Frasure, Emily P

It was another full week! MLC was a straight party, Elder Beaver taped a Krispy Kreme logo onto my PMG, and we biked the 10 miles of beach up and down all day everyday. What more could you want?? This is my favorite verse from my studies this week!  3 Nephi 20:40 "And then shall they say: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings unto them, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion: Thy God reigneth" Jesus Christ can overcome anything! Life will be filled with so much peace once you truly embrace that truth.  Love yall!! 

Now that I've been in 2 Mississippi areas and 2 Louisiana, I can confidently say that folks here think Louisiana is a bunch of heathens, and folks there think Mississippi is a bunch of snooty snoots. They're so different!! Different accents, slang, food, traffic and trends. The trash talk gets real.  Gulfport Zone is BLESSED! We're already besties, either because we're the smallest zone in the mission, or because we ate raw eggs shell and all on the first zone call together. Diiiiiisgusting  Biking this area is a party!! It rained all week but as much as I love biking in the rain it was nothing compared to biking on the beach in the rain!! Euphoric.  We found an ELECT family of 6 in the hood this week. We parked in this church lot to make some calls, and a neighbor reported an ACTIVE BURGLARY so we had four cop cars pull up on us. Once we plead innocent and shared a message w the cops we ran into the Frazier family next door!! They are the only family I've met from ...

This week flew by!!  As of right now, every elder in our district has broken into our apartment for various reasons- needed Tylenol, the bathroom, better wall decorations etc. Don't blame em for that last one tho, we retaliated today and their apt ain't pretty.  Got Transfer News, going to Long Beach, MS! I'm seriously gonna miss Maddy and Jacksons cute little strip-mall-turned-churchhouse but I'm stoked to be on the coast!  Jackson elders had a baptism! Elder Godfrey pulled the poor girls hair off mid-dunk, and the font had probably 10 massive dead spiders but it was such a good day.  Another great week in the LBRM!! Stay blessed yall 

I missed my last email so I'll just bullet point the past two weeks real quick!  Stayed up on New years to ring in 2023 and make emergency calls Crazy story! A friend we'd dropped a while back ran into a guy being taught by the Clinton elders- he saw her BOM in the car and asked her if she's working with missionaries too, and literally asked her out. Now they're both in it to win it. God loves love that's all I'm gonna say.  The Brandon elders caught, drowned, and cooked a coon. For some reason we trusted it in a pot of gumbo on zone pday. No fatal repercussions yet other than a chiefly call from President.  Our district has been torn apart by the game Secret Hitler. No further comment.  Sister Willy had her birthday!! We were on exchanges in our quad so Sister Spangler and I set up a lil party for her, and we treated ourselves to olive garden fo dinner. JXN elders broke into our apartment and stole our massive flag of Jesus. The prank war has officially begun. ...

Merry Christmas yall! It was the longest week of my life let me tell ya all about it -Went to Clinton on exchanges! Stalked a guy on Google maps and took him a BOM mwahahah -The weather dropped to like 7 so President put us on apartment arrest-southerners lose their brains when the roads are icy  -Christmas ZoCo with Hattiesburg! Took some pics, sang some songs and had district dinner at Newks  -Mall contacted till we dropped but had to sneak around the army of security guards -Got a new car- the mission mini van! And she's a beauty named Judy -Sister Andersen got her ears pierced!  -Had Christmas with some members and got loaded up on presents -Caroled to our apartment complex with the strategy of knocking multiple doors and singing extra loud -Meal appointment hopped on Christmas and ate so much I wanted to die #thatswhatChristmasmeanstome I hope yall had a great Christmas! It was such a blessing to be solely focused on the Savior and service this year!  Thanks to ...

This week was baptismal invite week! We had a mission goal of 1247 invitations extended in one week, and we went madi$on mad on em!! Just about everyone we talked to got invited to be baptized, even in a doctors office waiting room. Now our poor APs gotta hold up their end of the deal and shave their heads. The KICs this week were off the charts and the miracles just kept piling on!! In the zone, but especially in our quad. We found like 50 people in an hour of street contacting at this strip mall, crazy spiritual high.  This week was a blast! We spent a night in the trailer, had a "Christmas morning" with a member, and went to the moms of Madison dinner party- #milftraining  Have a very merry Christmas yall!!!

Wild week! We roadtripped all over to get furniture for our new sisters, we spent two full days driving around running errands. MLC with Elder Palmer rocked the house and we did a temple session in the morning- it was the best day. The administrative responsibilities of being STLs are garbage but we went monkey madness mode and got it all done. Super super busy week, absolutely flamed us. But the Lord does his work with or without us, all we gotta do is get on the train! Love you all!!