All is well :) 8-14-14

All is well here! Especially since it has been rainy lately, no complaints there. Sister Hardy and I are getting along very well. We are busy with fleet matters. We have passed off two sisters so far and this Saturday we will give a training to the first transfer sisters. Organizing nine cars for 200 sisters every week can be complicated, but it is fun too. We have our own cubicle so that is cool!

We have been able to find several investigators this week! One lives in Australia, which is a little complicated with the time change for calling him. Still, there is always email.

This morning we took a Youth Conference group around. It is hard to get the youth to interact and talk with such little time. Now I appreciate even more my youth leaders growing up. The guest speaker for the Youth Conference gave a great message focused on keeping our eyes on Christ and staying on the straight path.

Taking just English tours is becoming an adjustment. I became use to saying a brief line and waiting for Sister Wu to translate before I continued.

My district leader is Sister Yang (pronounced Young) from Taiwan and her companion is Sister Dutra from Brazil. The other companionship in our district is Sister Jin (Beijing China) and Sister Nguyen (Vietnam).

Overall things are going great and Sister Hardy and I are enjoying our transfer together so far.

I love you all!

Sister Price

Happy 18th Birthday to Sydney and Happy Anniversary to my mom and dad!

Sorry for only one picture. I will try to take more pictures for you next week.

Fleet with Sister Hardy 8-7-14

My new companion is Sister Hardy from Mesa Arizona! She and I are in the same transfer, but we weren't together in the MTC since she came to the mission 3 weeks early. Sister Hardy is fleet so now she is training me in fleet. Then next transfer I will train the next fleet sister. Fleet is in charge of the organization of the mission vehicles. We take them to and from the shop and organize pday sign out stuff and a bunch of other car stuff. Yesterday we had to be in the garage at 4:50am to make sure that the cars taking sisters to and from the airport for outbound (or going home) were leaving at the right time and had all the right passengers. Since she and I had such long hours yesterday, we have a full pday today :) Soon we will schedule a fleet training for the 1st transfer sisters. We will pass off the sisters to drive...could be dangerous. So fleet is officially my assignment for the next two transfers! 

No more Beehive house unless we cover for someone every now and then. It was nice to serve there for two transfers, but staying for a third would be to much considering how busy it can be.

This week will be very busy with fleet, but next week it should cool down enough for us to take tours and find more people to teach. Most everyone I was teaching last transfer spoke primarily Mandarin, so Sister Wu will keep in touch with them and I will find more people to teach. Hopefully.

The new sisters arrived from the MTC yesterday. They come from California, Hawaii, Canada, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Our roommates are the office assistants to the mission and our neighbors are the AP's. They have always had the assistants to the Presidents, fleet, and office assistants live in those apartments.

As fleet I am hoping to replace a couple of the vehicles with horses 

No pictures this week, sorry! I will make up for it next week. I look like a zombie because of lack of sleep so that is part of my excuse. 

Love you all!

Sister Price 

last week with Sister Wu from CHINA :( 7-30-14

On Monday Justin Mckeown and Spencer Carter visited me! Brother Mckeown shared Dad's conversion story with me while we were sitting in the benches of the Assembly Hall. It was wonderful to hear and made all 4 of us tear up. I made sure to record the entire experience very well in my journal.

Yesterday we met President Howell, Stake President of the Bluffdale Utah South Stake. He happens to be hosting 5 adults from China who happen to be from the very same city as Sister Wu. President Howell asked if we could come over for dinner to meet them and we let him know that we probably wont be able to but we would ask anyway. President Poulson was all for it when we told him about it. So on Friday Sister Wu and I will drive to Bluffdale to eat at the Howell home and meet the 5 Chinese people from Sister Wu's city!

It is my last full week with Sister Wu, we will miss each other. The Chinese people are so sweet in the tours and they clap when I introduce myself in Chinese. Not all people get excited when you say something in their language. A family from the Netherlands was excited then I greeted them formally in Dutch. Back to the Chinese though, Sister Wu enjoys teaching them the churches official name and explaining the nickname mormon. She has me say the church name in Mandarin and one group was gasping and clapping it was precious.

Monday morning is transfer conference so I will find out about my new companion then and I will also hear if I have to move apartments and change zones. Transfer day will be next Wednesday, so if I have a new pday it wont come for 8-10 days :P oh no!

We have spent most of today with Sister Nakamatsu and Sister Tupou because Sister Tupou will return to Tonga on Tuesday! Sad, but exciting too. She will be missed a ton by me...

The Pioneer Day Parade was fun! Mostly because of horses and I also saw Sister Rutz and Julia from the Johnstown Ward! What a treat!

Things are still extremely busy, but all is well! Love you all <3

Sister Rebecca Price


1. At the Pioneer Day Parade photo courtesy of Sister Lynn Rutz
2. Elder Oaks watching the parade on the same bleachers as us. You usually have to pay for the bleachers but a kind person gave us free tickets!
3. Just being silly in the display of a presentation in the North Visitors Center
4. Just another time being silly in the display of a presentation in the North Visitors Center
5. Nursery Display
6. Another nursery display
7. I grew so large that I was able to take a bite of the Temple! That is what the mission does to you...
8. Sister Wu wanted me to smile, but there was food in my mouth so I just Zoolandered it

Happy Pioneer Day 7-23-14

Hello!

