Week 29 Prior Lake, Minnesota

coolest glasses/straw ever! haha

us with the peay family and kids

the helmet totally makes the picture! 

doing service at sister Ks house!
 

 
 
 

Friends and family!!

 

What a morning! I opened my email and it has been blown up with pictures of dead animals...now, most missionaries would freak out..but here is the thing..it was the BEST thing ever! you see, they were pictures of my "little brother" and his success this weekend with his bow! I’m totally still smiling about it! His face was so happy!!! And it just makes me happy to know that he is happy and having fun! Stu! you are the BEST! I love you little man! 

 

Moving on to missionary work! so, here is the thing, it has been a hard week.  the days have been forever and a day long and that it was NEVER gunna end.  with that being said, there has been so many great moments this week! I love how no matter how hard the days or hours seem, at the end of the day, if you really look at your day, you will find SO MANY MIRACLES!!! Heavenly Father is just too good! and I love him! 

 

I would have to say that the highlight of my week has been meeting with our new investigator V.  She is just so awesome!! We met with her twice this week.  On Tuesday we met and guess what!!! we set a baptism date for September 27th!! and she said YES!! it was awesome! we also taught the end part of the plan of salvation.  Can I just say that I LOVE the plan of salvation! is the best! I mean..there is no questions to why we are here and what our purpose in life is...And the whole Atonement! Its just so wonderful! I feel so blessed to have this knowledge! Back to V, so she totally loved it! and said that she was really excited to come to church with us on sunday.  We met with her again on saturday and talked about faith in Jesus Christ.  When we asked her about her reading...she was all, ya..i'm in 2 nephi!! uuummmmmm she is reading through that book, like I did twilight! its crazy! Our lesson went great!! As we talked about faith in Jesus Christ, we read out of the popular chapter of Alma 32 and sister pead drew a heart with a seed in it and then a tree growing out of it! it was the best!! But as we talked about the whole idea of faith being like a seed, it totally clicked for me that acting on your faith is SUPER important. like if we don't act on our faith then we don't really grow in our faith in Jesus Christ! James totally knew what he was talking about then he wrote that faith without works is dead! and if I need another example I will just bring the plants that are sitting in our apartment..they have not been acted upon and look a little dead.....my bad! But on V came to church for the first time this week and it was great! she just looked so happy to be there.  Later sunday night, she texted us saying : I have a problem....i'm really excited for church next week!!   Guys, she send this sunday night.......it was so funny, however, at the sametime I had to pinch myself to make sure that this was not as dream...who is excited for church...i should take notes and remember her excitement when I don't want to go.  hahah! no worries mom, I wrote I down in my journal! 

 

sister pead and I had a miracle this week.  we had over booked ourselves..again..and were working through our lunch. We were sitting at the coffee shop teaching V...funny right, and we already talked about the word of wisdom....But this guy comes up to us and asks us if we are the sister missionaries.  as I looked up at him, I thought: oh no, we are totally gunna be yelled at right in front of our investigator who just said she wants to serve a mission after she is baptized. The guy then asks us if we have had lunch..sister pead then says no..the guy drops a roll of $10s on our table and as he walks away says: I loved it when members bought me lunch on my mission......Here is the thing! we have no idea who this guy was...like he is not in our ward! it was crazy....we all just looked at each other and thought..did that totally just happen!?!? it was awesome and crazy! 

 

Last monday we had a zone pday..it was a lot of fun! we had lunch together..the elders asked us to bring cookies...and can I just say that the chocolate chip ones that I made where freaking good...not to toot my own horn or anything....but we played sports and had a fun time together.  guess who was there!! SISTER WIGGINS!!  and it was totally awesome! we were able to catch up and stuff so that was fun!! it was a party!! This week sister pead and I changed our pday to tuesday and are going to go to the state fair with some members! I cannot wait! its gunna be a lot of fun! I will send home pictures next week! I cannot believe that we are going on week 5! transfers are next week and i'm not gunna lie, i'm really nervous! i've been in prior lake for 7 months! and I’m not sure I’m ready to leave...but we will see next week! 

 

thanks for all the love and support! I have the best friends and family!! 

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LOVE!

Sister Randi Hulet

xoxo

Week 28 Prior Lake, Minnesota

Family and Friends! 

 

What another busy, crazy week! I feel like we have not stopped moving from one place to another in days! haha!!! thats life on a mission I guess! But ya, we have been going from teaching about Jesus to service to teaching to eating to teaching and then sleeping! Fun stuff, let me tell you!

We finished pulling up the cat-pee carpet this week! it has been the craziest job in the world, but its done! yall have no idea how glad I am about this!  Positive side of this that we got some good bonding time with sister W.  Man, she is so great!! Her baptism was on Saturday and it was awesome!! it was so spiritual! the speakers did a great job and the spirit was there from beginning to end! She was so happy to be baptized and when she came out of the water she totally glowed with the spirit! She even did a little happy dance in the water!! and then on Sunday one of our recent converts gave her the gift of the holy ghost...its was so perfect! He was so nervous, but it tuned out awesome! It totally just reaffirmed my testimony that when we get a blessing from a priesthood holder its really from our Heavenly Father! He is too good to us! 

