September 8, 2014

Hola!!

Another amazing week here in Costa Rica!! First off, Thank you to the airline worker who found my journal, and then found this Blog, and then mailed my journal to my parents! You are the best! Second off, we had 2 baptisms this week!!! Yay! What a great week! Oh and I think this is my 2 month mark!? Wow, time flies!

Random fact #1: There are a lot of dogs here. In houses, guarding houses, and on the streets. The ones on the streets make me super sad. They all look so sad and beg for attention and it makes me miss my puppy... I wish I could keep all of the dogs I find on the street as pets... But It´s against the rules... And they probably have rabies... One almost bit me this week. Twice. It was one of the ones who guards a house. But we needed to get in the house. So I used my umbrella to protect myself, but it was still pretty scary...  My companions were hiding behind me and were scared for me too. I don´t want that dog for a pet.

Random fact #2: Sometimes bathrooms don´t have toilet paper or soap. It kinda feels like I am camping. Fun! But no worries, I have hand-sanitizer. But still ... Eww. 

Ooohhh this week we ate at KFC, and Pizza Hut... :) Yum. We were traveling, so we couldn´t cook for ourselves or eat lunch with our normal cook. Dang it... Oh and I tried an Empañada! It was like a giant taquito! Yum!

Yesterday I got left on the bus. Twice. Once on purpose, my companions left me with a ward member and two investigators to go to church while they went to pick up another investigator. But I got to church 15 minutes before them and awkward greeted everyone and shook my head when they asked me questions in Spanish. I missed hiding behind my companions for the Spanish questions.. Hahaha I need to learn quick! This is bad! The ward members might think I don´t like them! But we actually have an amazing ward!!! And the second time was not on purpose. There was a sad crying girl sitting across from me on the bus, so I was trying to grab a pamphlet for her about the Plan of Salvation, because I am a cheesy missionary, and I looked up and my companions were gone! They got off the bus without me! So I ran to the front and asked the driver to stop quick! In English I am pretty sure... Usually they don´t stop that soon after a stop, but he could probably tell I was worried, maybe the English helped, so he stopped and let me off! My companions were freaking out and gave me big hugs! Hahaha it was pretty funny. Hopefully that sad girl on the bus is happy now though?

This week I have been thinking about how blessed my life really has been so far. I have amazing parents and an amazing family. I have been raised in the gospel and had great teachers and leaders. I have been blessed with a great education and the opportunity to further my education even more after my mission. I have great friends. I received the best call in the world to serve in Costa Rica and learn a language that will help me in my career as well. I have had great companions. This week I wanted a little extra study time, and then my companions had a meeting to go to and I was able to sit outside and study for a few hours. I wanted to spend more one on one time with Hermana Uribe to practice Spanish, and then Hermana Garner got called to go on splits with a sick missionary. Heavenly Father has given me everything I have ever needed. I realized I do not always take advantage of all of the blessings, but He always gives them. He knows each one of us personally and blesses us personally. He will always help you learn and grow if you let Him. I am so grateful for all of the many blessings in my life and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to learn and progress more and more everyday! I know the the Plan of Salvation is a perfect plan, and we are so blessed to have a loving Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.

I hope you all have an amazing week! Look for the blessings in your lives and use them! Learn and grow every day! I love you all!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

Items of business..

1. Thank you for finding my journal!! Yay!

2. Yes I am super tired always. And yes I sleep like a rock at night. It is great. No Spanish dreams yet though... I don´t really speak Spanish yet, let alone dream in it.

3. Thank you for your prayers mom! I am still struggling with Spanish a lot... And I can´t re-read the blessing because it was in my journal... Maybe you can send me a new copy? Thanks! I am praying and fasting and trying to learn!

4. Poor Kami!!! Quit getting sick!!!!! Feel better!

5. Keep up the good temple work! Sorry I can´t help any more! Good thing Carter is there!!

6. Thank you for every thing!!!!! I love you all!!!!!!! :) :) :)

7. Have the best week ever!

Fabricio's Baptism!

Fabricio

First time filling the font!

Cleaning font, getting ready to fill!

My first "Trits" ice cream sandwich

What I look like every day - ready for cold and wet!

We all wore the same shirt!

Maybelin's Baptism

Maybelin's Baptism day

September 1, 2014

Hola familia y amigos!

