Laynie's Mission

Yello! 🍒 How are we? 🎅 I am excited to share thee wild events from this week 🌪🚘  So first off... we indeed did have to shelter for a tornado this week 😛 I'm not going to lie, I did pray for a tornado the other day... but when we actually heard the sirens, it was a lil scary! ⚡️⛈️ Thankfully nothing came through my area, but the storms down here are like NO other 📢😮  ^^in the shelter (with so many hispanics) 😸 Anyways! 🐒 First week of the transfer and we are rock and rollin 🎸🪨 We have our friend Mario getting baptized this week 🪅🎊 And also helping our friends Sara, Keven, Galdino and Morena work towards their baptisms very soon 🚀 Mario is awesome and we have worked with him for a long time, so keep him in your prayers! 🌊  We had MLC yesterday! 🫂 (mission leadership counsel), so I got to see my mission g's! 🥂 Everyone was jealous we had tornado sirens the day before 🥱 But in reality, President Hathaway snd Sister Hathaway are so awesome 🎀 I love them! 🏆...

W e are 4 months into the mish! 🥶🍻 I start my 3rd transfer tomorrow, which is quite wild ⏳️ We got transfer news last night, and I am staying in my area for another transfer! 🌮 With my bestie, Hermana Willets as STL's🏆👑 I am very excited about it 🐒 We have actually been having so much fun, and we started a podcast 🦄 We have a bunch of friends on date right now 🌊 Basically, we have just been inviting everyone to be baptized lately, because everyone should have that invitation extended to them! 🪙🎁 We have also been seeing crazy awesome miracles, especially in the past week 📢 Here's one of them: 🪇 We were in Ross (yes mom and dad we public contact in Ross - muchos hispanos) 🇲🇽 And we ran into a mega tall hispanic dude 🏀 We start yapping it up with him, and he's like "Yo bros i'm already a member- but my lit wife over allá wants to be baptized cause she's not a member" and we were like "dawg no way we can definitely help her do that" ...

  Hi fam! 🍓 How are we? 🙉 I hope you had a good week! ☀️  This week was so fun. 🎬 Being a missionary is so fun 🤹‍♀️ We had our 2nd exchanges of the transfer on Friday!🪅 I lead out the area with CUTIE Sister Kotter! ⭐️ She is an English missionary, so hopefully she had a good time listening to me speak Spanish all day haha 🌮 We probably met 45034 more Juans and Joses as well! 🚜 We need to start getting these dudes last names, because we accidentally switched 2 of them 🦧👽 On Sunday, we had an old guy (named Jose) call us and tell us he was at church 🧨 After talking to him for a minute, we realized he was in fact at the WRONG church 🤖 So, we drove to the church he was at and said "Come follow us!" And led him to the true and restored church 😇 🕊 On Monday, our beloved members the Crocketts fed us 🙏🛐 At the end of the dinner, Sister Crockett asked if we had '2 minutes' 🎂 We proceeded to go pick most of the flowers in her yard, and make cute bouquets 💐🌸🌼 ...

Happy Wednesday after Easter! 🐰💐 He is Risen 🕊 Comment down below and lemme know how your Easter was! 🪅🎶 We had a wonderful Easter down here in Arkansas 🐣 We had a family of 6 show up to church 🚨 and they are AWESOME 👑 We also had enough non-member visitors in church that there was clapping after the musical numbers 👏🎬😏 At church the missionaries also got to sing 'Gethsemane' 🌳 (shoutout CCM district) and it was pretty bad 🦧 but the members said we sounded like angels! 👼☮️  Yesterday, I got to experience my first MLC! (Missionary leadership counsel)🪇🪇 It was really fun and I got to see some of my favorite people in the mission 🫂👁 I also almost won a PMG challenge, against everyone else there 🏅🏆 #iamonlyinT2 So yeah! 🛝 Me and Hermana Willets are just having a blast together 🎎 and I continue to learn from her everyday 🍼 I feel so blessed to have had awesome companions, who are hard workers and are easy to love 🌺 You know we're besties when we've be...

