YOU GUYS!!!! i seriously am SO excited about Clara. my heart cannot even contain how excited and proud i am for what will most likely be the cutest and funniest sister missionary in the world. I cant wait to find out where she goes!!! ahh!!!!

This guy got us AMERICAN chocolate.  He was so excited to show it to us. (Little does he know Cadbury is 1000X better lolzies.)  But he was so nice and excited about the Baby Ruth's he got us!! He was even more excited when I told him my moms name is Ruth.

ok this week in church this really cool funny lady comes up to me and basically i cant remember her exact quote but she is a professor at oxford i think (her sister is in my ward so she was just visiting) and she was like you arent related to Robert Daines are you??? and i was like yeah thats my dad doi! and she was like (essentially) hes so legit and famous and im very familiar with his work and blah blah so basically dad is just a big deal on the INTERNATIONAL level. so good on ya dad. haha it made my whole day! except not because ALSO that day our recent convert got the Priesthood. he was so so so excited about it it was the best thing. seriously it made me so happy to see him progressing so well. he is so cool! 

(LOVE)

ok also i hit 8 months on my mission last week. what the heck!! who would have thought it would have made it this far (not me kids) i just really really really love everything im learning. dad asked me what im learning or working on, and i feel like theyre one in the same. im learning that we never are really ''good'' or done on something. like even when i think that im ok in one aspect, i never am. i just need to keep striving to be better, kinder, more diligent, more christlike, because if im not then i just turn into this big lame-o lump. so something that my mission is really teaching me is how to keep improving and not become complacent.

highlight of the week: all the delicious food we ate.
also our investigators cooked us pulled pork and it was SO GOOD. i love them so much they are basically members already.

Our investigators who cooked us pulled pork!  All of the glasses in their house were pint glasses hahaha.  She was like "don't worry guys!!! These are from a long time ago.  

lowlight of the week: (is that a word? oh well im making it one): sister benson told me that when im on the phone with our zone leaders my eyes roll so far back into my head that she feels like she needs to pinch them so that they stay put. hahhahahhahahahaha love myself

The most wonderful time of the year!!!!!!!The Christmas lights went on last week because we don't have Thanksgiving to get in the way of Christmas-time.  HEYO

ok you guys seriously i dont know if you know how excited i am for Christmas and how lucky i feel to be here for it. i love you guys all and i am SO HAPPY!! I LOVE MY LIFE LOVE MY MISSION LOVE MY COMP LOVE YOU ALL

xoxooxoxoxoxo

sister daines (the OG sister daines tho... lets not forget who was number one) (haha just kidding clara youre better than me ok over it)

LOVE YOU!!!

OFFICIALLY FALL IN NORWICH

YOU GUYS!!!! i have been so remiss in writing you and I am so sorry! Seriously i need to step my game up!! so this is gonna be a very wordy email..

these past few weeks in norwich have been SO GOOD. I AM DOING SO WELL AND AM SO HAPPY.



we are teaching some really really really cool people.. here are my faves:

-this couple that referred themselves online, they are so cool and i just love them and really want them to get married so they can get baptised so that they can get sealed in the temple to their super cute kids . we taught the daughter, Gracie, (love that name) this week and it was SO GOOD. she is so cute and just has so many questions and said the sweetest prayer at the end of the lesson. she whispered it in my ear first to make sure that it was ok to say. love her.

-the crazy ginger guy that belives in Thor. worst moment of my whole mission--- having to teach the Law of Chastity to him. oh my goodness. it was such a mess and at one point i accidentally made eye contact with sister benson and we both laughed so hard its not even real. i could not stop laughing. it was so bad.

-our chinese friend martin who bought us chinese food so that was the DREAM. it was authentic aka not as  good as panda express but what can ya do ;)
he is trying to get baptised in the next two weeks so everyone just keep martin in your prayers. side note: all the university students from china pick english names for themselves but they are all kind of weird english names.. like fergus and yolanda. lolzies. love em.

This is Martin!  We taught him about the word of wisdom while we watched fireworks!! Lolz!! Good thing we're such good missionaries

ok also this week whenever we hit the streets and try to find people to teach they ALWAYS ask us about donald trump. its a mess. i looked on facebook and literally thought it was a joke that he won. unreal. but what can ya do besides move to the UK for a year and a half am i right kids??

The aforementioned fireworks.  5 November y'all

i have been thinking so much about why some people are just happy and good and positive and why some people complain and are sad and miserable. for example:: this week we went to a members house for dinner. she basically is my idol. she has two sons and one has downs syndrome and she and her husband both work to try to be able to support their family and she is SO AMAZING. like... she is just so positive and happy and CALM. and so funny! she and her husband are SO funny. she is calm and composed and kind and sweet and ah i just love her!!!  and then the next day we went to another persons house and i wont go into too much detail but they are super blessed and basically, from my point of view, don't have that many trials at all. but the mom just complained the entire time!! and every other time that we talk to her!! and i was thinking about how its not just being religious or knowing about the restored gospel that makes or breaks it. its the way that you CHOOSE to be. does that make sense? its all about the attitude that you choose to have and the things that you choose to be happy about. so this week  (and hopefully every week from now on) i want to choose to be happy and choose to love every person that crosses my path.

This is our fav fellowshipper.  I always tell her how beautiful she is, and she goes "I know" 

This is Martin.  Also my wellies have holes in them.  rip my feet 

The sweetest little girl in the world.  She loved primary!!! So do I.  Wish I could still go to primary instead of RS hah

i love you guys so much!!! i am doing so well and seriously feel so blessed to be here! aside from when it gets dark at 3pm and everyone that we talk to is homeless. what can ya do.

i am so thankful for you guys and for my Father in Heaven and for my actual father and for this ward that i am serving in and for my adorable companion and for my sweet leaders and just for all of the amazing blessings HF has blessed me with.

love lvoe love love love love love,
sister daines

ALSO!!! this week i ran into a pole. that was not clutch. and i fell asleep IN A LESSON. it was so embarrassing. my poor greenie had to teach the whole thing to this sweet older less active lady and then when she asked a question my comp tried to wake me up and i responded with ''Abraham is older than Isaac'' AND THEN FELL BACK ASLEEP. hahhaahahah i am the worst. but that night i walked into the pole so i think that it was comeuppance.  anyway! love you lots!! ill send pics in like 3 minutes!