Sister Goodrich. 11/18

Her address until Dec 30th

Sister Kaylee Goodrich 10810 Spring Cypress Rd  #1222

Tomball TX 77375

Hello mother, and other people who love me. :) I love y'all. Anyways this week has been a blur, and honestly i can't remember much... anyways My companion sister schellhous is getting transfered. so it will just be me and sister flanery. so no more trio :( so sad... But I'm excited for her.. she has been in this area for 7 months i think a change will be great. anyways... Let see we have 3 new investigators. Mark, Harold, and Tyler (girl) and they are so awesome... two of the three basically found us, and asked us to learn more. and the 3rd was just waiting for us to come. So that's exciting I hope we get a baptism soon. This area really needs one, but we will do whatever the lord wants. I can't believe you took my blanket to church... random.... haha tell Reece that No joke I had a guy open the door with that face... Sorry mom.. I"m trying to not let you be too freaked out. But I'm safe don't worry... We have lots of dinners from the ward they really are proactive about feeding us. Why was she unpleasant? I love you so much! I miss you sorry my letter is so short... oh hey i remembered something else i want for christmas I want a mattress pad... a soft one.. for a twin bed. oh and some toms would be nice too...  I love you! and I love everybody at home!

Parts of dads letter

 We met a really drunk man the other day he was SOOOOOO rude... but i bit my tongue, and laughed about it later... oh and We were walking down this really long road one time in the dark, and a car almost ran over my companion but don't worry we are safe.. I just wish we had a car... We have a really small area, but we also have really busy roads, and it's really not too safe for us to be biking or walking down the roads. Don't worry though I'm sure the Lord will watch over us. The weather is good.last week it was 56 degrees, and yesterday it was in the 80's. Humidty is still bad.. I miss the snow.. I wish i had a picture of the mountains i forgot to take one when i left.  haha that's so funny... I probably was trying to make myself late to church.  Yes we get fed everynight pretty much. so that is good. most of the food is alright. I don't know if they have deer... and no i haven't seen anywild hogs... but then again i'm not in the country so much.

Skipped a week update.

Ok so sorry I didn't forward an email last week. I only got a quick note that she was mailing me a letter and out of time. She mentioned in her letter that brother Crummey passed away :( She also wrote to all of her siblings.

Then we got this email this week-

This week has been a rollercoaster... of emotions..I'm trying not to let my anxiety get the best of me... This week we met with our 94year old investigator twice... and she was so close to getting baptized then like a blink of an eye she said no...so that is discouraging.. but it's on the Lords times and not ours. . we threw a baby shower for our investigator so she could meet more sisters in the ward. I think she really enjoyed. it. She is so sweet. There has not been a baptism in 2
years... this area is really hard, and we are working hard too. We are all
trying our best and seeing no return of our labors... but we know that we
are just planting seeds for later missionaries to harevest... other than
that this week hasn't been too exciting.... thanks for the lanyard i get
the purpose now... I will try to send pictures home soon. Thanks for
sending me my blanket. and Yes i did get the candy you sent I will show you
how much candy i got this year it's a bit extrme... and i don't have the
heart to throw it out. I don't know what i want for christmas... maybe some
skirts or shirts? or socks.. or medicine.. like first aid kit... bandaids?
haha sorry mom I don't know... Next week is transfers... so We will know
next Sunday which one of us is getting transfered... we think at least one
of us will... they don't like to keep us in threes very long but maybe we
will get lucky and stay together. I really love my companions they are
great, and they help me so much. ps sidewalks here are dumb.... just stop
and start whenever...

She did send a couple of pictures. One is of how much candy they had. Maybe I should have not sent two bags, but she likes the non-chocolate , and I figured her companions might like kisses. I also ordered it a couple of weeks before Halloween, but it didn't get there until after. So they might have to hand it out at church. The next is on her pday in the cute purple bike she is is borrowing. She also had to take a picture of all of the mail she got, it's hard to believe she can be so moved by mail.

Preparing at the MTC

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Elder Johnson and Elder Roberts in front of the Provo Temple.

Elder Johnson ran into Elder White too. Elder White is a fine young man from our ward. He has been called to serve in the Minnesota , Minneapolis Mission. The same mission my husband and his bishop served in over 25 years ago. He will be in the MTC awhile longer, because he will be speaking the Hmong language. 

A big thanks to Elder Johnson for the email and pictures! He is trying to aid blogging effort.  

He is serving as a district leader, and doing great.