Mail Call!

I got a short email from Michelle today. Here's the latest...

Daddy!

Oh hey! Be proud! I filled the gas tank all by myself yesterday! :D

Things with my new companion are still going great! I LOVE Sister Moeller to death, she's awesome! I'm sad that I only have 4 more weeks to serve with her.

Our meeting with Elder Nelson was AMAZING! I didn't ask any questions, but I took really good notes. I'll copy them tomorrow after District Meeting and send them to you as soon as I get some 2 cent stamps. Oh...you should send me stamps...preferably Star Wars stamps. :D

The missionary work here in Wasilla is going great. The people are awesome and we have several people with "soft" commitments to be baptized, meaning when they know it's true they'll take the plunge.

...we're emailing during lunch today since yesterday was a holiday. Well, time is short, gotta go email mom really quick!

Love ya,
'chelle

Okay... you read it. She wants Star Wars stamps!

New Feature!

Hi everyone. I've added a new feature to Michelle's Blog. Scroll down a little, and on the right sidebar notice that I have added current weather information as well as sun and moon, rise and set times.

I hope you like the new features!

Chris

P.S. No email from Michelle today, as it is a holiday and the library where she uses the computer is closed.

Mail Call!

Here's the latest from Michelle.

I did have a great time with Sister Hubbard and Sister Woodbury this past week... the only stress was packing everything on Friday. I still haven't bought a new suitcase though since I haven't been anywhere too far like Fairbanks or Ketchikan... I'll probably buy one soon though... I should've done it last transfer though since there's no tax in Anchorage... Wasilla has tax... Oh...by the way - I'm in Wasilla now! It's about an hour or so North of Anchorage.

My companion is Sister Moeller, from Utah, and I'm so excited to be with her for the next five weeks (it's a short transfer since the last one was longer). She goes home in five weeks though and I'm not excited to "kill off" another companion... I've only been with her since Saturday afternoon after our meeting with Elder Russel M. Nelson.

Speaking of Elder Nelson, [he] was AMAZING - we got to have a Q&A with him... he answered our doctrinal questions! It was so cool, I'll send you a copy of my notes later this week along with more details. WE GOT TO SHAKE HIS HAND! :D

I love you Daddy! Have an excellent week!

Love,
'chelle

New Address!

Check out the links for "Where is Michelle Now" and "Current Address". They have both changed!

News From The North

Hi Everyone. I got a phone call from Michelle on Mothers Day! It was really exciting to talk to her! We talked for about an hour. Besides Christmas, Mothers Day is the only time Michelle will call home. Michelle was able to talk to her sisters, her mom, some aunts and uncles and some grandparents. It was a great day for all of us.

Now the update. Michelle is having a wonderful time being a missionary. She told me that these past six months have been the best time she has ever had in her life. She absolutely loves what she is doing. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a true gift and she is so happy that she gets to share it with the people of Alaska.

Michelle's companion for the last month has finished her mission and went home on Monday. Well, actually, her parents came to pick her up and they are touring Alaska before she goes home. So, that leaves Michelle without a companion... Not really. She is back with Sister Hubbard, her trainer. They'll be together until they shuffle some Sister missionaries around and Michelle is reassigned. So, for now, send snail mail to the mission home. The address is on the "Current Address" link, over on the right.

That's it for now. Michelle says "Hi" to everyone on the Blog!

To Our Mothers

As someone once said: "God could not be everywhere, and so He gave us Mothers."

I want to take this opportunity to thank my Mother. She has been an inspiration and example to me. Thanks Mom! I love you.

I also want to thank the Mother of my daughters. Although we have gone our separate ways, she is still an inspiration to our daughters, who love her very much. Happy Mothers Day Kathi.

And for all Mothers out there...

Happy Mothers Day!

Mail Call!

Such that it is... Here is the whole of Michelle's email for this week. Apparently the computer at the Library, where she checks her email, was reserved, and so she didn't have much time to use it.

I ran out of time, I'll email you next week...

Love ya!
'chelle

Mail Call!

I received an email from Michelle on Monday. Below are a couple of excerpts. Other than that she says she doing great and is really enjoying the work.

....I do like getting pictures. A lot of them I put up on my wall, I'll send you pictures of my wall here pretty soon, and the rest go in my photo album or in my journal.

