happy week. birthday. wedding. temple. baptism! happy. happy. happy

what a happy weekend to start off this happy week!
LOTS TO TALK ABOUT!
IMJUSTSOFREAKINGEXCITED!

alright. recap of the week.
had a rad lesson to start the week off with chrystel watching "you can do it now." She is obsessed with the GAs and reads about stuff on LDS.org now
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/you-can-do-it-now?lang=eng

Then Tuesday we had exchanges and the highlight was not related to missionary work at all. I cracked and drank and ate from a coconut. yes! it was DABOMB!

Wednesday we had a temple tour with Chrystel, as i am sure you saw on FB. She absolutely loved it and was ultra glad we got to go . Youll notice i was actually cold. I feel like Cec probs did when it was cold in LA... where's the ORANGE puffy coat!? haha.. Our ward missionary and another kid in the ward took us there and kifed my camera for selfies....cool....
Also a guy literally ran away from us as we tried to talk to him. literally. YOU CANT RUN AWAY FROM GOD.... but you can run from the missionaries so whatever.

Jump to saturday.
got to meet ELDER RM NELSON! yeah. it was DABOMB.
so here is somethings that i have learned. the first presidency and 12 pray specifically for the missionaries in the upper room on Thursdays. EVERY THURSDAY!
The word atonement never appears in the OT and only once in the NT in Romans 5:11. That is why the BOM is so crucial to our religion! It truly is another testament of jesus christ! the word atonement appears 39 times in the BOM. also in the OT it never says "gospel" only good tidings. fun facts.
He also said some great things about what we are doing and gave us some marvelous marriage counsel... haha. he was telling us how he shouldnt be doing this but then was like. BUT i want to haha. so yeah cool. OH also he has the eye sight of an eaglle. he reads from the mini quad and makes me want to have that kind of eye sight. bomb! But he said a lot of good things that made me want to be better! which is always goood. now i just have to APPLY - the hardest part of hearing counsel is HEEDING it. haha. i will do it though!
anyway. then we had the regional conference and chrystel came and it was the best! she loved it. she got baptized! yes!
well she is getting baptized in the near future so thats good.
Oh at the sunday conference elder gay, kopischke, sister mcconkie and elder nelson spoke. and one of my favorite things was that elder gay said - "LET US NEVER GIVE UP ON OUR FAMILIES!"
so here's the deal. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU! i hope you will do the same for me.... i know you will!

and if you feel that i have know that i promise that i will not from this point forth and will do my very best to keep to my word! i will not give up on you! just like how the LORD does not give up on US! I LOVE YOU all so stinking much - it hurts. KNOW that i will be praying and thinking about you a lot this week and that my love is with you for all the various activities and festivities that are going on! THANKS. ILL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND LIKE YOU FOR ALWAYS>!
sister ZOZO HART

oooo baby baybay.

alright so here's the stitch.
I am selfish. Sorry for the pity party letter last week... woe is me. NOT. I am so sorry. Dad, thanks for calling though. Sister Berry said she enjoyed hearing about it and did some great comforting. It seems even people in Florida are starting to know Scotty before he has even come to the state. GEEZ. IS THERE ANYONE YOU DON"T KNOW?! haha. i love it though so no worries. thank you. it may have brought a few tears to my eyes to hear that you went out of your way to do that. not even that i was getting teary for missing anything but the fact that you are still there.
#tendermercy
But seriously. It is like when you are having the worst day ever - and then that random person comes and gives you the 2 dollars that you needed to do whatever. Tender mercy. Its things like that that really keep me going. Sometimes I feel like I am running on E out here - Like when I would take Lola to E on a late drive home and have to coast in neutral down the canyon, the best part is the hills, all i would have to do is make it to a downhill slope and I could make it to Harmons for gas - its the same out here. I feel as if I have been running on E and haven't taken the time to fill up simply because I can't, I have to coast, only hoping that I will be able to find a hill to get me through. When the Lord pushes me to my limits he ALWAYS follows through with a hill to send me coasting back to fill up. Yes i did just compare that to my lil LOLA (RIP lil buddy) but its true. so dad thanks for being great. it made me feel EXTRA loved by my EXTRA ULTRA GREAT FAMILY! i sure do love you guys.

So I got a new Comp. Her name is Sister McKenna Bernier(burn-ear) from Inkom Idaho. She is great and since we have french speaking people all around us I call her bernyay like the Thebauds and Chrystel does. She is cool. I am excited for this next 6 weeks.

so next on the docket, Chrystel. She never ceases to amaze me. She has such a strong testimony of the gospel I am so happy. Sister Bernier and I taught her together for the first time on thursday and it was so amazing. She told us of her testimony of repentance and sister bernier and I were brought to tears -0 it was beautiful and so sincere. She just wants to become better and happier. She is grateful for the friend request on FB dad - now you've gotta post something uplifting haha;)
Chrystel is amazing and I just hope she can make the necessary changes in her life to move forward to baptism!

oh by the way. there is a regional conference this weekend hosted at MY stake center with ELDER RM NELSON and loads of other GAs including Kopische and others. We have a mission conference that morning and then adult session that night and then conference in the morning. watch for me if they report any of it on lds.org.

