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Letter #42: 1.23.14

Dear Family,

Okay crazy story...it could not wait until next week.  So reasons why I love Parkland.  So yesterday ...well I’ll start 2 months ago. We got a referral from Spanish to see Armondo Gonzalez.  So me and Smith go to see him.  First time he is sick.  So we come back it’s his birthday.  His mom is Laverna.  She is not all there and is a little crazy I would say.  She has some hurt feelings about the church.  She had a hard life.  She is like 56 yr old and turns out that both are members but this time she gets into telling us her story and is yelling at us and tells us to not come back.  Armondo tells us sorry about his mom he is 30 yrs old.  He tells us he wants to come back and learn more about  baptism...but he will call us.  So we never went back.  Well 2 weeks ago with me and Davis she calls us and apologizes and say sorry and that Armondo wants to change and come back to church and wants to meet with us.  So we set up an appointment with her.  One half hour before the appontment on Friday she calls us and cancels it.  So now it’s been one week.  So yesterday she calls us. 
        We don’t answer because we are about to go into a meeting.  So we did not answer and we were like... she’s crazy.  So she left a message.  Our meeting was done one hour later.  So we listened to the message right away as we got out from our meeting.  It starts off with her saying thank you to us for being supportive of her children and also her unborn...I’m PREGNANT!  She’s 56 yrs old.  We cannot understand most of it.  She is slurring her words and says, “I wanted to kill myself and the baby.  It’s too hard.  I’m alone.  I am trying to stay up”...then she mumbles something and it hang up.  So we are freaking out and don’t know what to do.  We go to the Summet Elders and have them listen to it.  And ask what should we do.  Elder Lupton and Elder Goodwine tell us to call the police.  We never called before so we are just thinking of what to do.  Maybe stop by the fire station and let them listen to it and then we did not know what to say... so elder Lupton called for us.  Then handed the phone to us to explain the story to them.  They sent the chief of police.  And then they are supposed to call us to let us know what is going on.  They say it sounded like she over dosed.  They never called us... so we feel very bad if she died cause we never answered.  So we are going crazy.  Cause if she is dead we will feel so bad and down.

Then the day before we met a RLDS...they have a lot of the same as us.

Sabba, the crazy lady that thinks she is pregnant and a member....we can not find her records.  So we head to tell her that she is not a member.  So we may be baptizing her.  Daniel was her babies daddy’s nephew.  He was charged with firearms and assault....but he moved back to Bermington.  Then we found that out.  So in a good way... I think that was good he moved back.  He was on date for this month to be baptised. But we did not know about all the charges on him.

I don’t know what’s up with all these ladies in their 50’s....thinking they are pregnant!!!

Make sure our ward is a missionary ward...missionaries cannot do it alone.  We are working hard out here.  We love it here in Parkland.  Oh I just remembered, what’s up with old men on bikes...lol..

On the good news...on Feb 1st we have a baptism for Lehi my Samoan girl.  Oh ya can’t wear red or blue cause you will get shot.  lol :(   lucky thing I don’t have red or blue.

I love my mission so much.....and it’s going by too fast.  I love you all and I want to go to Vegas with you mommy.

love your missionary

Letter #41: 12.30.13

Howzit Mommy and papa,

Okay you are like getting 2 letters from me sorry...but I just had to tell you about what happened tonight.  So ya I already finished sending your other letter.  So it is Monday p-day.  We do shopping and things like that but we tract from 6 - 7.  So we found a somewhat nicer street in our area.  It’s still middle class.... but yeah at the 4th door  this lady in her 60’s open the door ... not interested....She goes to some other church.  So we ask if there is anything we can help them with tonight.... no... then a man came and talks to us and ask us questions about how we believed in Jesus and Satan being brothers.  We said yes.  They don’t believe in that...Well, short story...he tells me and sis Davis is going to HELL cause we believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers.  Well it went much longer and I could feel the spirit gone every time he talked.  We tried so hard not to bash him.  So for all his questions we told him go to mormon.org then he said you don’t believe in the bible.  We told him we do and I am reading it right now.  He said, “No you don’t read it...” lol.  We were nice to him and ask again if there is anything we can do and wished him a happy New Years... so we left him in a nice way.

