Friday, November 27, 2015



Coyotes
Hillary
Passé-Carlus
Kaiser
President
Let's get down to it then!!!
Yes. We dropped off Sister Weidmann Wednesday. Nope. I REALLY don't
like sending sisters away. I just realized I haven't eaten her Swiss
chocolate she gave me at the airport.. Woopsie.
We had a bit of time before hand, so we hung out by the water for a bit :)
Then we picked up Sister Kaiser!!!! Funny story.. Sister Kaiser is a
Temple Square sister! She's from Switzerland too!!! Her and Sister
Weidmann grew up in the same town ha! Their very different but the
bluntness is still there ;)
Love her! When president called her name to be sister Seo's
companion... I laughed... So hard.
Another one of my kindred spirits out here is Sister Passé-Carlus from
France! She's a Battalion sister called English speaking (although she
does teach a little in French) BUT! President just transferred her to
the Mandarin group SO SHE'S IN MY DISTRICT NOW! Same Ward in fact. So
funny. She's doing great learning mandarin!
So... We have these coyotes outside our apartment that we hear
laughing every night. Yesterday for our run, we went down this dirt
road and one popped out of the bushes. I stopped. The other sisters
almost ran into me, but I just kind of starred at it... And it starred
back. After a minute... We just kind of walked away. ADVENTURE! Haha
Oh my goodness. Thursday morning, I get this text from one of our
summer sales members saying that one of my investigators I taught was
Baptized in France. Of course I burst out crying. I feel bad....sister
Hendrix thought someone had died. There's A LOT of back story with
Hillary, but man... In that moment, I was the happiest I've ever been.
Completely enveloped in God's love. To the point where I couldn't do
anything else but cry on the floor.
Pray for those in France.
HA! Sunday, President was randomly standing outside our church
building, talking with the ASL Elders. We walk over and apparently he
was there to speak with the Mandarin sisters, but forgot they met an
hour later than our 1 o'clock sacrament. So! He stood outside with us
for a half hour and helped us greet our members  everyone was all
"oooooh sisters. What did you do this time?". It was so much fun just
getting to stand there and chat with him. I've been blessed to have
had many opportunities to get to know my Mission President. He's the
best one out there in my opinion ;)
One member in particular walked up to sister Hendrix, shook her hand
and said "you look new". Walks up to me, shakes my hand and says "you
look old" then walks away... President laughed pretty hard.
That's all I have time for this week folks!
Keep on Keepin' on :)
-Sister Carlson
                                                                 Good bye Sister Weidmann from Switzerland


Welcome New Sister Kaiser From Switzerland


Mhm....
Just one.
One year left.
What?
No.
Stop!
TRANSFERS TOMORROW! Staying in La Jolla haha! Sister Hendrix thinks
I'm going to be a 6'r. BUT! We're still going to transfer meeting
tomorrow to pick up sister Seo's new companion. Ha! Still on a roll of
making it to every single transfer meeting ;) Dropping off Sister
Weidmann first thing in the mornin'.
.... Again... Not looking forward to that.
K is still pressing for her baptismal date on the 28th! Love that girl!
Hmmmm. What happened this week? I don't even know 
Ah! Yesterday, Sister Hendrix was sick, SO! We dropped her off at our
Ward mission leaders home to let her rest with his wife while I went
out teaching with YSA! We added a TON of people (well.. For YSA, but
it was still fun haha). Walked and talked with W, and read with
T I'm the BoM! I don't think I've ever shown a picture of W,
so we took one together so y'all could meet her. We meet with her
every Monday and she's the sweetest lady in the world.
This morning we went to the temple! I thought of Camilla the entire
time and thought "huh, as close to being at the actual wedding as I
can be" ;) LOVE HER!
Last service at Grandma's for Sister Weidmann! We had some Dragon
fruit that Grandma grew herself! So delicious 
Our Ward mission leader's wife, Sister McBride, asked me to sing with
her this Sunday. His Hands. It's crazy alto. I don't think anyone can
sing it better than Peg though...
A bunch of investigators that have all suddenly been getting harder
and harder to keep in contact with. But it's ok because we plan on
adding like mad this week. Our Zone is on FIRE! And our ZL just got
transferred to be one of the AP's  I'll miss Elder McNaughten!!!!
Well got to go help Sister Weidmann pack. Ah! There is never enough time!
I'm glad to still be here in La Jolla though. Love y'all!
-Sister Carlson



Hola!  
So! This past Sunday was pretty great and here is why:
We got a call from one of the YSA members that work at the temple as a
security guard. He told us there was this woman from Thailand that
wanted to go to church! Aha! We ended up meeting her there AND IT WAS
THE BEST! I respectfully greeted her with a "sawadi-ka!" Hands
together at the chest, head bowing touching le nose to le finger tips.
I continued "shun ben sister Carlson-ka, poosan sa-sa-na"
.... I feel bad because her eyes lit up and she started speaking full
blown Thai at me.. I blushed and explained that I only knew a little.
SISTER SAEDAN THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME THAI! And... I wish you could
have been there
That same day, the ASL elders introduced me to two deaf/blind
brothers. They were both SO excited to meet a sister missionary haha!
I just told them my name + sign name and my companions name. I
couldn't converse with them for very long but it was fun :)