word of the year, folks

Discipline!

Thanks Ty - for the ties.  Made my little friend happy:)

Happy Birthday Dylan

Happy Birthday Daddy!  I love you!

Family,
How was California?  
Thanks for the invite.

Well in case you are wondering it is NOT spring in Virginia and I'm NOT  in a bikini at the beach like everyone else and their dog these days. It is actually snowing... like a blizzard.. like NO driving privileges today. No bueno. HOWEVER. Our Dearest friend Sister B. is taking us grocery shopping.  She is SUCH A SAINT. We love her.

Good to hear letters are coming (: Yeah transfers are this week so please hold until further notice. I'll probably be staying here.  But who knows! I'll message you after transfers and let y'all know. 

Yee ha Spring and Summer will be interesting.  I'm kinda thinking Sister Schramm will be transferred too.  I'll lead out the area... but we don't know yet. I still prefer my Book of Mormon to my ipad but it's whatever! They are handy and entertaining sometimes. We can watch videos on them and Gospel library is really neat. 

I got a new bag at Target and a light jacket at a Thrift store called Plato's.  So I don't have to wear my massive marshmallow coat everywhere. We are on lock down again today.  It is a bummer. 

My week in review:

Monday:

Preparation day and we finally ran into T. who is putting herself in a clinic.  They are trying to get their daughter back and stuff. S. keeps thanking us for all we do and everything but they still aren't progressing. They are probably moving soon. I  hope good new missionaries take care of them where ever they go. We had an awesome lesson with the T. family.  We talked about "when your testimony wavers.. go back to the basics, to what you KNOW is true."  and work from there. Their daughter K. sat in and at the end we had a really good talk with her.  Which was awesome. Sister Schramm and I also made a sequel video to Johnny Lingo (: it's great. You'll see the video eventually.  I still haven't sent my card home.  Sorry I'll do that soon.

Tuesday:

Was Dylan's birthday right? How was it? Happy Birthday (: big eighteen. woop woop. mission age. yeahhhh???  We had District meeting and met with the Sisters to eat at Cafe Rio. When we were walking to our apartment some guy thought we were going to chase him down or stalk him or something?? He was just like, "I'm going to be late to my appointment. So sorry. Also I'm a member."  We were like..okay..thanks for that ha ha. It was awkward. He just told us all about his life and was like I can't talk. THANKS FOR THE INFO HOMIE. 

Then right after that another guy came up to us and was like, "Hey can I have one of your Mormon bibles? and we were like... WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE COMING FROM. People don't just walk up to Missionaries. It's like not a normal thing. So we talked to him about our 'Mormon Bible' aka The Book of  Mormon for a little while which was pretty sweet. He is our neighbor as well. We taught a bunch of lessons on Tuesday and visited members.

Wednesday:

We watched the Restoration video with T. and she absolutely loved it.  She said she wanted to come to church which was cool.  We cleaned K. basement and totally got attacked by MICE. Super Crazy. (pictures / videos to come)  I was screaming like a baby and one crawled up Sister Schramms leg so that was an experience. Nasty little things!  K. got a kick out of it. I'm sure. She was just screaming 'chase them away from the house.' You got it K!! We also met her husband and were trying to plan something with them and a family in the ward to get together. 

I dropped off all of Ty's ties at H. house.  He was SOOOO excited!! He was pumped. So thank you a ton. You guys are awesome. He thinks they are way sweet! We also taught a girl who lives with some members who removed her records from the church. She's really cool. We had a good discussion with her about the importance of The Book of Mormon. 

We visited E. again.  He knows the Church is true he's just hesitant on getting baptized. He is so stinking cute though. Same with our friend C.  She doesn't like the thought of "organized religion."  But she showed us her Book of Mormon and it's all marked up like crazy. She's so awesome and she feeds us sooo much food. 

Also, the Elders called us and told us they ran into our friend T. who we had started teaching back in January and lost track of.  They put him ON DATE. He told them he had talked to us and we were helping him quit smoking. So that was pretty sweet. Dang it Elders. Stealing our little miracle humans. JK. But really. It was pretty awesome they found him.

Thursday:

We taught our first skype lesson to our friend J.  He was smoking.  So that was awkward. He told us he doesn't believe Jesus is the Son of God. So that is a setback that we are working on.  We showed the Restoration video to E. but she just compared it to slavery(?)  So that's a setback also. We taught F. about...karma..which he liked. Well -  we taught him about a scripture I found that could potentially relate to karma...ha ha. He really loved Sister B. so that was awesome. We also went and got snow cones in the freezing cold with A, A & S.  They are our buddies that we shoveled out of the snow way back when. So that was fun. Nathans (the ice cream place) is delicious!  Reminded me of home. J.  our miracle of last week fell off the face of the earth...we don't know whats up.

