Sister Daines: Week 2 in England!

my loves!!! pday is amazing!!! technology is amazing!!! ok so this week im emailing you from the chapel and i love it and it is SO sunny and it has been really warm and not even rainy this week! im sfb. (so flippin blessed). the chapel is right next to our flat like legit a 4 minute walk so thats amazing. ok but i apologize! because i forgot something SO important in the last email. it was the joke! doi!!! here it is.

did you hear about the kidnapping at that school?!??!??!

its ok......
he woke up.

lolzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. im hysterical.

ok this week was once again amazing! seriously guys i cannot convey to you how much Heavenly Father is blessing me and helping me be so happy and not homesick. in the words of my bff from jerusalem: 'God Loves Me!!!!!' so true. preach kenzie payton.

ok this week some things i wrote down to tell you:
-i have never had so much belief in miracles than i have on my mission. Ether 12 has taught me so much because i know that if i have faith in miracles then they WILL happen! seriously. its amazing. i have seen so many straight up miracles in this week alone and im sure many more will come. being a missionary is SO DOPE.

-we have a washing machine in our flat!!! we are so blessed!!!!!! i forgot to tell you that last week. LIFE IS SO GOOD!!! seriously Heavenly Father loves His sister missionaries so much.

-RAFA WAS BAPTIZED. it was incredible. ill send pics. she's this investigator sister johannes has been teaching and she progresses so much and was baptized and i just love her. shes 19 and from sao paolo brazil!! s/o to sis oldroyd! but anyway shes amazing and has such a wonderful light about her.

rafa!!!!! love that woman. we are the 3 best friends. (They just mock me all the time and tell me that i am the strangest person they have ever met and i say TRUUUUUUU)

-one night after call-ins our zone leaders called us and just played us breaking free from High School Musical on speaker for like 3 minutes. i was dying. they are so awesome and so funny. Elder Steuer is from germany dad so i always think of you and the funny euro guys you had to deal with on your mission. LOLZ he makes me lol.

-last pday i was so sad! because i just love you all so much! and because we met this AMAZING and kind woman named Maureen who was so old and lonely and sickly and ill and she was so sweet and she just reminded me of my sweet kind grans (not the sick and ill and lonely part) and i just thought about if my grans were all alone and so i cried after we met her. in the middle of town centre. it was so embarrassing but also looking back hilarious and classic sister daines because i WOULD cry about meeting a sweet kind old lady. but she is gonna come to church next week and she is going to meet with us and gain a testimony and feel so much love from the members of this ward! and also i was totally fine after that. that legit was the only sad day in England thus far. i love life.

We met this amazing old english lady named annie and she was SO amazing! Just two old Annie's looking disapprovingly at Sis Johannes.

-we met an investigator who is studying italian at the uni of kent and so he made us tiramisu for our first lesson with him. it was so nice and homemade and delicious!! (because we cancelled our dinner time to meet with him-- we are so busy and have so many appointments!!!!) but anyway it was so kind! but halfway through he was like 'oh yeah i didnt put that much wine in because i know mormons arent into all that stuff' and i thought he was joking! but nope. turns out he was serious and thats why dad never wanted us to eat tiramisu! lolz!!!!!! it was seriously so funny sister johannes and i were laughing so hard. but we talked to some lady in our ward and she said the alcohol cooks out so hopefully we are in the clear. LOL!!!

THIS ONE IS FOR DAD!!!!! i love wagamamas!!! and you!!! i love you even more than wagamamas daddy!!!! didnt eat there tho cause it was like 10 pounds so IM NOT ABOUT THAT LYFE.

-i always try to make sister johannes give me bites of her food and she says 'isok' like... 'umm... im fine. make youself your own dang food sister daines' hahahah she is SO good to me and puts up with so much (as you all can imagine lololol) seriously i am so blessed to have her. she is the BEST.
all day long when i get nervous or worried or annoyed about something she says 'isok, isok, isok'. so that has been the theme of my mission thus far. i will tell you when we talk on skype ;)

-i fell asleep during a weekly planning prayer LOL. those things are LONG. i promise i didnt try to though!!! lol!!

-ELDER HOLLANDS TALK WAS SO GOOD. seriously it was so amazing. i almost cried. i want every single person in the entire world to hear that conference talk. it truly was so amazing and inspiring. it changed my whole life. i seriously just love that man so much and i pray for him and his brethren all the time. something my testimony has really been strengthened in is what a legit miracle it is that we are able to hear from living prophets. like we are so lucky!! seriously i just love this gospel so much. we are so blessed.

-ok another thing i learned from sister johannes is that she said one day 'sister daines, on your mission you learn to love every single person you interact with. sometimes you don't like them, but you still love them.'
THAT IS SO TRUE. i truly love every single person i have met. honestly. its amazing because with everything about ,missionary work i have no room in my heart for anything but love for everyone. sometimes i feel annoyance but i am working on pushing that one out of my heart haha.

-also sister johannes told me to buy this cream to put on my face cause it helps with acne but it also helps with dryness... turns out its nappy cream. thats right folks. literally putting baby diaper cream on my face every night. YIKES. lol too bad it works so well so i still use it. ;) ;) ;)

i have never been more of a human disaster than on my mission but i have never been happier either. truly. i am so happy every single day. life is so amazing and God is so amazing and Elder and Sister Tuttle help us every day and feed us and take us grocery shopping (which you know makes me love them like 10000000x more than anyone else!!! but shhh!!!) and sister johannes is SO amazing and helps me be such a better teacher. she is such a good friend to me. did i tell you that we were at byu at the same time??? what are the odds???? we also had that same psych 101 class with crazy dr. flom but we both slept through it all the time so we never met!! lol!!!!!

I love you all more than i can convey. serious. pray for you all the time and love you all the time and youre just all amazing.

xoxox,

Sister Daines!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

A FEW CLASSIC SHOTS OF ANNIE--COURTESY OF HER COMPANION

fell asleep during dinner on the floor. that was the lowest of the low points. SIKE i loved it it was a very refreshing 15 minute nap. but lol cause i look like a weird burrito