal-making skills...so what do I do to help him? Of course I made a deal! But this time I did not give up sugar...good heavens that was a week from Hades! I will not do that again. But we did make a deal. And it is good for me because I needed some more incentive in a certain category that will not be discussed right now. So we have a good deal going.

I was making them all laugh today during our lesson because apparently I make funny expressions. Oh, did I tell you how I got Mayo to read his scriptures? It was epic. So we met with him and I asked him if he had read and he said...NO! I was devastated! (Have Dave and JaRelle show you the quote in PMG from Elder Holland that talks about being devastated.) Well, I rocked the devastation. He felt AWFUL and I felt GREAT! Safe to say he repented (great thing was we talked about repentance in that lesson and I was able to tie it in.) Yep we hit him hard with the guilt...well actually the spirit hit him hard with the guilt--we just facilitated it. :) Guess where he is in his Book of Mormon reading now? Yep Jarom....hahahahaha! Oh guilt, it works so well.

Oh quick PS....so do we have any camera chargers laying around back home that would work for my Nikon? Because mine has disappeared...I honestly have no idea where it is. I have searched everywhere. I have looked in all my suitcases 4 times. It is sad.

So the other day we get on the bus and this guy starts talking to us. We had a great discussion with him. We gave him a Book of Mormon. He was great; he reminded me so much of Derek. Everything he said...I don't know, he just reminded me of D. The really neat thing was, we are going around the route and Sister Bickley and I totally miss our stop (who cares we are getting an awesome contact!!) and all of a sudden he goes what bus is this? We told him route 5 and he told us he got on the wrong bus. He thought the 5 was a 2. Pretty crazy huh? I think we were supposed to talk to him that day. If he had never gotten on that bus we would have never met him. I thought that was interesting.

Well those are my crazy stories! I love you so much mom. I love your emails. They make my day. And yes 50 will be plenty. Thank you so much for that mom. You are amazing. Thanks for all you do. I am sorry. I wish I had been a better saver before my mission. Well I love you!! I miss you mom.

loves loves hugs kisses! LOVE YOU!!!

love. sister bailey

January 9, 2012 Letter

Dear Wonderful, forgiving, fantastic, splendid, beautiful, smart, funny, courageous, Best mother in the whole wide world!

Ok I know I am super lame! I am sorry about that! I get so mad at this stupid computer. I write you this great emails and then right as I am saying I love you the stupid thing deletes them! OH sweet goodness does it make me mad!! I am feeling upset just thinking about it. So help me if it does it again today I am going to throw this machine at the wall. Who actually likes PCs anyways?! Everyone knows that macs are where it is at. Yuck. I hate Pcs. Look at me being all bad sorry.

Oh my lands that story about Anna was so funny! I started laughing in the Library. She is so dang cute! What a smart girl! Holy cow. How did she do that? She is so darn cute. Goodness I miss my neices and nephew. I love them all. It all sounds like so much fun. I do have to say that I look forward to being with my family again someday. I miss yall so much! I am so lucky to have such an amazing family. It sounds like everyone is doing so good! I am glad to hear it. That flu bug sounds so yucky! I am grateful I didnt get that! I have been really lucky this year. I havent been sick! YAY!! Hopefully we can keep that going this next year.

Well transfer week is always crazy. Man oh man. One of the SIsters up here went home this last transfer and so for 2 days we were in a trio. It was crazy. Trios are so weird. So the first part of the week was hectic that way and Sister Lounsbury was packing. It was craziness. She went to Lewisville to serve with Sister Brewer. So that is fun for her. Sister Bickley is great. She is from Anacorts Washington. Another companion not from Utah! How strange! I like having my companions from Utah then when I go home I can be friends with them. Thats nice. We havent had bus passes all week so we have just been walking around like crazy. It has been nice. I like walking. I am hoping we get our passes soon though so we can start visiting more people. It is not very fun to be so limited. But cant complain at least we can walk right?! I felt bad for Sister Bickley coming into the area from a car area and just being thrown into walking around like crazy! Poor girl. But she as been awesome about it. She has been super positive and great. We set some great goals this past week and we are excited to work towards them. I amhoping that we can keep our motivation up to accomplish all of them. Sometimes it seems we set goals and keep them for awhile and then slowly over time we lost motivation adn they fizzle out. I am bound a determined not to let it happen!

So I dont know if I got the chance to tell you in my last email about me finishing the Book of Mormon! It was amazing! Reading it that fast about made my head explode. Good thing it didint. I actually loved reading it that fast. There was just so

mething about it. It was really neat. I had alot of amazing experiences with it. And then at the end I got to pray aobut it again. I love that. I love having everything reconfirmed. It is so amazing. I love the Book of Mormon. It is such an amazing book! It really was written for us. And it really is true. I know it is true.

So we met a new person this week. His name is Happy. He is a very chipper guy. He seemed excited to read the Book of Mormon. I hope that he really does read it and just gets slapped with the Spirit. That would be amazing!

Sadly Mayo punched on us this week. What a punk huh? Lameo. Ok just kidding he is not lame. He is great. I just hate it when they punch. Its so sad when you watch people start to lose momentum! I just want to say STOP! You need to go back and keep being amazingly excited about this gospel! I feel like sometimes people just dont get it. It is sad for them! But I know it will all be ok. We are finding some amazing people and we are going to see alot of miracles~! Yay for miracles!!

Lets see....I am trying to think of anything else crazy that happened this week...ummm....Ok I got nothing. I will come up with some adventures this week! Next week you are going to get an awesome email!

Well madre. I love you so much! Thanks for your emails they make me so happy. I love hearing from you and hearing how great the family is doing. I hope everything is going good. I love love love you!! Thanks for everything. You are so amazing.

lvoe you always and forever

loves hugs and kisses

love. sister bailey (the favorite! :) )

No letters :(

Hi everyone, it's JaRelle.

Just in case some of you are complaining (cough, cough, Paul-- just kidding) about me not posting, I thought I'd better let you know that there have been no letters for a few weeks.

On Christmas day we got to speak with Kiley. It was so nice to hear her bubbly voice again. She sounds so great--so happy. You can just feel her radiant personality through the phone. I love that girl so much. I don't think she knows how much I look up to her for her decision to serve a mission and be such a humble, outgoing servant of the Lord. So Christmas day was a treat for all of us to get to hear her. By far one of the best presents of the day. :)

Last week we all anticipated a letter, but it never came. It was the day after New Year's and many businesses were closed for it as a holiday since New Year's day was on a Sunday. We were all bummed, but figured that the library where she usually writes must have been closed.

This week's letter let us know that was not the case. She did actually write a letter last week, but it got deleted just as she went to send it. She was out of time so she couldn't write another one. Bummer! That happened to me the first two weeks when I got in Uruguay. Something was wacky with the Cyber there. My family started to worry. They knew I flew to Uruguay and communication stopped for three weeks before they got a letter! They actually called the mission home in Uruguay to make sure I was alive. They confirmed that I was alive and well. The mission president called me to make sure I was writing home. Luckily we got the kinks worked out and didn't miss a week after that. Hopefully we won't have any more issues with Kiley's letters. We all look forward to them and her fun stories each week. I am actually going to really miss them when she comes home. :(