Friday:

We had Sisters Conference. We learned self defense and had a couple talks we listened to. I saw Sister Eddy and Sister Gray.  They both seem to be doing awesome! It was fun seeing them. We also got an oil change on our car so that took FORRREEVVVEERRR. Then we went to Wendy's real quick for lunch and ran into the Elders friend D.  He has teardrop tattoos.  (which in case you didn't know means you've killed somebody)  He has four of them!  and all other kinds of tattoos I won't tell you about because they are vulgar. He is a member now.  He just got baptized. We were talking to him and he just whipped out his Book of Mormon and started telling us about his favorite scriptures. So Sister Schramm bought him a frosty and we left. He was pretty sweet though. (: 

Saturday:

We walked around alot since it was so nice outside.   We found this couple, D. & K. We were having a lesson with them outside and all of the sudden the Ice Cream Man ( I kid you not!!) Stopped his car, got out, and came and asked us what we believed God was. We told him he is our loving Heavenly Father and stuff... He just went on this TANGENT about a different faith.  How we are his slaves and saying he is human like us is degrading and he seriously didn't stop talking for a solid twenty minutes.  There was a line at his truck yelling at him. He was very...passionate... it was awkward.

F. came with us to the Adult Session of Stake Conference.  Which was way sweet. He said he didn't like so many people.  So that was awkward. We also went and visited N.'s mom and J. was there! So we talked to him for a little bit.  He said he is in Chapter 14 of the BOM.  So that is definitely some improvement.

Sunday:

Stake Conference.  It was really awesome. TONS of good insight. It was way sweet though because after Stake Conference the Stake Presidents wife (Sister D.) came up to me and was like 
SISTER STUCKI

yeah. she remembered my name.

...and she went on to tell me that she was so grateful for what I said about missionary work ( I had a discussion with her a few weeks previous about being a new missionary) and how her and her husband had been working with a young Elder who was struggling and the things I told her inspired her and helped him out. sweet huh? She was going on and on about how inspiring and good of an example I was. It was crazy. I was like WHOA. I couldn't believe she even remembered me. Then she told me she hopes I get transferred to G. Where they live ;)  It was funny. The Stake President and his wife are so awesome. Well the whole entire Church, Stake and Ward are awesome here. I won't lie!! They are pretty Sweet people. Especially the conversion stories out here..gives me hope that the work we are doing really is making a difference in the lives of people!

So here is my little #spiritualmessage for you guys today. 

At Sister Conference.  Sister Riggs talked about this thing people are doing where you pick ONE word to describe your whole year and you become that word within the year. Basically. In a nutshell. So the word I decided to pick is Discipline. 

I KNOW I KNOW IT SOUNDS HARSH. 

But hear me out. I decided this year is going to be the big chunk of my mission...and one thing I want to become is Disciplined.

I looked up the definition of Discipline and the four definitions I got were:

1. training of the mind and body to produce obedience and self control

2. control gained as a result of training

3. activity or experience that provides mental or physical training

4. training oneself to do something in a controlled or habitual way

Later when we went to Stake Conference one of the Speakers talked about the same thing. DISCIPLINE. 
I don't know if you guys will get the same thing in your Stake Conference but if you do it is AWESOME so take notes. He talks about five ways to be self disciplined. (so basically it was a confirmation from God that I need to really strive to fulfill this whole 'one word' challenge this year)

The Five Steps are:

1.Acceptance.

Find out where you stand right now and accept it. Don't think your better or worse. Just figure out where you are and work towards it. Don't have a false view of reality, rather identify and asses where you stand right now.

2. Willpower.

Learn what you can and cannot do. Willpower is the ability to set a course and stay engaged. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength or knowledge but lack of will"

3. Hard work.

Most people want the easy way out. Tougher challenges will have less competition and more opportunity. "The Big Secret in life is, there is no Secret." Whatever your goal. You can get there if you WORK"

4. Industry.

Working hard. Being industrious means putting in the time where it is difficult and needed. A lot of messes are simply when we refuse to go out in time and do it correctly. Just do it. Squeeze more value out of your time. He said "Give me a lazy programmer and a brand new updated computer and he wont get NEARLY as much work done as a hardworking programmer with a fifty year old computer."

