Dear Sister Dolan, you are hear by called to serve in the Japan Tokyo South Mission

Hey Y'all,

 

It is official. I am now in the south mission. This is the very last week of being apart of the Tokyo Mission then next week President Wada comes and I will be apart of the Tokyo South Mission. And here I thought that I would have one mission President for my whole mission. haha how wrong is that. I look forward to serving under President Wada. I know him from when I worked in Shibuya and he is very nice. It will be fun and I feel very honored to be right in the middle of the Lord hastening His work. It is exciting to think about.

So since I am in the south mission this next next transfer is only going to be 3 weeks long because then new missionaries who have been called to the south mission come. I am guessing then I will be transfered and will be transfering. There is one Sister just above me in transfers but next to her I am the oldest Sister missionary. That is weird. They saying in this mission is that missions are not acutally hard but what is hard is the saying Goodbye part. How true that is. Even just to other missionaries. But how grateful I am to be here and working with amazing missionaries. In my mission now there are only about 78 missionaries. It has become so small it is wierd. But it will get to 250 before long I imagine. But whether I see that nor not I am not sure. Wierd to think that I could only have 15 weeks left if I do end up returning in October. Making each of those days count for sure.

 

So onto this week. Well I have been able to get out of the apartment which has been nice. Last Wednesday we wanted to visit a less active whose birthday it was that day so we got on our bikes and rode. Getting to her house ended up taking 2 hours and the way home was an 1 hour. When we got closer to her house there became less to none hills but on the way home (which I was pretty tired for being on the bike for two hours) we went up many many hills and I was spent. It has been along time since my body has been that tired. My companion has been very nice and gave me a massage. That wil be on one of the first things that I will do when I get home. It felt great.

Friday we met with one of our invesigators whose nickname is Dakko. We met her a few weeks ago. She met the Elders and she came to church and that is where we met her. Anyway we met her and asked her how the Book of Mormon was going (We talked the last time we met with her about the Book of Mormon. She is Christian (likes the King James Bible) but was confused as to why there was a need for the Book of Mormon) She read the assignement we gave her but she still had some questions so I opened up the Book of Mormon to 2nd Nephi 29 where it talks about the Bible. After she read it she said that she understood. Which was great. She then opened up more about her life and what was going on. She is going through A LOT of hard things right now. I had no idea how I could help her so with the power of the spirit burning very hot and bright indise of me I invited her to speak to our Bishop and promised that he would be able to help even if it was just to listen. She agreed and came to church on Sunday and after church she spoke to the Bishop. The Bishop was great. He was very kind and patient and gave her great counsel. Encouraged her to continue listening to our message and to come and speak to him at anytime. When she walked out she looked much better. Like she was free, the burden was taken away.  There is certainly a power given to the Bishop and it was great seeing that. And it was great working with him. Him helping her with her life problems and then we helped her with the gospel questions. I love her. She told me that she sees me as a daughter. Isn't that sweet. :D

 

Last Tuesday was the very last PDAY temple day as the Tokyo Mission. They told us that even though we will be in a different mission we will still be able to go to the temple but last week was the last time we could say goodbye to people because we didn't know who would go to the south or the north. It was fun and a differnt feeling behind it. I will really miss those temple trips. They will be different as well because everyone would go at different times during the transfer. Many wonderful memories. I really am so grateful to have a temple in my mission and to have had the chance to have gone so many times during my mission. What a huge blessing.

 

Well that is basically it for the week. Not too much has happend. My companion is nice but I have forgotton what it is like to be with a native. Different cultures and mindsets. And she doesn't know ANY english so that has been kinda hard trying to explain my feelings in limited Japaense. My head has hurt this last week I won't lie. haha The last few days have been very difficult for me but I got an answer this morning which has greatly helped me and so I have made a turn around. The Lord knows us personally and knows what we are going through. He will give us answers even if it is not for a very long time and it seems that the Heavens are silent. He hears them.

 

Well, I love you family.

Be safe and drink a lot of water, July is coming.

Love you,

Kenzie

 

  

 

Emergency Transfer

Happy Fathers Day Dad!!!!!! Hope you had a great day today! :D

 

And Hello to the rest of you!

 

Well this last week was very interesting. And this e-mail may be short because of it.

