September 28, 2020: Termination Time!

 The Alaskan term for when the Autumn leaves fall + the peaks turn white with snow = snow will be here in a week or 2...

Picture this... September 25th 2020, 8:57pm... Sis Wilhite & Rex driving home from the church. They drive by a dog mushing team carrying a 4 wheeler. We squealed to the heavens and rolled down windows screaming for literally 5 mins. JOY FOR DAYZ. 

Kinda cool that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is promised to grow until it fills the whole earth and it can NEVER be destroyed because it's the truth and it will live forever. [Isaiah 2:2-3] -> Let us climb up towards Jesus Christ by enduring the steep hike of life. This church IS the right place to be. 

I am commonly asked by other missionaries-"Sis Rex, why are you not wearing shoes? It's cold!"

Taught my first training for our district about the light of Christ! I know that the light of Christ is brighter than the sun soooooo during the long months of winter darkness, I am going to have to lean on him for warmth and comfort 24/7. No one can compare to Jesus Christ's matchless love:)

haha TEA- one of the Samoan Elders punched another elder in the zone... many sisters and elders here can't return home due to the border being closed and they are having to serve past their time. Let's just say some are a little angry with God and just want to go home. I mean who can blame them! They are stuck in Alaska for the winter when their home is literal paradise 24/7. I feel bad for them! So I talked with them when I saw they locked one of the "non-Samoan" elders outside of the car HAHA. Turns out they like to sing so I had the idea of doing a musical number with them in Samoan. When I said this, their face lit up with a huge smile! Hex ya promptings! We as a mission fasted for them to go home soon. 

Poking on Facebook IS THE NEW THING. It's like having snapchat streaks BUT everyone is doing it in our zone. We started poking other missionaries this week and I've gotten into poke streaks with missionaries all over the US... if you can't tell, being in half quarantine is driving us a bit crazy! My highest poke streak is 93! Stay tuned;)

Prank wars are ON! Elders tricking us that a box of rocks were cookies... Us drawing faces on balloons and throwing them in elders cars... rotten fruit exchanges... elders scaring us in our cars...

[Louis] is still amazing as ever. He loves the idea of having a prophet in the world today because he can't believe God would just leave us here without guidance to live by. He is going to watch conference this weekend! We taught a lesson to [Tammy] and she is all for it! We hope to get her husband in on the lessons. [Kathy] is a busy, but great Christian, single mom of a woman! We usually just serve her but she recently asked to take a lesson to get to know us better. #Score! [The Campbell Fam] is nice! They talked about EVERYTHING they could throughout the whole lesson. They rambled for 30 mins and I felt prompted to read them a scripture about what they were rambling about and boom lesson ended. Then they gave us a bunch of rotten fruit. YUMMY. 

Us sisters were asked to bear our testimonies of hope this Sunday and WOW the spirit was so strong as we each joyfully testified. The youth SEEMED fully engaged and I only saw one phone come out! The size of youth here is similar to the number of my past okie youth so it was cool to relate to them on a personal level. 

SERVICE-we do around 2 hours of service a day and oh my heavens. Alaska is full of people who love to collect things... tis the season to help people get rid of their yards full of dump like things & stacking wood. We beg for service from anyone we meet so we find joy in the circumstance of doing whatever we find! We even tore down a metal house! 

Honestly looking back, doing Online MTC was a blessing! It has prepared me to be a missionary in this growing time of technology. Being a missionary is the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, and the greatest work on the Earth today! 

S/O to Kait Bittle for my first ever received/mailed letter;) 

Smile more! Laugh more! Love Jesus more! Pray more! Joyfully testify more!

Have the determination of Joseph Smith this week, 

Sista Rex