 Even though the cat pee carpet is done, we still had a full line up of service events this week! We helped another recent convert, sister K, with her horse.  I even cleaned a horse stall...never in a million years did I ever thing I would do that! But I did :) and I didn't even freak out when I had to shovel up the horse crap! We then went out and trimmed the trees around her horse fields.  And I almost stepped on a snake! It was kind of a scary moment! We also helped another member with yard work.  we cut all there bushes out of there back yard! that was a lot of fun.  Sister pead would get all the limbs  off and then I would go at the roots! it was a lot of work, but it looks so much better now.  It was  at this members house that the most amazing thing happened! DDDDRRRRUUUMMMM RRRROOOOOOOOOLLLLL!!! They made us cafe rio! I totally almost cried! it was the best thing that ever happened to me! it was so good! even though it was pork not stake! I was so happy, I almost poured myself a glass of the house dressing! hahaha!! no worries mom and dad..i didn't :) although I may have thought about it.  

 On Sunday we went to another Presidents fireside and it was the best! all the speakers did a great job.  they all talked about  how the gospel has changed there lives for the better.  there was a guy from our ward who spoke (he was a convert from the elders).  He talked about how one night he was invited to go to a party with his friends, he knew that it would not be a good party, but he said yes anyway.  As he was getting ready to leave, he prayed at heavenly father would stop him from going.  Next thing he knew, the elders knocked on his door! it was so cool!!! He had totally prayed them there!! I know that the Lord totally answers our prays, no matter if the are big or small.  He hears and answers them.  

This week we also went on exchanges with our STLs. it was good. I stayed in prior lake  and sister pead went to lakeville. It was fun to get to know the new sister.  She was nice but VERY quite..she made me feel like an outspoken, loud person...which is only half true..but you know.  I was asking  her questions to try and get to know her, but it was  like pulling teeth!! I guess she really didn't want to say much..so its all good! 

Well, that is about it...i don't have a lot of time today so its kinda short! thanks again for all the love and support! I have the worlds greats fans!! love yall tons!!  

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LOVE!

Sister Randi Hulet

xoxo

 

PS! I have pictures this week :) 

 

Week 27 Prior Lake, Minnesota

Me and our less active, she showed us how to

make jean bags...I never thought I would be TALL! hahaha

Family and Friends!! 

 

Well, this week was one of the most FAST weeks of my mission...well, that I remember....and I hope that this is not a trend cause for the rest of my mission.  Sister pead and I have been going, going, going! We have had stuff going on each and every day....by the time we get home we are so tired!! No joke, I may or may not have almost fallen asleep during one of our conference calls this week..ya...quality missionary, that’s what I am!! 

 

So, last week I told yall about a girl named V. This week we were able to meet with her, and holy cow! She has totally been prepared to accept the gospel!!! We had a great lesson with her.  She was really nervous, but that was ok cause so was I!!! I have no idea why this lesson scared me so bad, but I was freaking out in my mind about it all the morning long! however, the spirit was there and it turned out great.  V had a lot of questions and just took in everything we shared with her.  She has been looking for a stronger relationship with her Savior and it was cool to see her eyes light up as we told her she can have that through the Book of Mormon.  At the end of our lesson we told her that she could text us whenever with questions...and let me tell yall, she has! every night this week we get a couple of texts from her with different questions..however my personal favorite text was when she said: " I love this BOOK!" referring to the Book of Mormon.  I love how even after just reading a couple of chapters, we can see the goodness of the book! it’s so TRUE!! 

 

Sister W had her baptism interview this week and is good to go for August 16! HOLY COW!!! Can I just say how I love her! I have loved watching her change since the day I knocked on her door.  She is a great lady and just is so spiritual...I think she will do great things! So, Sister W is getting wood floors in her home and so over the past couple of weeks she has been taking out all the carpet....this is not a LITE job...lets just say that I’ve been sleeping with an ice pack on my lower back this weekend...BUT that is not the worst part....you see, sister W has cats....who may or may not know the difference between the floor and there bathroom.....yeah.....can you say crystallized cat-pee to the face....

 

This week me and sister pead celebrated our 1st anniversary-as in one year as missionaries!! however, because of our busy week, we didn't really get to do anything until Saturday night...but yeah, we kinda had a party! No worries, it was still totally missionary approved! We had ice cream, sparkling cider, and CARDS! it was really fun...however, the best part was when sister pead started showing me some of her "magic tricks".  she picked up all the cards and then said: " Let me see your fist! "  as a hold out my fist, with a weird look on my face, she stuffs in the cards in between my fingers...then proceeds to smack the cards! As the cards go flying, she picks up on of the cards and says: " Is this your card?" all I could do was laugh! In what world did my comp just do that!?! I cannot express in writing how funny it was...i was crying I was laughing so hard...meantime, sister pead is calm and asks: " Let me see your fist!" she did this like 4 or 5 times and I just laughed my brains out!! it was a lot of fun..none the less, it was a fun moment! and a great way to relax after a busy week! 