 

First off, we stayed in the apartment once again for most of the week. If we had an appointment or a meeting we would leave but if we didn't we wouldn't. Like last Wednesday Sister Harding was not doing so well so she slept the whole day and just studied or even did a little cleaning. My brain is starting to hurt a little bit from all of the studying. haha But anyway, Sister Budge called on Thursday to tell her that there were no results from the C.T scan that she did and the next thing they would be doing would be calling her parents and seeing what they would like to do. They called them that night and then they called on Friday morning and talked to Sister Harding and everyone decided that the best thing to do would be for her to go home and have some more tests done. A few hours later Presdient Budge called and said that they were trying to get her on a flight for...TOMORROW (meaning Saturday, this was Friday). Talk about sudden notice. They also wanted us to have her see a doctor and make sure she was ok to fly and wanted us to stay at the honbu tonight. We also had a 3rd companion because we were doing exchanges so we had to meet up with her companions, then go see the doctor and then go to the honbu after an hour in half of crazy fast packing that we had to do.

It was insane.

Staying at the honbu was a weird experience. We arrived and President and Sister Budge were not there so we hung out with the office couple, Elder and Sister Harrison. I adore them!! They are the cutest couple ever and Sister Harrison is the happiest person I have ever met. So it was fun to spend time with them. Satruday I spent most of the day at the honbu. Sister Hardings flight wasn't leaving until 1 am and the Harrisons were going to take her to the airport. They walked me over at about 5 to catch my train to go and meet my new companion who is....Sister Tada.

Sister Tada is very cute and I love her. She is Japanese and was a convert when she was 19 (now she is 26). Her conversion story is amazing and she had been through soooo much. I will have to tell you another day. She is still on her first transfer (this being the last week). And my guess actually is that we will only be together for 4 weeks. President Budge told us that this will be our transfer most likely which means I am in the South Mission which means we have another transfer in 4 weeks. At that time I am assuming a lot of Sisters will be coming in and both of us will be training. But I guess we will see. But I am really looking forward to working with her and actually getting out and talking to people. During study I got a lot of fire for the work and now the desire to work hard and do my best till the end is really strong within me and I want to work hard, talking to people at every moment right up until I am at the airport in Salt Lake. I want to share this fire with everyone that I see. What a great feeling it is. I am ready to get out!!! :D

 

Despite always staying inside and not being able to dendo I am grateful for this transfer because I have learned a lot of things, especialy the kind of person and member I want to be when I get home. I read a lot from Daughters of My Kingdom (the relief soceity book) and D&C and they both spoke a lot to me. I made goals and plans for what I want to do and who I want to be when I am home. Now that isn't me being trunky (though I will admit having hours to myself has made me get just a little bit) but it was a good time to plan and a lot of what I learned could be applied to what I was going through and also what I could be going through for the rest of my mission. It was a great learning experience. Just like all of my transfers. It is interesting though because Sister Tada makes my 8th companion in the field. Crazy right?

 

Oh and want to know something interesting. Sister Stubbs-my mtc companion- may be in the Tokyo mission. The area I think that she is in right now will be in that mission. Funny huh. Here I will be leaving that mission and she will be going into. haha She wrote me a letter saying that her parents are very seriously considering moving to Utah. That would be fun to see her. :D

 

Well that is the exciting and interesting news from my week. I had an emergency transfer.

 

I love you all and everyday I look forward to being reunited. My family has become the most important thing to me (besides the gospel) and my love for everyone just grows stronger.

 

Love you,

Kenzie

Think! Think! Think!

Hey Everyone,

 

Hope you all had a good week and are all in good health. Can you believe that this week makes it the middle of June. Crazy. July will be here before you know it. Months have turned into days now and days into seconds. Such a wierd feeling.

 

Well on for this week. Well the most exciting that happend this last week was we had a 3 zone conference on Wednesday in which Elder Ringwood of the seventy and the North Asia Area President came and spoke to us. It was a really good conference. He had us study Moroni 7 a lot before the conference and then we had an open discussion about it. It was really good. I notice a lot of things from the chapter that I didn't notice before. I encourage you all to study Moroni 7 and see what new insights you get into it. We also had Q&A in which the mission split was brought up. So we still find out which mission we will be in on transfer call day (22nd) but it was also said that the Tokyo south missionaries transfers will be getting off set so there is a possibility of going home earlier or later from your expected release date. So if that is true and I stay in the south mission I could be home in early October or a few weeks later in November. Thought that was interesting information. I can't believe it will be next Saturday that I find out. So wierd. I kind of feel though that I will be staying the south mission's area. I guess I will know for sure next week. Anyway the conference was good. I really enjoyed listening to Elder Ringwood. He gave wonderful talks and the spirit was very strong. I came out feeling rejuventated and having a stronger desire to do better. :D