Como le va? Just another week in Paradise! But not really, we have been working hard and we are not in an area with beaches, monkeys, and mango trees. But maybe next transfer! Actually, I will probably stay in San Jose or close by for my entire mission, so cancel that. I guess it is important to have the nurse close to the mission office and the hospital. Weird. But it is still beautiful here, so no complaints! This week I learned what rain really means in Costa Rica. Holy cow. RAIN! It is kind of fun, but I feel bad when we sit on people´s couches and leave puddles behind us.. And most people have tin roofs, so I can´t hear our lessons durring the rain, but it´s all good! I don´t understand Spanish anyways!

My Spanish is better... I understand MUCH more, but I don´t speak much more yet. But It is slowly coming. I wish I had more time for Spanish studies in the mornings. My companions are helping tho! Actually, they wake me up every morning at 5:30am and we read from the Book of Mormon in Spanish for an hour. So that is fun. It is really good, but I almost feel asleep during church, and on the bus, and during a lesson... So I need to get used to it quick!

So Zone Conferences were this week. We went to all three Multi Zone Conferences because the Area Doctor was in town and gave a presentation and wanted our help. So that ate up a lot of our study time and teaching time. But they were fun and I got to see every one who is serving in Costa Rica right now! Including Hermana Bratt and Hermana Jenkinson and Hermana Fowler! Yay! :) But yes, we did get food posioning. Everyone was dying. First we thought it was the dinner I cooked the night before when we were all up in the middle of the night dying, but then when we got a million calls in the morning from other dying missionaries, we realized what had happened. It was hillarious! The president had to take breaks while teach the next Zone Conference to use the bathroom, and our phone was ringing constantly! But no one really died, so it is all good.

I thought I was tone deaf, but here in Costa Rica, I am a beautiful singer! Most people have not grown up singing hymns, so they don´t really know how to sing at all... So they think I sound good! Wahoo!

My companions are also sister training leaders! So we are crazy busy! We travel for that, and they have more meetings and phone calls, so I haven´t had a normal day yet! It is hard for them to train me, but I am still learning. Just crazy schedules every day!

Fun fact, queque means cake! And it is pronouced like KK. So Katie, You are cake! Yummy! Good nickname Kami! I don´t know what YaYa means yet. Ya means now, so maybe NowNow? Could be cool?

Well. We have several solid investigators. We found some really great new ones this week, and has some really great lessons with old ones too. Fabricio and Maiblin are scheduled to be baptized this weekend! I am so excited! I saw a huge change in Fabricio. My first few lessons with him, he sat quietly and listened, and didn´t like to pray, but now he has a huge smile on his face every day and participaties and has a great testimony! I am excited to learn more Spanish so I can understand more of what my investigators are saying to me.. :)

We teach English and Piano classes every Saturday! I invite about 10 people a day to our free classes from the bus or the streets. My companions invite even more than that. Not many actually show up, but I love teaching them English while my Hermana Uribe teaches Piano. It is a fun way to meet new people, and a good way to start conversations on the bus. My conversations don´t get much further past that, but I am working on it. I teach much more during our lessons now, and I am learning lots.

I wish I had more time to study. I am learning new things every day and could stay home and study for hours every day in Preach my Gospel, Jesus the Christ, The Book of Mormon, and other scriptures. I should have paid more attention during Seminary and Institute, because this is some good stuff. Hear that Kami? Studying is good for you. Pay attention during class. But I will have years and years to study, but only one and a half to be a full time missionary. So that comes first. And I learn from teaching and hearing testimonies from our investigators too, so it is all good. 

Well I hope all is well with all of you! I love you all! And I love being a missionary! There is always more to learn, more people to find, more to do, more to say, more to share, and you can always become more close to Christ. Always be happy, but never be satisfied. We are learning and growing every day, and we have so many blessings in our lives, so always be happy! But never be satisfied. Go out and do more! There are more blessings waiting, I promise. 

Love, Hermana Markle. :)

Items of Business:

1. I didn´t know there was an earthquake.... So no, I did not feel it.... Oops...

2. I forgot to say, don´t ever send packages from UPS or FED-EX. Only the normal USPS has worked good for them. They loose other ones sometimes. Not that you will send me any anytime soon, but maybe tell the blog? Oh and tell them to send DearElders still. That way I can read them outside of email time. I don´t get them very often, but it saves timee. You can still send emails though!

3. Also, Spanish keyboards are hard to type on, sorry for all of the errors.

BYE! Have a good week!!!!

