October 31, 2011 Letter

Dear most amazing, fun, pretty, forgiving, christ like mother!

So lame email mother. That was like nothing! I guess it's your payback for me playing mean jokes on you. Sorry, I really should be a better daughter. Sometimes I am still Kiley and not Sister Bailey so I play jokes. Like the other night (I am giggling as I type this to you) Sister Mortensen went to take a shower so I pulled her sheet up and tucked it into the top of her bed then I folded it in half so it looked all normal and then made her bed. When she came out, she was like, "Did you make my bed?" I was like, "Uh no..." and she was like, "You are so nice! So she goes out to say her prayers and I pray and I am trying my hardest not to giggle! And then we have companionship prayer. And right before it, she folds down her covers (I was worried for a second because sometimes she doesn't get under her sheets, but then when she folded it down I knew she was going to get in her sheet.) So I start praying and then I bust up laughing! And she looks at me and is like, "What? What is so funny?" I told her nothing. We finish praying and I climb into bed and she stands up and climbs into bed and she can't get her legs to go down. She was like what the heck?! And then I started laughing so hard! I laughed for like 5 minutes and she gave me the nastiest look. I short sheeted her! It was so funny! She didn't think it was as funny as I did. I still laugh about it. Oh man...it was funny. I am a mean companion. And a mean daughter...sorry!

So Manilla is getting baptized this week! We are super excited about that. Sister Mortensen is slightly stressed out about it all. But it is going to be great! All that matters is the baptism and then the confirmation. And the Holy Ghost will be there and make it perfect. It has been really fun teaching Manilla though. I am so excited for her to get baptized.

We have a district meeting tonight because our district leader has to keep tabs on everyone and make sure we have a place to be for every hour of the night. So rather than do that he just decided we would have a district meeting. I'm excited, it should be fun.

Ummm lets see what else...oh, we went to this BYU football devotional they had the night before they got creamed by TCU. Don't mess with Texas! And I got to see Brian! It was so fun to see him! He didn't even know I was out on a mission. That was pretty funny. But he talked with our investigator for a little bit. It was really neat. Our investigator loved it.

We also had interviews with president this week. That was good...I almost didn't pass...just kidding! President Sagers is amazing and I always love when we get to be around him.

Some sad news this week....it really broke my heart...the Texas Rangers lost the world series in the last game...moment of silence...it was a sad day in Texas.

Other than that, nothing too crazy is going on. We are going to the temple next week, so I won't be emailing until Tuesday. We have to switch our preparation days so we can go. But I don't care I am so excited for it! I have so missed the temple.
Well Mother, I love you so so very much! You are the best mother in the whole wide world and I would hate life if I didn't have you!

loves hugs and kisses,
love. sister bailey

October 24, 2011 Letter

Dear Wonderful, incredible, lovely, smartest, funnest, best teacher, Mother,

Don't stress about saying Kiley. Sometimes it's nice to hear. Somedays you feel like you are losing your identity. It's gotten so bad that even when I tell stories from the past I say "sister bailey" in them. Sister Mortensen always gives me a hard time. She says "there is no way your dad called you sister bailey!" Oops...haha. So I'm a loser sometimes...what can you do?

I am glad to hear that everyone is doing good! I am so glad Tyson won state cup!! He is amazing! How fun! I can't believe he assisted in the only goal! Way to be Tyson. He is such a good athlete..it's disgusting! He's the little perfect child...good at sports, freaking genius. It's ridiculous! He needs to stop being so good so the rest of us kids stop looking so bad!

That is weird that Suz is driving. I don't think I like that at all. It really weirds me out. Did you get to paint her room? How did she like it? What did she think when she walked in? Did she know it was going to happen? Did you get her surprise party like she wanted? Shes so funny. What car is Suz driving? Still McKay's jeep? And if that's the case, what car is Tater-Tot driving? I feel like so much goes on back home and I am so out of the loop. Oh well, it happens. Some day I will be back inside the loop.

What is Tater Tot up to these days? Is he still interning with Brother Thomas? (Is that the right name? For some reason I am totally blanking on his name) Or was that just a one time thing? He is so talented. It's awesome. How is school going? Does he know what he wants to major in yet? Sorry I have so many questions for you.