 

So this last week we weren't able to get out pretty much at all unless we already had an appointment set up. Sister Harding became too sick to go out. Towards the beginning of the week I was getting a little frustrated wondering what I was supposed to and how I should continue fulfilling my purpose as a missionary. I talked to the Lord A LOT. Asking for His counsel. I was finally told that my purpose during this transfer is to serve my companion and help her and to also take advantage of the time to study more. So that is what I have done. Last Thursday it was hard because we stayed inside all day up before Eikaiwa at 7. When she woke up I asked her if she was ok and that I was worried about her. She started crying and said that she wasn't sure. We had a talk about it in which she felt like she needed to go home and get better. She didn't like not going out. We called President Budge that night and told him about what was going on and he told her that he didn't want to give up yet. So we went to a doctor on Friday and he told her that he wanted to do a C.A.T scan and that is what we did early today. Went to the Red Cross Hospital. We won't know the results for a few days but we are hoping and praying that the doctors will be able to figure out what is wrong and help her so that she won't have to go home. This has been a very different transfer and I am learning a lot.

 

With the extra time to study I have been thinking a lot about where I am right now in my mission and where I want to be when get home. It has been interesting having so much time to think and exam myself even more. There have been many ups and many downs that has come with that but it has been good. I am very grateful to have this time to refocus, to see the growth I have gone through and to determine the growth I still want to go through. And we do have a few investigators that we have started teaching one of them being a referral that the Elders gave to us and who came to church yesterday. We have an appointment with her tomorrow and it should be good. She is christian and seems to pretty open in learning more. I am excited to teach her. It is the best to teach. :D

 

Oh there is one interesting story. I was reminded about how some BYU people are. Right now there are about 13 or so students from BYU doing a study abroad and staying with some of the members for about 2 weeks. They came to church yesterday and we talked to a few of them. They are all in there 2 year of Japanese I think at the Y so they know some but not too much. Anyway we were talking to two of these girls and one of them was telling us how much she admires us and how great our Japanese is and how she hopes to be able to speak like us. Her friend then turned to her and said that their level of Japanese was actually the same level as returned missionaries from Japan. Her excuse was that it is because a lot of missionaries don't know kanji (the chinese characters) but they do. K, I know I am a missionary but that made me really annoyed that she said that. Comparing a 2nd year college class to missionaries who have lived in the country from 18 months to 2 years. But then this same girl proceeded to teach me about the train system so it would be less confusing when she has been here for 4 weeks or so and I have been living here for almost a year. She annoyed me. And I really did forget what some BYU people were like. WOW. I have been out a long time. Scary to go back. haha

 

Well family I love you and hope you have a great week!! The time is becoming shorter and shorter till I see you and I look forward to that day but I am happy to be here and learning the things that I am.

 

Love you all,

Kenzie

  

BANANAS

Hey Family,

This week was a good week. On Tuesday we had a hilarious district meeting in which we learned that Jim Carry died. Is that true? The Elders in my District are really funny and I feel pretty close to them. We have done something has a district every p-day so far. But what was great about Tuesday is that we were out of the apartment meeting and teaching people. The first person we met was one of our investigators names Miyaka. She has been an investigator for awhile now and is reading through the Book of Mormon for her second time. She says that she believes in it and would like to be baptized except for a few commandments that we are trying to work with her on and also she can get very lonely and sad sometimes which can result to her not wanting to meet with us. Which almost happened this last week but we told her we wanted to celebrate her birthday (whichi was on Tuesday). She agreed and we were able to meet her and enjoyed ice cream together. We shared with her about the Atonement because we wanted her to apply it more in her life so that way she can start making the change and feel more joy in her life. She said that she understood the Atonement and believes in Jesus Christ so we asked her to pray about it and apply it more in her life. I want her to fully realized what the Atonement actually is. If she truly accepts it into her heart and starts making that change I know that she will become a different person. A more confident and happier person.