Letter from Hermana Peterson

Hermanas Garner, Peterson, Markle, Cragun, Elder/Dr. Cragun

Dear Sister Shauna,

I'm Senior Hermana Petersen & am from South Weber, Utah. My husband & I are technically called as Perpetual Education Fund/Self-Reliance Missionaries here in C.R., but I'm also a retired R.N. & have been helping Hna. Garner (on the right below). She was fielding the phone calls from all 240-ish missionaries here plus a Sister-trainer when I arrived in April. I've been fielding the calls from the English-speaking missionaries to help out. We've known for some time that one Hna.Markle was coming in August & the day has finally arrived : ) As you might know, Hna. Garner extended her mission 1 month to train your daughter. We also have a Latino Elder that's also an R.N. I believe the plan is to get him involved.

We're all VERY fortunate that Elder/Dr. Cragun, the Doctor over all the missionaries in Central America & his wife are here this week for all 3 days of Zone Conference. It'll get Hna. Markle off on a good start, because hopefully the missionaries will take to heart all the reminders that the Cragun's have given them to stay healthy. That equals less phone calls to the Mission Nurses & more productive missionary efforts.

I can tell already what a bright ray of sunshine she is! Thanks for your sacrifice in supporting her on her mission. I  LOVE THE HERMANAS!!

MOST WARMLY,

Hermana Petersen

Hermanas Markle, Peterson and Garner

August 25, 2014

Dear Familia,

Hola! I am definitely not in America anymore! But... I LOVE IT! Don´t worry about this too much mom, but I am already looking around to see if I can move back here one day... But it is only my first week, so maybe with time that will fade. I currently live in Concepcion de Tres Rios. This is the only area in the entire mission with NO humidity! Lucky me! We are in the mountains. It is good and bad. No humidity is amazing! But it still rains a lot. It is cold during the mornings and night, and hot during the day, but not bad at all. There are lots and lots and lots of hills though... So my calves are getting a good work out. For exercise every morning, we run up and down our street several times and it is worse than the street by Pleasant Grove High. So really I just jog/walk the hill for exercise. But the miles of walking and mountain climbing during the day also count. I like this area a lot so far!

All of the houses here have gates and barbed wire and locks. It is a safe place, but Pura Vida ruined Costa Rica."Pura Vida" or "Pure Life" is a very popular saying here. It started out as a simple, "No worries" to an extreme "YOLO". And now if you don´t protect your house with barbed wire and gates and locks, you are inviting people to enter your house and take what they want. So literally almost every single house in Costa Rica is locked up. But they still open their doors to us, so no worries.

The food is good. The members who feed us lunch everyday receive blessings for feeding us. So if we don´t finish the food they give us, we are taking away their blessings.. And they give us A LOT of food... Most of it tastes good, but I am definitely going to get fat. Even with the walking and giant hills. Like I almost die from overeating everyday at lunch time. It´s all good!

My companions are great! I am in a trio with Hermana Garner, the current Mission Nurse Specialist, and Hermana Uribe. Hermana Garner is from Meza, Arizona and studied at ASU for her BSN. She does not know Bri though. Hermana Uribe is from Central Mexico and was studying to become a Veterinarian. They are both amazing teachers, but I am going to "kill" them both. Seriously. Both of them will end their missions with me. They still work hard and are not super "trunky" yet, but we will see. We get along great! Except for one thing... President Wilkinson made them promise to only speak to me in Spanish... I have no idea what they are saying most of the time. It is loads of fun!

I am learning a lot, and my Spanish is much better, but I still have a lot to learn! When my companions talk to me, they speak slowly and clearly, so I understand several words and get a lot from context. But when our investigators speak... I understand nothing. So that is fun. It is hard to understand their needs, how to teach them, and how to pray for them if I don´t understand a word they say. But I try anyways! I teach my equal part of each lesson and sometimes they even understand what I am saying! Hahah Spanish is exciting.....

Our ward is amazing! They just built a big new chapel, so we have great attendance! And great means about 110-120 each week. We had two of our ify investigators randomly show up to church yesterday! It was great! We have two others with baptismal dates, but one just pushed hers back two weeks until her kids get here from Nicaragua. Most of the people in Concepcion are from Nicaragua. Everyone here is very friendly and most are open to listening to us. At least once. Less listen more than once, but we will find them!

