Letter #35 & #36: 11.9.13

Dear Mommy,

So this will be a short letter.  I’m sending these jackets back cause I don’t need them right now.  I have a lot of other jackets that I am using but I don’t want to leave them in mhy aprtment for some other sister.  So I’m just going to send it home.  Mommy you may use them when you go to visit Jarom and Omni them.  They are very good jackets so I want to keep them.  

Okay, so today we had a surprize zone meeting...a lot of new rules.  So now I am going to be sending you some of my teaching objects cause now we cannot use them.  But I still want them so keep them safe.  I used them for half of my mission.  Do not let the kids play with it.  Thank you so much love you all so much.  I love you.

PS  so keep the pic till I get home  

Love Sister Casey

PSS  I have a wonderful member who put pic of me on facebook that’s how the pic got on.  One visit she downloaded it for me so that everyone can see how I am doing.

Letter#36

Aloha ,

Okay so my teaching things keep them safe until I come home...then I can show you all it for like family FHE.  Please don’t let the kids play with it.  I worked hard on them.  Thank you.  The Geometry book is from a boy that’s a recent convert in Silverdale 6th ward.  Him and I became very good friends and he loves old things and he gave me one of his old books and signed it.  The flowers were from Daisy Tangaro.  It had 4 but I gave 2 away to 2 elders going home.  

Well so last night was my last Sunday in Silverdale.  The Hew-Lens ohana gave me leis.  I felt so loved from this ward.  They all keep on saying you are a part of this ward you been here for 6 months.  I made a lot of them cry when our Bishop surprized us with me going up to bear my testimony.  I was so shocked but I should have known he was going to do that.  I just love this ward so much.  I can’t wait until I can bring you back to visit all of my wards I served in.  I just can’t tell you how much I love this ward.  I just have so many families here.  This is my ZION!  

So ya, by the time you get this box you should know I am transfering back down to Tacoma...well right next to Tacoma, Lakewood Parkland and my comp will be sister Smith.  Funny story my comp now, sister Stokes trained Sister Smith.  So I know a lot about her.  Well Lakewood is the GHETTO.  So humble people.... yes...I’m just making a good impression on me to have the right mind set so I can leave my ZION Silverdale 6th:(  and guess what my apartment was?  An elders apartment just until 3 transfers ago.  So it is not very nice like this apartment that I’m in right now.  Well when I first came here I did have to clean big time.  So far every white glove inspection I got 100% whatever apartment I’ve been in.  And funny, here in Silverdale, this is the first time it ever passed!  I do good :) Man!  I am not going to be serving with elders in the same ward any more.  I know I am going to miss it a lot.  The work is so much better with sisters and elders in one ward.  So ya, now it looks like I will be there in Parkland for Thanksgiving and most likely Christmas too.  So this transfer is only 5 weeks and next transfer will be 7 weeks.  So the missionaries that are going home will be home for Christmas.  But after it will be back at 6 weeks a transfer.  So I finish packing today well most of it yesterday cause I knew I was getting transferred.  So I started packing of Friday.  I did all of my books.  Man I have a lot of stuff...LOL :)  

Funny story, sister Weaver did not want me to stay here last transfer...but It’s not her it’s pres. and I talked to him so I stayed.  Then last interviews she told me that I’m gone.  I told her I know.  So I just knew I was gone.  Cause 6 months is a long time.  But I set up 6 baptisms in December.  I taught them all.  So I know I’m leaving my ZION better then when I got it.  And it’s in good hands with sister Stokes and Elder Rich.  Oh ya, both of us have one leaving and a new one coming in.  So Elder Siebars is going to Bermerton.

Letter #34: 11.5.13

Aloha,

I’m starting to work out every night with those weights that I found in our apartment.  I sent you the pic of me working out.  It’s so funny cause some of the Elders I serve with....well, I’m stronger then them....ha, ha!  I told you a ittle about us moving the bakery.  That was so much fun.  I do so much service here on my mission.  And it’s funny cause they never like to ask the sisters for hard work and I always show them up... cause I can work just as hard as the elders.  I guess that’s one of the things I have to work on is to let the elders feel like men and not get out dun from a sister...LOL.:)  Time is going by so fast.  It’s funny this transfer went by so fast but also felt like one big transfer too.  Well it felt like one big transfer cause not one of us from my ward got transferred out.  But now looking at it...its coming up to my 6 weeks of the transfer and this Saturday is transfer calls.  So yes time is going by so fast but not fast enough for Fia.  Well that’s what she keeps on telling me.  I’m just getting lost in the work, but today and yesterday I’ve been very sick.  So today I been resting to get better.  So I want to be all healthy .  I do think I am the one leaving the area...so I’m going to miss it a lot.  It’s like my home.  I ‘ve been here for 6 months.  That’s a long time.  I just love all the people here so much.

