Australia Sister Missionary

I leave for the Provo MTC in less than a month (Feb 26th) and I am so excited I can't wait to leave! I know that it is impossible to completely prepare for what is about to come, but I hope I will be ok. These are some of the things that I have felt have helped me some what prepare for a mission..

Mission Prep Class

Going to BYU-I

Working in the temple as an ordinance worker

Reading the Book of Mormon from front to back(almost there! Im in Ether)

Reading through Preach my Gospel

Practice teaching lessons from PMG (i did that in Mission Prep)

and writing all my friends who are already in the field

I feel like all of these things have helped me a ton. Maybe not for my actual mission, but more to make me see my own potential and making me realize that if I rely on the Lord, I will be blessed but when I do not, I can do nothing. Working in the temple has helped me understand the importance of the temple. That baptism should not be the goal, but if we look at things in an eternal perspective it changes everything. Preach my gospel is awesome and I really need to study from it more often because it is that awesome(: I can't wait to serve the people of Melbourne Australia! 

Date Night

So these are some of the date ideas from my list that I thought I would explain a little better. I am sorry if I do not make sense but I figured it was better then no explanation before.

Box Cars:

Get 2 big boxes that cut them into the shape of cars (to the best of your abilities haha) and then paint them. You can walk through the drive through in your box cars and then watch a "drive in movie" in the living room.

 The Run Around Game:

This is a pool game that we play all the time. Hopefully I can explain the rules ok because I am terrible at explaining things. So you play with just the white ball and the black ball. The point of the game is to keep the black ball going. You use the white ball to hit the black ball. The next person then grabs the white ball and does the same thing. If the black ball stops on your turn then you get a letter. We usually play with 3 letters.. so PIG. You can only hit the ball from the two shorter ends of the table. So make sure your body is on one of those two ends when you are sliding the white ball. Also, if you get the black ball into a hole, the person after you gets a letter and their turn is skipped. Once someone receives a letter, (now this is the hard thing to explain).. then the black ball gets put on one of the short ends of the table and the person stands on the other side of the table. They get 3 terns to hit the ball. If they miss all three times then they get a letter and it is the next person's turn.

Shaving Creme Slide:

We did this for an activity with a ton of youth but it would be a fun group date thing to do. The tarp that you see in the left hand corner was our slide. I have heard that you can also do it with bubble bath soap and then put a water hose at the top of the slide and that works better. 

Paint Twister:

Blow Bubbles:

So when I wrote this I realized it sounded a little silly because children blow bubbles, but these are some pictures of when we did it. Personally I liked it, but maybe I am just weird(: 

Life as We Know it

So I haven't really talked about myself a ton on my blog yet. 

Last year I was able to fly for free which was totally awesome! 

I went to BYU-I during fall semester, but now I am living in Vegas. 

I leave for my LDS mission on February 26th,
so needless to say I have nothing to do. 

I used to have a ton of school work and when I finally got a little free time I would hop on a plane and go to another country.
It is now 2014 so my flight benefits are up. 

My boy friend is on his mission,
he is serving in the Denver South Mission. 

I can't believe he has almost been out 6 months now! January 31st will be his 6 month mark. 

I miss him so much.  I can't wait for the day when I can run back into his arms. 

If you are familiar with the LDS religion and LDS missionaries,
you will already know this, but guys(elders) serve a mission for 2 years
 and girls(sisters) serve for 18 months. 

Sometimes they will keep you a couple weeks late or ship you back a couple weeks early, it just depends on your mission. So I still do not know if Elder Joseph Dallin Rosequist(yes thats him!) will come back before or after me. We will only be a couple weeks apart at most. 

We both plan to attend BYU-I together after our missions and then we will see what happens after that. Isn't life so exciting?! You never know what is next. It is just one big adventure! 

I am so excited to serve the people of Melbourne Australia.

 I hope I come back with an awesome accent! 

I have exactly 40 days before I leave for the MTC, and besides working in the temple 4 days a week, I have nothing to do! I study my scriptures and sometimes hang out with my friends
but I want to find something exciting and spontaneous to do! 

If anyone has any awesome ideas I would love to hear them.
 Anyways, yep thats me!

love, Tynica Elyse