Sister Rozlyn Hilton

This week was so fast, as always. I also found out that this transfer is only a 5 week transfer. That means less time with Sister Christensen 😥 it's sad, but we are making it fun!  This week consisted of teaching, visiting people, doing Facebook ads, and ysa activities. Nothing super eventful, but I like it.  Last pday we went to the mall across the street and it is so nice! We went with 2 other sisters and we looked around and I may or may not have got some stuff...  My comp and I had dinner with President and Sister Graham and that was fun! The food was so good and they stuffed us full of dessert.  The coolest part of my week was getting to teach Chris. He has a date to be baptized, and he even agree to move it up to next month! So I'll get to be here for that! I'm really excited for him.  Something that I have been working on this week is making my studies meaningful. I have struggled with this, but I made so much progress. I read from the book o...

Transfers! I have a new companion and I am in a new area and I love BOTH!! I love the YSA ward so much, it's kinda refreshing to be with college students haha you all know what I'm talking about. I'm in the city now it's nice! Our apartment is right behind a big mall haha so there is only a road separating us from the mall entrance. Our apartment is so nice too!! Compared to my tiny last one, this one is wayyy nice and it has lots of storage. I really hope I'm here for a while!! My companion is the cherry on top. Her name is Sister Christensen and this is her very last transfer!! Kinda sad. She is from meridian Idaho which is cool! She played tennis and she said that I look familiar haha we've probably seen each other at a tennis tournament somewhere! We have been having so much fun and I am being pushed so much more now. I really like it tho!! I've been wanting to max out my days cuz I didn't feel like I was being pushed in my last area. But now it is ...

This week was SO fast. Time literally is so weird on the mission.  On pday last week we went to ozone falls with the district which was so much fun! I love this district so much and I'm going to miss them! Today is my last pday with the most legendary district ever, so we are going to pack today full of fun stuff.  Well, I'm getting transferred.... I'm so sad and actually pretty scared haha. I am going to be serving in a Young Single Adult ward in bearsden. But the scary part is that I am going to be in a district with the APs and I'm going to be the social media specialist!! Nooooo!!!!!!!! This means that i have to get instagram (😭) and i have to teach everyone how to better use social media. I barely know how to view my profile on Facebook, and now I'm gonna be training the mission how to use social media... this will be really interesting considering that I have never had social media my entire life. Oh boy. Idk what president Graham was thinking, social media i...

 To start, I had exchanges on Tuesday!! I was really nervous for some reason, but it was way fun. I went with Sister Williams, and we are literally copy and paste the same. We have very similar personalities, and we like the same music (which basically means we are the same person). We were just driving, and I randomly said, "this is random, but you strike me as someone who listens to dayglow." Then she looked at me with the widest eyes and started freaking out cuz she LOVES dayglow hahaha I am a seer. We started listing off other bands and she loves the wombats! tommy just went to their concert, so he sent me a video of our favorite song from the wombats, so I showed sister Williams and she was bouncing up and down in the car cuz it was her favorite song, and she hasn't heard it in well over a year hahahaha it was so fantastic. Her and her cousins also love love love the youtuber marla catherine, and i went to high school with marla (we had the same classes and went to s...

 This week was a little rough numbers wise, but I still enjoyed it!  To start, I deep cleaned the bathroom cuz i had some extra time, and little did I know that I have literally been showering in mold... i thought the rubber tips of the shower head were black.. nope. They are supposed to be gray. I'll attach the before and after picture cuz my comp and I were in shock. It was soooo gross! We visited a lot of people this week, and I can't tell you how many times I've been teased because I take off my shoes in people's houses. In Tennessee, if you take off your shoes, it's like you own the place. We visited a 95 year old lady in a trailer home, and it was a very clean tidy trailer home. So I took off my shoes. When I sat down, this old old lady looked at my socks and started laughing and said "why'd ya take off your shoes darlin?? Ain't no one do that here, where you from?"😂 mom, you've trained me wrong haha. At the Doneys (members who feed us e...

