7 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!

Buenos tardes todos,

IM OFFICIALLY 7 months into my mission! wow....this is really the weirdest time of my life. It has flown by, but also gone so slow! only 2 more months till i get to skype my family again! wahhhh!:)

This week (yesterday) part of my tooth broke off.....it was super
weird. It was my back molar and now I have this huge hole in my tooth
and I'm scared to eat anything because I don't want to get food in it
and I dont want to get a cavity there because then ahhhh I would have
to go to the dentist and wouldn't be able to do missionary work. Not
going to lie I freaked out a little bit when part of my tooth fell
out. I immediately wanted to call Dad and ask what I should do, but as
you all know I can't do that. I'm a little scared to have another
dentist other then my dad work on my teeth.....I have been so spoiled
my whole life to have my dad as my dentist.
I hear Feef got so excited when she heard about my tooth because she
thought I was coming home to get my tooth fixed, but then got sad and
upset at the dumb rules of how I have to stay. :) that story broke my
heart!!!!!! Little (not so little) Feef just know that if I could come
I would in a second because I miss you that much!!:)

On my mission I have been fed spaghetti WAY too much!!!!! And a couple
days ago I said I would throw up the next time a member fed me
spaghetti and then the next day for lunch guess what we
had.......spaghetti...-_-. I never want to eat spaghetti ever again.
. I get fed SOOOO much!! Literally thanksgiving everyday! Therefore I am fat.....just
expect that when I come home. Hahaha I have just embraced it at this
point. But i am grateful that i am being fed and not having to starve:) i do count my blessings!

So people always say "dont you just love your mission!" 

and in my head i think "that is like asking me if i liked going to track practice!"

No one likes to go to track practice because it is so tiring and completely exhausting

but we do it because we like to win in track meets!:) and thats the same for the mission. 

Most of the time here on the mission you are completely exhausted and tired. 

You dont fit in and all you can talk about is the gospel. You miss your family, friends, music and

wearing normal clothes.. 

and you are constantly doing things that you dont want to do, BUT its all worth it when you get to baptize someone:) Dont get me wrong though there were some days that i really enjoyed track practice. When we had water balloon fights and worked hand offs. and that is just like the mission. 

There are some days that are really fun:) i would have to say more then there were fun days 

in track. But what i have learned from it all is to always find the good in every situation. 

No matter how tired you are, how awkward you feel, how much your companion hates you, 

you just need to laugh and find something to be happy about! Im my case i think of how the situation could be worse and then i am grateful for what i have been given at that very moment:) 

Also i forgot to mention last week i saw Amy and Lauren Allison at the temple, they put a pic of facebook and it was so cool! one of the many great things about being here in San Diego is that

i am going to see SO many people that i know from other places and i just love it! (sorry Tyson Bakerfield is not as much as a vacation spot as San Diego!;) 

Ohhh and every should read the conference talk "Approaching the Throne of God with Confidence" ITS SOOO GOOD!! Kaylee Tori and Sophia if you ever have to give a talk in church or talk about spiritual stuff you should really read this talk for help! it is sooooo good!:) you should all read it in family home evening! 

I love you all so much and miss you like crazyyyyyy! wish me luck in getting my tooth fixed....-_-

XOXOX 

Sister Olivia Price 

Peter got baptized!!!

HELLLOOOOOOOO, 

so this week was really interesting! we do this thing in the mission called MTE's (missionary training experience) and its were we have training from our mission president for half a day, then we switch companions for the rest fo the day and then the next day we get more training from our mission president. They are not my favorite things, but thats ok because we do them every 3 months. and i was so lucky to get a companion that speaks mandarin Chinese......so for the rest of Wednesday i went and taught people in chinese. Now i know what you are all thinking where in the world did i learn chinese. to answer that question i didnt. i had NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON!!!!!! haha its was so weird because all the people that the mandarins teach are college students and we went and taught then at UCSD. It was so werid to be on a college campus again and i could just imagine how weird it would be if i was in college and saw the missionaries teaching some kid in the library....yup that would be me. so it was a really weird experience and i learned a little bit of mandarin. 

Also i went on exchanges with my trainer and first companion Sister Stirland! it was so great!! she is literally the best missionary ever and i love her to death! we are much better friend now that we are out of training and i know what to do!:) so it was really nice to get to spend the day with her and to actually have someone to talk to because my companion never talks to me....im really working with her on it. 

