"Okay Okay, I admit.... I drag raced my district leaders!!! haha I just HAD to. Cruzin through LV! Anyways THIS WEEK HAS BEEN INCREDIABLE! I love my mission soooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it i love it i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ghetto is so entertaining...I am still in the same area as when I got here! yay! It is AMAZING! Pretty much everywhere you go, it is in the hood, or close to a hood. The very worst parts are by the strip. Which I am kind of far from. 6.7 miles.... the Elders serving there have the funniest and craziest stories! Especially because most of them are on bikes. The black guys on the street corners will ask them who they are. They respond with "We are missionaries!" and they go "missionaries???" and the missionaries go "we are preachers!" and the black guys go "OOOOOH, you are Preachers! You good people, you good people!" that pretty much sums up Las Vegas. Oh and there are random shopping carts everywhere, old men who zoom across the street at night in their scooters, and there are stray cats everywhere!!! That’s how Las Vegas is...well I don’t see too much of the real ghetto. The church members here are AMAZING! They are SO STRONG! Its awesomeeeeee. I can’t wait to bring back anyone who wants to see my mission, after I get home! Of which, when I see a plane I say "NOOO you can’t take me! I’m not leaving!!!!!" Still got 13.5 months! Las Vegas is so crazy. In our family ward boundaries (2x2 mile) we have one of the richest areas of LV, and we also have run down apartments. Both extremes! OH, mother, I get to SKYPE YOU ON MOTHERS DAY!!!! Hooray!!! So if anyone is at my house that day, you get to see me! And I get to see you! Thank you for your cards everyone! :) You all ROCK! It’s so great to get support. (Especially to the west bend relief society!!!!) Sister Walker, Sister Clevenger and I are exactly obedient the best we can be, and we are seeing miracle after miracle. My sister companions work SO HARD! They came PRE TRAINED! I love them so much! We have so much fun together. .... Being in a trio is the best. It’s like having a BIG family! 3 are better then 2! I will be sad if one of them, or I get transferred in 2 weeks! Well we still are having 15-20 lessons and we have 3 set with a baptismal date! We almost have 2 others! This boy came to the singles ward and said he wants to join the church! SCORE! We tract in each 10 minutes we have available! Remember David who got baptized? He is looking GREAT! He just looks so sharp! He came up to me on Sunday to say Hi and to see how things where going! Picture a tall man with trimmed black hair. Soft face. White shirt. Black tie. He looked so respectable and his eyes literally GLOWED! yay for the spirit!!!! Also, the FIRST day on my mission we met with Jamie and taught her the first lesson. She got baptized in Washington on Saturday!!! :) Miracle One: One of our black investigators, Waymond, is 69 and so awesome! He has had a LOT of hold ups...the missionaries have been teaching him for 4-5 years! BUT we have a baptism date set with him for June 4!!! He said the closing prayer to one of our lessons, and he cried. He hadn't said a prayer in more then 30 years....the gospel changes lives! Baptism is such an important covenant, but we prepare people for baptism. It’s a life style change. Miracle Two: Debbie (55), who I explained in my previous letter, has been taught 4 times, attended church twice, come to 2 dinner appointments with us, and even went to a baptism! We basically fellowshipped her the first 2 lessons. By the 3rd lesson she said "I know without a shadow of a doubt that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God!" She is so prepared for this gospel! When we where teaching her the first Lesson (during our 3rd visit) we where explaining the Holy Ghost and how it enters into your bosom and it can be a peaceful, yet burning feeling! She clapped her hands and said "oh gooooooooood!!!! When I was reading the Book of Mormon, I felt this burning feeling come into my chest and so I thought I was having heart burn. So I went and ate some tums, but when I went back to reading, it started again! I couldn't figure out what it was!!!" She was so relaxed when we told her it was the Holy Ghost testifying to her it was true. That’s the only way people become converted in our church. THEY have to act and pray. The Holy Ghost confirms the truth of what we are saying. And it’s super cool, because as missionaries, we TEACH by the spirit. On our 4th visit, after we had taught her about how Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ, she said that night she had a dream. It was a dream where this young farm boy, dressed in his Sunday best, went into a grove of trees and started praying. And then this pillar of light came to him.....She had a dream about the FIRST VISION!