Hey did Pena Moors come home from his mission?  Cause I think he should be home or coming home soon.  Well if you see him tell him “Hi” for me.

I love you all so very much and miss so much my ohana.  Make sure that none of my kids forget me.  Maybe you guys can do a video of all of them for FHE and put iot on a flash drive so I can watch it or on a SD card and I can watch it on my camera.

Stay well...lots of love from Tacoma.

Always with love and Aloha,  Sister Casey

I will try to make a video for you guys on Thanksgiving for the family.

Oh ya, I forgot to tell you that we just found out on Halloween that one of the members of the 12 and 70’s are coming to Washinton to talk to us missionaries.  Pres. and sister Weaver said its been a very long time since a member of the 12 came to our mission.  We always get 70’s.  So we all are very excited.  And they are coming November 22.  So that’s news for you.  I always forget what to tell you guys but that’s why I am so happy to have journals and pictures of everything for I can remember.

Man a lot is changing back at home.  Fia keeps me up dated.  All my friends from school are having babies or going on their missions.  A lot from school who I will never think they would ever go on a mission are going.  Funny how that works and the power of repentance.

Letter #33: October 2013

Oh yeah another cool story I Just remembered I wanted to tell you.  Or maybe I already told you.  Well, the lavender lady...I was inspired to write my testimony in a blue Book of Mormon.  So it was not a short testimony.  It was 2 pages in the Book of Mormon.  It was my testimony about our house fire and how the Book of Mormon helped me get to where I am now.  So I wrapped it up and gave it to her as a thank you.  So she said she will read it.  So the next Friday she came up to me and gave me a hug and said thank you.  And we started talking about how God works and all the blessings we get every day.  Then she told me about her husband’s passing.  It was coming up to his 3 yrs anniversary.  I just went by the spirit and I am so happy I listened to the spirit and gave her a BOM.  Fridays at the mall for family history is so wonderful.  I think it’s also for us to get to know and become friends with everyone who is set up at the farmers market.  They all know me and is always so happy to see me every Friday.  I joke around with a lot of them and I have given out a few BOM to them.  And it just means so much more to them because I get to know them.  We have so many funny stories about them saving me from the chocolate guy...ha, ha, ha.  That’s a story I need to tell you guys.

OKAY  CHOCOLATE GUY STORY...a crazy guy

So this started about 3 transfers ago.  I met this guy maybe the 3rd week we have been doing the family history at the farmers market at the mall on every Friday.  So you know me...I am sweet and very nice..right...and mostly now cause I am a missionary.  So I talk to everyone now.  So he will come by our booth so I talked to him about family history and every Friday he came at our turn.  Well let me discribe him for you.  He is in his mid 20’s, he looks homeless, very dirty and filthy and smells.  And I think he is not all there.  So there was this one time he came and talked to us for an hour.  He talks so much!!!! But I was thinking well I’m going to get a lesson out of this.  So I was teaching him the first lesson in the mall, gave him a BOM, and some Elders number.  I did not want him to call us.  I prayed with him too.  Oh ya did I tell you that out of nowhere he hugged me.  Then he gave me 3 chocolate candy bars that’s why we call him the chocolate guy.  I did not eat it.  Then he left then came back after 15 min.  So another lady that has a booth close by seen him and she came over as a distraction and talked about family history so that he would leave.  It was so funny because there were elders there and watching and laughing.  I texted them to come and talk to him but they would not come.  They thought it was so funny.  So we changed our time for the booth for the next few weeks but he some how found out  what time we are there.  So he always talks to us about how he loves the BOM and that he loves me and is praying for me everyday.  Well this past Friday he came again and from behind he hugged me again.  I told him he can not hug me.  Well this time we are by the T&T phone guys and I was talking to them.  Well the chocolate guy ask if he can come to Hawaii with me.  I never answered then he said oh I will give you my address so we can write.  So he is taking forever to write his address down then he pats my head and gives me his bracelet that he made.  It is so dirty!  Then he gave me more chocolate...and wanted to hug me again and said,  “I love you”...I texted the elders and they came over to distract him and finally the chocolate guy leaves.  Then I talk to Elder Hathaway and said it’s all his fault cause he was the elder from 3 transfers ago that were suppose to talk to him the first time I met him.  Well they leave and then the T&T phone guys talk to me and asked was he drawing you a pic or giving you his #?  I said his address#.  Then the T&T guy said he has guts and laughed and said he beat me to that.

