Valentines....

Hi family.

So this week was bombin. Well it's been the best one of the last 3 at least so that's a plus if ya ask me.

Monday I got mah nails done..(hurr done errythang did) no but seriously my nails. A member took us although I did pay myself. It was RAD because I started talking to this Vietnamese lady doing my nails, Thuy, and she was like 'oh one of mah girls that work here go to yo church. I am catholic but mah church is right by yo church an parr stree.' It was great even if she didn't want to be converted I got to tell her about missions and things like that. She was familiar with missionaries but I just cleared up a little misunderstanding. It was rad.

Then we had a great couple of days of tracting. Always a good time. Hum. Let's see what else. Oh we have had a lot of stake meetings and the stake president is laying down the law that MEMBERS HAVE TO HELP THE MISSIONARIES FIND and TEACH! It was awesome and now our ward is getting really pumped. It is awesome.

Also we had Ztm and better learned how to use our iPads for planning. It is cool to see all these missionaries with their iPad minis but at the same time some people don't have electronics etiquette#firsttimers #respectoutthedoor #workingonit it's a huge learning process right now.

Uh oh great valentines. Chrystel called and told us she didn't want to keep a commandment and that she may not continue to pursue our church. I was really sad but after talking to my zone leader, elder brown(from payson Utah, he has done the propane at the grove before), I felt confident that everything would turn out how it should. So we humbly went to have dinner and teach her that night. It was a great lesson and she still has a desire to be baptized because she knows this is true. It's been a roughy journey for her but she is coming along. I am confident that she will enter the waters of baptism very soon. So another thing. Transfers are in a week. That's crazy. We just had a missionary youth fireside at our bishops home. It was really cool because it was all the missionaries and the rm of Longwood. It was neat to tell them why I came out and why I love it and such and to hear why these other missionaries did the same. So cool.

I'm so grateful for the joy this gospel brings and many opportunities I've been given because I have been a member of this church. I KNOW I would not be the person I am today without it. Wellp. I sure do love you all so much... It's weird but I feel like I've only been here for a few months and still have at least a year left but I know it's much sooner than that so I must live it up and do my very best! I love it. I love you. Oh I said that, well so nice I say it twice. Or thrice I LOVE YOU! Okay that's enough. Now enjoy these photos. And have a grrrreat week.

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So real fast Kate (Kate Hansen) races today! Someone FB about it if she does we'll cause that's how I'll find out! Pray that she does she has been waiting for this opportunity since we met at the grove all those years ago. This is such a great chance for her and you have to cheer her on like I would. Also Alice Johnson check's old roommate, is engaged to my ex boyfriends(ohs) brother.... Tyler Harris. Weird.

Thanks for all the great photos and videos from the wedding. I loved it. All of it. Kinda feels like it didn't happen but only cause I wasn't there to see it. I know x and t are married now but the wedding never happened... At least in Florida it didn't.

👍side note. Xan how are the Gs?! What kinds do you have?! You should tell me. I know the best secrets. The Florida distribu center really tells ya the ins and outs of the G.

Alright so this week was. SLOW. not like time wise but work wise. It sucked. I know I did stuff to accomplish the work but it doesn't show at ALL. Grrrr. But I did read some good stuff throughout the week so instead of telling you all the biking in the rain, cigarette smelling, and other stuff I did, I will just share some ill things.

So I've been reading from the everyday missionary book dad sent. Gold. Read it and weep. Wish everyone did. Also I read from john this last week and one of my favorite parts well a few of them I read this week. One is the story of the woman who commits adultery. The Lord tells her to go and sin no more. When I repent I know The Lord is giving me that same loving counsel to go and sin no more. Then I just read the story of Lazarus and how The Lord loved his friend so much that he wept for him. And if we but believe in him we can live. That's all it takes. A belief and according to elder holland that's all you need. To believe its true. I know that is true and that if we have a strong belief in something it can become more.

I love you all. Happy valentines day. Almost halfway through me time here. It goes top fast.

Xoxo

Sister zoo hart. Sent from my iPad

oh don't worry about me. It's happy days down here in the FOM.

Yes. It is true. I'm keeping up with the Joness and got my own iPad.
Supes cool. Totes cray. Love it. #photoboothfordays.

So how was the weekend of birthdays and weddindays? I hope good.

I sure had a marvelous week down here in the FOM. So first things first....
We had a device training aka get an iPad and learn how to be a missionary with it. So rad! They say that we will have this iPad our whole mission and at the end we may be able to buy it from the church! #illholla #ipadmini #ipadmissionary

Then we had the temple on Friday which was AMAZING! Saw the new new temple movie. WAYYY BETTER THAN THAT OLD 70s one HANDS DOWN!!!!! It made SOO much more sense. Loved it loved it loved it. It was so cool to be able to feel the spirit inside the temple again! Ah so amazing! The Orlando temple is beautiful-I hope we can all be there together someday... I thought a lot about all of you this week with everything that occurred in the homeland. I was very thankful however that my week was so jam PACKED with mtgs and what not because it helped me not think too much upon what I was "missing" and more on the joys of the work. This work is truly amazing and I am so grateful for this chance that I have to be apart of it.
OH also on Thursday night after our enrichment party the Sanford sisters, hiatt(my buddy) and damato, came over and we had. SLUMBER PARTY, for the temple the next morning. Needless to say sister hiatt and I hardly got any sleep because we were talking all night and had to get up at 4 to be at the temple with sister Jude Gaines on time. It was so great!

Thanks for the package. I just started J the C and already love it. The New Testament is one of my favorite parts of the standard works now. I LOVE LEARNING ABOUT CHRIST!!!!! He is so cool and such an example. I am so grateful for the path that I have to follow in his footsteps to become better. He is the way the truth and the light. Through him all can have eternal life.

Oh Chrystel is so amazing. No date but she bore her testimony to us and it is beautiful. I love her.
I love you!

Love and miss you all
Sister Zoë HAWT
Sent from my iPad