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!! So when we watched the Restoration with her, she was in awe the whole time saying "that’s what I saw! That’s what I saw!!!!!' Heavenly Father has been preparing her to receive this message for a long time! She has a date set for May 7th! (So does a 13 yr old girl named Brianna Adams!) Debbie doesn’t have much money, so I gave her 3 of my skirts to wear at church. She is so wonderful, and she is so sad that one day she won’t be able to be with us missionaries. I told her we where going to be friends, for ETERNITY! SO there are just SOO many miracles happening. Ones I have written above, and ones I have not yet written about. I do know the Lord loves us all, and he certainly guides us in his work! I can testify to you that there is nothing more spiritual then sitting between 2 of your investigators at a baptism. There is nothing more sweet then seeing them be baptized. There is nothing better then waking up at 6:30AM and working your hardest all day for your God, and then crashing to your pillow at night. There is nothing as special, as when a less active member, whispers to you through her tears, 9 o’clock at night, "thank you, for never giving up on me." There is nothing better then sharing the great news about Jesus Christ and his atonement, and there is nothing better then working with the Father minute by minute, hour by hour. I have had the most mentally, physically, and spiritually draining moments of my life then on a mission. But I wouldn't trade this for the world! I am learning SO much, and am gaining a SOLID testimony of everything we teach!!! I love the Savior! I LOVE our Heavenly Father. I have a testimony that if you put every ounce of faith and trust in the Lord, he leads and guides you. When I have felt the most weight on my shoulders, and all I could do was cry, it was at those moments that I have felt Heavens Angles sitting by me on my bed. I know angels are here, and I know they are helping us. They are continually and literally putting their arms around us. I have also experience the most JOY i have ever yet felt in my life! It is a new joy, a wonderful joy. When we have so much success, it is truly amazing to say "Heavenly father you are So amazing! Thank you thank you thank you for this day!!!!" I dream about our investigators and still wake up at 2, 3, and 4am wanting to get going on the day! Looks like Eric starts his mission June 27!? I get home June 27th 2012 so we will be serving for exactly one year together!!!! I am so excited for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is already a fantastic missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So an example of a regular day....this is what our Friday included. We woke up and exercised, ate breakfast, had 2 hours of studies, did a hour of visiting mormon.org (we have to do that weekly), taught 4 lessons, we tracted 3 doors in our extra 10 min in the blazing heat, we made appointments for this week, called 10 families to see if they needed service, did some service, we testified of the gospel, had a lesson in canyon gate (one of the richest gated community) we uplifted a weary mother, had dinner at a kind of chaotic house in those apartments, i got violated by a hairless cat in heat (haha!), and I wrote 3 letters during lunch, oh and we had a planning meeting from 9:30-10:15PM. I don’t think I had time for a shower that day. I do know why they call it the best two years..... Its because of the eternal friendships we make! They are eternal friendships made by GOD! Pday activity: Our zone went hiking this morning at Red Rock! IT WAS AWESOME! But it was the 2nd hardest hike there!!!! That’s right, these LDS sister missionaries got skills like the elders! We hiked everything they did! It was crazy!!! Red rock is the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went shopping at Wal-Mart and it’s like we where famous! People always say "Oh look! It’s the sisters!!!!!' Pdays are the happy day’s lol. OH and mom, I have initiated MORMON MYTHBUSTERS to my singles ward out here! We are having it April 25th, with 2-3 other singles wards WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soo excited!!! Thanks for your epic idea! Gotta bust these Mormon facts! YES Mormons are Christian. NO Mormons do not practice polygamy. YES Mormons can dance. NO Mormons are guided not to drink coffee. YES the Book of Mormon testifies of Christ, YES Mormons read the Bible YES Mormons are HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAYYY To happy if you ask me! Well, I've written the longest email in my life. The only other thing to tell you that I have left out is that someone got arrested during one of our lessons. The end! HAVE THE BEST WEEK EVER! SISTER SPROUSE"