So funny story. Last night I had this dream that this guy came up to me and put this little snake in my hand and then very rudely said to me, "Look, will you just bless my snake?!" Then the snake started like moving its head towards me...it was disgusting and awful. So I threw it onto the counter and I turned to him and I said, " Look, I dont even have the power to bless your snake, and second, I hate snakes so I hope it dies!" Unfortunately someone else did some research and cured the snake. It was awful. I hate snakes. So that's my random story for you! I guess I should stop teasing people about me having the priesthood because now my dream people are asking me to bless snakes. That's no bueno.

Fun story as well, one of our investigators, Homeboy, had planned on coming to church this week and was really excited. Well Sunday morning we get a text from the kid who was supposed to be picking him up and he said that Homeboy would not be able to make it because the storm had blown in his window (side note: here in Texas storms are crazy!!! The Thunder is so loud McKay would die! He would be very scared. He would most certainly be sleeping with you and dad mom). We were super bummed! It's the worst when they don't come to church like they say they will. Well as Sacrament meeting is starting, Tall man (the kid who was supposed to pick up Homeboy) comes up behind us and says, "Homeboy just called. He said he can come to church so I am going to get him." We were so excited! So in the end, Homeboy came to church and he had a good experience. Moral of the story..the Lord can do anything! It was awesome to see him there. The Lord was really watching out for us yesterday! I know He loves His missionaries. Yep good stuff.

Umm other good stories...oh I know!~ So Saturday night we had this family give us a big chocolate hospital...I don't know why, but people keep giving us a lot of candy! So we decided we would be nice and share half of the chocolate hospital with the elders who live right next to us. So we call them and tell them, and on their way home they stop by to grab it. While we were talking to them, we were standing inside our doorway and they of course were outside of it, and all of a sudden one of the elders goes, "Look how big that cockroach is!" So Sister Mortensen and I lean our heads out to look at it and all of a sudden it takes off and starts flying towards us! We both screamed (I might have screamed louder than Sister Mortensen) and she runs into the apartment and I run outside of it. I ran smack dab into the Elder. I was moving so fast and so hard I actually pushed him into the railing. We (sister mortensen and I) are still freaking out because she thinks it's in her hair and I think it's in our house. When all of a sudden the elder rips this bag of candy (not the hospital another bag of candy someone gave us) out of my hands and says "there it is" He then chucks the candy at the cockroach. It missed and the cockroach scuttled off the side of the ledge. It was so funny! We were all laughing so hard. Oh man! Im just glad it didnt go inside because I would not have gone in there to get it! That thing was HUGE!!! Ohh that was funny!

So also I need to do something to ugly up Sister Mortensen. She had 3 guys hit on her in one day! One of them said she smiled nice and she was like what? I smell nice? He had an accent...it was funny. Then the next one actually cussed us out before hitting on her. So we stop by this less-active's house and there is a guy outside (it is 8:15 at night) mowing the lawn with a headlamp on his head. It was an electric mower so he had the big extension cord going. But it got caught on the cars tires. He had a friend outside with him but when we walked up the friend went inside to see if the lady would talk to us. So we are standing out there when the lawn mower yells, "I need more slack." We were like umm ok...we can help. So Sister Mortensen goes to move it and I say, "I think your stuck on the tires." he yells back that he knows that and he needs more slack still! Sister Mortensen is like what do you want me to do with this? We are both confused--there was no more slack to give him. When he all of a sudden, he yells at us and starts swearing (not missionary appropriate words) and comes over and yanks the cord out of Sister Mortensens hands and starts moving it. It is at this moment that he realizes who we are. He felt so bad! He was like, "Oh I'm sorry, I thought you were my friends." We were like umm..nope! We are the missionaries. Later that night he was like I'm going to burn for that for sure! We thought that was kinda funny. But then he made up for cussing us out by telling Sister Mortensen she has soft hands. It was funny! The joys of being a missionary. You meet all kinds of people. Luckily, as sisters we don't get cussed out much. Just hit on. I think I would prefer the cuss words. Some guys are just nasty!

Oh I got my results back. He said the dose was good. Which is good because at least he didn't say it was to high and make me go down. But there was some weird note on there about one of my things being eleveated...and chronic kidney disease...I don't know. I don't think it means anything! I will send them to you though. Other than that, life's good!

