What is up my peep! This week was a good one and i can't wait to tell you all about it! So here we go!

1.PAM: So we do service for this kind of random older lady who has a lot of mental and physical stuff going on so we help her clean her house and just talk and good stuff like that. Its like a treasure hunt! She has lived the most colorful and interesting life and she has a lot of keepsakes and oh my lanta we find super cool stuff all the time! She is such a cool lady and has a lot of similar beliefs as us but she calls herself pagan just because she has been kicked out of a ton of churches for some of her beliefs. We are hoping to introduce her to the gospel and all that good stuff that would really help her in her life so we'll see!

2. EXHANGES: We had exchanges on friday and it was awesome! I got to go with sister hansen and we taught the cutest 9 year old the restoration and she was like Oh my gosh, this makes so much sense! We were like I know right!? It was awesome! i love kids so much! Adults are lame, i just wanna be with kids all day! After that we went to contact less actives and we met a family that got super offended (which by the way is the stupidest thing i have ever heard) and so they hadn't been to church is 7 years! So we are helping them to come back. 

3. WOMENS CONFERENCE: Oh my lanta can we just talk about womens conference for a sec?! It was soooo fabulous!!! Oh my lanta i just wanted to be baptist for a second and shout hallelujah! and amen! the whole time! Seriously ya'll! Get out there and help people!! Stop being selfish and start thinking of others! woot woot i love it!! And to make is even more fabulous the ward has a potluck dinner before and it was a baked potato bar and boy was it yummy!!! It was just a good night!

4. EASTER: This easter was a good one! We sang in church with the ward choir and had some lovely talks and of course the primary sang and it was beautiful and we taught the gospel principles class is spanish and that was bueno and church was just fabulous! Then we went tracting and a lady kicked us off her porch and yelled "Its f***ing Easter!!" Clearly she doesn't know the true meaning of Easter. haha and Then we had dinner with the Dillon family and had ham and cheesy potatos and rolls and jello fluff and all that good stuff and it was fabulous! We ate so much! It was a good easter!!

5. BONUS PICTURE: This is baby Nate and he is the cutest baby in Iowa and my favorite!!!

Anywhoozles!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL!!!!! Have a fantastic week and i can't wait to hear from ya'll next week!!! Peace and blessings! Hermana Rice

Tracting in the most freezing wind that numbed our poor little faces and hands! 

If you asked me to describe my companion,,,,i'd show you this.

Guys, I'm gonna be honest, i don't wanna do a group email today. So instead i am going to send a couple pics. Enjoy and LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL!!!!

Weekly Planning Sessions require treats.

Weird easter chocolate at the dollar store.

1.RED: This first one is kinda silly but we were in the Dollar Store the other day trying to contact a potential investigator that we knew worked there but we couldn't be creepy so we decided to buy something so that it would be more nonchalant. So we were walking about trying to find something to buy and we passed the hair color isle and Hermana Smith says Hey can i dye your hair red tonight and i said Sure. So we split the cost of hair dye and got to set up an appointment with the potential and know my hair is dark red! It looks fabulous if i do say so myself:) haha

2. PIZZA RANCH: For Hermana Smith and my last dinner together we decided to go to Pizza Ranch for a treat. Pizza Ranch is an Iowan chain restaurant that has a pizza, salad, and southern food buffet. Its fabulous and definitely not heart healthy. Its the only place i know that you can have pizza and mashed potatoes on the same plate! But it works. Anywho, they have this thing called Cactus Bread and its a dessert pizza with cinnamon, strudel, and icing on it. The best thing of the night was that my lovely super duper health nut companion ate 7 SLICES!!!! It was incredible! This is the girl that gets fermented mushroom juice and dried ginger for a "treat"! It was a great night!

3. NEW LOVE: I have two new favorite foods in case ya'll wanted to know. First off let me say that i haven't had pasta or cheese in a couple months. If you know me well that is a big deal. So to cope with my lack of carbfest i have found new things to obsess over. Thai noodle soup and bengal spice tea. Thai noodle soup is rice noodle in both with a bunch of spices and stuff and i add chicked and veggies to my hearts content and bengal spice tea is an herbal tea that tastes like Christmas!! Sooo good!!!!

