Panama by way of Colorado. Hermana Bledsoes mission

Oh BOY do I have a story for you!! So my companion and I go on walks every day and we always walk by this community garden. Sometimes there's people working in it, sometimes not. Well two days ago we went on our walk and we hear some guy yell "do you want some beets?" And we're like... what? "Beets! Do you like beets?" And this guy goes over to his patch of the garden and just pulls up some beets for us, tells us how to cook them and how healthy they are for you. He asks us if we're missionaries, so we talked with him a bit about the gospel, he told us he's buddhist... and may I just mention that this old guy was wearing NOTHING but his boxers. So that was exciting.  We're also getting ready to move into our own apartment so we've been getting TONS of packages and it honestly feels like Christmas. We're not teaching anyone quite yet but we are staying pretty busy posting on facebook, meeting with members and just trying to find people tea...

I know it's only been two weeks... but I swear I've been out here for years. I love this little one-stoplight town and all the cows and corn. The people are great, when they aren't avoiding us (there were two Amish women in the store today and they turned around so fast like we had the plague or something). But the members are AMAZING like seriously, missionaries can't do ANYTHING without the members. We did a lot of service this week since we're allowed to do service outside now (still wearing masks, of course... I don't think the masks are going away for a long time) and it may have been 90 degrees with no breeze or clouds and we were out there raking for a solid two hours but it felt good! Get out and do more service, people! It's good for you! I also had my first very awkward member dinner, but it sufficeth me to say that it was an experience I soon hope to forget. Hope everyone has an AWEsome week, don't do drugs, dont get the plague, and get out an...

It happened! It actually, finally happened! I'm out in the field being a real missionary! To recap- I spent 6 weeks back in april/may doing my missionary  training online, then I had to wait for two and a half months before i could come out here, to my reassignment in beautiful Colorado. I'm in this itty bitty town called Cedaredge and there ain't much out here but lots of corn and cows and deer. So ofcourse I absolutely love it.  STORYTIME at my first member dinner they bring out this AWESOME looking pink lemonade and i was so excited to drink it and as I go to drink it a fly flies into my face so I flinched and the lemonade goes EVERYWHERE. My companion was DYING laughing and I'm just trying to clean it up and of course the members made fun of me for the rest of the dinner. BONUS STORY we were going to do service at this lady's house and as I was getting out of the truck I slammed my finger in the door and most likely broke it. On my THIRD DAY IN THE FIELD so I re...

Jokes. I'm always paying attention. MTC IS ALREADY ALMOST OVER! isn't that just insane? I feel like I just started yesterday. I've learned  so much  the past six weeks and I'm very sad to say goodbye to my awesome district and my awesome teachers. Those serving in the states will be heading out to the missions this week, while the rest of us serving foreign missions will probably be temporarily released this week until we receive a reassignment or until the mission opens up.   So, long story short, I have no idea what's happening BUT I know that the Lord knows I'm here and that I'm being as patient as I possibly can. He's got a plan and (even though He won't tell me what it is) I know it'll be better than anything I could ever plan for.  Speaking of patience (which is a Christ-like attribute we should all strive to develop because, lets be honest, life would be a whole lot nicer if we all had patience) I listened to this awesome BYU speech from N...

I don't know about the rest of you but this week absolutely FLEW by. I feel like just yesterday was sunday. but TOMORROW is sunday??? Where has the time gone?  So from what I can remember, this week was good. I really don't remember much of what happened. I'm learning spanish, learning how to teach in spanish, and more spanish... it's really quite fun. ¡puedo decir muchas cosas en español ahora! My district is really the greatest, my teachers are fantastic and I absolutely love being in the MTC even if it's at home.  Here's and english/spanish pun for you (courtesy of Elder Roundy) There's a magician about to perform his final act. He tells the crowd he's going to vanish before the count of three. The crowd doesn't believe him.There's no way he could.  The magician starts counting. "uno.... dos....." and he disappears without a tres. Have a good week, don't do anything stupid!! Hermana Bledsoe Pictures!!! 3 Spanish comic strips of B...

Greetings and salutations from my home to yours. I wish I had some exciting story to tell you, but unless you want to hear about how Elder Gregory thought he was muted while he was singing "There is sunshine in my soul today" at the top of his lungs in spanish, I got nothing.  I'm learning mucho spanish, today at the Bishop's storehouse I was able to answer and understand two phone calls in spanish!! (pretty big accomplishment in my book) My companions and I also had our first TRC in spanish (we taught a native speaker a lesson in spanish) and it actually went really well! Gift of tongues is real, y'all.  ALSO I have discovered my new favorite scripture, it is Isaiah 43:2 and applies to almost everything and I think I've used it in every lesson since discovering it. For those of you too lazy to look it up, it says:  When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through...

Happy Saturday! Which is just like every other day of the week for most of you in quarantine, but hey! You survived another week! And so did I! Lots and lots of spanish practice, which includes lots and lots of mistakes!! My biggest problem with learning spanish is my own impatience... I just want to learn  everything   all at once  which, in case you didn't know, is not how a language is learned. Regardless, I believe I'm making progress. Baby steps, ya know? Funny story time : It was yesterday, at about 1:00 PDT. I was sitting in class (which means I was sitting at my desk, on a zoom call with my district), munching on some mini M&Ms, which I got for Easter. Now, I don't know if any of you have this problem, but if I have a bowl of  anything  while sitting and doing something else, I will eat all of said bowl in one sitting.  But I  really  love mini M&Ms, so I wanted them to last. So I thought, if I just eat them one by one, th...