My PEEPS! :) Hi how are ya? I'm just here in Kansas. Serving de Lord. Well this week was awesome not awesome. But actually it was awesome :) So Monday was p day and we only saw one person that night. Then Tuesday we had an awesome district meeting and got super pumped to do missionary work and had all of these crazy high goals and then we had to email so most of our day was gone. Plus something emotional happened that I'll get to later that took some time to recover from so we only saw like one person. Griz. It was Griz and he is my favorite :) But then on Wednesday we had a Sister's conference which took all day!! and we only saw like 2 people. So it was already 1/2 through the week and we have no numbers! Wow! So much for high goals and even meeting standard. We stink as missionaries. J/K THE LORD LOVES US!!! The next few days we were jammed pack busy and full of miracles. woot woot! It's the best feeling ever! We found 3 new investigators in 2 hours one day, taught 3 member present lessons another and just a ton of other awesome stuff! So yeah. We met our goals and blew standard out of the water as a district :) WOO! So yeah so ok. Ok. I have a confession. I'm supper embarrassed. I wasn't going to tell anyone about it for months because I was too emotional to talk about it but now it's ok :) haha! I Dumb got pulled over Tuesday and got a stupid speeding ticket. The road that I was driving on is a pretty busy road and I thought it was 40 the whole way. But there's one part I guess where it turns to 35 for a few blocks and I was following another car and wasn't paying attention and was talking really loud when the lights flash! I had a mini panic attack. No joke. I was faREAKING OUT! I've never even been pulled over before. I was in the left lane coming up to an light and instead of pulling over to the right I pulled into the left turning lane! haha! I didn't know what to do and was kind of frantically yelling and what not. but I finally get over onto the right side of the road and talk to the officer and I was already crying and he gave me a ticket and I pulled into a parking lot and cried my little heart out :) haha! It was tramatic! I just felt so stupid because I've been trying to repent of my past and drive more safely with the Lord's cars and be more responsible and what not. But FAIL. All of my missionary insecurities came out in that stupid ticket. I had my compy call mission president because I couldn't talk clearly on account of I was sobbing hysterically. She was so nice to me though and we just sat there for like 30 minutes while I felt bad for myself. It was a hard start to the week but I'm ok now :) It's ok. I didn't get suspended from driving because it was a speed trap but I mostly feel awful about the fine. DUMB! I was even getting better at road rage and everything! I've only road raged once and that was because my beloved Garmin took me down the most random and confusing and dumb stupid way ever to a member's house who lived off of a main road! Silly Garmin. Anywho. We had an awesome week. The sister's conference was great and I met my "grandma!" She's a legend and has so much posterity! Ok well maybe I'd have more to tell you but there's a strange man who is sitting directly behind me who I think is waiting for my computer because he's starring at it. He might even be reading over my shoulder. If you are, maybe you could back up a bit, or find a book to read while you wait. I've still got 25 minutes. He hasn't moved so I'm a bit uncomfs and am going to have to say goodbye for now :) I love you all and hope this week goes well for all! Brothers I love you! I seriously think about you all the time! The elders serving with me remind me so much of you and I wish we could just be serving together! Well too del loo! Love, Sister Herrin

Soggy Socks

02/18/2014 Hullo. This is my email. It's late because yesterday was Prez day. I'm sure yall noticed. Had an awesome week! I love Sister Gunderson. Seriously. The lord knows. He just knows. She's already making life better. I was super stressed last Tuesday night and when we got home I just dropped everything and laid down on the floor. My cute little sister just says, Hey! get in that chair! I'm going to rub your back! I wasn't going to but then she counted to three. So I had to :) She's so awesome. haha! So Sister Gundy and I did not have a car this week and had to walk everywhere because there was too much snow to bike. Let's just say my boots are not snow boots. My blisters could tell you that! But blisters mean you're a good missionary so it's ok :) But my socks were soaked through especailly when it was getting really slushy. We only walked about 3 miles to an appointment, and we would tract in that area until a memeber picked us up for dinner. FUN! On of the days I didn't really know where I was going and we ended up along the freeway. then the side walk ended. then the grass just turned into bushes. It was actually really funny at the time. But once the snow melted we were back on bikes. I feel like the bike expert now and I'm still not very good. Ok funny/ awesome stories of the week: So one afternoon we were calling some old investigators from the area book trying to get some appointments and Sister Gunderson accidently called the wrong person. Being the awesome missionary that she is, she tried to bring up the gospel. So when she said she had the wrong number the guy was like that's ok everyone makes mistakes. Then she replies, " THANK GOODNESS WE HAVE THE ATONEMENT." really awkwardly... then silence fell. Then she just said goodbye. I was rolling on the floor laughing!!! hahaha! man! I'm such a good mama! But really it was so funny. Maybe you just had to be there Ok sorry I don't have a lot of time to write more! we only got an hour on the computer today! But more next time!! WOOO! Ok awsome pictures. We had like a half hour before the next computer in the library was open and one of the other sisters and I took some awesome pics in our thrift awesomeness.