5. Persistence.

Ultimately providing motivation. You'll eventually get results and that will be more motivating. Not even talent or genius or education can take the place of persistence. Press on and it will solve all the problems in the human race.

People think discipline will leave you grouchy and harsh but actually, mastering self control will make you happier in the long run and the moment. 

Self discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve the goal of Eternal Life.

SO.  I'm really satisfied with my 'one word' for this year and I hope I can become a disciplined human being in every aspect of my life! I challenge you all to do the same. Find a word to work on this year and become it! 
Good luck!

I love you all.
Thanks for all you do and have a greaaatttt week! 

love sister stucki

How do You treat others?

Sisters Serving in Washington DC South

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What a Great day

My wonderful companion - Sister Schramm

We tried to catch the bunny

Smile:)

Yes. It's freezing here.

I've gotta lot to say so bear with me humans.

1. My satchel broke. So I'll probably be getting a new one here soon at Target.  I'm waiting until after this week because WE GET I-PADS. I wanna see what all I have to carry around. So I can downsize. 
But quick reminder...

WE GET I-PADS THIS WEEK!!!

holla at Christmas in March baby. JK. but seriously?

So Monday we went to this place called Five Below where everything is under five bucks.  So I got some nice essentials there. I met this lady. She just started talking to me!! She is from out of our area.  So I passed her as a referral to some other Sisters. It was kinda funny though.

We also went to Chipotle with our friends that live by us. We met them when we shoveled them out of the snow.  We had dinner and a lesson about temples with them. They are A, A & S they are roommates. They are awesome!!!

Also...ha ha ha. Mom. Lots of people out here follow me on Instagram and stuff.  (members) and they saw my Oreo plea:/ The H. family specifically... stocked us up!! They gave us like five boxes of Oreos. WHAT!!!?? Yeah. We love them. We get spoiled out here. Also I held their pet rat.....yerp.

Tuesday was District meeting. We visited lots of members.  Then we checked on H. & M.   M. is getting married soon!!  So that's a good thing. We are excited for her.

Nobody was really interested...we talked to a lot of people but lots of stuff fell through again.

Wednesday we went tracting literally all day long. We set up lots of appointments but throughout the week they fell through. One lady we ran into got SOOOO mad because we were looking for a 'Bill Knox' and she said it was a malicious joke that people made up about 'Bills knocking at her door' or something? I don't even know. 

Then she continued to chastise us about how Missionaries representing Christ need to actually represent Christ. (she was referring to an experience she had at a gas station years previous not us. - we softened her up)  Anyway, I thought it was sad that she remembered an experience about missionaries like that from so long ago!! We have an appointment with her next week so hopefully we can clear things up with her!!

Later that night it was Freezing cold and we were tracting all night and these girls opened up the door and were just straight up making fun of us. Laughing in our faces.  It was awkward. They don't believe ... anything. It was really weird watching them laugh in my face and make fun of me. It was like all of the sudden I wasn't a human being anymore. Because... what.. I was different than them?? It made me take a flashback to Middle school and High school when as soon as one person says or does anything different than everyone else -  everyone points and laughs.

How sad is it that humanity treats people so awful? I've said it before.  But man if I could go back to High school now... I wish I would have sought out instances such as those and been that person to be a friend. Nobody should be torn down and mocked and laughed at and made fun of for something ''different'' they believe.

Especially when it means so much to them.  Right there on that doorstep.. with two teenage girls pointing and laughing at me. I think I felt a tiny bit of how Christ felt.  All he wanted was to help people. He knew he COULD but they laughed at him and mocked him and hurt him. 

I wasn't at those girls door for me... at all! I don't benefit from them learning. That is how it was with Christ. Yet his testimony never wavered. I really took that in... I mean I was out there on their doorstep. Freezing my behind off out of my free will and being laughed at! 
How embarrassing right?

...but My testimony didn't BUDGE. Because.. I know! 
This Church really is true and I walked away feeling SO so SO blessed that I know. One day those two girls will know too... They'll have the opportunity to know because they didn't realize what they were turning down.. 
they had NO IDEA!

Thursday. I biffed it -  on the ice. Enough said.

It was pretty Rough and Cold and Windy and nobody was home and everyone bailed on us.

We visited C. who is always busy but wants to be baptized.  Which is a throw off. Also..ha ha we went to visit a member next to C. and we saw a house being ROBBED. 

no joke. 