So that’s the chocolate guy story.....crazy guy...ha ha ha....glad I’m outta there.

Photo Post: October 2013

Letter #32: 10.29.13

KIAORA Ohana,

Howzit!  So now I was thinking what I would need for Christmas.  I only can think of a sweat-shirt (Like a Cool Kahuku one or a poly cool one) and then boots.  Cause I still need boots.  I keep on looking for one I like but they are just too expensive that will never get them.  So you can ask Amy to help look for nice ones and I trust you.  You also can look at the LDS Missionaries sisters boots for what’s approved.  But I love the ones Amy got me last year.  Just make sure that it’s like 9 or 9 1/2 with wide calfs.  Then it should be all good but I can’t think of anything.  I would just love any thing.

Okay, I have a pretty cool story to tell ....Okay.  Once upon a time in cold Silverdale, Washington, a sister missionary from Hawaii looks in the area book and 6 names stand out to her.  And one of the names is Mary @ Central Valley.  I remember this name from my first transfer here and she had the first 2 lessons.  It did not have an address.  It only had her name and Central Valley on the paper.  Central Valley Rd. is about 3 miles so what we did the sisters was on one side of the street and the Elders were on the other side of the street and we did 5 hours of tracting trying to find Mary.  And we did not find her.  I even wrote that on the teaching records.... So that’s from 4 transfers ago.  Well, recently I checked our teaching record and an address for Mary appeared in pencil, not my handwriting or any of my comps.  The Elders never met her either.  So I have no idea how the address got on the teaching record.  So we went to the house and I remembered that I knocked on that house before but no one was home and there is a sign outside with a different name on it.  So we still knocked because we think we were led there.  Well it ended up to be Mary.  We talked and prayed with her.  Right now she’s not interested.  I think we were led there so that we would have to pray with her. Oh ya, whew, when I got out of the car a snake slithered right by my feet so I jumped back into the car and climbed into the driver’s side to get out... ha, ha, ha.  Ya, I am a baby when it come to snakes.  And then all the other names we visited them and every one of them were home and we were able to talk to them and pray with them.  I still do not know how the address got on the paper... its still a ?  

Wow, it’s colder and darker faster.  So we are tracting when its black outside.  Not fun.  But the work still goes on.  Today was a wonderful day of talking to people.  The only bad news is that one of my investigators moved.  He was someone I tracted.  Rob, he is so cool.  I taught him all 3 lessons.  He is one that has a lot to work on.  He is in the Navy, who drinks, smokes, every thing!  Talks bad.  But very smart.  He loves worldy things.  But trying to find the truth.  He’s one as soon as he finds out for himself that this is the one and true gospel he would get baptized right away.  Since I’ve been teaching him he gave up smoking cigarettes.  He is working on one thing at a time.  We did not ever talk about WOW yet.  I’m sad that he moved.  It’s the next town over so not too far.  He said he will drive back so we can give him a church tour.  I asked him if he wanted the other missionaries number there.  He said yes.  But he wanted to say bye and he did promise us that we could give him a church tour.  So that’s why he brought it up and said he will drive back.  That’s awesome.  He is one I seen in white.  But I never know I might get to serve there too.  That would be cool if I find Rob again.  So this is what’s up with me.  I’m so excited for Thursday...it’s our Hallooween party.  Well it’s like a lock-down day.  Cause we can not be out on Halloween from 3 - 9:30pm.  so we play games, eat, and watch a movie that Pres. picks out.  Halloween is the missionaries most favorite holiday on a mission.  I love you all

Always with love and aloha,  sister Casey

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”  John 17:3

My mission pres has us memorize scriptures from the PMG.  He gives us a page and we choose what scripture on that page.  Last week I memorized this scripture then we pass it off to our DLs.  I just love it how it said know God and Jesus Christ.  Know is so different from believing in.  I believe in them. but do I know them?  I have been trying to know them now.  I want to know them.  I ask you all to know them.  That’s my commitment to you all.