The past couple days here have been pretty good too. We've had partially clear skies and it's been in the mid to upper 50s during the day...but we've had some wind and clouds the past couple of days so that kinda makes it a bit chilly.

She keeps promising pictures... None yet though. I'll post 'em when I get 'em.

Mail Call!

Here's the latest from Michelle. Thankfully, she and her companion are feeling much better!

Daddy!

Yeah...it was a great week...lol...not so much. I'm feeling so much better now though! I'm pretty much back to 100%...I even played some volleyball and bloodsport today! :D

...I was miserable....but I'm better now so it's all good! :D I think I've learned what I'm supposed to be learning from these experiences of getting sick so (hopefully) I should be done getting sick for awhile.

Meh...it wasn't really scary to go to the E.R....it just took FOREVER!...definitely a journal experienc though...and journal I did, I can assure you.

I really do love the cd...it has Come Thou Fount and it has the FULL version of it...you have no idea how happy that makes me! I also really like the other cd you sent, the one that Raney made for me! It's great...I only wish my companion liked instrumental more because I don't get to listen to it very much.

Speaking of my companion...we had (well...we started it and I finished it a few days later) a really good companionship study from Preach My Gospel the other day. We were reading about Patience in the Christlike Attributes chapter and we were doing the scripture study that went with it and there was a GREAT scripture on patience...Romans 5:3-5...it is so good! Read it and love it! :D

I also had a really good study in the same chapter on Hope in preparation for my Zone Conference talk...that was really good too...I'll have to mail you a copy of my talk...I was proud (in a righteous way of course) of it. :D

You'll get to hear me sing when I finally finish the tape I'm working on right now...there are recordings of us practicing "Saviour, Redeemer of My Soul" on there....I just have to finish the tape...and send the package I've been promising you for a month or so now....oh boy...I got some really good pictures last night though, so I'll go print some up at Wal-mart and then I'll stick it in the package which WILL get mailed out either at the end of this week or the beginning of next week, I promise. The pictures are really neat though! We went down to Earthquake Park, which is between the ocean and the airport. We went because it was really pretty and we wanted to take pictures so we decided to try and do some street contacting while we were there and then take pictures. The street contacting didn't work very well since mostly everyone stayed in their cars, but we got some really good pictures of the city and the sunset and then I got some neat videos of planes coming in to land at the airport. :D

There is one set of missionaries in the Yukon Territory. No sisters though, just a pair of Elders in Whitehorse.We've had some pretty good weather the past couple of days. When we came in to email around noon it was about 50 degrees.

Work is slow here too...but we've been sick. Hopefully it'll pick up here soon.

Well, I love you Daddy! Have a splendid day!

Love,
'chelle

Mail Call!

Here’s the latest from Michelle. It sounds like she had a rough week…

Daddy,
I'm glad you're feeling better. I agree - it is definitely a plus to be able to breath. :D I'm over my cold, but alas...t'was not to be the end of my afflictions. I woke up at 2:30ish Monday morning with an upset stomach and proceeded to spend the next several hours going back and forth from my bed to the bathroom...while curled up on the bathroom floor around 3:30am I thought that perhaps I shouldn't wait until a blessing was offered - I'd just ask. So, when it was a more reasonable hour (6:30) I had my companion call the Zone Leaders to tell them that we wouldn't be at Zone sport that morning and to ask them if they could come over and give me a blessing. They came over sometime between 10am and noon (I wasn't completely coherent) and gave me a blessing along with a bottle of gatorade. Then, around 5:30 my companion started to have the same symptoms...so the Zone Leaders were back at around 8:30 or 9pm to give her a blessing, bring us more gatorade, applesauce and saltines...oh man. We ended up in the ER at about 2:30 Tuesday morning because Sister Jenkins had really bad abdominal pains that wouldn't go away...so they hooked her up to an IV and gave her 2 bags of fluid because she was SUPER dehydrated. We finally got out of the ER around 9am...which was when our 5 Zone Conference started...the one with Elder Dellenbach of the 70...yeah...we missed that one...we slept through it because we were SO exhausted. I'm pretty much fine now - I had McDonald's for breakfast and it's treated me fine. Sister Jenkins is still a little down so we've been taking it pretty easy today...but that's easy since it's our pday today.

Oh man...anytime I get sick she gets it 10 times worse...

We went to the temple today...that's why we have pday today...just incase you're wondering. :D