Hola Everyone! This week has been uneventful so i am not going to do a Top 5. Sorry to disappoint but sometimes life is uneventful. So basically we have no investigators right now so we literally knocked the entire city of Washington. Literally. Good thing we cover a bunch of small surrounding towns or we would have nothing to do. So as missionaries we have this Key Indicator (goal) called OYM which stands for Open Your Mouth and we get and "OYM" when we introduce ourselves as missionaries and invite them to do something. Well this week we got 106 OYMS. Thats a lot. With Hermana Moses we were getting an average of 20 a week. So yes, a lot of knocking and a lot of walking. Oh the bright side, i am getting a lot of exercise. Oh and let me just say that i absolutely LOVE Mennonites! They are the sweetest people ever! Most people are rude and not open at all but they are just so sweet and love to talk! Love knocking into Mennonites. 

Hmm lets see, oh one lady that we knocked into gave us two loaves of this cinnamon nut bread that was soooooo delicious!!! Oh my lanta! 

Oh guys you would be so proud of me, I ate leftover pizza and i now do the dishes regularly without dry heaving! I know, so not me. haha

Interesting animal sighting of the week goes to...Rat Squirrel! So I am pretty sure that we saw a rat/squirrel creature! Seriously, it had a squirrel body and a rat head and it was black! No joke. Some sort of crime against nature has been committed in the rodent family. 

But yeah thats all I got this week, Hope everyone is doing good and as always LOVE AND MISS YOU TONS!!!!! 

xoxoxoxoxo, Hermana Rice

Nothing like Ice Cream after a long day of walking!

PROOF OF RAT-SQUIRREL!!!!!

Hey ya'll this week was great and i can't wait to tell you about it. So here ya go...my Top 5 from this week:)

1. CONFERENCE: Oh my lanta wasn't General Conference amazing! All about getting back to the basics and bettering ourselves. I loved it! And fun fact. Elder Renlund is coming here to Iowa! I am so excited to hear him and his wife speak. He sounds like a really neat guy. Ahh i just love Conference!!

2.ZTM: This week we had Zone Training Meeting and it was super great! It totally got us re pumped up to be the best missionaries that we can be! I just love meetings like that! Its so good to take some time every once in a while and evaluate life. Identify what you are doing well, what you could be doing better, and what direction you want your life to go and then make those necessary changes one step at a time and life just gets better. Then after the meeting we went to Pizza Hut and man do they have good wings!

3. KNOCKING: So we have absolutely no investigators and we have spent every day this week knocking and trying to find people to teach. We have met a whole ton of people and  most of them were pretty interesting...We met one guy who said he read the Book of Mormon and he said it scared him as much as the New Testament. Haha I think the Old Testament is the scariest but hey, whatever floats his boat! 

4. PUMPKINS: This week at our service at the Y we got to help the kids carve pumpkins! It was super fun but a bunch of 5th graders with knives is also frightening! Most of them didn't know what they were doing but they're pumpkins all turned out super adorable! I love kids! K, family I miss playing with kids/babies soooo much so your guys' job is to make sure that there is a baby at the airport when i get home that i can hold and squish and love ok? 

5. MOSES: So Hermana Moses is in a tri with the STL's and they have a big meeting with the other leaders each month that she cannot go to so this week she came and spend the day with me and Hermana Clark! It was so fun to be with Moses again and oh my lanta she kept us laughing all day! She even bought us lunch and ice cream! It was kind of a party day but don't worry we still worked hard and did all those missionary things we do!

Well thats all for now. Stay tuned for pictures!! As always, LOVE AND MISS YOU TONS!!!! xoxoxoxo, Hermana Rice

Taking notes at Conference ( Apparently Hna. Clark thought it was a big deal)

Zone Training Meeting! This is called the "hard pose". You have no idea how hard is was for me to not smile!

