Week 11

Dear America, I miss you. Love, Janna

ha ha oh my goodness!!!! It's the 4th of July! My favorite holiday ever! I'm so glad Shan Jas Evie Denny and Rita are all there with you together, I love that! Sister Christensen and I the other day were just saying some of our favorite family memories and I said the day that sticks out the most right now is when Evie was blessed. We were all sitting in the living room and in the kitchen together talking, laughing, making silly cartoons on Shannon's ipad with all of us and Denny and Rita and it was just... bliss! I'm sad I'm not there to do that with you all now but I'm SO grateful for the pictures you sent! I have a lot of fabulous pictures to send you BUT I'm not going to have time to send them this week because we are going to Newton Abbot today for a 4th of July celebration!! Last night we decided that we needed to do something so we called the district and decided we would all get together and celebrate by having fireworks (those little party popper confetti things) and have a barbeque (.... mcdonalds... ha ha) real American like! Then we called the Blackham's and they said they have this barbequer and so we are going to have a REAL barbeque now! They are also bringing their laptops to the Newton Abbot chapel so what I don't finish writing right now I'll send in another email because I only have .... "oh about 5 minos" left. :D ha ha ha ha ok this morning I looked at the clock and realized we only had 5 more minutes of personal study left and "oh about 5 minos" came to my mind and I just started laughing and laughing... I had to explain the story to Sister Christensen of course but she loved it. :)

SOOOOOOO we are having a multi zone conference on Thursday which will be fantastic! and Oh and before I forget, next Monday we are having zone training so we won't have pday so I won't be emailing on Monday fyi! I don't know when we will have pday so that will just be a little surprise I guess :) um ok sorry I have to go but I'll finish in just a bit! Beautiful train ride to Newton Abbot, here we come!!!!

A little while later....

I'm back again. :) So I got to read your email on the train ride over and it really sounds like you all had such an amazing week! Ohhh girls camp I cant wait to see pictures! Ok and I hope Nat Karl and Haley took pictures too, tell them I want to see them! Oh and the parade is this morning, yay!!! Daysa please take a pictures with cotton candy like we did last year :) ha ha i loved hearing from Days Cabays that was such a great surprise! Fireworks were Saturday night then? Oh that picture was perfect that you sent, you and Evie with everyone sitting around you in the pictues and jeff! ha ha :) And Oh. My. Gosh. that picture of Evie hugging the picture of me on the computer... i love that so much!!! And my picture is the screensaver? You guys are nice :) I was going to say Shan please make sure Evie is getting her Janna time everyday ok? Just show her pictures, video, my little cartoon I made for her. Deal?

Okk so just a few things.. some of my favorite things if you will:

*Again-thank you for the music!! Sister Christensen just wanted me to make sure I told you that again. We turn it on and dance around to it often. :) Oh Kate do you have the Alex Boye cd? If so.... send it to me? ha ha ps please turn with me now to page 138 of the gospel principles manual... Alex Boye is in congregation of that picture! ha ha we realized that yesterday morning, it was great

*Ok we have been teaching this couple and the wife is called Tezza and she likes to play Farmville on Facebook and she named sheep after Sister Christensen and I! I'm cute. I have stars that change colors. Oh ya and I'm a Ram. ha ha ha but anyways... we are trying to help her see that the gopel can make her happier than Farmville can.... :)

*We went and taught the Lennon-Miller's last week and in Andrew's prayer he said "we are grateful for the vibrant colors and the lovely nature and our lovely familly." :) That family is so great. They are all growing so strongly in the gospel together.

*Sister Christensen's cousin is Jason Hewlett the entertainer, he does stuff at the scera and what not and she will tell me things from his acts and I want to see him perform when I get home! So family and friends... go see him perform and tll me how it is!

*We went and did service for a guy called Ed this week, his wife is a member and we were at their house for tea last week and he said he could use help on the farm.. so we went andd we were farmers for a few hours and it was SOOO cool. And so hard. ha ha I'll send the pictures next week!

*It is amazing to me how we always seem to be at the right place at the right time... always. For example, there is a woman called Kim that we ran into my first Sunday here and we talked with her and we see her ALL the time, we ran into her again this morning because we decided to do a little shopping before emailing today and there she was right on high street, she finally gave us her phone number so we will see how that goes but I love that! I love recognizing people on the street because we have talked to them before and they realize that it's such a weird coincidence that they keep running into us... coincidence? I think not!!!!!!!! :)

*We just had our bbq and we brought some poppers that we had leftover (we had a party for Sister Christensen's 9 month mark on Saturday and had balloons and poppers, i was fun!) and we just sang the star spangled banner at the top of our lungs and then popped our poppers, it was the perfect way to celebrate! :)

Well everyone... just keep on keepin on, ya? :) I love you!

Janna sent pictures! As soon as I can get them onto my computer I will post them here!