shmmmmaaaaaaaaang

yes./ i got some shmaaang on my shirt and my shoe... darn. Okay first things first. Welcome to the email Thomas mah boy. Figured since youre the finace you ought to be in the fam email. GAH THAT IS SO EXCITED!!!!! I always dreamed of planning the first wedding in the family with the sisters and doing all that what not like they do in WEdding Singer( cmon i watched that a TON as a child...#90skid) that was seriously what i imagined it would be like though.. so ENJOY ALL THAT FOR ME- i know ill enjoy it from afar haha. Next on the agenda: Dad do you know a sister Ramierez that served in Haiti? well what years did you serve? i am coming upon more haitians now and would love to be able to connect with them through you! holla at me./ Also did you know Lance and Mike Reese from Idaho Falls? There are a few people down here that have grown up there and lets be real you had to atleast know of them. They said they knew of a doug hart that played bball and went on to play it at Ricks(weird) so letme know. Thirdsies: I make a lot of food in this new apt. sooo could you possible send my little blue recipe notecard book and have everyone(dad!) put some GOTOs in there. I know my chocochip recipe is in there but i need pancakes, seom yummy pinterest desserts and what not. HOOK A SISTER UP! I need to EAT! Finally: weekly update. I really am not a fan of this: tell brig to send out a film crew and you can all just watch what happens...i promise you would LAUGH! its always a good time! Okay so this week was a lot of getting adjusted. No polys feeding us and hardly any member meals - that was quite the adjustment by itself. BUT I LOVE IT OUT HERE.. I miss my polys though.... But thats okay. errything is going good. the new comp is sister Buxton from sandy UT(she went to alta) and she is 5'1''(i think - well just short and petite...103lbs to be exact) and was a gymnast and did ballroom...she has a definite short girl personality(oh make fun of my height and i will throw you down) its fun haha! Sometimes at night she will show me some ballroom moves and All i can think of is working at the grove and Brock and I trying to do some tango moves and just laughing...its pretty great! So she just finished her first 12 weeks. cool. She has been pretty nervous because she has to lead out the area.. but is handling it well. She loves gators and tracting so we will be just fine - i just have to help her love her Less Actives and work with the members too... i can most definitely do that. Uh my district has all of my previous District leaders(menos elder lee) so AShby Vance and Weston.l... its a good time at district meetings to say the very least- although the other sisters may not have been the biggest fan of how many of the elders i knew but whateves. FACT: longwood has the most hills in Florida... CRAY!(not sure if that is a real fact but i think it is) makes for a good ride. This weekend and yesterday was spent mostly with Elder Walker of the 70. he was at the Orlando stakes stake conf. and we got to go to all the sessions. He is HILARIOUS! and said many great things that i wrot e down. here are just some highlights: 10 tips for members mish efforts - welcome people you dont know at church! -learn the names of the missionaries in your ward -pray for them by name -pray to have mish experiences -feed the missionaries! -invite them, to teach your family -offer fellowship for their gators and LAs -offer your home for them to teach gators in -dont be shy about sharing the gospel: its like a boat dealer not telling his neighbors about the good boats he sells, they probably think he isnt very devoted to that career. -offer to take the missionaries and their gators to the temple and tour the grounds with them. USE THOSE! DO THEM! find ways to share. this week i read brad wilcox byu speeches speech from 2011-2012 that talked about christ and his atonement. I cannot tell you how much i loved it. It brought me so much comfort and happiness. I have been getting sorta down and out about the work- not that i am discouraged but it was starting to become a going through the motions kind of thing. as i read that i felt the spirit and remembered why i came out and how thankful i am for the atonement of jesus christ and the opportunity we have to become better so that we can live with our father in heaven again! I also have re-evaluated my prayers and truly began to pour my heart out to the lord - it feels so good. i would invite you all to read that and do the same. I love the work - i know i say that a lot but i do. I get to tract in this area again and i cannot wait to relay the stories and many adventures that that finding activity brings. hahaha! side note. happy halloween. what is everyone being? give everyone my love. AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU! sister HART

time to BEYONCE

received from sister hart 10/21/2013

Wellp. This week we were at the Vaiaoga's house and Faina and Lani were watching an oprah show with Beyonce and she started singing and i just about died... it was crazy! i loved it.

So I have had a pretty good 6 weeks here in HCN. And now it is time for me to move on to Lake Mary - Longwood something. Its going to be great! I loved being out here but I love to move around. I am excited to see what great things happen while Im in this new area!

Alright so this week was the bomb! We did a bunch of exchanges-like We had to exchange for real exchanges which was bomb, then we had to exchange with some sisters whose companions were being prepped to train this next transfer. Cray! Hermana Jackson should be coming out and hermana monson and i are so stoked and really hope that she is her trainer!

Okay so i am loving this right now! I am way excited to get going on to new things! Not going to lie I will miss seeing the Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott every day, and being with my poly family - BUT there are great things awaiting this lil ginger soo i best be moving on!

So here is an ultra cool experience i had this week: i was reading different stuff from the BOM and Doctrine and Covenants and I was pondering my prayers and things i was praying for and how i always forget something that i really wanted to pray for. So i prayed - I HAD THE COOLEST SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE! Like spiritual floooding of the soul! It was the best thing ever! So now i feel that my prayers are getting better - i mean a prayer is your own personal communication with God so it is always good, but it can always get better - you can always improve in the church. ALWAYS. I hope that i can continue to improve my prayers throughout my mission.