 This week flew by, which I guess is a good thing! To jump right into things, we are teaching quite a few people right now, and I can see 3 of them being baptized by the end of this transfer. I've been praying so hard about it, because I have developed such a strong love for them individually and I want them to progress and be baptized soooo badly. It's funny cuz you don't realize how much you love and cherish the gospel until you start teaching it to someone who doesn't know it. I really hope to see a baptism before the transfer ends because I care about these people so much.  Sister Jones and I have been working hard and we have found so many new people to teach! I've definitely changed a lot in a few weeks cuz I get genuinely excited to knock on someone's door, and I stand there hoping that they answer. I won't lie, the first week, I would feel a flood of relief if someone didn't answer their door😅 so I've come a long way!  I also love visiting p...

 K I don't want to disappoint, but this week was not nearly as exciting as last week😂 It was successful, but the culture shock is done haha. Not to be sad or anything, but I did cry a few times this week for different reasons. The first time was for Billy. Billy is an old member of the ward who isn't mentally all there, and his wife died about 4 years ago and he has no children or family, so he is completely alone. Visiting his home and seeing the conditions he lives in literally brought me to tears. An elder told me that Billy said "ya know, I'm always helpin other people as much as i can, but sometimes I wish that I could get some help." It broke my heart. The other hard time was a lesson that turned against us, but I won't go into detail about that but basically my companion and I both cried on the way home, and she said it was the hardest lesson she had ever had on her entire mission (she has been out a little over a year), so yeah.... But it's all go...

 This week was so different but fun! But let me start by saying, southerners are no joke!! More on that later😅 so this was my fist week in Tennessee and it has been a lot. I felt a little overwhelmed at times, but when I only focus on what I'm doing at the moment, it helps me to calm down.  I said goodbye to my family at the airport on Tuesday morning then arrived at the mission home around 6. It was fun to meet up with all the missionaries in the airport, but I also had a very hard time feeling connected/included. I had just said by to my family hours before, but all these missionaries came straight from the mtc, so they all already knew each other (most of them were companions in the mtc) and they had said goodbye to their families weeks ago. So I felt pretty disconnected, but I tried my best to get to know them! At the mission home we had dinner and a devotional then stayed at a hotel where the next day we spent most the day at the church getting our stuff and our assignme...

 Last week of the MTC! The next email I'll send, I'll be in Tennessee. I am feeling very ready to get out into the field, and so far, I'm not nervous. The MTC has been so amazing and I have learned so much about the simplicity of the gospel and the love that Christ has for everyone individually. I am very sad to say goodbye to my teachers because they have been so amazing. They are both so sweet and I could feel the genuine love that they had for me and my district. I am also going to miss my district, but we all promised to stay in touch and meet up after the mission!  My biggest takeaways from this week/the MTC:  God is good. I've never spent so much time studying about the nature of Heavenly Father, but now I feel so much more connection with him because I understand his nature more. I highly recommend to anyone who doesn't know much about him to seek that out, because we all know what God is, but sometimes we fail to understand who he is as a father.  Another th...

 This week flew by. I got to teach a lady named Elena (an mtc volunteer) and it went so well! I am starting to be much more confident in teaching and being vulnerable. It is such a beautiful thing opening up and letting the spirit guide your words. I will be honest, I wasn't used to it. I have never been one to openly be vulnerable about my spiritual feelings, but when I'm in an environment with other missionaries, a whole new side of me opens up. I hope to never lose this because I love the feelings I get when I share with other people. I have learned so much from my district as well.  My scenery hasn't changed a bit, I'm still looking at a computer on a desk in my room. I try to get out of the house as much as I can, but it isn't a lot. I appreciate any time I get to spend with my family so much more. I don't vocalize it much, but I have seen what each one of them has done to help me with this mtc experience and it has made all the difference. I know it can be...

 This week went by super slowly because everything was new, but I am coming to love online MTC! Every day I have a zoom from 8:30-11:30, 12-1, and 1:30-4:30. Then I do additional zooms with my companions and district to study and discuss. So each day consists of 8-10 hours of zoom. To be honest, it sounds a lot worse than it actually is. The little breaks in between give me just enough time to reset, so they are actually really enjoyable.  The thing that has been the hardest this week is adjusting my sleep schedule😅 Going to bed early and waking up early is harder than I thought! I bobbed off in a LGM zoom on Tuesday which was embarrassing because my camera was on and there were over 300 missionaries on that zoom. I didn't know I fell asleep until my head bobbed so aggressively that it woke me up, and I had no idea how long ago I fell asleep. So now I keep mints and a water bottle with me during zooms just in case I get tired.  On the other hand, I really am enjoying the...