Oh I wanted to give you a heads up..even though its like a month early! So my birthday is the day after transfers...so If I end up leaving here and my package comes the day before or anything I will not be getting anything for my birthday until after Christmas. No that is presuming you are even getting me anything for my birthday. So if you do decide you want to gift me for my birthday you might want to send the package earlier. Just thought I would throw that out there. Just in case you decide you want to send me something...its completely up to you. :)

I dont think I have much else to say today. I am kinda lame this week. I am glad to hear that everyone is doing so well! I keep you all in my prayers...a lot! I love you so much mother! I think you are amazing! Im so glad Heavenly Father let me have you as my mom! I love you and everyone else too!! Love love love you!!

loves hugs and kisses,

love.sister bailey

October 17, 2011 Letter

Dear Most wonderful, fantastic, lovely, splendid, amazing, perfect mother,

Hi mom! So I haven't heard from the Dr. yet...so I guess that answers the most important question.

Now to explain myself what i meant by he served me well is that he always kept my lips from being dry! Jeez mom..wheres your mind at?! I'm a missionary! That is terrafying that suz is driving...whoo good thing I'm going to be away from those roads for a while longer! SCARY!!!

That is so cute about Tyson. He is such a smart kid and such a good kid. That makes me almost want to cry. I love hearing about everyone. I love when everyone is doing good. I don't ever want anything to happen to any of my brothers or sisters.

Its lame hearing about how fun yall are all having. I can just picture you sitting in there trying to type and everyone bugging you! Tell them to leave you alone I only get one email from you a week and they get to talk to you whenever they dang well want!!! Lame team...leave mom alone when she is talking to me.

I want to see Laurens room! What does it look like? What did you do to it? I feel out of the loop here. Tell tosh to send some pictures of it. I want to know!

Umm as for life here we set a baptism date with our investigator manilla! She is awesome! She has been to church several times and she loves it. She loves the way she feels there. She is excited about her date. And we are crazy excited! I have some funny pictures to send to you about it.

We also got a new investigator named homeboy. He is neat. He seems like he has a desire to change. He came to church yesterday and he said he really liked it. He told us he felt really comfortable. It was funny he wore this bright yellow jersey and black pants...I think everyone knew who our investigator was. But who cares! I was just so glad he came! I think that's all the Lord cares about as well.

Did I tell you that Sister Loveless wrote me. She was so sad about you and Bishop Hinckley being released but she was glad when she found out the new Bishop was dad. She was really sweet and I am glad that we know her. It is nice to have such an amazing mother. You teach me so much about charity and helping everyone. You are amazing mother.
OH GOOD NEWS!!!! GUESS WHAT?!?!?! Man I was so excited when I found out I haven't stopped being excited since...well anyways guess where I am going on Nov. 8? You cant guess well ok I will tell you.....THE TEMPLE!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!! We get to go to the temple now quarterly. We have to have a member take us but who cares! I am so stoked!! I Cant even tell you how excited I am. It was the best news ever. *big sigh* I love it. So that is my exciting news. Whew it was good news.

Umm other than that...Sister Mortensen is still great. I love her. We have a lot of fun together. She is a good missionary. And super funny. today we were reciting the principals and sub principals and she couldn't remember one so I was giving her a hint and I said it starts with a b so she starts saying be good...be real...I was like no it starts with a b and rhymes with hum...she looked at me and said "bum????" We laughed so hard I was like no it starts with a b and rhymes with hum! And she laughed harder...I finally had to tell her it was become...I don't know how she didn't get that! We laughed really hard for a good little while though. We laugh a lot. That is good.

I did get your half way package. I loved it! That outfit was so dang cute! I wanted to wear some cowboy boots with it but I dot think that's approved....I had to settle for my ugly missionary shoes...sigh.....

Well I dont think I have anything else cool to tell you. Mostly my life is just missionary work. We just go out and work and there are some days I wonder how on earth I am going to keep doing it. Sometimes I am so tired. But you just have to go and do it anyway. The Lord always helps out alot. I was reading in Helaman today about how good he is to his people. I think that is true. He is really good to us. We are lucky to have the gospel. I love it so much and I know it is true. Im grateful for great parents who taught me the truth. Thanks so much mom.