This week has been amazing!!! So much to tell about so here ya go, my Top 5 Adventures of this week! :)

1.TRANSFERS: This week was transfers and i stayed in Washington and Hermana Moses got transfered:( there were definitely tears buuuuuuuuttttttt my new companion is the one and only, amazing, blonde......HERMANA CLARK! Thats right folks me and my companion from the CCM are reunited and taking on Washington by storm!! Its only been a few days but we are having a blast catching up and being companions again. This is going to be a fantabulous transfer!!

2. WOMANS CONFERENCE: This weekend our Branch had a potluck dinner and then watched the General Woman's Conference together. It was so fun. Good food. Good company. and a Great Conference! Ahh so many awesome talks and Pres. Uchtdorf's story was so good! Conference is truly inspired! So many great things to learn every time! Oh and our investigator Melissa came and thought it was a little long (haha) but she enjoyed it. Basically it was a fantastic night and i can't wait for the rest of Conference next week! 

3.MOON: Can i just tell ya'll something about Iowa skies?! They are the most gorgeous skies i have ever seen in my entire life!! Don't get me wrong, the Utah mountains are absolutely breathtaking! BUT something about the wide open sky makes everything look bigger and brighter and closer. I can't explain it but the Blood Moon last night was huge and orange and amazing! We stood on the roof of our apartment building and watched it. All i could say was WOW! Man, God sure knows what he is doing! And then another woman came out and we asked her if she had seen the moon and she came over and watched it with us. We talked a lot about life and God and stuff and she said it was no coincidence that we met and we have a lot to talk about. She is super sweet and great to talk to! Its great how God puts people into your path at exactly the right time and in the right place. 

4.ELDER WEBB: So i finally got to see Elder Webb at transfers and guess what? He got put in my Zone! So yep, I will see him at Zone Conferences and stuff like that. Lemme tell you it is weird seeing someone from home on your mission. I can't explain it but its kind of like Hey i know you and you know me but we are totally different people now but were still friends right? Kind of thing. Its really cool though. We took a pic together on his camera but not on mine. So Parents, bug his mom for that pic. 

5. INVESTIGATOR UPDATE: So we had to drop Melissa. So sad but she got back together with her awful boyfriend and still doesn't see the importance of living the law of chastity and won't come to church. Unfortunately she is one of those people that gets converted to the missionaries and not to the Gospel. We also dropped two other investigators so now we are down to only one. So we are going to be doing a lot of finding this week so we can have more people to teach!! Its gonna be great! I just love teaching and meeting new people and helping everyone! Its the best!!!

So yep, that is my week and i can't wait to tell ya'll about next week! As always, LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL!!!!! Stay tuned for pictures:) 

Until next time...xoxo Hermana Rice

REUNITED!!!!! woot woot

This week has been fantastic! I can't wait to tell you all about it. So I'll get right into my Top 5:)

1.BIRTHDAY: You all know it was my birthday on Saturday and i turned 20! I can't believe it! I may have had a small emotional breakdown in which i wrapped up in a blanket on the floor in fetal position drinking a red slushie and saying i don't wanna be an adult over and over again. But then i was ok. We had a party at a members and ate a lot of junk food and had a really great day! If you friend Gabby Castillo on Facebook she posted a video of me decorating my cake. So check it out! I'll also send pics.

2. MELISSA: Miracles happen everybody! So if you remember, the only thing keeping Melissa from baptism is that she is living with her boyfriend. Well, we got a call Sunday morning from her saying that she found out that he has a wife in Guatemala and several girlfriends and kids all over the place! So they broke up and he moved out! We also found out he was majorly abusive so basically we are overjoyed that he is out of her life! Now she can be happy! woot woot! Oh and now we are teaching her best friend! Life is good:)

....Guys, I can't think of anything else that happened this week. Plus i have an almost-migraine so looking at the screen hurts. So i guess i will just send pics. Sowry. 

LOVE AND MISS YOU GUYS SOOO MUCH!!!! 

xoxoxoxoxo, Hermana Rice

My favorite Lunch! Wearing my new dress!

CAKE!

GIANT FLUFFY CAT!!!! MOM, I NEED ONE!!!!!!

AHHHHHHH SO FAT!!!!!!

Cutting the cake:)

Gabby got me goood!