Fun day Batman!!!

(Video is of my ROCKIN investigator!)

This is the view from the church window

Me really bored by the church window...

sky from the 6th floor of my investigator's Apartment building

My Rock-en investigator that is getting baptized this week!!!! and his Grandma

One of my other way cool Investigators! He’s Russian and a good football player... (well Soccer in America.)

more of my area

Grandma me and Christensen

Hakob and I

Hakob is the "grounds keeper of the church"

My awesome Comp Sister Christensen! I love her to death!!! By the end of this transfer well will have been together for 18 weeks (I'm so glad we get along!!!)

Rafiek one of the coolest old members of our branch. He told us Every Friday at 6 the missionaries come to teach him and his family. Who are we to mess with a old man routine. We go and he always finds new family members for us to teach. He's a stud and helps the work along so much!

the Bailey Sisters Christensen, Crego, Elder Recce, Me, Sister Fisher(my trainer), Elder Chennie, Sisters Cornwell and Davice.

...this is what happens to toes on a mission... I'm so getting a pedicure when I get home!

Alright well hopefully this week the letter won’t get deleted before I send it to you! Holy good week Batman!

So we took a shorter P-day last week so that we could go to the Russian Ballet this week. So so so good!!! We went with all but two of the Sisters in the mission ... so there were 7 Queers and then Elder Reece and Elder Chennie ... (Elder Chennie's mom grew up in the Lehi 2nd with Dad. Don't remember her first name but her maiden name is Gray. She remembers Dad and Sherrie.) The Ballet was so good! I really almost cried at one point. It’s amzing what they can convey in dance!

So this week my comp and I were trying to find a house that we have gone to three times before, we have never had any problems finding it. This time was different. We could not for the life of us find this house! We got on the right road but after that nothing looked familiar. We found the outside of her window at one point but we couldn't find the door to get to her house... it was the weirdest thing ever! After we walked up and down the apartment complex trying to find a way to get to her house we gave up and just counted it as were not meant to go to her house today... A man stops us and asks where were from I said American and he looks us over and was like “well will you come to my house right now and teach me about whatever your church is?” I asked him if he lived with anyone. (We can’t go into an apartment if there is only one boy in there) He said that he lives with his friend. I'm the scaredy cat of my companionship. I don't even know how it happened but I said yes. And just went with him right then to go to his Apt. I can’t even tell you how odd it was. I NEVER go to the men's apt when they invite us to go and teach them like that. But I just felt so peaceful about going I couldn't say no. It was a hard lesson. Him and his Friend are really smart and KNOW their history. They wanted us to come back again so the second time we went we took Tamara, a girl in our ward (she speaks near perfect English). She was a life saver! They said they would come to our stake conference (it’s really District conference... we don't have stakes) Two of them Loved it!!!! one of the men was on the brink of tears. He kept moving closer and closer so he could see the speakers better. He found us after and was way excited asked when we could come back to his house and teach him more. They were all like "We really felt something different... this is good!"
My Queer and I were on cloud 9 last night!!!! After the conference yesterday we were way excited We also found out about transfers we get another 6 weeks together in NORK!!! we were so happy we really didn't want to be transferred! We have build up Nork from nothing to one of the best areas in the south in only 6 weeks and so much will happen in the next few weeks to come we didn't want to miss it. But in the end we know it’s not us at all that is doing anything it’s all the Lord just letting us sit front seat on the ride. And I am so thankful that he lets me see his work!!! My District leader told us last night that the whole South Zone only got 5 new investigators the week before. This week my queer and I got 4. I really have never had such a strong testimony of it really is not me!!! It’s all Heavenly Father. He helps me so much every day! Sometimes I feel like a needy girl but he's there to listen to me all the time, It's so wonderful.

So I got another marriage proposal this makes 6 REALLY bold proposals in the 5 weeks I've been here. This was my first member that did it. He tried to go through Elder Reece to marry me. Luckily for me Elder Reece said no. But he still follows me around at District conferences....JOY! LOL I really will come home with a complex. You all still have to love me!

I most likely won’t email next week were going to Ararat to see the old Pagan Church. But I will have just talked to you the day before. Have fun love you lots!!! Can’t wait for Mothers day!

not much time....