It was dark and we were walking past these town homes and the door was open and this guy comes out with a flashlight and a ski mask and we were like WHAT???? 

so we RAN and BARGED into the Members homes like dude. your neighbors are being robbed. what is this? it was sketch. then we had to RUN back to our cars? and every person we saw along the way we almost freaked out. it was a sketch night. and we didn't even have our pepper spray. 
let that Be a lesson to all y'all.. always carry pepper spray!!

That night D. asked us to come over... I think they miss us. They are awesome. We had a good talk with them. We miss teaching them. But they are still our faves. Also I lost my planner while helping somebody take in groceries.  So somewhere in the world there is a Sister Stucki badge and a Sister Stucki planner.  Somebody could be stealing my identity.

Friday we woke up early to go find my planner.  Guess what we found...

BILL KNOX!!!!! 

yeah. He is real. He isn't a malicious joke like that lady said. 
It was crazy. but we had to pass him to the Elders.  
So that was lame. 
Also we made up a remix to 'At last I see the light' (on Tangled) 
called 'At last I see my bed' it goes a little something like this... 

*plz youtube "At last I see the light" and sing along thnx*

AND AT LAST I SEE MY BED

AND ITS LIKE THE FOG HAS LIFTED

AND AT LAST I SEE MY PJ'S

AND ITS LIKE THE SKY IS NEWWWWW

AND ITS WARM

AND REAL

AND RIGHT

AND THE WORLD HAS SOMEHOW SHIFTED

ALL AT ONCE EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT

NOW

THAT I 

SEE YOUUUUU

we were REALLY  HAPPY to be back in our warm beds. Don't judge.

Saturday we taught E. and visited S. and her baby!!! the baby is like a week old. So adorable. Also Dad: there is a guy in my ward named Brother Long. He grew up in Ohio (about the time you were on your mission) converted to the church! and then served a mission in Las Vegas, Nevada. Crazy right? I feel like you guys could be homies.

Also we went and visited a less active named L. at her work. Her boss was talking to us. He is Muslim. His name is Mr. M. and he is awesome! He loved us. He insisted on getting us drinks and we were like no no no but he was like "YES SISTERS!" and he grabbed this big wad of cash out of the cash register and marched over to the dollar store and bought us drinks and chocolates. It was way funny. But seriously who just does that for some random Mormon missionaries you've never met? We loved him.

Sunday was roughhh!! 
I think everyone in the ward knew we were on the Struggle Bus this week. Because literally everyone asked me if I was okay?  How the family was doing? and yada? yada?  I love our ward. I really do. but I was about to lose it. 

We visited J. and N.. which was an awesome lesson.  Then we went to the D. house... and showed that new Mormon message on bullying... oh and it all came out. Sister Schramm and I just lost it.  We started bawling. We are babies.... no not really.  It was just a rough week. 

Luckily we were at the D.'s and they are awesome. So they were just like AHH MISSIONARIES. They took care of us. They are converts to the church and Brother D. is in the Bishopric now. Like I said... they are AWESSOMMEE. A true missionary inspiration right there.

When we were driving home this reoccurring theme hit me of... 
How we treat others??? 

As Missionaries and Members we spend so much time waiting for the perfect opportunity to find somebody who isn't our religion to teach them.  To uplift them.  But what about the people around us who are struggling? How often do we reach out to the person who already is a member but is struggling with a testimony? or how often do we smile at the kid who isn't being physically bullied... but everyone stares and laughs at them behind there back?

I know where I'm from... there wasn't a lot of 'non members' I could teach per-say, so I kind of justified not reaching out to people by assuming there was no one I could help. When in reality there were people all around me struggling to find the truth.  And their own knowledge of it.

In school... it's the same way. We see bullying as 'the kid who is getting his lunch money stolen' or something.. of that nature. We never really saw that so everything was 'okay' but in reality...  there were people everywhere I turned who were being gossiped about or harassed.

How often do we justify our actions by assuming nobody really needs our help? As missionaries we are always inviting people to take some sort of action. I've learned the worst that can happen is they say NO.

So what's holding you back from inviting and uplifting and carrying one another burdens?

Yes.  Even the people closest to you! 
Your neighbor.  Your friend. YOUR BROTHER?

My challenge to you all is to prayerfully seek out one person in need of help. I know if you ask God to help you to bless the life of another he will lead you through unexpected paths. I can vouch for that because he unexpectedly led me to Washington DC South.  

