June 25, 2012 Letter

Dear wonderful, understanding, comforting, lovely, non trunky talking, sweet, wonderful Mother

 

Hi mom! I am good. It is so sad to have short hair. I cant believe in one day I lost the comeptition with Lauren. I had been working so hard! I just knew I was going to win. How sad for me. Oh well everyone compliments me and says it is very cute. So I guess thats a good note huh?

I am glad I am staying in Flower Mound as well. I really like it here and it would have been super hard to go to an area for only one transfer. I feel like I would have had a hard time connecting with it. Sister Cunningham is good. She is funny. She is this quiet thing and you would totally expect her to just be quiet and timid but then she just says these things and I laugh super hard. I like her. She said when she got here that one of her goals for the transfer (she had set this goal before she met me) was to learn how to have fun in missionary work. I was like honey you got sent to the right place then because I dont like to not have fun! So we have been having fun. It was funny because I had been praying to know why God changed my companinonship and help in accepting it. I really loved Sister Reynolds and I was so sure she was going to be my last one and then He surprised us. But I feel like there is alot that I can learn from Sister Cunningham and maybe a few things she needs to learn from me. I feel like it will be a good transfer. Its weird though knowing our companionship is limited. It is a strange feeling.  She is from Parker Colorado. It sounds like a nice enough place. And she has been out for 6 months. I hate that. I wanted someone old to send me home. Poor Sister Cunningham. She seems pretty tough though. I have made her walk all over Flower Mound and she hasnt complained once. I like that about her. Shes not really a complainer. 

Thats so fun to hear about everyone getting engaged. How crazy! Is Desis fiancee nice? Do we like him? What is he like? Is he a member? What Is Maxs fiancee like? Do we like her? And what is Mariahs like? That is so crazy! Everyone is getting married. So the funny thing about my mission... It has kinda turned me into an independent little thing. I like being me, and I have these dreams that I would kinda like to have happen. We will see though.

The work here still continues to push on. People still dont particularly care to listen to us but I have faith! I know we are going to find some people!  I have the utmost confidence in mine and Sister Cunninghams ability to find and teach! I just really want to see things happen. Just have to rely on the Lord and work our hardest!

I am glad that everything is going well! Is Aunt Nell freaking out  about Clayton dating someone he likes? I feel lik that would make her extremely happy! I got a letter from Grandma Edith this week. I just lover her. I think she is so cute.

Well other than that no real news. I am Alma 14 in my reading. I feel so proud of myself I have been sticking to my schedule and I am on track to finish the Book of Mormon on July 31. It has been crazy but so amazing. I love the book of Mormon. Your youth conference sounded so great. How could they not feel the spirit when learning about the Book of Mormon. It is such a true book! 

Well Mother dear I love you so so much! I think you are just so amazing and I am so glad that you are mine! Thanks for all you do. I love love love love love love love love love love love love love love lvoe you!!!!!! 

 

loves loves kisses hugs

 

love. sister bailey 

June 20, 2012 Letter

Dear crazy, fun, happy, smart, astounding, clever, gorgeous, amusing, wonderful Mother,

 

Hi mom! I know can you believe how fast the weeks are going! It is crazy! I dont know where they are going either. But they are going super fast! I cant believe I am in my last transfer. Dah! It freaks me out! I remember this time last year I was killing sister crossan off. That was a crazy transfer. I was so sad. I wanted to be going home so badly and I felt like it was forever away. Well forever can really sneak up on you! I am staying in Flower Mound. I am really grateful I wanted to stay here. I love it. But I am super sad because Sister Reynolds is leaving! I really thought we were both staying. I was so excited about it! We had so many fun plans! But I guess it was just not meant to be. My new companion is Sister Cunningham. I dont know her at all. So it will be interesting! I am sure it will be great! New adventures are always fun.

I was so relieved to hear about toshas baby! Oh my goodness I was nervous to read your email! I knew it was going to be ok! Oh MAN I AM SO HAPPY!! I have been praying my buns off! I had faith. I am so glad though. It is still super relieving! YAY FOR MY SISTER! She is such a cute mom! I love her.

