Monday, October 30, 2017

"I Spy With My Litte Eye"

Hey everyone! Today I will write a little bit about my week. I took a ton of pictures of my adventures! First off, it was Sister Aleman’s birthday this week and because it was her birthday we were able to go to the LA Temple and do a session! It was so great to just sit peacefully in the temple and feel the Spirit for a change and clear my brain because as missionaries we are always running and running. We went with a member from our ward who had the day off of work, she was so sweet to take us. 

Thursday was Sister Aleman’s birthday so I made pancakes and we had a Zone lunch where everyone surprised her. Elder Zazueta even had a confetti gun... I don't know how the heck he got one of those but he did! After that we had an awesome training in District Meeting where we talked about "The Force" where Elder Zazueta brought light sabers and everything... that guy hahaha! We talked about how important the Spirit is and how we need to teach and find by the Spirit aka the force. 

Saturday, we had our ward trunk or treat! It is so weird being in an English ward where they do things like Super Saturday and Trunk or Treat, but it was a ton of fun! We even did a trunk!!! I went to the 99-cent store and the ward members were so impressed that we participated! We handed out candy and pass along cards with pictures of Jesus, the kids thought it was really funny! We did the activity combined with another ward so a lot of people came up to us and asked us if we dressed up as missionaries or if we were the real deal;). I told them yes... it is us in the flesh! We were a hit!

Well, I have a ton of pictures for this week so I will let them tell the rest of the stories of the week! Hope you guys all have a wonderful Halloween!!!  Until Next time,

Hermana Hadley 



The birthday trip to the LA Temple, Happy Birthday Sister Aleman!!!



I Spy with my Little Eye...the Hollywood Sign!!! We could see it from the temple haha! Just look really hard and turn your head to a 60 degree angle and close one eye and you can see it ;)


"The Force"


Elder Zazueta and Elder Losse had way too much fun!!!



I told a member that it was Sister Aleman's Birthday, they got her a cake and then...



...I shoved her face in it!
 It is a Latino Tradition to shove the face of the Birthday person in their cake. The family that got us the cake are Latino so I knew they would not be offended. Sister Aleman was very suprised haha!



This is our Trunk at the "Trunk or Treat"



Our bowl, which happened to be the spare tire, filled with treats and Pass Along Cards :)


There are only so many resources that are available to missionaries to dress up for Halloween! I was dressed up to be a Cow Girl and Sister Aleman was going on a Safari! People just thought we dressed up like missionaries haha!


Monday, October 23, 2017

"1 Ticket, 2 Bikes & 99 Days"

Hey everyone, how are things? It is great here! I think a few weeks ago I told you that the weather was cooling down...well I lied...it is back up to the 100's again! I don't even know what the Fall season is anymore! It has been crazy to know that it is the end of October and we are walking around and biking in 100-degree weather! What is life?  Anyways it is pretty great here despite the heat!

This week we have been biking and biking and biking!!! It has been insane! We got our miles cut (We are only allowed a certain number of miles driven with the car each month), so because of that we haven't been able to use the car! So, I am getting back into shape! Earlier this week we had an amazing miracle happen because of biking that I would like to share with you.

The other day we were biking in the heat to one of our appointments, it was very far away so it took us a long time to get there. I also had a very terrible cold that I got the night before so I was biking while holding tissues up to my nose, I looked like an idiot, haha!

We made it to the lesson and had a really great lesson. Afterwards we needed to knock doors, I really wasn't feeling well and Sister Aleman was telling me to call President to get permission to go home and rest, but I did not want to do that. I really felt like we needed to knock even if I had to stop every 3 doors to blow my nose. So that is exactly what we did, we knocked then stopped, then knocked some more for 2 hours. The very last door that we knocked on was a sweet Armenian family! They let us right in and had us teach the whole family! They even fed us DINNER!!!!!! It was an amazing Armenian soup that helped me feel so much better! It was a double blessing because we didn't have dinner that night and we were biking and teaching all the way up to 9:00 pm!  Let’s all sing the song together, "There can be miracles when you believe!!!" -Prince of Egypt 

On to the sad part of this email, one of the few times that we used the car... I got a $75 parking ticket. I was angry because the night before I had a dream that the car was going to get towed... and I was telling my dream to Sister Aleman as we walked up to our car with a ticket on it! I was parked in a neighborhood and the curb was not red, but there was a no parking sign down the way that was covered by a tree. -_- So now I have to take care of that... there are a lot more blessings if you bike. 

To end this email my parents have informed me today that I have 99 days left of being a full-time missionary. Where did the time go?!?! These next 99 days are for sure going to be epic!!! I hope you have an awesome week, life is great and keep smiling!

Love,
Hermana Hadley 




Because we are on bikes, I have been eating a healthy breakfast.
I am very proud of myself :)



I had to do some major cleaning to one of my skirts 
that got caught in the bike tire...don't worry mom, I fixed it.



So I live in a city called Van Nuys, this is just Van Nasty.
We found this on our stairs and we think it was human hair...



Our District raised the level to Role Playing. We dressed up to act like normal 
people on the street. It was pretty funny and I have a fun District. 
Feel free to zoom into see everyones disguise haha!



We had a "Super Saturday" activity. I forgot those were a thing...haha 
but I made this really cute caramel apple!!!



My Uncle Sherman's family came to The Valley for Fall Break. He brought some 
packages from my family that he dropped off to our Ward Mission Leader. 
An early Birthday Package for Sister Aleman!  Love them!!!





Mom Note: Surprise pictures we received from the Dalumpines Family this week. The pictures always seem to come when we need them. Love to see our cute missionary working so hard into the late hours on a BIKE!






Pictures from the Vasquez Family who visited her ward on Sunday for their Primary Program! Hyrum, the YSA Ward Missionary Leader, came along to surprise Hermana Hadley! The Vasquez family has made her a part of their family and we love to see her so happy! Sunday, October 22nd marked 100 days left on the mission!