 

On Friday was our ward camp out...can I just say that it SUCKED that missionaries cannot camp.  We were able to go for dinner, but of course not to camp...and here is the thing, when I left on my mission I didn't think that I would miss camping cause I didn't think I would really think about it, yet I miss it! all summer everyone here goes camping! and I just would love to go and spend time in the mountains, in a tent! or the cabin..that would work too! Anyways, off my camping box, dinner was really good...we had pulled pork and corn on the cob! SO FREAKING GOOD! then we played games with brother and sister B and sister W...it was a lot of fun...we ended the night around the fire pit, eating smores! it was so cute..a little boy in the ward was making me and sister pead some! it was just so cute and made the smore taste even better!! 

 

Well, that is the highlights! Thanks for all the love and support!! love and miss yall!! see you in 28 weeks! 

 

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LOVE!

Sister Randi Hulet

xoxo

 

Week 26 Prior Lake, Minnesota

Family and Friends!!

What a long week!! Today is awesome because I thought that Monday would never come!! It has been the longest/ greatest weeks, funny how feeling the spirit can totally just drain you emotionally and physically and then you’re so tired, yet it was totally worth it! Because it was the end of the month, sister pead and I were on bikes for the first part of the week and it was HOT!! There were a couple of days where the minute we walked outside, we had sweat on our arms from the humidity..it was crazy! After a year, you would think that I was somewhat used to it, NOT! 

 

So, we had SO many miracles this week, I love how Heavenly Father blesses us-even when we don't feel like we should be blessed.  I don't even know where to start, maybe with Sister W.  On Thursday we had a beast of a lesson on so many levels.  First, she told us that she got her answer about baptism!! She told us about how she had this feeling not of yes or no, but of support and that it was up to her what to do...Sister Pead committed that that was because she knew what she was going to do and that she was right...Heavenly Father does support her in the choice to be baptized.  She was really excited about it! I didn't know where to shout for joy or cry...I have LOVED being a small part of her spiritual journey and watching her change as she has learned more about the restored gospel.  We watched a Mormon message called the hope of Gods light-which is AMAZING!! if you have not seen it, you should cause it changed my life!  When we walked back to the living room after watching it, I looked out her window that looks out onto Prior Lake and saw the sunset over the Lake... and then it hit me that God is REAL and that he loves us.  He know each of us personally and has a plan for us....words really cannot describe how I felt...it was just really quite in my head and peaceful. However, back to sister W, she is just excited for baptism, but she told us that she is still nervous a little, I had to laugh cause are we not all nervous before we do something good?? We told her that it was totally normal to be nervous and if she wasn't, I would be nervous!!! 

 

Another miracle was on Saturday.  We were over at the C families doing weeded and we got a call from a girl named V.  She had a friend who was in our ward a while back and wanted to know more about our church and wanted to build her relationship with God....and wanted to know if we knew someone she could talk to about that....i laughed cause that's my job at the moment!! to talk to people about Jesus! So, we are going to meet with her tomorrow! I have NEVER had some one call us wanted to meet with us! So I was super excited and will update yall on that next week! 

 

On Sunday during church we sat with a little boy named Jordan in our ward.  He is 4 and just the cutest thing ever!! with the chubbiest cheeks ever!! I just want to kiss them, but that is not allowed so I don't :) But he noticed that I had mints in my purse (thanks to me mum!) and wanted one, so I gave him one and told him that it would make his breath smell good.  So he popped it into his mouth and then tapped his dad and blew in his face and said: dose my breath smell good cause I ate a "cement"!! it was so funny! We laughed all day about it!! and that night when we went and had dinner with them, I asked Jordan how his "cement" was...he just smiled and said that his breath smelled good!  

Sunday night we met a guy named Brother M. He has 4 kids and has a really cool tattoo on his arm with all their names, but we talked to him about families and shared the restoration with him and it was just totally coolbeans! at the end he told me that when I told him about Joseph Smith and his experience when he prayed, that he got the coldchills and it was not because the wind blew...it was really awesome!! we told him it was the spirit and NOT my good story telling skills!  so we are going back to teach him this week! hopefully we can teach the family too! 

 

On Thursday was District Leader Froggin's first district meeting and he did a great job.  Our training was not working with less actives, recent converts and part member families.  it was really cool cause he shared a story about how they have seen success by doing it, and on Sunday sister pead and I saw it in action for ourselves.  Sister G a recent convert shared her testimony about how the gospel has brought more happiness to her life and her families lives..she told us about how she was talking to her friend about it and how she wants to introduce the missionaries to her...so she got our card after church and is planning on giving it to her friend.  District Leader Froggin's training totally prepared sister pead and I for this experience! 

 

Well, thats about it! I hope yall have a great week!! thanks for all the love and support!! 

 

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LOVE!

Sister Randi Hulet

xoxo