Well here is my story for the week:

Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl! We will name her Princess bailey, well the Beautiful Princess Bailey had really beautiful long hair. She had been working her hardest on growing it out. It had taken months and months and she was feeling so happy. She was so proud that she was going to go home with beautiful long hair. She was going to beat her little sister in there competition, and it might have been close to her older sisters hair too. The Beautiful Princess Bailey was very happy and proud of her hair. Perhaps that was her problem...they say pride cometh before the fall. Well the princess Baileys companion needed a hair cut and a very kind ward member gave them giftcards to a place we shall call it Ye olde hair butchers. Ye olde hair butchers appeared nice, but secretly it was a dark and an evil place. It loved to strip people of their hopes and dreams. It was run by the wicked Morgana!!!! *DUN DUN DUNNNNNN* Morgana was a sad and miserable soul. Her favorite past times were taking candy from small children, and sucking happiness out of the hearts of all she met. So the Beautiful Princess Bailey and her Lovely companion reynolds set out one morning for the Ye olde Hair butchers, they never expected what was coming. Princess Bailey skipped into the hair place and sat patiently on a chair. As she sat she looked in the mirror and contemplated her beautiful hair. Yes she was quite happy with it. The evil Morgana glared at her. She could sense the happiness and it chilled her bones and made her cold stone of a heart ache. Happiness disgusted her. She came over and asked the beautiful girls what they wanted done with their hair. She took the lovely comanion reynolds and cut hers first. Then she turned on the Beautiful Princess Bailey. She was set on destroying her hopes and crushing her soul.  And that is just what she did. She took her hair and ripped it apart calling it ugly and gross. Then she took her scissors and in one clean swipe robbed the beautiful princess bailey of what she held most dear....her beautful long locks. With every tool she hacked at The Princess Baileys happiness, and shredded her dreams, til they were left laying on the floor. In tears the beautful Princess Bailey looked at what had once been so lovely and saw now...a sad and short hair cut. On the bright side it really doesnt look that bad its just rather shocking. I will send you a picture sometime!

So thats the story for the week! Sister Reynolds and I have been making jokes all week about it. It was so funny. She really did do a number on our hair. But she did a good job so we really cant complain!

Our investigator is doing better. Every day she feels a little better. Her boyfriend hasnt come back and we are grateful. I feel like its an answer to prayers! She deserves better anyways.

I love the idea of Alex getting married Aug. 11! That is a great day! Good job Alex!! And yes we had better do her shower after I get home! That will be so fun! Oh man! Im secretly very happy about that. Dont tell! How is mama ferg doing? I am keeping them all in my prayers. That includes the gardners!

Well mom I love you too much! I think you are amazing! You are the bestest mom in the whole big wide world!! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

 

loves loves kisses hugs

 

love. sister bailey

June 11, 2012 Letter

Dear most wonderful, happy, fun, TRUNKY, funny, amazing, lovely, person I want to be exactly like in every way Mother,

 

Hi mom! hahaha mom you are so funny. I cant believe you and dad. You are awful! And know you have to tell me where the fun trip is planned to because It will bother me more not knowing! You are awful! Maybe I only think your awful because I am really looking forward to it too. I am still working and focusing on my mission, but I m not going to lie thinking about seeing you soonish makes me really happy. I am such a bad missionary!! I try not to think  about it...but it still happens. I cant believe I only have one transfer left. Its amazing. I really never imagined it would go so fast. Its almost done. I now wonder what crazy thing dad is going to harp on me to do when I get home! For so long it has been "go on a mission ky. Your going to serve a mission." Now I can say " I did!...what now dad?!" weirdness. One time I had a dream that I got home and a week later you and dad came up to me and said "guess what?! Your going to Argentina!!!" I was like "for what?!" and you both said "to serve another mission!!!" I got super panicky inside and was like NOOOOO. Im so tired please just let me sleep! And you were both like "nope you have to go!" I was feeling all sad and I was like "well at least I dont have to go back to the MTC right?" And you were like "of course you do!! You have to learn spanish!!" I was not very happy in my dream. Does that make me the worst person in the world?! It was kinda funny. Im not going to lie thinking about that dream makes me a little nervous. Haha. 