Oh right, I will be the new Mission Nurse Specialist for the Costa Rica San Jose Mission as soon as my companion goes home in 9 weeks. She extended her mission an extra 4 weeks to help train me. Apparently they called Church Headquarters and asked to have me a transfer early, but headquarters never did anything about it. They have know I was going to be the Nurse this whole time, so I am guessing my call was supposed to say Nursing Specialist, but oh well. I was greeted warmly as soon as I got off the plane and everyone was excited to meet me in the office. The whole mission knew I was their new nurse except for me! It was funny! Basically it means that I get my own phone, which is a smart phone, and I answer calls all day from sick missionaries! I set up appointments, diagnose and give advice, and make sure everyone is staying healthy and clean. There is lots of extra paper work and phone calls, but I am also a regular proselyting missionary. So far we have only had maybe 10 calls this week, so we still have plenty of time to teach and find and invite. I will keep you updated on my new nursing duties, but for now they are focusing on training me how to be a missionary.

All is well and I am loving it so far! The Spanish is a little frustrating, but I am getting used to the schedule and work nicely. I am safe and alive and healthy!

I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Markle  :)

President and Sister Wilkinson

My New Companions! Hermana Garner and Hermana Uribe.

Hermana Garner from Mesa, AZ

Hermana Uribe from Central Mexico

It is so very GREEN here!

Our House! (all houses have bars and gates).

Our Street

Our Room

Our desks.

Our Kitchen

About 500 colones equal one American dollar.

El banyo

We have hot water in the shower!!! yay!

Still living out of my suitcases, but this time it is because we don´t have any more coat hangers or hanging space. And no dressers or drawers. So not my fault..... But I like it!

Our Frontrunner/Trax ride from the MTC to the airport!

My last photo with Hermana Fowler.

My meal First Class meal in the First class section.

Cute little bananas!

Another classic from the MTC!

August 19, 2014

COSTA RICA!!!

This is to let you know that I am alive, safe, and in Costa Rica!

Address:

Makensey Beth Markle

Mision San Jose Costa Rica

Apartado Postal 249-2010 Zapote

San Jose, Costa Rica

All mail and packages come here and I get them once a month. When claiming what is in a package, be very simple and general! (treats, missionary supplies) Never put medical supplies! Customs holds them and it costs money to get them if they decide to search my packages. (tell alli this soon please).

DearElder still works! Do that if you want! You just put my mission instead of MTC.

Join the facebook page Costa Rica San Jose Missionary Parents for pictures and updates.

I left my journal on the plane... Sad day. Kinda like deleting my photos. I guess I am not supposed to remember the MTC... BUT will you please get on Delta.com and make a claim for me?

It is a light blue journal with silver stiching of a temple. It has my full name in it. I left it on Delta flight DL14, Seat 32C, 18Aug, From SLC to ATL, 9:44am departure. Let me know how that goes please! Maybe they can send it to you? I dont need it right now, but I want it back when I get home for sure! Thanks!

My P-day is Monday and I will email you more then!

I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

P.S. I am the new Nursing Specialist for the Costa Rica San Jose Mission. All 230 missionaries here are now under my care... And Hermana Garner until she trains me and goes home. Fun stuff!

August 13, 2014

Familia,

So this week I have good news and I have bad news. Bad news, I don't have a Visa yet. Good news, I have plane tickets for COSTA RICA BABY!!!!! :) So they felt comfortable enough to buy all 28 of us going to Costa Rica plane tickets for Monday, so hopefully that means they are not worried about the Visas... That would be a lot of money wasted if they get delayed! So I am thinking we are all good! They said we will find out by Friday for sure though if we need to Visa wait or if we are good to go. YAY COSTA RICA!!!!! Wahoo!!!

Oh yeah, other bad news. I wasn't able to buy any sweet MTC sweat pants. Sad day. They finally got them in and I tried them on and the XS was super small and tight and the Small was super big and baggy. So I decided I will just buy a nice pair of Walmart sweats when I get home instead. Maybe even draw "MTC" on them with a sharpie. ;) They will be just as classy, right?

There are a lot of people here from Pleasant Grove. And they always come up to me and ask me who I hung out with, or someone from their district comes up to me and asks me if I know that Elder from their district. The answer is always no. You were in Junior High when I graduated High School. And The four years you spent in High School, I spent at College. But it is pretty entertaining. :) I did run into one of the Cook's cousins tho! Elder Stirling. I know his older sister Jessica, and Brian used to talk about the Sterling's occasionally, so almost a connection! 