Well I love you lots and lots. I miss you tons mom. I hope you have an amazing week! And guess what...Its almost my birthday!!! YAY!!!! I love my birthday...yes the great month is almost here. :)

I love you so much mom!!!
love. Sister Bailey....the favorite 3 child

October 10, 2011 Letter

Dear Most extraordinary, tremendous, remarkable, splendid, astounding, wonderful, Beautiful Mother,

Hi mom! So sorry about that this week...but if it makes you feel any better I could hear your voice too kinda and it made me happy. I cant believe it has been so long since I have seen you or even heard you! Its really weird and what is even more weird is I feel like it has been no time at all! Thanks so much for getting that information for me though. I really needed it and I was a little stressed about how to get it.

Haha I am sad I am missing the party of Laurens 16 birthday! She sounds like she has it all under the belt! Man I wish I would have thought of that on my 16 birthday week...a meal a day...she is so funny! That girl is something else. I love it. It is so her. I really dont think I know anyone else like Lauren. Man she puts a smile on my face. I really miss her. I want some pictures of how her room turns out! I want to see it! I wish I could be there to help...now I dont get to help decorate any ones room for their 16 birthday...oh man thats the pitts...maybe pres would let me come home for the week just to help? What do you think? No probably not? Yeah that would be bad I dont think I would be able to leave again...I cant for the life of me think of how I got brave enough to leave the first time.

I got tysons email. It made me so happy. I miss him. He is such a cute boy. I love him lots. He said hes playing basketball I hope it goes good.

Well this week is transfer week! I had a huge shock...Sister Mortensen and I are staying together another transfer in Bedford! I know its pretty crazy right? Yeah I wasnt surprised at all. I think she was a little hesitant. She wants so badly to be old in the mission. She just wants time to go fast and to be done which I understand but you gotta enjoy all of it. I loved being a greenie! I still call myself one. But she is a great missionary and she works hard and we get along great!

We are meeting some good people. We met a lady who is going to let us come help her on saturday with her garage sale. She has so many questions about the plan of salvation she is awesome! And another lady has been coming to church with some members. We taught her last night and it went really well. She loves the church and feels such a difference in her life because of it. She reads the Book of Mormon every night and her and her son pray together before every meal and at night and in the morning. She loves it all. She is pretty awesome! We are super excited to teach her.

Other than that nothing too crazy is going on. Oh we met a guy at a restaurant we eat at sometimes. He sat down and talked to us the whole time we were eating. He asked lots of questions about the church and we left him with a Book of Mormon and he gave us his info. It was pretty cool. He noticed our tags and thought we were nuns! Him and another lady in the back had a bet going on who we were and what we were doing. Thats pretty funny...in the end we won because he is interested! YEAH!!

Man I cant think of any crazy stories for yall this week...I swear it shouldnt be that way. I need to start writing these things down! Yesterday we had a lesson on the family can be eternal in our gospel principals class. At the end one of the women there (who is single) asked if there were any lessons in the book for single people. I leaned forward and told her that the Law of Chastity is for single people! She only mildly laughed. Its hard being in such a family centered church. She understands the scheme of it all but its still hard to be lonely now. She is amazing though. I love single lady.

Well mother sorry this letter is lame and kinda boring! I wish I had more cool stuff...I could make up some awesome stories but who really wants fake stories right? Its the real stuff that is awesome! Keep praying for us to find good people.
I love you lots and lots and lots! I miss you a ton but its for a good cause! I love you mom! Thanks so much for everything you do for me. I am so lucky to have you.
I LOVE YOU LOTS!!!!!

loves hugs and kisses

love. sister bailey

October 3, 2011 Letter

Dear Most marvelous, magnificent (hahah I accidentally hit the wrong letter and started to spell nagificent...but you most certainly arent that!! haha :) ) beautiful, spiritual, leader, funniest and funnest mother in the whole wide world!