I did get judged this morning for being the worst missionary in the world. We do our laundry at this members house and normally its just her. This lady is incredible she has 10 kids! Its crazy! They are all moved out now but one, so normally its just her. Well today all of my stuff was nasty dirty so I put on my skirt and my shoes and my big baylor bears t-shirt. I looked funny, but it was just for laundry. We show up to her house and it just so happens to be the day that everyone is there. She has this son who is home from BYU and as we walked in he just stared me down. I felt awful! I was like yes yes I do look like the worst missionary in the world right now! No this is not what I plan on wearing all day. Yep I was judged. It was no bueno. Ok it was pretty funny. Sister Reynolds and I giggled at it when we got in the car.

We had dinner the other day with this family. I love this lady. She is so funny. The first time we ever ate with them was easter dinner and she burned the ham so bad it was like we were eating ham jerky! It was so funny!! Well this time we show up and the dinner is really good. She starts preparing dessert and she is telling us about this caramel sauce she made and how she hopes it is good. Im the first person to get dessert and I am patiently waiting for everyone else and Sister M is like oh dont wait just go ahead. So I go to eat the ice cream with caramel sauce on it and I cant get my fork to break through the caramel sauce. It is seriously hard as a rock! So I finally pull it free get a little ice cream and put it in my mouth...it almost ripped all my fillings out!!! It was so funny and right as I am chewing it  trying not to cause permanent damage to my mouth she asks "Is it ok?" and I just start laughing. I couldnt keep it in. She was like "oh no it tastes awful doesnt it?" and I was like "no it would taste really good if we could eat it." She starts laughing and is like "welp Im not putting it on mine!" so she served all the rest of us caramel sauce and skipped over it on hers. Her husband started teasing her about it too, we were all laughing so hard. She is finally like "well the recipe called for cream but I was all out so I just decided to substitute it for canned milk. I thought it would be a  good substitution but it wasnt. Nope never gonna do that again." I started laughing even harder because it honestly reminded me of something you might do mom! I am still giggling about it. Oh man. So to make Sister M feel better I told her about the time you cooked my tooth into our beef stroganoff! HAHAHA do you remember that?! She felt a little better after that. 

We found out this week that we get to teach the youth in our wards. We are really excited about it. The youth are so amazing I learn a ton from them! Im excited to get to know them better and to hear all their testimonies. It is going to be really amazing.

Our investigator....Sweetheart had her boyfriend leave her this week. It has been really hard for her. He just up and left. She has been so broken hearted about it. But as we have seen her and talked to her I feel bad for not feeling sad he is gone. As I have watched her I have realized how lucky we are to have the gospel. I hear alot of people say that we cant be very happy because we are so restricted by all the rules we have, but if only they knew! God really does know what will make us happy! He gives us the commandments so we can have real happiness. Not the fake  kind the world promises. There is just so much heart break and pain that could be skipped if we simply follow the commandments God has given us. Im so grateful for the commandments. We are so blessed to have them.

Im glad to hear that everyone is doing well. Thats cute Lauren took Tyson out on a date. I have something I made for the both of them. I will send it home this week.

Well mother dearest I love you! I am glad that you are doing so good. That makes me happy. Thanks for the card and the Chick Fil A certificate. You are so nice mom. I love you and I really want to be just like you when I grow up.  Oh yeah, ways I show respect and love for Dad....I dont know. I always tell him how much I love him. I think the best way to show respect and love is to do what he asks. Just like we show our love and respect for our Heavenly Father by following his commandments. Our dad is given to us to help us grow and become the people we need to be. He sets up rules and standards to help us become that person. As we follow his rules and obey his counsel we show him that we really do love and respect him. I dont know if that makes sense at all? Sorry its just what popped into my head right then. You will do amazing speaking! I love love love you!!!