After we met with her we took the train back and met with Manami. She is a student from our English class who I talked to after class. She also played softball and her position was also 3^rd base so we hit it off really well. That night when we met we were actually supposed to be playing softball with her and another friend but her friend couldn't do it because she was really busy so we weren't able to play softball. I was really disappointed because I have been wanting to play softball for the longest time ever. During my mission I have missed it even more. Anyway, we still made plans to just go out to eat so that is what we did and after we ate we did a lesson with her. We asked what/who she thought God was and she said that she has never really thought about it before. We talked about how He is her Father in Heaven and loves her so much. We then talked a little bit about the Atonement and then the Book of Mormon. I was able to bare a powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon has come to mean so much to me and Manami was able to see that. We gave her the book and asked her to read it. She said that she would try because it looked hard. We told her that it is well worth it and invited her to hear more. She said that she would. She is so cute and I would love the oppurtunity to teach her more. The difficult thing though maybe me having her make time to see us. That is the hardest and most frustrating thing about working in this mission. A lot of people have interest in learning but are too busy to meet. It can be frustrating. But I am praying that we can meet with her more often.

On Wednesday was the New missionary training conference. I will say this, one thing I am really looking forward to when coming home is not dealing with the trains anymore. The trains here are so confusing and we had an adventure getting to the mission home. By the time we got there (which was just a little bit before 9 am) I said to my companion that it was time for bed. Haha But it proved to be a good conference and it was fun to see a lot of the other sisters. I also learned that day that I have an allergy. Can you guess what it is? Go on guess..I have an allergy to Bananas. Yep. I finally figured it out on Wednesday. The last few times that I have eaten a banana it was weird. My throat would start to have an itchy feeling and then I would get really nauseated and felt sick. I wondered if maybe I did but I pushed it out my mind thinking it was all in my head but on Wednesday I age two little pieces and started feeling really sick. So yep no more bananas for me which is really sad. It isn't life or death or anything so maybe I will slip one in occasionally. :D

Friday was rough because Sister Harding became sick again and we stayed in the apartment most of the day. There is only so much you can do in the apartment. And I have been feeling like we haven't gone out that much lately and I wanted to go out really bad that day. We only went out for an appointment that we had that night with a new investigator and that didn't even go that well. We didn't plan on what to share with her and my companion was still not feeling that well or something so I was the only one teaching basically and getting the conversation flowing was hard because it felt like no one wanted to talk. It was really hard. I prayed a lot that day seeking counsel on what to do and seeking for forgiveness for staying inside all day. Still don't know exactly what I needed to learn but towards the end I did start feeling grateful to have more personal study time with the scriptures and to have the time to strengthen my testimony and knowledge. So that is what I took away from it.

Saturday was really fun because we went to a sports day with the YSAs from the stake and it was sooo much fun. A great work out. My body was sore yesterday and a little bit today. We did that basically for the whole day. One of our investigators came to the first half of it and that was really fun to see her. She is so cute. :D

Having church twice on Sunday's can be fun and hard at the same time. Yesterday we had a meeting with the bishop and mission leader after the second session of church so we were at the church from 830 am to about 7 pm. Looong day. But it was good. I always get really excited when I talk to the Bishops and mission leaders about the mission plan and help them with missionary work. It gets really fun. :D

Training is starting to prove to be a little bit difficult but I am grateful for the challenge and the growth that will come from it. The hardest part is basically getting enough excitement and energy for two since my companion doesn't have that much. But when life gives you lemons make something with it. Haha

I am sorry that I don't have any other fun stories from this last week. Nothing really exciting happened. Hopefully next week's e-mail will have something better.

But I always love you and miss you all.

Love,

Kenzie

  

Killer Blessing

Hello Family,

I am glad to hear you are all doing well. Hope you have a great Memorial weekend. That is so weird. I forgot about that Holiday. Haha

So this week was good. We were able to find some new investigators which was really fun. Some from the street and some from the English class. English class really is the place to find new investigators. I have become pretty bold and open about talking to everyone and inviting them to church on Sunday. The saying here in the mission is that you are successful just when you invite and that is very very true.

I still would like to teach though. Nothing compares to teaching. It is the best feeling ever to teach AND testify by the spirit. I am hoping we will start having more opportunities here soon.