This week was a quick one ⛽️ We had Zone Conference on Friday 🐒 which was awesome 🎠It is always a privilege to hear from President Hathway, and the things he has cooked up for the mission 🛸 We are about to be seeing big things happening 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 Other than that, Sunday was a powerful one for our Spanish branch 🌊 We had 2 weddings and 4 baptisms happen! 🌈 🙌 It was sick- the branch is growing, and it is a privilege to witness! 🎯  Yesterday, we did our first STL exchange of the transfer 💃 I spent the day with cutie Sister McDonald 🎉 She has been in the field for 2 weeks, and she is a fun, hard worker 🦋 We saw a lot of miracles, and put someone of date for baptism! 🦆🦆 I have been loving finding people to come to church this week, because who doesn't want to be at church on Easter? 🐰🌻💐🍫 I have also been LOVING the Gospel Library Easter study plan, and I would highly encourage you go read that to know why we even celebrate Easter 😶‍🌫️🦩 It's GOOD 🍿 Other than tha...

 Aloha amigos 🏵 Twas another solid week here down in Arkansas 🍒  Got a new companion on Thursday! 🎠 Me and Hermana Willets have been grinding the work away this week 👩‍🍳 She is awesome though 💯 Her Spanish is phenomenal and she LIKES TO RUN 🗣🗣 Lets gooooo #soblessed ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 The weather here has been wild. ☀️🌧🌩❄️ In the course of this week we have had 40 degree days and 85 degree days, the most rain i've ever experienced in my life, some pretty good sunburns and tornado warnings! 🐒🦧 Arkansas will keep you on your toes 👣  General conference was this past weekend 🏆 If I am being honest, I watched all of the sessions in Spanish, and I didn't catch a lot 🤕 So I am excited to go back and read every single talk! 🦅  But email me and let me know what your favorite talk or part was! 🍿🍿 Even though I didn't understand conference super well 🎭 it was pretty incredible watching our friends we are teaching and our recent converts watch conference 🐦‍🔥 It is s...

  Happy April! 🐤🌸 I love this month! 🦄 It's general conference ❤️‍🔥 EASTER 🐰 and SO many of my favorite peoples birthdays! 🎂 This week was the last week of the transfer! 🏝 We had a call last night, and I am getting a new companion, Hermana Willet 🐞 and we are STL's! (sister training leaders) for the Fort Smith Zone 😨 Hermana Willet is starting transfer #4, so... time for mySpanish to grow like crazy ⬆️🚨  On Monday, we found out that the Arkansas, Bentonville mission baptized 108 people in the month of March 🍏🍀🌊 I feel so blessed to be in this mission at this time! 🚀 Dispite that number though, I am so proud of every missionary that is dedicating their time to changing peoples lives 💌 Whether they get baptized or not 🪀  Yesterday one of our friends who is on-date had her birthday! 🎀 If you know me, you probably know that I LOVE BIRTHDAYS 🎉🌟 So, we got her a pink cake, and I decorated it with her name 🍒 Helping people and serving others is truly the medi...

  This week was actually so good. 🦅 Between meeting an apostle and shaking his hand 🪬, to eating s'mores that little kids made us on the street 🍫, there were so many things to be grateful for 🥹🍦  So yeah, I met Elder Renlund and his wife this week! 🚀 Probably one of the coolest things I have ever experienced 🔮 They are actually HILARIOUS in person, and they constantly made us laugh throughout the meetings 🎅 I got to hear from him in our missionwide conference, and also in the Fort Smith Stake Conference! 🐵 We were SO blessed to have him come 💐 Except, our Stake Conference meeting was at 9am... and the hispanics we tried to get to come to church were not fans of that 😴💤🇲🇽🚫 We got to have dinner with the branch president and his family on Sunday 🙏 and wow- they are incredible 🦋 When I think of people who are putting all their "time and talents" into the lords work, and enduring to the end with joy- they are very high on my list! ❤️❤️ The Crocketts are truly...

  What a week! 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳 It was so quick! So many powerful things the past 7 days that were awesome. 🐍🙏 We had Elder and Sister Ringwood come last weekend! 🌻 Sister Ringwood is the prophets daughter 🐐 and to hear from both of them made for a really great day. 💯🚀 After the meeting, I got chosen to interview with Elder Ringwood 😨 and that was such a special opportunity that I will never forget. 🔥📝 On Saturday I was so happy, because we went to the track 🙏💃 but I soon found out (after running 5 miles) that the air quality was 415! 🪦🕊 Whoops! I indeed had a headache for the rest of the day... but I am never passing up an opportunity to run. 🐋🐋 We got to watch José receive the priesthood on Sunday🥕 which was amazing. José has so much faith 🥹 and it is the best reminder of how much joy Christ and the gospel brings me and others. 🛸 Yesterday, we headed up to Bentonville to do "Transfer 1" Training! 🍼🍼 (A transfer is 6 week periods) It was so fun! 📈 It was fun t...