Well this week has been good! We were on bikes for most of the week. There was one road that seriously was so hilly it was ridiculous! We now call it "freaking cheeks" because we don't like it so much. But amazingly enough, we really liked biking! And we actually survived! Just some minor cuts from the pedals and a couple of misquito bites for Sister Mortensen. We are going to try and bike more. We have the most amazing members here. Sister Pegram wouldn't let us bike home late at night so she would drive us there and pick us up. I honestly don't know how to thank her. They are an amazing family and they do so much for us. I am really grateful!

I loved conference. It was amazing. I think President Monson is so funny. I love when he stood up to announce the new temples and he was like, "Hello!" I thought that was so funny! Isn't that crazy that provo is going to have 2 temples! It is so awesome! We were really excited about that! And man, Star Valley, Wyoming! WOOT WOOT!!! I want to go to that dedication too! I love when he stood up to talk and speaking of Elder Hales said, "We love you Bob." It was so funny! He is so great. I loved his talk. I thought it was really needed. I am sad we didn't get to see Elder Holland speak. I love it when he talks! I guess I will just have to wait till it comes out. But I am glad that it was good for McKay. That makes me really happy. I am so proud of my little brother and everything he does. He is an amazing boy. Aren't we lucky to have him?

Wow Suz will be 16 soon...weird!!! When did she get old? Not that it really changes anything since she is already smooching on all the boys!!! For shame!! Haha. Now it's just legal I guess. Didn't you love Sister Dalton's talk about Fathers raising daughters? I thought of my Dad the whole time. I wish I was sitting by him so I could have told him how he was everything and more that she said in her talk. I feel so grateful to have such an amazing dad. I thought a lot about when I went to the temple for the first time. It meant so much to me to have my mom and my dad there. I feel so blessed!

Oh, so President had us go onto lds.org to look at the new dress standards for sisters...so in light of upcoming holidays that you might think about buying presents for me I wanted to send this link to you so you can see how freaking cute I can look!!

http://missionary.lds.org/dress-grooming

JaRelle you should look at this; it is ridiculous how cute they are! It's like the new rule is sisters look cute!!! Some of those outfits were adorable. So yeah...just a thought! :)

Anyways, nothing too exciting is going on here. We were dropped by one of our investigators...it was a bummer. She chose some non-denom. church. Lame....not that the church is lame because we respect all churches...what I don't get is how they say they are non denominational...that is a denomination! Oh well....I love all churches...and all people...even though I don't think all people should have agency because they use it wrong..but that wasn't for me to decide. I just gotta support the plan...that's me, the supporter!

I am sorry to hear about Andy. Is he doing ok? That is awful! I will make sure to keep him in my prayers. That really makes me worried. Let him know I love him and am thinking of him! He is just like a little brother. How did McKay take it?

I hope Ty does good in his state cup! He is amazing! I always brag about him!

Nunny I love you!!!

Well mom, I love you more than anything! I think you are amazing and just the best mother in the whole world! How fun that you are the laurel advisor and that Lauren is goign to be a laurel! That is super fun! I loved having you in young womens with me. It was the best. You must have a very wise Bishop ;) Is that funny having dad call you to your new calling? Does he call you into the office or did he just casually tell you one night before yall went to bed, "...oh by the way Lin your going to be a new Laurel advisor." ...haha just kidding. I know he would do it all professional like. It was just a funny thought.

Oh quick funny story...so we had to use the potty one day and we were by nothing but a Kroger..so we go in and we walk into the bathroom and there is only one stall. So being the kind person I am (really I think it was just inspiration), I let Sister Mortensen go first. Well I am standing outside the door and this lady walks into the restroom. I hear some talking and then a few minutes later the lady walks out of the bathroom. A couple minutes after that Sister Mortensen walks out of the bathroom with a look of pure hatred on her face. She confronted me and said, "Why didnt you stop that lady?" I was like, "What?" She then told me how the lady walked in on her! Like full on! And then just stood there and was like, "Oh dear! Sorry." And Sister Mortensen is just chilling on the potty like yeah...She told me, " I couldn't even go after that! I still need to go!" I asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else, but she declined...oh man, I laughed so hard!! It was crazy funny!

Well anyways that's my story for the week...moral of the story here don't use the potty at Kroger!

I love you lots and lots and I miss you! I know I am amazed it has almost been 9 months as well...it's weird. I Love my mission, but I miss my mom too...Oh well, I still have plenty of time!

