Panama by way of Colorado. Hermana Bledsoes mission

Good evening fellow children of God, it's me, your favorite missionary. The weeks are FLYING now, wasn't it just monday? And now its monday again? wow.  It was a good week. We've been keeping busy doing the work of the Lord. Not much other than that, and I hope you are all planning on watching General Conference this weekend! Who wouldn't miss the chance to get to hear a living prophet speak?? I'm pumped and I hope you all are too. 1. A member gave us bread 2. My companion and I 3. "God bless the broken road that led me straight to you"  

Oh boy I love it here. The amount of times I've been called a "city-slicker" by the members is unreal.  But honestly, I did not know that llama poop makes good garden fertilizer, and it's even better if you grind it up first. So theres your fun fact for the week We've been making lots of cookies and delivering them and trying to get to know everyone (which means I've been eating lots of cookies) Not too many exciting things happening, but just know that we've been working hard and spreading the light of the gospel every single day :D Be good, dont do drugs, stay away from ferocious dogs😉  

Hello wonderful people Not too much has been going on that you'd be interested in... just lots of hard work and trying to find people to teach! Cedaredge is AWEsome, I love the people here and all the deer and there are these weeds that look like sunflowers that are just soooooo pretty.  We're not teaching anyone at the moment, but we're working on it. We've got a couple in mind that might (just might) start taking the lessons, we'll see this week.  But the members are awesome and willing to help us with our facebook videos and all that jazz so we very much appreciate that. Also, they make good food. Best meal this week-- chicken salad on croissants. (I'm easy to please) SPIRITUAL TIME- D&C 6:36 Look unto me in every thought, doubt not, fear not. God's got a plan for ALL of us, and we can trust in it. He knows what He's doing, and we don't. Trust in the Lord and let him lead the way, I promise he won't lead you astray. Have a good week! Herma...

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...