Email...August 17th

Hey Family,

Dad thats awesome that you met Chip. Crazy connections. Small world.

Mom... Plaque... i would like oak wood and my favorite scripture Ether 12:19 And there were many whose faith was so exceedingly strong, even before Christ came, who could not be kept from within the veil, but truly saw with their eyes the things which they had beheld with an eye of faith, and they were glad.

Wow sounds like shan is gonna have fun!
i didnt know matt and sariah were moving.. sad. YAY for gettin peanut! and a new baby.. they are gonna be busy.. :D

This week has been a blast!On monday night we had Sis Hall (one of the arco sisters) stay the night with us on exchanges. we had so much fun. we were not a sleep till at least 11:45. oops. LOL. but on tuesday we had an adventure. we lost our phone for most the day. it was quite fun to try and get a hold of people. but we found it in the Arco sisters car in a bag of Kisses for Deesa. it was crazy. i dont know how you did it dad with out a cell phone. :D

We had an amazing lesson with Laurie Beaman on thursday. she was very dissatisfied with the catholic chruch.. so she has alot of the same basic beliefs as we do.. we gave her an conditional baptism commitment. which she accepted. We also had a lesson with AJ Olsen. who is 17. the spirit was so strong at the lesson.. and his friend aubrey has a power house testimony. she made it so much stronger.

the other night at the VC sister harrison and i were plannin and she said she would be right back. but after 5 min she didnt. so i went to the desk to ask if either of the elders saw where she went. they didnt.. so i figured she had gotten distracted. so i went and played the piano for a few minutes and then she came in, laughin.. she totally spaced what she was doing and went on a grounds tour with sis gardner. it was really funny and we had a good laugh about it.

we get to watch saturdays worriers with Joseph and Susan this week it was really funny when they asked us to get permission from president colton to watch it.. he just said dont forget the popcorn!

I got an email today from Calli Tiechert. she was went on her mission when i was up in arco.. she is so awesome!

I Love you all!
Love
Sister Stradling

Email....August 10th

HELLO ALL,

first i'll answer questions then i'll tell you more about my week.

Is Elder Finch the one that told Steve that he shouldn't come see you? No that was Elder Freeman
Is he (Elder Finch) easy going and a little fatherly? yes and no
Who else is engaged besides Bethany(Scarbrough) and Ty (Ivins)? LACIE AND BEN november 14 in the mesa temple! YAY!
Have you had your fill of potatoes yet? i wish people think that we don't have a microwave at the VC and so we get cold sandwiches and you know how much i love those... almost as much as spaghetti. UGH!! lol.
So are Joseph and Susan getting close to baptism...was the three hour lesson because they were asking questions or was it just turning into a visit? we set a date with joseph for the 31 of october, the lesson turned in to a visit.
When is Bryan's baptism date and how old is he? Bryan is 28 and we have to push back his date.. but its all good.
Who are Keigan and Brent and how long have the missionaries been working with them? Keigan is Brent's (LA) son.. they have been workin with them for about 8 months.
What is his baptism date? Sep 19
Was Sis Harrison one of the missionaries working with Jeff when he got baptized? yep
How long ago was he baptized? about a month and a half.

so the work here is crazy! we are currently teachin 19 investigators and 9 less active members. so we are crazy busy.

at the district meeting/ interviews on friday sister colton role played with sister harrison and i.. it was fun.. she gets so into it. she keeps us all on our toes and laughin. she makes life fun.

the VC has been a little dull lately but thats ok. we do get alot of stuff done that we probably couldnt get done other wise. well thats about it this week!

LOVE YOU ALL
Love
Sis. Stradling