Yes I got the packages!! And I loved it!!! Thank you!!! The binder was adorable and the baby PMGs were perfect! And Hermana Fowler says thank you too! She loved hers! And also, the peanut butter bars were still in perfect condition and I ate them all!!!! I only shared a few... That's why we had to punish ourselves with our new "health contract" (see photo). We ate wayyy too much last week. But they were delicious! :) And I also loved the photo books and laundry basket and racquet balls!!! We play with them every night... I am sure our neighbors hate us now... Oh well! And Thank you Katie for the battery!? I am assuming that was from you and not just your beautiful drawing of a camera! That will be perfect and it was very needed! It works in my camera great!

We got to go on an adventure to the doctors office for my follow up from sinus surgery! That was exciting!! The doctor saw me for like two seconds and said it was all good, but the adventure was great! Oh and the random red thing on my chin is gone, so it's all good.

I leave in 5 days!!!!!! So unless you want to send something immediately, stick to just emails from now on! I will assess the mail system in Costa Rica when I get there. :)

Ohhh yeah... Other super bad news... I accidentally formatted my SD card and it erased all of my pictures... But now I know what buttons not to push while on my mission... And at least it was only my MTC pictures.. But still. Will you please save all of the pictures I have sent home in a really safe place please?? :) Thank you! 

Now for some good news to counter that terrible news.. I had an excellent week this week! And I have learned so much more! I am almost ready for Costa Rica! Not in Spanish, I still need lots more Spanish learning. But this week was good. We had a feista for my teacher when he left, but not a normal feista, it was un espiritual fiesta! And I had some good pondering time. Before this week, I knew missions were good things, and service is super important and needed, but I sometimes I wondered what made me choose to do this, and 18 months seems like a super super long time. And maybe like it would be hard to get married and find a job when I get home. But those thoughts are no longer there. (okay, well maybe I still think getting married will be hard) But I now realize how amazing this opportunity really is. And I have realized that besides my decisions to follow our Heavenly Fathers plan and join my amazing earthly family in heaven, this is the best decision I have ever made. In my entire life. I have made some good decisions in my life, but serving a mission will bless my life more than anything has yet. And now I can bless the lives of others more than I ever have before. I am learning so much, and progressing towards my eternal goals so much more than I would have been at home. And even if getting married is hard and finding a job is hard when I get home and am old and moldy, this is worth it. I already love the people of Costa Rica and I haven't even met them yet! I am so excited to serve them and help them gain relationships with their Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ and feel their love in their lives! 

Have a great week and always be happy! I love you all and I miss you all! But not enough to come home, sorry! 

Love, Hermana Markle. :)

Items of Business....

1) No, I do not have a Visa yet. But neither do the other 27 going to Costa Rica.

2) Good luck indexing! It was way too hard for me last time I tried.

3) Brandon, you are a bum. Why only one to two replies? Don't limit yourself, just send letters!

4) Yes, Please send me another package! Thursday please! Hopefully you got my long list of things I need... Thanks!

5) Earlier this week I realized it was the fist time in 10 years I had gone an entire month without sending one text! But no, I haven't gone through withdrawals. Texting is super convenient and I wish I still could, but I never think about it at all here!

6) Feel better mom! Quit getting kidney infections! And go see Dr. Snow!!!

7) That is it for now! LAST EMAIL FROM THE MTC!!!! WAHOO!!! COSTA RICA HERE I COME!!!!

8) I love you all!!!! Have a good week!!!!

One of our teachers left us early because he was going to NC to visit his family, so we had a goodbye fiesta!

The PILLOW ROOM!!!!! It has 283 pillows in it! And they gave us 2 minutes to jump around inside while they took pictures! So comfy and so fun! I need a pillow room in my future house FOR SURE!!!! Easily entertained.

We got to take a shuttle to Provo for my doctors appointment! We felt like real missionaries out in the city for a little bit! We love adventures!

People drew "me" on the whiteboard. Apparently I am bossy? What?

We decided to punish ourselves for overeating last week. So Hermana Fowler made a contract for us to sign!

August 6, 2014

Hola mi familia y amigos!

It's been another fabulous week in the MTC! And we have less than 2 weeks until we fly out to Costa Rica! Yeah baby! We should get our flight information this Friday! If our Visa's come in... 