Anyway my firend Peter Rej got baptized this week!! woo! Baptism number four! so exciting! i cant believe that Februrary is almost over.... this is so weird. Before you know it i am going to be home again! wahh! seven months has flown by, well some parts of it have. but anyway im going great! just trying to make all the battalion sisters my best friends because i have to hang out with them so dang often! 

and i hope you all read my email about what i learned this week! it was pretty dang cool:) God is good! 

i love you all so much and send lots of love from San Diego!!! 

enjoy the pics and videos and i missed an email from Kaylee this week...:(

XOXOXOX 

Sister Price

Day 203

i have almost made it to 7 months!! i thought for sure i would have gone home by now! lol still going strong so that is a straight miracle!;) 

I sent you all a really long email about the spiritual experience that i had this week and i hope you will all read it with care and feel the spirit as you read it because that came right from my heart. And i know my family is not a very spiritual family.....(dont try to deny it y'all need lots more of Jesus!) so please family read that email with an open heart. Read it so you can to a small extent understand how hard this is for me. ok? 

On that note since i know how much my family loves hearing about my spiritual experiences (not at all they probably hate it...-_-) i will instead talk about all the cool people that i met this week. So this week i ate at this members house and his name is Russel Phill and he FILMED THE SHOW SURVIVOR!!!! He is soo cool and has a house right on the coast so outside his window he has a great view of the city and the ocean. The best part was that he fed us a nice steak dinner! A STEAK DINNER!!!!! he knows how to treat the missionaries! His wife is a dentist so she is literally Dr. Phill! haha how cool is that! He had some cool stories to share with us and let us bring all the extra food home! so i had steak dinner 2 nights in a row! Wooo! i literally have the best mission in the whole world! 

Then last night i ate at the Sandfords home, he is in the bishopric and he is soooo funny! He is the one that send a pic to Mom:) the first question that he asks me and my companion when we sit down to eat is "Soooo did you leave any boyfriends at home..??" 

lol who says that?  But he is my favorite person in the ward so far because i feel so at home with him and his family. His wife is so nice and cooks amazing food! If i could i would just spend my days at the members homes and not go find new investigators because the members are so fun to hang out with!;) i am one lucky missionary. Last night we went to go to a part members house and we drive up to the house and my mouth drops to the floor. This is probably a 10 million dollar house. IT WAS HUGE!!!! on the coast witha view of the city and had a huge double wide metal fence with stairs leading up to it. It had huge hedges and then you walk up to the house and there is a massive fountain that you could bathe in, then you keep walking and you walk right past this MASSIVE pool with a diving board and umbrellas and chairs all around it. wahhh it was so amazing. but no one answered...but dont worry because i will be going back to it! haha 

So yeah this week as full of great moments and really really terrible ones. But the weather is perfect here in SD and i am so blessed to be here. Pray that we will be able to find new investigaros and have less rejection (although i think thats bound to happen) but anyway i love you all so much and hope you have a great week. Please email me about the spiritual experience that you have this week because i want to know!:) tell me things that you learned, your goals, things you learned from the scriptures and so forth. 

ok family?? do i need to say this again EMAIL ME THE THINGS YOU LEARNED< SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE!!!!!!! ok?? SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE!! i say this because i tell y'all to read different conference talks and read certain things and tell me how it goes and no one ever does....-_- i want to know the feelings of your heart and what you are thinking about. Not so much the tedious things that you did during the week!:) ok? have i made myself clear family?? step up the game with spiritual experiences! 

^^^^^^^^this does not apply to grandma and grandpa Nikole or Tristan. :)

i love you all so much! even though i called you all to repentance in this email!;) i really do love you and miss you SOOOO much every single day! cant wait to hear all the spiritual experience you have this week! 

XOXOX 

Sister Olivia Price 

Liv❤

Coronado Island

The new area that i am in is SOOOO amazing!!! it is literally a vacation spot! I see the ocean all the time when i go into my area and i actually feel like i am in California compared to serving in Linda Vista. There are all kinds of cute little shops and super nice houses! OH MY GOSH THE HOUSES ARE SO NICE in Point Loma and Ocean Beach! Look it up online and you will see how spoiled i am! this is literally the best area in the entire mission. I even get to go to Coronado Island. AN ISLAND!!!! also look that up because it is way cool! (Sorry Tyson i will show you pics of it when i get home) So i love the ward i get to serve in and the area, its so nice and when people ask my how i got so lucky to serve in this area i tell them its because i suffered and lived in Roswell for so long! lol:) 6th ward is not so ghetto as Linda Vista is. Random people in LV would tell us that we should not walk around at night because there are sketchy people on the streets and that the LVC (Linda Vista Crips) would find us (thats the gang in Linda Vista that legit kill people) but i wasnt scared because im from Roswell and if you can make it there i think i can make it in Linda Vista.  

