hello family!      7/29/13

NOTE TO EVERYONE:   I DON'T KNOW HOW TO COPY PICTURES HERE--SORRY,  DSO

hope you are all doing well and happy. glad to hear about Grammys imaginary friends and see baby Retts huge head, as usual.   real good, real good.

This week has been great.   On Monday we went to the Hindu temple here in town and saw what that was all about. very interesting. then we went to a corn field and ran through it. i went a few rows in from the road and started feeling lost. haha those things are scary. that was a first for me, but super fun. hopefully i can do it again :) maybe we will today.. hahah

Then on tuesday we had an awesome experience.. we were tracting in this neighborhood that is middle class and we were across the street and sister P. and I saw this lady across the street that we both thought we should go talk to, and so when we got around to her house she let us in first thing.  that house felt like coming home. there was the smell of fresh baked bread in the room and there was such a special spirit an it was just amazing. she was so friendly and later we came to find out that she cans! (like cans food)  we taught her about the Book of Mormon and the usual stuff and she invited us to come back. the second we walked out of her house, sister Pankretz and I looked at each other and said " she cans!!!"  (it being a sign of mormonisim and all) so she is pretty much mormon. hahaha so excited to see her be baptized. its gonna happen for her!  (just dont know when yet) yay!! 

on thursday we went to Kenny Ustads again ( is my 92 yr old adopted grandpa) the WW2 Veteran?  ok yeah so before he joined the marines he was a cowboy, so he has a nice collection of whips and can crack his whip and blow out candles.  is pretty cool! so we went to help him try a couple of different ways to do it ouside, because our lesson yesterday in gospel principles was about talents, and the teacher asked  Kenny if he could share this talent with us. so we were helping him prepare to do that. it was so cool. and fun to watch. and then he let us try and crack the whip. it is a lot harder than it looks. thats for sure.   i learned from Kenny that when the whip cracks it is going between 700 and 900 MPH and is breaking the sound barrier. that is why it is SO lound!   pretty cool! learn somethin new everyday.  

Also that day was SO awesome becasue i got to see my freind Hillay Zapata from school. Hillary is just so sweet and i love her so much. it was great to have her come with us and to see her. this is her home ward (not sure if i mentioned that or not) but she came home from school and so she came out with us to do a couple stop bys and that is when we met Elizabeth. Elizabeth is hungarian and speaks pretty good english. she just let us right in and we taught her about the BOM and invited her to church and she CAME! so much happiness. kinda disappointed - sacrament was especially boring this week. oh well. hopefully she will come again. so we are going to see her on wednesday.

boy oh BOY did i find the black community!!  i mean, girl, if you had been there, you would have been like WHAAAT?!!  

and you best believe i love them. we met two older black gentlemen with a few teeth missin here and there that we are going to teach. they are so funny. and so interested. it will be fun. 

and we are still teachin Shirley. She is better than good. she real good.  she is still learning. we are trying to explain to her the difference between the sin of lying and the sin of abortion.  shes interesting to say the least.  but so funny! AHH! i just love the blacks! they have so much soul and are just hilarious to be around.  

ok enough.. exciting news is that we planned Isaacs baptism saturday. and so everything is set and ready for that mostly. it will be great!  Isaac is awesome he told us saturday that he already shared the restoration DVD with his friends. hes not even a member and he is already missionary minded! AWESOME!! 

I am doing so good! i love this work. i LOvE LOVE love this ward. they are so awesome. love the people here and love the support we have.  its so great.

peace and blessin's

 

Sister O'Neil  

Mom  will you include Emily  and Chelsea in the forward?  organic.em@earthlink.net , Chelseasrad@gmail.com 

 Also i am sending my temple clothes today. so hopefully you will get them sometime this week.  And mail takes FOREVER to get to me.  its weird. 

love codys letters! he is hilarious! hahaha so SO funny!