Also good luck at the temple xan. its the best. read the talk i posted on fb from the ensign. its good.

also i love you all. I hope to get some micro sds in the mail and hope you got mine that i sent to you cecpool(there is also a letter coming at ya) wellp. thanks for everything you do. i sure do love you. i am so grateful for your examples and support. I know this is where i need to be and what i need to be doing right now! grateful fo dat!
lots of love
xoxo
sister
zo

7th Heaven. 7 months. 7 transfers 777

so transfer news came and i am staying in Longwood. YAY! new comp is coming which should be interesting...hoping and praying for the best!

uh this last week was good. sort of went by awkwardly but was good for the most part. i enjoyed it.

this is going to be short because i dont really want to email... sorry - you're all too busy with wedding stuff anyway so this is more convenient for all of us....#selfish #pityparty #dontforgetme #iloveyouall

okay now that that is done. i am currently studying loads about the savior...aka just reading out of the New Testament. it is just so great! This past week i read about the widows mite and many miracles and the atonement in MARK. it was really good. HIGHLIGHTS: mark 9:17-27

i love this because i know that this father did all that he could do help and fix his child so that he would no longer be in harms way, because that is what my dad woould do for me. He is pushed to despair and pleads to the savior to "22 ...: but if thou canst do any thing, have acompassion on us, and help us.

23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are apossible to him that bbelieveth." The best part is right here - "24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief."
It wasnt moments later - STRAIGHTWAY! he cried out with tears in his eyes."LORD I BELIEVE!" I have found myself in similar situations - i do all that i can to overcome a trial. i feel the taring and gnashing of it and sometimes i am pushed to the extremes of being thrown into the fire or the water. i know now that once i have done all that i can to overcome it, i must turn to the savior and CRY OUT to him "LORD I BELIEVE. HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF." when we turn our trials and sins to the savior he WILL heal us and STRAIGHTWAY we will arise. he is with us. and will not forsake us.
i am so grateful for my savior and redeemer. HE IS RISEN. he loves each and everyone of us and that love never changes. i am grateful that i can be here in longwood at this time to share that with others.
i love you all.

buenos suerte con el matrimonio. \

sister-zoë HART

LESS THAN A YEAR.... WHAT! no way. stop it. OMGOSH! totes cray. im on fb. this is a long subject!

okay enjoy that.
i have been here 7 months.
time sure does fly by.

my haiku about that.

Thanks for the BOM in french dad. I almost cried. she almost did too - loves it loads.

here is the update:

i am officially on FB. still in the premature stages but i am on fb so that is cool. you can add me as a friend if you please. i cannot talk to you except about missionary work - so just dont do it. but i can see your updates every so often. uhm. yeah.

also our Member Referral,who is now a gator, Chrystel, is going be to baptized january 25... which is probably going to be a little later now because she wants to be really ready. Also the Thebaud's invited her and us over for dinner and had an amazing word of wisdom lesson with them. IT WAS AWESOME! so basically its the best! and when she came to church sunday she introduced herself like so " hi i am Chrystel, i am not an investigator but a future member of the mormon church." YES! she is so great!

ALSO! i go to the temple on JANuary 31! the day before y'alls big DAY at the temple... so i am pretty stoked! (xan read this talk before you go to the temple for the first time! it is so good! i am reading it to prep again! http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2001/04/personal-preparation-for-temple-blessings?lang=eng&query=symbolism+of+the+temple and https://www.lds.org/youth/article/symbolism-and-temple-preparation?lang=eng ) i am a little excited. hmmm. also. i also have the opportunity to meet elder russell m nelson on the 25 at a mission conference. i am excited for that. he is such a slender great guy. classy.

hmm OH. it poured on us this week - it was so bad that my brakes went out and my area is mostly hills so that was a good time,.... lil scary but mostly fun. and hilarious. i just laugh at stuff like that.

funny story - the other day we were tracting and this lady was telling us off and she was like "have a blessed day now sail away." WHAT? says no one ever. ha. i laughed after - well giggled more like it. sis B laughed.

note: dont send things to my apartment anymore because transfers are next week. yikes. #nervousbutexcited so i sang a song called nervous but excited. and no one sang along.
HAHAHAHA! #SNLZACEFRON

okay so i have been really reading through matthew the last week and have been just amazed by how RAD and amazing the Savior is and was. He is such a cool guy. i just love how real he is with his apostles and disciples. i cannot wait to meet him for reals one day. itll be such a great reunion. YES!

wellp i love the work and i love the lord! this is spectacular.
i am so glad that i have some time left to try and become the missionary that the Lord wants me to be!
i love you all so much! thanks for the love and support!
sister HART!