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God's Plan is REAL

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Hello friends and family! This week was pretty tough and all of you back home know it was. My heart hurts so bad for the Holland Family with the passing of Briggs. He was the kindest, sweetest boy, and whenever I saw him he always had a smile on his face. Going over to the Holland house was one of my favorite things to do back home and Briggs was always laughing at the stupid things we would do. All my thoughts and prayers go out to Haylie on temple square and Tracie, Steve, Micah, Skylie, Summer, and Kash back home. One major blessing is that Flagstaff is JUST LIKE HOME. It is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. We live in the middle of nowhere up in the mountains and are surrounded by dirt rounds and forrest. And I love it. It's been nice to have that comfort and change of scenery. The weather here is also perfect. Flagstaff itself is like Waterton in the summer, but without the wind. But where we live reminds me of Mountain View. My companion is sister Doru, and she is fro...
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Repin the Flag & FLAGSTAFF

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Transfer news!!!! I'm going to FLAGSTAFF!! I'm so excited but also this area and these people have my whole heart and it's going to be really tough to leave. But God is so good all the time and I know that it is where he needs me. The only thing I am excited to leave is this killer heat! I'm ready for mountains and pine trees again! I'm sorry I have no time, but I am so grateful for all the people here and al the miracles that I have experienced. I am not the same person and I so grateful for the way Christ changes us, and often through other people. I'm so ready for whatever he has next for me! Love y'all!! - Sister Hardy
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Real Authentic Indian Food

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Last week I didn't send my weekly out so this week you get two! Haha sorry about that. But this week was one for the books! We took Aubrianna, our recent convert to the temple to do baptisms for the first time! It was so happy and she said that all of her anxiety was washed away. I love that going to the temple can do that for us any time we go. It was pure joy. Guess what? While I was on exchanges sister Fairbanks found 2 new people both from Iraq! Their names are Suhad and Faez. They speak Arabic so just add that to the list. It doesn't even surprise me anymore. Just because you're called on an English mission doesn't mean that's all you'll teach. Our Hindi family had us over for dinner last night and made us real authentic Indian food! They said, "we used only little spice because we didn't want you to cry." And I like spicy but HOLY INDIAN FOOD IS SPICY. They made us "globshjam". That's probably not how you spell it but that...
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19 years...IT'S ABOUT TIME

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Another great week over here! Annie who I told you all about last week accepted a baptismal date! Satan is working so hard on her, but she is so strong and just kicks him to the curb every time he tries to get into her head. And Jason Russel accepted a baptismal date as well! He has been going to church and faithfully living the gospel for 19 years... he just never was baptized. (He literally teaches our gospel principles class.) We had a lesson yesterday on Fathers day where his wife and sons bore testimony of eternal families and after 19 years and many a missionaries, he finally accepted a date! July 13th please oh please work out! The spirit was so strong and I love the Russles so much and want them to be nothing but happy and together forever. Lots and lots of tears were shed. YAY miracles. I had an exchange up in suprise which was so fun. The rest of the week was full of classic street taco trucks, the Elders trying to move a bookshelf on their bikes.. (oh Elders, don't eve...
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The Abundant Life

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I love being a missionary. I love the temple. I know the church is true and that we have a living Prophet on the earth today. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that if we want to know for ourselves all we have to do is pray and ask. I know that God is REAL and that He answers prayers. Every single one of them. I know that He knows and loves all of His Children. I know that the spirit brings peace, joy, comfort, and truth. And I KNOW that Jesus Christ is my Savior, big brother, and very best friend. Miracle of the week was GRANNY ANNIE! A few members had referred her to us, and on the 5th time trying her door she finally answered and we offered to serve her. We came the next morning and cleaned out and organized her closet. I'VE NEVER LOVED A HUMAN BEING MORE. She is an older lady with 2 forms of cancer, 4 types of arthritis, who has had both knees and shoulders replaced multiple times. But she is SO FULL of JOY and ENERGY and LAUGHTER. (If any of my college fr...
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Weeds or Snow?

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Hello friends and family! It's been another good short week here in Peoria AZ! We found 4 new people this week and are finding like crazy lately so our already huge teaching pool just keeps growing and growing! The other day we taught 7 lessons in one day and it was AWESOME. I love this area and the people here so much. We spent a good amount of time pulling the nautious weeds that take over this entire state! There was one point where we had gotten all the weeds except for a small patch of especially dead ones. And when we stepped on them it made the exact same sound as packed snow when you step on it. You know when it crunches under your feet and the hair on your neck kindof stands up and its a disgusting noise? Yeah I love that noise and miss it so much. I just closed my eyes and for a few moments all of us missionaries were walking on snow and it was heavenly. Hilariously pathetic but heavenly. I had two kindof tough days when everything fell though I felt super weird, bu...
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Hindi, Arabic, what's next?

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Okay friends!!!! Quick lil update for ya. The miracle with the hindi family continued.... a couple weeks ago I picked up Arabic pamphlets from the mission home because I wasn't sure what language they spoke and when I found out it was hindi I just left these Arabic pamphlets chilling in my bag for only God knew what reason. This week we went to do some service for Kursta, someone we are teaching, and she wasn't home. We had spent a lot of time getting there and I was a little frustrated at the waste of time. Sister Fairbanks was more in tune with the spirit at that point than I was and knew that there had to be some reason that we were there.... she saw this house and felt like we needed to knock it. But we were bother super sweaty and gross and in our service clothes so we decided to come back when we were more presentable. We didn't even make it to the first light when we both looked at each other and were like yep, we are turning around and kocking that door. The spirit...
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