Mom, you now have two daughters in the family serving as Sister Training Leaders! Congratulations! For two more weeks at least! Hermana Fowler and I are now over all of the sisters in the Zone and help the Zone Leaders out with the Elders too, because they definitely need help. Tonight our assignment is to welcome 22 new missionaries into our zone! We are so excited to meet them! They are all going to Mexico except for two are going to Spain. Oh and I am also the new Senior Companion, so that is pretty cool I guess too! I am not sure if leadership assignments really count in the MTC, but oh well! 

Yesterday all the Hermanas danced in the rain! It was pouring outside last night so we danced for a good 10 minutes and then went and showered and got it bed. It was the best! We were preparing ourselves for Costa Rica baby!!! :) 

We may or may not have all fallen asleep in the temple... Hermana Fowler laughed at us after three of us woke up, and then two minutes later, she was out cold! The Spirit is so strong, we just felt so peaceful and couldn't help it! Our bads! We still learned a lot and enjoyed the beautiful temple though! :) 

After the temple we went and ate giant cheese steak sandwiches and they were delicious! And then made a stop at good old Sub Zero. I saw someone there from Hurricane and her mom used to be a nurse at Diamond Ranch Academy with me! So she called her mom and told her! And then she took a picture with me and sent it to her mom. I liked her mom, so it was cool!

We eat a lot of watermelon here. It is some of the only fresh fruit so it's the best. Like I think I eat a bowl of watermelon with every single meal. It's basically just water though, right?

Well, I am still learning a lot! Spanish is still really hard, but it is coming along.. And I still love my companion a lot! We are learning together! Something I thought about during my studies this week was how important the Holy Ghost is. Three things you need to gain eternal life are Baptism, Repentance, and the Holy Ghost. Baptism is usually a one time thing, but in order to have the Holy Ghost with you until you die, you have to be worthy of His presence until you die. And in order to be worthy of His presence until you die, you must continually repent, change, improve, and progress in this life. And conveniently, if you are doing your best to keep yourself worthy and clean, The Holy Ghost will help you to continue to stay worthy and clean and progress and improve and learn. So although baptism is super important, and that is one of our main goals as missionaries, an even more important goal is to make sure all baptized members are stay worthy of the Holy Ghost, making it to the temple, and enduring to the end. And all of this is made possible through our Savior Jesus Christ. It's no wonder our Missionary Purpose is... Invite others to come to Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of The Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. It all makes sense!

I hope you all have a super great week! Stay safe and happy! I love you all!

Items of Business... 

1. If you haven't sent my package yet, I thought of a few things you could send... Hermana Fowler has a mini English PMG, but she said she would love a mini Spanish Preach My Gospel if you want to make her one! She would love that! Also, maybe a package of face pads.  And maybe ... racquet balls? Someone sent their son a can of three racquet balls, and they have been super fun to play with. Maybe that is just because we are in the MTC and anything is fun.

2. Mom - how many names have the Young Women indexed verses the Relief Society? When does the contest end? And of course the YW are winning, half of your ladies are super old! I am sure your lesson was great though! 

3. Good job Katie on your fireside! Did you talk for the whole hour?? Did you mention me??

4. Cousin Maddie still didn't email me, will you just send me her email and I will send her one? She will be way too busy once she gets married this week!

5. Mom you know you can screen shot your InstaGram posts and email them to me right? How many likes did you get on your train story??

6. Brandon hasn't emailed or written me yet. I will send you a letter soon, but still. Do you actually read any of my letters? I know you don't read Madi's....

7. I think that's all for this week... I ordered MTC sweat pants and they haven't gotten here yet... I hope they do before I leave! I might mail them home and just wear them when I get home instead! we will see. 

Bye!!! LOVE you all!!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :) The only real Hermana Markle.

You just gotta love Hermana Fowler!

A GIANT letter from Kaitlin!

I got flowers! How cute! They were even from a boy! The fact that he is related to me and is my cousin, doesn't matter. Jake and Jodi sent them in a package with chocolates and candy and cards. So Sweet! :)

This tends to happen in class . . . .

It worked!!! My roommate got ALL my hair into sock bun and it worked! Everyone loved it! But it gave me a headache and ripped out some of my hair.. So that was the one and only time I will do a sock bun. It was fun while it lasted.

More photos of us at the temple.