Uh side note: I love getting letters- thanks chrissy for sending the card and photos. ThANKS to all the fam who wrote within the last two weeks. you're all so great! I love you so much! I love this church and i love the opportunity I have to take a short time to give it my all and share it with others! The blessings that this gospel has to offer are eternal. I cannot wait to see what unfolds here in ORLANDO!

LOVE YOU LOTS! sister HART

OH MY GOSSSSSSSS+SSSSH

received from Sister Hart 10/14/2013 

OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

i cannot believe it!

XAN XAN IS GETTING MARRIED!!!! 

AHHHHHHH! OH MY GOSH! 

I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW HAPPY I AM! 

ILITERALLY RAN INTO A WALL WHEN I READ THE EMAIL! WHY DIDNT ANYONE CALL SISTER CARLY REID!

I COULD HAVE FOUND OUT SOONER!

It's probably a good idea that you didn't because I would have gone crazy without seeing photos! I want the photo that Cecilly posted on fb. That is great! I love it and I am so happy for two of you!

Anyway here are some photos from the week! We did service for Brother Vaiaoga (my hcn family) and me throwing leaves and me trying to be cute with star confetti... epic fail.

Anywho--so this week was bombing! WE set a date with our investigator CELVICE! YES! FIRST ONE! Dora gets baptized this week! And then we ATE A TON! AH also we had stake conference and got to hear from Elder Soares ! He is the best! Also Ryan Munns (my stc north dad basically) was called as the new stake president! Cool right! uh this week has been great! Lots of wonderful things are happening and I just love it down here. I cannot believe it has been 4 months! time flies! I wish i had more to write but I cant think of anything.

Horrible i know. i always hated getting these letters from missionaries. wellp one thing i would invite you all to do is to read from alma 60:20-to the end. ask yourself if you are sitting idle and decide now to be a moroni! I love this gospel and the opportunity i have to continue to grow in the gospel! i love this! THANKS FOR ALL THE LETTERS to those of you who wrote... the rest of you. FEED YOUR MISSIONARIES! Become some missionaries family while they serve you. get to know them. let them serve you! Be someone else Vaea and Ime Vaiaoga for me! I love you all so much and i am so excited to hear about how things are going. let me know what you all are doing in church these days and how you are apply the counsel from gc to your lives.

 LOVE YOU LOTS!!!! PRAYIN FOR YOU ALWAYS!! SISTER HART!

ALRIGHT-ALRIGHT!

sent by sister hart 10/7/13

SLUG BUG RED! Yeah so my comp loves to punch so she decided we should start playing...little did she know that I take pride in workin my arms... so when she punched me I took the liberty of punching her as hard as I could like she asked... wellp now she just wants us to not hit as hard... then the other night she just came at me wanting to wrestle... little did she know that KARKAR and I used to practice leg wrestling and I prepped liza for mud wrestling in HS so when I pinned her she was like AHHHH IM OUT IM OUT! It was hilarious... but seriously don't mess with this ginger..

anywho.... so this last week was bueno! I got to invite some lady to church in spanish which was rad. I love speaking spanish. anywho. also this week we really tried to teach our progressin gators, Jasmine, Celvice, and Edwin. BUt NONE of them could meet with us. darn. But we had some great meetings with our members and with our less actives... well more with our members. Soo we did ALOT of biking and contacting... not a whole lot of people are interested so you have to almost ploy them into becoming gators. But the work goes on. One member we met with said that they were so thankful that we have been coming over. That was great!

I love the Vaiaoga family. They gave us Lava Lavas and now they have me sing while they play the ukulele/... I may come home with another one... not gonna lie. sorry.

also today is a day of morning... the jacks are dead. It was a major accident and there was no chance of survivors. I was really sad not going to lie, but i know they are in a better place and they are happier now.. thats just how it works. (my Jack Purcell sneakers)

SO general conference was DA BOMB! am i right?! But seriously it was so cool to be in the family history center watching it on 3 different macs with other missionaries. IT was the best! Seriously the counsel that was given was AMAZING! Obvi and truly inspired. I loved receiving answers to the questions that I had and the direct counsel to missionaries from Elder Ballard - we are definitely going to be talking to more people. wellp.

OH we talked to some drunks earlier this week and he was telling me that I needed to travel the world and how he knows that if he ever needed anything he could go to the mormons. cool. He was telling us how we are doing a good thing and what not. Get that erryday and the classic "god bless" people are great? haha!

Anywho sooo saaturday conference marked my 4 months out and to celebrate sister pierce almost ran into traffic on obt and face flopped on the sidewalk... HILARIOUS! ah man! oh i forgot! So there are a bunch of sign holders on OBT(I'm sure there is a youtube video of OBT) and we always bike past them so we stop and talk to them over and over just because they love to impart their "lessons of the day" with us. Its great. We talked with Cineca (dreadlocked ultra tan kid) and DaShawn (black girl who raps some sick beats) so we are talking with them and dashawn is telling us that she is going to be big like kanye. So we are telling some members about the work we had done that day (the vaiaogas) and Sister Pierce was like "yeah she is going to be the next Kane West.." WHAT? hahahahahaha! we were all dying and Sister Vaiaoga was like do you mean kanye hahahahaa! so funny.

Having a deaf comp is the besT! Forget about sometimes not being able to hear me she is awesome. LOVE HER! There is always something funny!

wellp thats all. I have really gained a testimony of the spirit that comes as we heed the prophets and apostles counsel. The Lord wants to give us blessings but we must do our part. It is a two way street. If you are not going forwards you are moving back. Choose NOW to keep moving forward! Make a change and stick with it, as you do the Lord will shower you with tender mercies, His Love, and blessings. I know this to be true!

LOVE YOU ALL!
 sister HART