So my last comp always had sooo much energy and it was slightly exhuating, but now the new companion that i have never talks to me......its literally silent for most of the day that i am with her......not use to that. But she is super nice when she does talk to me. She speaks 3 languages and sadly english is not her favorite. So she tires all the time to not speak in english so yeah its going to be great. 

Ohhhh and ASIA got baptized this week!!!! WOOOOO!!!! i will send you pics of it! it was a great baptism because someone brought like a million boxes of fresh donuts!!! i was in heaven! 

Anyway lots of rejection this week, so that was nice and the investigator we had with a baptismal date dropped us......so that was heart breaking. Rejection really builds character i will tell you that. It makes you appreciate the battalion so much because no one can reject you there. :) 

Anyway the weather is PERFECT here in SD and i am not looking forward for when it gets hot again. That is going to not be fun. 

i love you all and hope you have a great week!! 

XOXOXOXOX 

Sister Price

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS PAPA!!!!

i just want to start off by saying 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!👑💙🎂🍦

I love you so much and i am sending you a very nice letter!:) because i dont have any money to buy you a gift but i send my love to you on this very special day of yours! i hope you get everything that you want and more! 

Also i want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to TYSON THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD!!!!!!! i got your Christmas present and it was the best! That flash drive is straight FIRE!!!! me and my companion made a video of us saying thank you but its too long to send so i will have to figure out a way to show you it! But seriously that was the most thoughtful gift ever and i appreciate all the hours you spend downloading music to it. I know time is a very precious thing here on a mission and i love it sooo much so thank you!:):):):) 

Some other big new, today were tranfers and i left the Linda Vista 1st ward and i am now in the San Diego 6th ward! WOOO ( i totally predicted it) and my companion is Sister Moreno and she is from the Philippines. She is so nice and i am so excited to be her companion and work with her in the 6th ward. 6th ward is one of the higest baptizing areas here in SD so i am pretty stoked about that!!:D Speaking of baptisms this saturday me and sister sorenson worked OUR BUTTS off and now 3 of our investigators are being baptized!! woooo! i have worked with this family my ENTIRE mission and it is so amazing to see the changes that they have made in their life to be baptized! So next week i will send pics of that!  

This week it has been bitter cold here in SD. Its been the coldest it has ever been, probably because the wind is blowing and the wind reminds me of roswell. lol speaking of roswell do you know how many alien jokes i get in one day.....???? i wish i had as many baptisms as i did alien jokes. So i contemplate telling people i am from a different place every time that they ask. So being here in Cali you see and hear lots of strange things. and the recent policy change in the church has brought a lot of uproar here in San Diego. So thats something i have to deal with as a missionary and its so annoying......i really dont care one bit about it. Like i have a million other things to think about than this and i feel like it is constantly being brought up...blaaa. All i have to say about it is that it came from a prophet of God. Prophets are called by God. Its as if God came down to the Earth and told us all himself. And i am pretty sure if he did that we would all be ok with it. So whats the big deal. (i know if i said this at home Dad would find some way to debate with me about it and make me see the big picture haha but thats how i feel) 

Anyway i love you all so much and hope that you are having a great day! 

XOXOXO 

Your Favorite Sister Missionary in San Diego 

Liv

6 MONTHS!!!

This week Elder Holland came to my church for a meeting and it was cool even though i didnt get to see him. Also shout out to all the missionaries that have seen the district! Elder Moreno from the district served in my area, that or i am serving in his area so that was pretty cool!:) Also this week i prayed for chicken salad sandwiches and boom i got them twice this week! THE LORD ANSWERS YOUR PRAYERS!!!:D 

So i had a traumatic expereince this week. The zone leaders told us that the wanted us to go to this service project for this potential investigator and so i was super excited to go. They said we were going to pick weeds and move heavy boxes. Doesnt sound too bad right? Well WRONG!! i should have known better! This lady was a straight up hoarder!!! she had 6 years of stuff just piled up in her yard and wanted us to move it all. Not throw it away, just move it to another part of her yard...... welll so first i was picking weeds (Dad you would have been so proud of me;) and as i was picking these nasty weeds my hand touches something. I look at what it was and AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! A HUUGE STACK OF DOG POOP!!!!!!! yep my hand just went right into the middle of that! and then i realized that all the weeds had little piles of dog poop in them. And i was not wearing gloves. UGHHHH it was so nasty! As we were cleaning this ladys yard we legit found a dead animal in it! i will try to send a pic of it! hahaha it was the nastiest thing ever! why do people always ask the missionaries to move all the nasty hoarders crap! NO! Then after that we went to this ladies house and she fed us the best lunch so it made up for it:) 

So this week i found out how to make mac-and-cheese in the microwave because its all the food that i have left...so that was exciting! The weather here in San Diego is soooo nice!:) i am so blessed to have such a great mission call! Also this next week is transfers and i think that i am going to be leaving my area. I have been in the Linda Vista 1st ward for 6 months so i have a feeling that i am going to be leaving....:( sad because i love my area! we also have a family of 6 that is sooo close to being baptized!!!