I've both helped and BEEN HELPED. 

Which has changed my life. 

Whats holding you back from changing the lives of others? 

Don't let those opportunities slip away.

Love you all.
Sister Stucki
(via e-mail March 3, 2014)

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Serving in Washington DC South

We got the message that we wouldn't be driving our mission cars 

due to the extreme weather conditions.  

But ten inches of snow doesn't stop the work from progressing!  

"When ye are in the service of your fellow beings 

ye are only in the service of your God"

Mosiah 2:17

Life as a Sister...

#hastenhiswork

How can you study without Oreos?
Thanks Grandma & Grandpa

This is actually Madison before she left in SLC
- but I (Mom) just like looking at her pictures

Yes Mom.  It is getting COLD!

Momma,

Yup! SWEET. I haven't gotten Spencer's letter from you yet, your mail takes FOREVER TO GET HERE. But I have his address and got a letter from him and he is alive!! Just way snowed in I guess? Poor guy. He thinks it's cold here too but really it's like sixty degrees today..haha.hahaha.ha. I'll just pretend I'm cold too. So he feels better. Yeah? Cool. Whatta guy.

Kinda a question / answer section but I'm including it just for memories later:

COOL. Before you send I need some stuff! My shoe size is like six-seven ish. We aren't getting technology until like February now lame huh? But as for Facebook rules..I have to fulfill my purpose! So if you have referrals or want to talk about Jesus we can chat on Facebook! But not about family things or just 'things' ya know? The rules on pictures and stuff are pretty specific that's why I still have you run my blog...and for times sake. We can be on an hour a day. We're doing a cool Facebook thing with the members me and my companion thought of I'll tell you about later.

Yeah Spencer is dying it's so cold. It's okay. It'll be good for him! (D&C 121 hahahaha...too soon?) It's not that cold here...the weather is insane some days it's freezing like 2 degrees but today it is like sixty so that's cool. VA IS CRAZY. Good I like pictures keep sending those. and pepper spray and hymn book yes that'd be grand!! We get $175.00 a month for 'purpose' things such as food and necessities. We get fed TONS HERE. I need workout ideas....I'm probably getting fat.  So stop sending me good things such as oreos plz I have so much girth. We started a girth cupboard. I want to look good for the boyz when I get back like now I don't care because I'm a missionary... but k this is awkward. I'm going to stop I don't want to be fat. bottom line!

Christine and family are awesome!!!! That's hilarious. Gosh. I have so many people I could potentially let down. That's awkward. Inspiration I guess? COOL. Love them. Oh if you could find a map of my mission / Virginia that's kinda big-ish that'd be great so I can start marking my areas? I have no idea where I am... its weird.

So here is a list of things you could potentially send me at some point if you need package ideas 

because I need them sort of....

3 ring binder (fat one)

clear page holders (for the binder)

tape

sharpies

ENVELOPES ASAP

another college ruled notebook, lots of lined paper!! 

also if you find any cute notebook things at Ross plz send i use lots and lots of paper!!

a quilt (: or cute throw blanket that matches my black and white theme. everyone has cute quilts and stuff i feel like a loser kind of. not really but still. IF YOU WANT.

plan of salvation visual-if you have time these are super helpful when teaching to have a visual!!! 

all cut out and laminated. that would be GREAT.

Jesus pictures!

Jesus the Christ books in my room that I packed!!!

A THESAURUS ASAP

carmex lip balm, chapstick without flavor, just the minty kind.

Alright as for this week...

Monday was preparation day and I didn't hear from Spencer so that was kind of really sad! And then we went on splits with a young lady and her driving was super sketchy. But it was fun to be in a different car wtih a different person. She likes to memorize poetry and she is a big reader. Reading is good. I forgot other books existed. Like classics and George Orwell stuff? yeah she said she didn't like that stuff. 

BUT I REMEMBERED I DID. so that was a plus... #n3rdlife 

Also I bought some cool pants at TJ Maxx and I can't ever wear them so I just wear them to bed to make myself feel better. I refuse to forget pants. I love pants.

Tuesday was district meeting. We talked about our mission goal which is basically doubling the amount of baptism's we had last year. I'M PUMPED. We have two baptisms this week. A. & M.  Missionaries have been teaching them since last year and they are finally getting baptized Saturday so pray all goes well and it doesn't snow.  We don't want any more holdups! I'll send pictures. They are younger like youth age, but super awesome girls. 