It's a GIRL!!!

Well I'm sure you already knew that, but it's true! I have my baby and she's sitting right next to me!! WOOO! Ok so this week was pretty cra cra. Sister Phadnis and I spent most of the time saying goodbye to investigators and packing. Well she did. I just helped :) But it was really hard to say goodbye to her. I really have learned so much from her and love her so much. It was hard sometimes but it just made us appreciate each other even more I think :) So there was a big snow storm tuesday and when I say big snow storm I mean about 3 or 4 inches of snow. eh... And it was powdery so it just brushed off of our car and whatever, no big deal. But Kansas doesn't plow their roads. I don't know why. I think they only have one snow plow in the whole city, but seriously. They freak out when it comes to mildly bad weather. haha! The kids were out of school for 3 days. In Idaho we wouldn't have even been out for one! It's cool! haha! anywho. So I could not sleep tuesday night at all because I knew my baby was in wichita just waiting for her mama to find her. haha! But Wednesday was a ..great day :) We met at the chuch building and there were a TON of missionaries there because we had a lot getting transfered. We were waiting in the chapel for the new missionaries and that's when I saw her. My daughter. It was a little awkward because I was creepily staring at her and she saw my name tag and new I was her mama and we just awkwardly didn't make eye contact until I walked by her to lead the music and I waved and it was all actually really funny :) But they had us stand at the pulpit and say our missionaries name and then we'd greet them at the bottom of the stairs and hug them and cry or whatever we wanted to do :) Then after a lot of great words from President Bell and a great life changing video about the Atonement we were off!!! I took the car keys to our fancy 2014 ford something something and we drove off into the sunset! Ok just kind of. I hate driving. And I have to drive all the dumb time! Our first few moments I made a fool of myself. We were on our way to visit Janeth and Joseph and I was making a left turn. Well there was a ton of snow on the ground. and not only could I not see the lines, I didn't see the median seperating the left and right lane. So I turned on to the wrong side of the road and couldn't move over because of the median. So we had to back up back into the intersection and make our way back to the right side of the street. Whatever. hahaha! Luckily everyone was driving really slow and saw what an idiot I was being. I was frantically yelling and waving my arms and was like what do I do?? Poor Sister Gunderson. Speaking of Sister Gunderson! She is so awesome!!!! She's from Mesa Arizona (She is not used to the cold yet) She graduated in 2012, and she's a total choir geek. So we get along swimmingly. We sing ALL THE TIME. It's pretty great. She's actually a tenor. She sings so so so low it's crazy! So mom if you find any cool duets Sister Gunderson and I are bound to sing here anytime soon :) I LOVE HER!!! So other Highlights of the week: Amanda called us Thursday telling us that she would be moving to Kingman on Saturday. Kingman is about an hour away from wichita and so she won't be with us anymore. Because it's Monday and she moved on Saturday. It was all super last minute. But she is still set on being baptized on Februray 22nd. She wants to come back and do it in our building so we can be there but we'll see what happens. She will be a huge blessing to the elders in kingman for sure! Also we taught a basically naked Grizz Favaron on Saturday. Not Griz Racobs who I talk about all the time, but crazy biker Grizz who I've mentioned a few times. Yeah we stopped by to invite the family to church and they let us in and then there's Grizz lounging in his boxers in his recliner. And let me just say he his not a small fellow. But I didn't know what to do! I didn't want to just be like ok just kidding we have to go so see you at church! Luckily the way the living room was set up he had his wife between us so we could only really see his face while we were talking. It was pretty hiliarious. Next time I think I'll be lovingly bold and tell him to put some dang clothes on. ;) We found out that we are sharing a car with some sisters in another ward. So we will be on bikes this week. It snowed again last night so hopefully it melts soon :) My boots aren't really water proof so I'll be wearing extra socks. We will probably be walking a lot because it's pretty impossible to bike through snow and no one shovle's their side walks. Also we got cut on our miles and we've already used half of them. So even when we do have the car, we won't be able to use it much. Well it has been a very fun week. I still don't know why Heavenly Father thought it was a good idea to put me in charge. I still have so much to learn and I'm really going to try my best to help Sister Gunderson. She is already such a great missionary and surpasses me in a lot of aspects but I can serve her and love her more than any other missionary right now. So that's what I'll do :) Love you all, and I hope everything is well :) Love Sister Herrin