I LOVE YOU LOTS AND LOTS!!!!

Loves hugs and kisses

love. Sister Bailey

September 26, 2011 Letter

Dear Most wonderful, lovingest, charitablest, beautiful, smart, funny, splendiferous Mother,

Hi Mom!! Wow, sounds like it has been a little crazy at your house. I haven't been to the Dr. yet...I will work on it. But yes, I did get the card! Thank you so much for sending it. You are amazing mother. I don't know what I would do without you. Life would be sad! Actually, I don't think life would exist without you.

I am happy for you. You were the most amazing RS pres. ever. You really showed everyone what it meant to be magnify your calling and give your all to the Lord. Even though we all murmered sometimes...ok often...I was still grateful for your example and all that you did. I know the Lord really did bless our family because of you. I can't imagine anyone more loving and Christlike than you. I feel so grateful to have been able to watch you. It always makes me want to be a better person. I always think I wish I was more like my mom. I like me, don't worry mom, but I just think you are so amazing and in my eyes the perfect example of what every woman should be. I am just glad I got to watch you in action all those times.

So funny story, you know how much I hate old people homes especially the one Bertha was in?! That was awful all those times you tricked us into going there. Well, we actually go to an old people home like that once a week now and sing. I really love it. It's so fun and you can tell the women there enjoy it. It's something I would want to do later on as well. I have learned to love the women in there even though I don't really know them. It's one of our favorite things to do. We sing hymns and folk songs and such...We sing "This Little Light of Mine" and we get really into it and so do all of them! It's so funny one lady was actually dancing in her wheel chair...hahah it was too funny! I think we might be able to invite the lady over the activities to learn the gospel. She seems pretty good and we have been builiding up a good relationship with her. She is great.

Well this week we met an awesome lady! She is the mom of 7 kids..the youngest is 10...yeah that would be awesome if we could teach them all!! But we had been trying for a while to stop by and see her. We found her in the area book. But we have always missed her. Finally, Friday night we stopped by and she was home! YAY!! So we talked to her and she told us that she doesn't know why and she can't explain it but she knows that we didn't just show up here on earth, but that we exisisted before this.....yeah...amazing. Then she said that she knows that God is a just and kind God, so he will let everyone have a chance to learn about Him after this life...ok thats it, fill up the tub! She is going to freak about the Plan of Salvation. We are so excited to teach it to her! It's going to be amazing.

So this next week we are going to be on bikes all week because our car will be in the shop. The only stinky thing is we live 7 miles outside of our area! But that's ok I think we will see alot of miracles because of this! So we are excited about it.

I loved loved the RS broadcast. It was amazing. I thought they all did such a good job. Sister Beck's made me excited to go out and do the work. It also made me decide to never stop being a missionary. I know life will get tough but we have to make time for our brothers and sisters. How sad to get too busy to worry about the welfare of one of our sisters. I think someday when we are dead it's not going to matter how many amazing accomplishments we made in this life..how much education or money we get...if we didn't help save our sisters or brothers. Right now it's so easy to do for me because I don't have to stress about anything else, but I hope I can remember that someday. I loved Sister Allred's talk about charity...that's funny, I loved the same line you did! I like how she said it's not a single act or something we give away, but a state of being. And of course keeping our covenants! I loved it because I am a covenant-maker and keeper! YAY For the temple!! I miss it lots but its ok....

I was so excited when Pres. Uchtdorf was the one speaking. He is amazing and I am convinced that every woman in the world loves him. His talk was so amazing and just what Sister Mortensen and I needed to hear. It makes me so excited for conference. We want to write the 'forget-me-nots' and put them up on our quote wall. We have a wall devoted to good things from the scriptures and prophets that lift us up and make us feel better...and some of the really funny things we say..:)

This week Sister Mortensen and I started playing a game while we walked around where we would take random things and apply them to Gospel principals..it was really fun you should try it! So we are walking and the trick is, I got to choose hers and she got to choose mine. So I gave her a hubcap..haha yeah it was tough! She thought about it for a while and then finally said "Ok, hubcaps are like sisters on missions...not really necessary...but they make the car look a whole lot better!" We got a good kick out of that!