2014 is the hastening of the work! Its going to be a big deal! So if you're thinking about going on a mission...GO NOW.  Because you are going to want to be a part of this. Its huge. So much is going to happen. And that's a promise from the President (of the church) SERIOUSLY. 

Our investigator N. accepted a conditional invite to be baptized. She said if she gets an answer and knows it's true she will be! It makes me so happy! She is so determined to find the gospel and to raise her daughter in it and I love her so much. I have so much Faith in her and Hope she understands and grows to love the gospel more and more and realizes the blessings that will come from it. 

Another lady named W. is going to visit Utah soon! and be re baptized! So that's cool I hope she moves there and gets married to a momo boy (momo comes form the w. family thanks guys) we also taught a lady named D. and her two nieces and her son so they are all new investigators. She is so awesome. Her son survived cancer at a young age AND diabetes. Like overcame it. He was thinking about going Atheist but we told him HE IS A MIRACLE AND HAS A GREAT WORK TO DO!! He realized that and committed to pray (: he is great! Their whole family is such an inspiration to me!

Wednesday we did service for K. who is an investigator and has TONS OF STUFF. Her house is just full of stuff!!! So we were helping her clean out and throw away things we got a lot done. Her house is huge and in the middle of a forest its so pretty (that is where we took the sword pics and etc.) she said she has tons of power ranger collectibles or something and if she found them she would give them to me to send to Eli ;) so pray she finds them whatever they are!! We also planned the baptism for A. & M. and we went on an exchange. I went to Gainsville with Sister Hills and met some cool people from Norway?  They were GOLDEN. Spent the night there...

Thursday, came back to M. (where I am). we also went on another exchange with a laurel from a different ward. We had some really good talks and such. BUT Sister Schramm gave her some advice:

"to cherish moments with her parents!"

And it really got us thinking. We both decided it would be super nice if we could just call up mom and be like 'ayy lets go shopping' or 'hey dad wanna go out to lunch?!" 

BUT WE CAN'T. 

We miss our parents! 

And my advice to any CRAZY  teenager that is a KNOW-IT-ALL and thinks they are right.... 

YOUR ALL WRONG!!!!!

Cherish every moment with your parents because they are getting old too 

(sorry. not sorry mom.  it's true. like I'm almost twenty. holy cow) 

So be grateful for what y'all have is what I'm trying to say.

Friday we met a lady who referred herself on mormon.org so that was cool. She was super nice to us and is a new investigator as well.  SO MANY NEW INVESTIGATORS. She was a huge sweetheart and had cool dogs, huskies to be specific. Also I got letters from Spencer saying he was alive so that was good to know! ;)

Saturday we did tons of member visits and talked about online proselyting. Me and my companion are doing this new thing.  To get the members involved in missionary work and online proselyting! We teach a principle to the family, they take a picture, tag us on facebook, testify and hashtag it 

#hastenhiswork

Basically this involves them and helps get a bunch of principles rolling online for everyone to see! Especially all of their friends who may be interested in the gospel! We are tagged in it so they know who to ask if they have any questions or want discussions. So you'll probably start seeing a bunch of pictures from members go up on my Facebook.  Feel free to add them if you don't feel weird about it! Saturday had a bunch of fall through's so we did a lot of tracting. I got yelled at by a guy which wasn't very fun. Usually people see the sweet innocent sisters and are just like 'hey look not to be rude but I'm not interested' and shut the door or something. NO...this guy SCREAMED at us. It was crazy. Ghetto neighborhood for you. Hopefully he will come to Jesus. I mean goodness gracious you could have just gone inside and shut the door man!

Sunday was sooo busy. We had ward council, visited S. & T. church, quick lunch (at the church) met with K. N. & L. who directed us to this lady who had lost a loved one. Mrs. R., who is now a new investigator. Then we went to D. and the kids and then Brother D.!  All in one day. Lots of stuff happened! Hopefully all is well in Zion and they start progressing it up. I wish I had more time to go into detail but it's personal and I need  to email my Mission President. I have an interview this week

*dun dun dun*****

No just kidding President Riggs is awesome. He really is such a good guy! and his wife is the sweetest thing! Such a cool mission.  I Love it. I know I'm supposed to be here! Which bring some to my next point/quote!

"It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are...but it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn't call you so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace" 

Seriously though guys yeah you might be at the right place and and the right time but you better do something about it so get off the couch and do some missionary work ya crazies!!

Until then

#hastenhiswork

sister stucki

(via e-mail January 13, 2014)