4.FUNERAL: So this week we went to a funeral. It was for the 6 year old boy of a former investigator. He was hit by as motorcyle and died on impact. They are hispanic and  Catholic so the funeral was held in a catholic church and totally in spanish. So we walk into the church and its an open casket and it was so sad but he looked really good. Then we all went into the chapel and had the service. It was very...different and very inpersonal. They just said a bunch of prayers and sang and read from the bible and chanted and had communion, nothing was really about little Jason. It was interesting. I didn't cry until i saw his mom, then i lost it. I have never seen anyone in that much distress and hopelessness and in so much pain, i just wanted to give her a huge hug and tell her that her son is with God and she will see him again. Boy, that was an emotional morning. 

5.TRANSFERS: Ok ya'll here is what you have been waiting for...my new companion!!! My new companion is......wait for it.........Hermana Rodriguez again!!!! Its so fun! Its great cause we don't have to do the whole awkward first couple days getting to know them, we already know basically everything about eachother!! Its awesome, this is going to be a fantastic tranfer! We have already had a little to much fun together but don't worry we are working super hard and great things are coming this transfer!! Stay tuned for awesomeness!

Well, that was my week! I hope everyone has a fantastic week and i can't wait to hear from ya'll next week! LOVE AND MISS YOU TONS!!!! xoxo Hermana Rice

Hola Everyone! Sorry i didn't send an email out last week, i ran out of time:( Email time sure does go by fast sometimes! Anywho, i am excited to share with you all this week my Top 5 adventures from this past week! Enjoy:)

1.HOT: Ok, i just need to address that is it 70 DEGREES outside!!! I can actually feel the warmth of the sun!!! Its amazing, i almost forgot what its like to be warm enough to feel your appendages! Ahh man i just have so much more energy in the sun! Woohoo for sping coming fast!!! I love it!!

2.GNI: So sometimes we are exhausted. And sometimes we need to remember that we are still 20 year old girls. So sometimes we make a big pot of Kraft mac and cheese and give each other facials while listening to Steven Sharp Nelson play the cello. Sometimes we do these things at 9:30 at night. Sometimes its a really good girly night and exactly what we need:)

3.TRANSFERS: Transfers are this week on Thursday and President Jensen has told us that "Hermana Smith is a goner" so I will be getting a new companion this week and i find out who she is tomorrow so you will hear all about her next week. I am so sad to lose my Smithy but she has been here for 6 months and that is far to long and this is her first area so she need to spread her wings and fly to a new home! I am super excited though, I love change and sometimes i wish i could be transferred every transfer but i would run out of places to go! haha oh well. Esta bien!

4.JESSICA: Jessica is our main investigator right now. At first we were teaching her boyfriend and then she joined in too and she is so great! She has a boyfriend that is from Honduras and she has two kids that are the cutest from previous relationships and she is pregnant with her and William's baby. And boy she has got a busy spring coming up! She is having her baby on April 8th and then marrying William on April 14th and then she is working to be baptized on May 14th!  She has got a lot of good things coming her way and we are so excited to be helping her! She is amazing! 

5.BRI: So we are working with the sweetest little 8 year old to be baptized. Her mom is a member and she recently has been reactivated and so Bri really doesn't know anything about the church so we are teaching her so she can be baptized soon. So they always sit next to us at church and yesterday during testimony meeting she was playing on her moms phone instead of listening. So i told her that she should listen because its really important. Then i told her that she could go up there if she wants and bear her testimony. She asked me what a testimony is and i told her its things we know are true. She said like 1 +1=2? I said no, things about God. I asked her if she wanted to go up and she said yes. So i asked her what she knew about God and helped her write a short testimony. Then she went up there and bared her testimony for the first time. I felt like a proud mom! She sat back down and i gave her a hug and told her i was proud of her and asked her how she felt. She said really good! I told her thats because she did something really good. Bri is so awesome!! I just love her to death! Its in the small moments like that that i really feel like everything i am doing here is totally worth it. 

Anywhoozles, that was my week. I am super excited to hear from you all and i shall talk to ya'll next week! As always LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL!!!!

xoxo Hermana Rice

I promise, every other day of the week we eat really healthy...i don't know what happened. 

I sure will miss my Smithy!