I was so mad at him but I felt my loving Heavenly Father’s love with me tonight telling me that His gospel is true.  I am so happy to have this gospel in my life.  And to be serving Him.  The last door we knocked on we did a lesson of the Resto and gave him a BOM.  I know cause we did not let that one man get us down and we kept on going we got to teach a lesson at the door.

That just shows me how hard satan is working.  That was the first time to my face straight up that someone told me in this words that you are going to hell.  Heavenly Father testified the truth to me right after.

I love you all very much...

love Sister Casey your baby going strong...

ps.  just had to tell you of this experience that made me stronger in the Lord’s army.  I felt grandpa Kaonohi right beside me to make me strong so I could bear my testimony.

I love my ohana and kupunas

Letter #40: 12.28.13

Howzit mommy & papa,

Okay I got this very cool paper today...I just had to show or well write you a letter.  ha ;)  So did you like my last letter that I sent?  Well before I forget “HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!” it was so nice to talk and to see the family.

Okay, so me and my comp sister Davis is like crazy the same in so many ways.  So right now we are burning her letters...cuz she got a dear jane a few months ago and well we are going to burn her letters from him.  He got married....She’s a hard one...Most of her comps she never liked but we are becoming to be great friends.  I think that’s why Pres put us together.  This transfer is longer than normal....it’s 7 weeks.  Just cause of Christmas.  I can feel it’s going to be a great transfer.  Anyway, the ward sucks....but we are going to change that.  Even Pres told us that this ward needs to repent...ha ha.  It’s very hard here....our ward mission leader is less active.  So yeah...the baptisms that I had here “I” had to plan the whole thing.  So me and Davis is trying very hard to change this ward.  The missionaries that was here before I came here was not the greatest missionaries.  So I have a lot of work to do.  But it is so worth it.  I know Heavenly Father needs me here with sister Davis.  Pres told us he prayed and that we need to be together here in Parkland Lakewood.

I love T-TOWN 253 = GHETTO  ;)  this new year is going to be a great and amazing year.  I’m working hard on being health and only thinkging of the Lord’s work to change this ward.  I love my mission so much.

How is everyone doing?  tell them all I love them, I love them too.  I love them more.  I love them to the Heavens and back ....lots of love from Tacoma.

Oh yeah I forgot to tell you what we did on Christmas day .. . so at 10:30 am ... oh, oh, oh  we got to sleep in to 7:30  ;) ha.  Okay...so at 10:30 am we went over to Bishop Thompsons house so sister Davis can skype... we did Christmas with them ... ate ... so I had to talk to our Bishops’s family... okay,  so sister Thompson is weard and anti social...but it was all good and fun.  Bishop is very funny.  Man, then we came home and took a nap and visited some members.  and then we did not have to tract.....yes!....so at 5pm our zone went over to our stake President’s house.  It was so much fun and a lot of food ;)  We got to act out the Nativity  and he read it.  It was so cool to do that.

So yeah....I don’t know if I told you about Christmas eve...so when we got home after I skyped yhou guys...we cleaned our house a little.  So our tub did not drain so we had to work on it and let’s just say there was a lot to make 3 wigs...lol.  Have fun watching the video.

So right now is D-Comp time.  We are watching old church movies.  We are bored...the Lord’s work is the best thing.  I don’t want to leave my mission yet.

Love your baby girl

This is the WA_TAC we baptize on and on...

“at 6:55 ask anything alive to take the dive” - ZL’s

The Lord is the way....

ps...ok so I got Omni’s pixie gift back...I must have sent it to the wrong address....it says “return to sender”.  I’m sending it to you guys and can you please send it to the right address.  Thank you