On Monday Sister Wu and I were assigned to the Assembly Hall and a Jewish couple from Israel (Gideon and Leah) came in and asked me to teach them about our beliefs. We had a great discussion and they kept telling me about Jerusalem and said I have to visit. I can't continue to teach them, but did give them a copy of The Book of Mormon. Leah asked for my email because she wants to stay in touch with me and let her know if I visit Israel. 

Tomorrow is Pioneer Day so most places will be closed and there will be a parade. We get to go. Hopefully we will find a place to sit comfortably. The streets are already getting prepared for the occasion. 

Today is our Zone Activity. We will go to Iceberg for burgers and shakes then to an apartment for some movies. 

All is well here and Sister Wu and I are busy, working hard, and having fun. So much so that I don't even remember the past week enough to share more in this email. Days blur together and the weeks go by quickly. 

Have a Happy Pioneer Day ~July 24, 1847 :)

Love you all!

Sister Price

PS No pictures this week...we hardly took any at all. There will be many next week :)

July 16, 2014

Brigham Young knew that the Salt Lake Valley was THEE PLACE, but why did it have to be such a hot place? It was been in the 100's and we are getting roasted. A bright side of the Beehive House is the air conditioning. In case you're wondering the air conditioning is NOT original. Brighton Girls camp was fun! Half the mission went in the morning and then we switched and the other half went. We had a good time. Sister Wu repelled and zip lined!!! (With a lot of persuading on my part) It was awesome! I took a video of it on her camera and another video of her crying (awkward) that is what missionary companions are for! This morning our zone went to the Bountiful Temple! It was a good time. I thought of other missionaries like James and Clara who don't have a Temple in their mission. Guess I am just a blessing magnet. My mission is THE BEST MISSION! Sorry other missionaries... We had a random crazy wind storm last week. We Mary Poppined our way home, but not really. That would have been exciting. WOW JUST NOW I got a phone call from a Sister on the square and my Bishop from outbound and his wife are here and coming over to see me RIGHT NOW. SO fun. They are super great. Bishop Rivera let me store things at his house for when I visit before Winter Semester at BYU- Idaho. Things are still very busy, we take tour after tour...it is good though that we are busy rather than just being lazy all day long. I will send pictures as well! Love you all Bye now! Sister Price

 

Hello Friends 7-9-14

I have developed a love/hate relationship with the Beehive house. It is a fun place, but recently it has been chaotic with the masses of people that come between 12-3.  On top of that, we take mandarin tours so poor Sister Wu has reached her limit. We both crash every night. It is good though, because we know we are working hard.

Already this week we have found many more people to teach. We have an investigator in Australia who was baptized and I began teaching her last year!

We went to Music & The Spoken Word on Sunday and Mitt Romney was there with his wife and grandchildren. You can check out my cray photo I took. I raced to the top to catch him before he left and I nearly brushed elbows with him! He was bolting out though with a smile and grandchildren in his arms.

I hear Brazil lost to Germany pretty hard. Guests come and tell the sisters all about the World Cup. The Brazilian wont be coming out for a while...

Besides normal Temple Square business things are going very well. So much happens in one week and I struggle to recall everything once email time comes. I will send pictures though.

Take care everyone!

Much love,
Sister Rebecca Price

1. Mitt Romney!

Birthday, One Year Mark, and AMERICA

The past week has been so wonderful!

To think, just a year ago I flew to Salt Lake. And a year ago tomorrow is the day I entered the MTC. Basically my Birthday was WONDERFUL! My companion and roommates decorated the apartment and made me cupcakes. I woke up to the surprise. Some sisters posted papers all over the basement of the South Visitors Center (Mission Offices) and it had a picture of me making a creepy face and said "Happy Birthday Sister Price!" So that was fun. Thank you everyone for the Birthday Wishes!

Besides no family, I really missed Birthday Breakfast-which has become a tradition I suppose. Mom, you usually prepare waffles and such for me and I am sorry you couldn't this year. 

I am no longer a teenager so I can't get away with slamming doors, but that wont stop me! Just kidding Mom and Dad.

This morning I called Harley! He is my recent convert that I taught while serving in Pocatello. Since I returned to Temple Square he baptized his younger brother Austin, WOW. On July 12th he will baptize his mom. Literally the miracle of my mission right there.

Sister Wu and I met Mattias from Switzerland a couple days ago. He is from the South of Switzerland so Italian is his first language, but his English is perfect. We had a great discussion with him about Heavenly Father's Plan and The Book of Mormon. Matt has been very prepared and this is exactly what he has been looking for. We will continue to teach him over the phone. He leaves for Florida Sunday and then ends up in Cincinnati for a concert, so that is cool.

On Sunday Elder Whitney Clayton of the Seventy came and spoke to us with his wife. I had the chance to hear from him while outbound in Pocatello as well. 

I am very happy to be with Sister Wu for another transfer. She and I have become best buds. We are comfortable with each other and we can communicate on tours without speaking directly to each other...it is pretty cool and convenient. 
2 Nephi 1: 6- 7  Wherefore, I, Lehi, prophesy according to the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall nonecome into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord.
Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to thecommandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down intocaptivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto therighteous it shall be blessed forever.

Happy 4th of July!

Everything is going very well :) Love you ALL!

Sister Price