Morning Sickness is the Worse!

Yes, it's true. I'm pregnat! It's a girl and I've decided to name her Sister Gunderson. She's due Wednesday at 10:00AM. Sister Phadnis is so excited to have a grandaughter. Ahhh... Seriously though! I'm dumb training!!!! When the AP's called me on Thursday they told me I had been called and I said are you sure you really prayed? Really hard? haha! :) I've been so nervous the past few days! The morning of our training meeting I was honestly sick to my stomach. I HAD MORNING SICKNESS! haha! but I really thought I was going to spew. Plus I'm the only sister that is training just out of the 12 week program. Whatever! I just felt so intimidated by everything because they kept talking about how everything you'd teach them would help to mold them into the kinds of missionaries they'd be and they told a story about an apostle who said that his trainer trained him to be an apostle. No pressure! hahaha! But it was really good because by the end of it all they told us the missionary's name, gave us a huge picture of them and told us to pray for them. Which I have been doing, but I dunno it just really hit me that this whole thing isn't about me at all. I'm freaking out and being a baby when in reality I've been being so selfish. This is about my trainee not me. The atonement applies to everything and I've felt it's power so strongly in the last few days. It's been a really humbling expirience and I really hope that Sister Gunderson doesn't hate me. :) Well, aside from that hype, Sister Phadnis is leaving me and guess where she's going??? TO TOPEAKA! And guess who she's going to be Companions with? SISTER BARLOCKER! My good ol' MTC companion! Crazy right? I can't believe it! I am so jealous! So they are going to have so much fun together! I'm really excited for them :) In other news. AMANDA IS ON DATE!!!! That girl is so solid! She had a really hard week because they took more time away from her daughter. So she only gets like 4 hours a week instead of 2 days a week. So we invited the Elders over to give her a blessing and the spirit was SO strong! We all felt it! I cried a little! And she said that she just felt peace. It was the best and I love her so much! She's really sad to see sister Phadnis leave though. All of our investigators are! She has help them so much thus far and I really hope Sister Gunderson and I will be able to keep the flame going. Also. All we did basically all week was practice for this fireside that we had Saturday. Seriously. alllll weeeeek. It was about Christ's life and it was thrown together super last minute. I sang His Hands. When I first saw the music I was like wow cheesest song from the 80/90's ever. But actually I love it so it's ok :) We were seriously scrambling around five minutes before the thing started. It was a miracle that we were able to even perform it. But the worst part was that there were about 20 people total that showed up. It was a stake wide event that we had committed so many members to come to and no one from our ward came. It was so embarrassing. Luckily one of our investiagtors Jerry showed up 5 minutes late. :) It was crazy. BUT in spite of all of that, the spirit that we were able to bring was so STRONG! I had tears in my eyes while I was singing. How embarrassing! But it was because the spirit was overwhelming my emotions. It really was great :) Ok I'm rambaling. sorry. Also this computer doesn't have spell check so don't make fun of me. Well friends and fam I sure do love you :) Pray for me ok? This weekend is going to be long. I know that the Lord will take care of me. But you can still pray for me if you want. And Sister Gunderson :) I'm sure praying for all of you! I hope your week turns out to be a good one! I'll let you know if we come out alive! ;) Love, Sister Herrin