OH....I almost forgot!! BOYMAN GOT THE PRIESTHOOD! He is now a priest and so excited! He also got his home teaching call and he and his companion went right after church to meet them all and set up appts. Man, seeing it made me so happy. I don't care if I never see another one, just seeing boyman has made up for all the hard parts. Of course its our goal to get lots but...I have loved being a part of Boyman's experience. He is an amazing example to me.

I love you so so so so much mother and I miss you! I think you are amazing!

Well anyways...that's my email from the week...man I hope I don't sound to preachy in these things...I don't mean too....

I hope Zoey starts to like little Red soon...I hope Zoey isn't feeling left out and unloved. Give her a pet and some love for me...don't worry Zoe I still love you more!!

LOVE YOU MOM!!!!!!!

loves hugs and kisses

love. sister bailey your favorite missionary in the whole world...and favorite child....hahah just kidding!! LOVE YOU!

September 13, 2011 Letter

Dear Most Smartest, prettiest, funniest, happiest, most beautiful smiled Mother ever!

Hi mom. So excuse my email because for some reason I am being retarted at typing! I cant believe Sister Love is on her last transfer! i thought she had only been out 6 months when I came out. How weird. Well that is strange but fun! I am sure they are all excited to see her! Time goes by so quickly! It really is weird. I am almost to my half way mark and it really freaks me out. I dont know why but I think time goes faster when you are on a mission. I feel like I just left you! Then I look at our family picture and I realize wow it has been 8 months since I have seen my mom and dad. Or heard my mom laugh. Or heard annas sassy responses and adorable I love you too muches. Or heard Tater tot call me keke. Man its strange. I miss it all so much but I am so glad to be here. I dont understand at all how the Lord works. I feel like everything has been intensified on my mission! My testimony is alot more intense. Its like it burns inside me! I hate that people cant see how important it is. People just blow it off likes its nothing and I just want to hit them upside the head and say "cant you see this isnt nothing its everything!" Its sad. I just know so deeply that this church is true. It makes up everything of who I am. I want everyone to have this happiness and not everyone wants it. How sad for them huh? I am lucky that you taught me mom. That you lived the gospel everday of your life so that I could have it. I cant tell you how grateful I am to you and dad for that. Its the best thing in the world that you could have ever given me.

As for my glasses...I like them! Haha they are totally fake and stolen from a companion who left them when she left. But I think they make me look smarter and I get so many compliments when I wear them. Its kinda funny! Im a total poser. But they went really well with that outfit right?! That picture makes me so happy~! I have it glued and taped into my journal to always remember. That was a happy day.

I am so sad for Lauren! Is she super bummed? What is she doing about cheer? When did she find out? That is so sad. its a good thing she is tough! She is so cute and such a hard worker and just all around amazing I know that it wont set her back to long! And hey this can just give her more motivation to try out next year so she can get back the 5 months she didnt get this year! And then I can see her! Yay! I bet she is the cutest cheerleader ever.

I cant believe you yeilded to the dog! We have 2 dogs now. I never thought that would happen! Haha that is a cute name though little red. Man everything changes! Why cant it all stay the same? That is fun for McKay. He really does get whatever he wants. Its the problem when you are just that cute! Man its ridiculous how cute he is! How can you say no for long. Plus he is persisntant as the day is long! Good gravy! I am glad to hear his photo business is doing so well! I bet he is crazy busy! How does he get these all developed? Costco? Or does he just give them a Disc? How much does he charge? Is he making good money?

I miss my cute tyson. Can you tell him to stop growing for me? How tall is the kid now? He is so cute! He does everything so amazingly. It makes me jealous sometimes :) I love him lots.

Ok I laughed so hard at the Anna story! That is pretty dang funny! I can totally see her doing that! she is too smart for her own good! oh my gosh. How funny. She is too cute! I miss her! Peyton is adorable as well. Isnt she turning into a little sassy thing! Man they better w atch out! She is so cute!

I have a good family. Yall keep me laughing. I just love everyone!