Well i have to make this short because i only have half of my P-day to do everything because they made us work at the battalion because you know missionaries we are just servants...-_- but really. Being a missionary is the weirdest thing in the world. 

Anyway i love you! Hope you have a better week than me! not having to touch dog turds with your bare hands!:)

XoXoXo 

Olivia Ann Price (your favorite sister missionary)

Vi una columna de luz!

 today is my companions birthday and i did some pretty cool things for her if i do say so myself!;) i got members of our ward to send me videos of them and their family saying happy birthday and i put them all together and gave that to her as a birthday present! it was pretty sweet!:) also i am surprising her and taking her to La Jolla Cove today and some of our investigators are going to be there to celebrate her birthday with us! i also made her breakfast! so its been a good P-day so far!

So being a missionary we do  not have our own washer and dryer so we go to this laundry mat to do it and ughhhhh it is the nastiest thing ever! there are so many hobos and homeless people that live here in sandiego and i feel like every single one of them do their laundry at this place. It always smells super gross and the washers and dryers always have mystery idems in them..........so i really question if my clothes even get clean.....ugh it is seriously so nasty! im trying to find a members that would let us do our laundry at their house so i can save myself from mystery idems in the washer. one time i didnt check for mystery idems and i take my clothes out of the washer and they are covered in CAT HAIR!!!!!!! ewwwww! and i dont have enough time to put them in the washer again so i just had to dry them.....that was a great weeek where all my clothes had cat hair on them. The other week i put my clothes in the washer and it had this syrup goop on the inside.....today i found big chunks of who knows what......why are homeless people so nasty? 

I have come to the conclusion that being a missionary is basically terrible 98 percent of the time. Its not the best 2 years of your life, its the best 2 months of your life because if you add up all the great moments and throw out all the crappy ones it about equals 2 months:) but im just doing what the Lords asks and "enduring to the end" hahaha ok i make it sound so much worse than it actually is, but really i cant wait to do my laundry in clean washers and driers!  

The directors of the MoBat left and we got new ones this week and they are SOOO awresome! Their names are the Woods and he use to be a mission president in Louisiana so i feel like the MoBat is going to be in tip top shape When the lasst directors (the Barnes) were having their farewell me and sister sorenson rapped for them! she wrote the "Mo Bat Rap" and we preformed it with the Barnes and i will send you a video! hahaha it is so funny! 

Also Tyson the zone leaders that you were with one of them has a friend that is serving here in San Diego  his name is Elder Yazzie and he came up to me and our conversation went like this 

"Hey do you have a brother?"

"Yes i do"

"Is he on a mission"

"Yes"

"Is he is bakerfield?"

"....yes..?"

"he was companions shortly with my friend!"

i cant remember his name, it was like elder B-something? so that was pretty cool!

Also the SD mission has a goal of baptizing 1000 people this year (we baptized 512 this last year) and so we are suppose to invite one person everyday to be baptized. And i am proud to say that i have successfully done that! and because of that we have 7 investigators with a baptismal date!!!! wooo! i love the Linda Vista 1st area that i am in! i have been in it for my entire mission and transfers are on Dads birthday and i just know that i am going to get transferes....:( i dont want to leave! But i know that what God has in store for me is going to be great! 

I love you all so much and hope that you have a great week!! i love all the emails and pics that you send! Keep reading your scriptures and praying because if you do that God will for sure bless you! there is no doubt about that! it is a promise! that if you do what God has commanded you HE WILL ALWAYS POUR OUT HIS BLESSINGS!!! and i dont know about you, but i definitely want to be blessed by God! and i want every single one of you to be blessed as well, so go to church, keep the sabbath day holy, read and pray often, speak kind words to everyone, listen to the prompting of the holy ghost, and serve!:) i promise that as you do these things you will see a difference in your life and you will be able to bless the lives of the people around you!! i Love you all so much and look forward to hearing from you next week!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO 

Sister Olivia Ann Price