 

loves loves hugs and kisses

 

love. sister bailey

June 4, 2012 Letter

Dear Wonderful, caring, inspired, beautiful, funny, happy, splendid Mom

 

Hi Mom! Can I tell you that I like the way we start our emails. It always makes me smile. How did this tradition get started? I dont want it to end anytime soon. I think it will make me sad when it does. It makes me a little sick how fast the time is going. I cant think about it or I almost hyperventilate. :)

Ok so yes I have the BEST idea to keep your small children busy this summer! They are going to love it. A couple weeks ago President Sagers asked all of the missionaries to read the Book of Mormon by the next zone conference. Well I wont be here for the next zone conference...yeah its weird...So Sister Reynolds and I decided to read the whole Book of Mormon by July 31. Then that same day we were teaching the Beehives in our ward and we ended up challenging them to read the whole Book of Mormon by July 31 as well. They all agreed! So now we have Sister Reynolds, me, the Beehives, their leaders, and some of the YSA all reading the Book of Mormon. Well inviting all these people made me think of my family. I thought it would be so neat to have the family all reading the Book of Mormon together. How cool would it be for all of us to finish on the exact same day! I know it might be a lot of reading now. I was going to tell you last week but I forgot...but Suz and Tyson have alot of extra time and I KNOW they could do it! It would be so much fun to have them reading the Book of Mormon with me. It sounds sorta  trunky because yes it does count down my mission, but I dont care. I feel like it would be really spiritual and so neat. So yall should talk about it and see what you think! 

Holy cow lots of news about people. I am so sad about Sister Gardner. I will make sure to keep her in my prayers! I wish I would have known by yesterday I would have included her and Sister Ferguson in my fast. How sad! I will pray for them. I hate that. It makes me sad. 

I cannot believe that about Sister Ferguson! She is so tough! It would take alot more than that to take down a woman like Sister Ferguson. I love that woman. I think I will write her a note today. She is awesome. How is Fergy doing? How are the wedding plans? I need to write her today as well. Im glad that she is ok. That could have been so heart breaking. I am so grateful for miracles like that. I love how much Heavenly Father looks out for us. 

I bet dad is amazing. He is a trunky little thing. That man. What are we going to do with him? Dad and his new toys he is so funny! Is that my "good job grape for serving a mission" present from him? haha I am totally just kidding. Sorry I shouldnt joke like that. He is fancy. I like it when dad loves things too. It makes me happy. I like how much he loves his family. I always tell stories about you and Dad and they always make me so happy. I feel so blessed to have such amazing parents who love us so much. Its amazing how blessed we are to have a worthy priesthood holder at the head of our family. I feel so blessed for it. I never realized how much that really meant until I came on my mission and saw what it is like to not have that. I never want that. It is sad.

Where is Eric traveling too? Im glad to hear the familia is doing so good. I love that. How is Jarelley feeling? Is she huge yet? Poor girl she is getting close isnt she? When is her baby due? Oh man the other day I saw someone with a new little baby and it made me so excited. I am a bad person!

Well we are still just working hard. President Sagers has asked us to have a no car day once a week. So we get to have some fun adventures with that. We figured out that we walked about 13 miles our first no car day. It was so funny. We laughed so hard all day. Especially on our walk home. It was the best worst day of our lives. This past week we were able to find a ride home so we didnt have to walk as far. That was a blessing. Its fun though. We are trying to find like crazy. Its a little difficult. Everyone is "happy" with where they are at. Stupid money. But we have been praying and fasting for miracles so I know we are going to see some!

Oh my address is:

5210 Long Prarie Rd #1626

FLower Mound TX 75028

Well I love you so much mom! Thanks for everything that you do. You are the best mother in the whole wide world! I love you I love you I LOVE YOU!!!!

 

Loves loves hugs kisses,

 

love. sister bailey