I really love my companion. She is so nice and we get along great. I kill her almost everyday she says. She tells me that I am really funny. That is true. I feel like I have “come out” more during my mission. It is fun. This transfer is proving to being a very fun transfer despite not having that many people to teach. We laugh everyday. It is a good feeling. I read an article from the ensign this last week that children laugh 400 times a day and adults only 15. It talked about the difference and how adults are too serious about things but that laughing is really the best medicine to anything. So ever since I read that article I have been trying to laugh 400 + times a day. I am slowly working my way up I think. :D

It also helps working with Elders. In Utsunomiya it was just a sisters area but in this area I am working with 4 elders and it is a lot of fun. We work with them a lot. It is weird if we go without seeing them for at least one day. I love the Elders. They are awesome.

2 of them actually are the zone leaders and I asked them yesterday after church to give me a blessing because my body has been more tired then usual and getting in the way of me working I thinking. So I asked them for a blessing. The Elder who pronounced the blessing, Elder Young (from New Zealand) gave me a beautiful blessing. Some of the things he mentioned were:

-the lord is please with the service and the sacrifice you have rendered. He loves you very much.

-Remember to always pray and be accountable to the Lord.

-MY FAVORITE: You have been so blessed in your life with family and friends. This is ONLY the beginning. The Lord has so much more blessings in store for you.

He also mentioned some other things but these were my favorite. Especially about my family and friends. Awesome blessing right? :D

Saturday we went to a BBQ for the Kouhoku ward. The Japanese BBQ is very different from American BBQ but still good and still a lot of meat. It was really fun because a lot of our investigators came and we had a lot of fun together. I make them laugh a lot. It's funny. One of our investigators likes the missionaries and has been to church once I think but she had a really bad experience with church in the past and is kind of scarred of it. We are taking things slow right now. I am hope though I will be able to help her progress more and see that this church is not scary but can bless her life.

I don't know if I have ever described my area before but it is a area of hills. The biggest hill is none other then the one that goes up to the church. I will take a pic and send it sometime but it is very steep. But I was finally able to make it up to the top of the hill on my bike (without getting off and walking) and I did it twice. Yay me!!! I am hoping this area helps me to lose more weight and become more slim. That would be wonderful.

I am sorry this e-mail is short. It is hard to tell you everything especially when nothing really happened besides getting on the totally wrong train and going the opposite way, meeting a panda and bear on the bridge as we were handing out free English fliers, kids English class, president interviews, district meeting then photos on the roof of the church where my skirt would not stay down in the wind. Nothing much right. :D haha

Well I love you all. Have a great week and I will see you next week. :D

Love,

Kenzie

     

Sa Waddee ka

Hello Fam!
Well I am slowly getting settled into my new area. Things are for sure a lot slower. We only have like 1 new investigator and we were able to make a baptism date for her but besides that we don't have many people to teach right now and last week was a really slow week. We weren't able to get out much and do things because we had a lot of things we needed to do in the apartment. Also one day (Saturday) Sister Harding got really sick and had to stay in bed for the whole day until about 6 which was ping pong night. That was harder then I thought it would be (I kind of expected some days to stay inside). It was hard because I was mostly doing area book dendo which didn't hold a lot of success and I grew bored and distracted. Did some random stuff. My desire to go outside and talk to people for sure increased that day which was good. I now know I have a lot more desire then I thought to go outside and talk to people. So I am hoping that I will be able to do that this week and be able to find a lot of people to teach. So if you could say and extra prayer for me this week that would be great.

So I think I mentioned it last week but I am covering two wards right now and so on Sundays I got to both (6 hours of church). And what is interesting that despite being at church the whole day it was actually one of the fastest Sundays on my mission. Before I knew it it was the very last hour of the 2^nd wards church time. Sooo fast. But we were able to see a cool miracle yesterday. It was during the first wards (Kanagawa)'s sacrament. I just sat down after speaking and one of the members came and grabbed us saying there was a woman who wasn't Japanese and wasn't a member who arrived. We went out to meet her and she is so cute. Her name is Narisa and she is from Thailand. We hit it off pretty fast because I told her about you Just and how you served in Thailand and love it. She was really excited to hear that. She is graduate student here in Japan and speaks fluent english (and that is actually what she is studying). She is working on her Thesis right now and should be graduating in September and so because of that she wanted to come to church to pray and feel the special feeling there. She met the missionaries a year ago and came with them a few times and so remembered where the church was. She was just so wonderful and I really felt that she is ready right now to hear the lessons. We were able to get her phone number and e-mail and she even said that when her sister comes next week from Thailand she will have us over for Thai food. I am excited. Oh and Just she taught me some Thai so here it goes. “Sa wadde ka. Sa bai dee mai ka? Kid tueng na ka!!” I hope that makes sense. I couldn't write it in actual Thai. But I am excited. She said that she will teach me more. I am praying with all my heart things will go well with her. She is so nice.