Well down here it cooled off for one whole week!!! But we are 1 day from tying the record of most 100+ days in a summer. The current record is 69 and yes we are sitting at 68. Can you believe that 68 freaking days of 100+ heat! Lands it is awful! We are supposed to get some more 100 days this week so hopefully we will break it.I have to have one thing to brag about since we lost the consecutive day record by 1 day! 1 stinking day...man....that will make a girl bitter.

As for investigators....well Boyman who isnt an investigator anymore is still amazing! He even came to help clean up the church building the other day because "thats what we do" he is amazing. He is going to be translated someday I swear.

We met with JW this saturday. It went really well. He is excited to learn more and he said he would be baptized. That is always good! I think he really wants to know. I like people like that.

Gracious had us over for the first lesson and it went great. She has lots of questions and I think it might have to go slow for her. She used to be islamic...so she has to meet with President Sagers. We arent allowed to teach them with out him interviewing them first. Mostly because her family is still active and they dont take to kindly to them learning about this stuff so they could kill her..or us...no biggie right?! Haha speaking of I am glad we made it through 9-11 i was a little worried that something might happen but only because people made it sound like it might.

Anyways we got a new investigator named Irish. He is dating a member and her brother called us last night the conversation went as follows:

" Hey my sister has a friend...well I think they are dating but I dont know...and he wants to learn more about the church so could you come teach him tonight?" Us: " Tonight?!" Brother" Yeah tonight does that work?" US: "Umm heck yes it does!!! What time?" Brother:"does 7:30 work" US: " Yes yes it does!!!" Hang up phone do party dance and be happy!

So we taught him and he has such a strong desire to be better and he feels like this is really going to help him. It was pretty awesome!

Sister Mortensen and I get along pretty good still! She is alot of fun. Its crazy! oh did I tell you we are teaching all the youth the 5 missionary discussions. The stake president here asked all the full time missionaries to teach the youth and to treat them like investigators. It seems like a neat idea. So we taught some of them this week and it went really well. The family is less active and I feel like it was beneficial for them all. It was neat. I think we will see alot of really good things come from this.

Oh so in sister Baileys Creative Corner (Jarelle do not post this stuff on the internet it is only for the families entertainment!!...(JaRelle's note: I got special mommy permission to post it anyway. It's too cute NOT to share and everyone who knows Kiley will totally hear her voice in this and get a good laugh :) )

So lately I have been hearing the follow the prophet song and I thought to myself how lame is it that there isnt any for the book of mormon prophets! SOOOO....I wrote some!!! hahaha yeah I know Im a loser but here they are:

Follow the Propeht BOM Style!

*Sung to the tune of Follow the prophet*

Ok start off with Nephi of course!

Nephi was a prophet

He got beat alot

traveling with his family

the promised land they sought

Nephi Served the lord

He said he'd "Go and Do"

Faithful and Obedient

In all things was true

Ok the ending might need some work....but anyways I came up with a good one for Abinidi!

Ok here it is:

Abinidi was a prophet

he taught what was right

made the priests all angry

so they sought his life

Abinidi kept on preaching

more than they could take

So they tied him up

and burned him at the stake

Is that alittle too intense? hahaha well I kinda have one for Alma but its still in the works heres the rough draft:

Alma was a prophet

against the church he fought

til he met an angel

who told him he must stop

Alma turned around

repented every day

He served all Gods Children

taught them all His ways

haha ok so clearly I wasnt paying as much attention during sacrament meeting as I should but hey dont you think we can make alot of money of these? No not really...but hey they at least made you laugh right? I am trying to think up a good one for Captain Moroni mom. So far all I have is:

Moroni was a prophet

the wicked made him mad

so he rent his cloak

the only one he had........I dont think thats very good though...haha mostly its really lame! And moroni wasnt lame so he cant have a lame song right?

I was thinking we could even get the stipling warriors in on it

The stripling warriors were not prophets

but they were super bad!

killing all the bad guys

to protect their dads

They knew who to trust in

thanks to all their moms

Not a thing could kill them

not even atom bombs

Is the ending a little rough? Well I made it up ont he spot right now so I guess I will work on it. Anyways I hope you have the best week in the whole wide world! I think I really have something with these little songs...I dont know....I will give it some more thought

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU ALLL!!!!!!!!!!!

loves loves hugs kisses

love you so so so so so so so so so much mom!

love. Sister bailey