Yesterday after church as well we met with the Kohoku's bishop and ward mission leader to talk about the wards mission plan. The Bishop was just called 2 weeks ago and wants to know how the ward was doing with helping the missionaries and wanted to help them have more fire for the work. He is a WONDERFUL Bishop and we had a great meeting. The spirit was really strong and I really felt that this was the beginning of something great. That he would really help the ward start having the fire and we would see some great tings happen. We were able to make plans and now we just need to start setting them in motion. Should be great.

This last week I felt Heavenly Father's presence A LOT. I was really sad to leave Utsunomiya. The members were great and we saw such great success. But everyday He reminded me that He was with me, that I have purpose here in my new area and that He will help me and be with me. I was filled with a lot of love this last week which made me happy.

I do like my new area. My companion is very nice (if a little quiet) but we get along great. And it is really fun to be working with the Elders again. I am working with 4. They are all a lot of fun. Today we did a kind of zone pday lunch and went to an all you can eat mexican place for one of the elders birthdays. It was SOOO much fun and one of the Elders actually got the Japanese workers to sing Happy Birthday to him. I don't think they usually do that. But it was funny. And after they sang to that Elder they ended up singing another person whose birthday it was. So look at the Americans spreading the Birthday tradition in Japan. It was pretty fun.

Well I love you all and pray that you will have a great week!!

Love you!!

Kenzie

 

 

Transfer Update

  

 

Hey Fam!!
I am glad that you all got home safe and sound and I am glad that you all had such a fun time in sunny San Diego. Thank you for the pics and videos. I am glad that the family is still a dancing weird bunch. :D haha It does my heart good to see so many awesome dance moves. I am sure it makes you proud as well mom. Haha :D I am happy to know that my letter to you Mom came. I was a little worried about it. Glad that you like the necklace and handkerchief. It was also soooo much fun to talk to all of you last week. I can't believe that it had come for that time. I really did feel like I just talked talked to you at Christmas. Time really loses all meaning on a mission, especially the more you go through it. O and I wanted you to know that I am feeling better. I still have my cough a little but it isn't quit as scary as it was last week. The problem now is just my nose being incredibly stuffy. But I am healthy and strong and getting better so no need to worry. :D

Ok so first you are all probably wondering if I have been transferred or not. Well.....I have. I am now serving in Kanagawa. If I do end up staying here for another transfer that will mean I will be apart of the Tokyo South Mission. The new area is nice. It has A LOT of hills but I am looking forward to the hills because it will help me lose more weight by the time I get home, especially with summer being around the corner. It is also a lot warmer here. I am defiantly more south then where I was. My new companion's name is Sister Harding. She is actually on her 2^nd transfer (she is my previous companion's mtc companion.) Her trainer ended her mission so I have come to finish her training. She is really sweet. She is from Spanish Fork and is a Japanese Major at BYU. Despite missing Utsunomiya with all of my heart I am looking forward to working in this area. I have already met some of the members and they are all wonderful. So in this new area we actually cover 2 wards. Wish me luck in remembering the names. Haha I really felt the Lord near me just in the last two days. That extra strength is amazing.

So coming here was pretty fun. It is pretty south of my last area so by train it was about a 2 ½ hour trip that I made by myself but for most of the trip I talked to a new friend that I met at the station. She was really cute. She is 23 and is Japanese but speaks really good English because she has lived in England for a year for school. She actually lived in Leads. We had a really good chat and I hope that she calls the Sisters in Utsunomiya. She said that she would. It made leaving a lot easier. I really did leave my heart there. The members spoiled me my last day by a lot of them getting me gifts. I won't have to worry about buying souvenirs for myself. Haha I can't wait to show you what they got me. Some I could try explain them but it wouldn't be as special. But those members really have become my family. I will miss them but take comfort knowing that I can see them for eternity. :D