So I typed a letter to you and it got deleted so this is going to have to be shorter today sorry.

Life is going really good here my comp and I got a little sick with a virus this week but we were able to go and do a lot more than I thought we were going to get done.

But no worries we are both doing really well. We were inside a lot this week so the only pictures I took were really weird so no pictures this week. I’ll try to think of something to send a picture of this week.

Our investigators are doing so good!!! Khackik is getting baptized this week and our investigator Lusea has a baptismal date for the 1^st part of May! The work is really taking off here in Nork and I love it!

I also really love my Companion we get along so well, we will defiantly be best friends for life! It really is cool to be how close we get in so short of time.

1. What is your apartment like? Do you have a normal bathroom now?

Yes I have a normal bathroom now. We have one of the best apartments in the mission right now its like were in a America! Infack this is a way better apartment then what I was living when I moved out.

2. Do you have running water all the time?

Its always on J and hot!!

3. Can you buy fresh veggies?

More now than before it’s whatever is in season that we get a lot of.

I make Book of Mormon jokes and almost beat myself up :)

The first few pics is Food that I made in the microwave lol I found out this week that you can make almost anything in that beautiful thing!. Like pie crust, brownies, pancakes.... really anything nuked, cheese on bread.... it’s great. (And by the way, keep reading to the end of this post and you will find a lovely surprise! A video!!!)

So we went to Zone Conference and I saw my MTC companions, it was way fun to see everyone in the mission. I think we have like 48 missionaries now.

I burned my Panty hose like a good little missionary!!! Can you believe it’s already been 6 months! Where does the time go!!

After we got done burning the panty hose it smelled really bad so we went back inside and ate some pie!!! Jennie really is so cool she sent me pudding and so we eat it for special times, like my 6 month mark!

This week has gone by really fast! ... I was sleeping for most of it but that's ok ... right lol. I got sick again but not too bad, I had a fever but was able to go out for a meeting or two. My comp thought I was funny so she took a pic while I was sleeping. Then my comp got it so we were in for the good part of two days, And to top it off we had Zone Conference, that makes ya loses a day in its self. So we tried to make up for lost time when we did go out. We’re really happy to be out now.


I really have started to love the people in Nork just as much as the people in Gyumri. I was really scared at first to come here but it has been such a growing experience. I really like the ward out here, the Branch President is really good to work with us. I feel bad that I call him so much but he is so much help! He came with us to an appointment and has helped a lot!

My investigators are doing really good. We have one, he's about 17 and a really good kid, he will get baptized on the 29th if all goes well. Fina we are still working on helping her quit smoking. She wants to be baptized so bad I really hope that we can help here! Fina is so strong the spirit is so good when we go over to her house.

We have another Russian investigator, this makes 1/2 of our investigators Russian... it’s hard but makes me feel better when I don't know what they are saying.
If you wanted to know the world thinks I'm Russian, it’s really funny they all talk to me first in Russian and don't believe me when I say I'm American.

Its crazy how much I can feel the Lord right by my side in everything I do. Like this week I gave a talk in church and I only have like a 2 min warning but I didn't get scared! that's one blessing. I get scared when it’s in English but I was able to just go up and I totally KILLED their language for 15- 20 min. They seemed to like it, they told me I was cute and my Language is getting better... If they caught I was talking about prophets or not I don't know but it was good. lol I started by telling them that it's hard for me to talk but not as hard as it will be for them to try to figure out what I'm trying to say. Then I got started; I wrote the word for boat on my finger so I could talk about Noah lol it worked well till I got to the word rain so I had to pantomime it :) they seemed to really like that.

Well I got to be going but know I love you so much have a good week :)

I'm a real missionary now!!

Admit it. You miss me :)

The rug is my Easter egg hunt I did for my self lol I don't eat the candies they give me so I slip it in my bag and give it to kids later, so I pulled it out along with an egg Rafiek gave me. (a old grandpa in my ward) and did my own Easter egg hunt lol I made a video to lol it was fun.

there are all so some pics of what ppl wrote on the walls. It was funny to me that one said B.F.F. and Hip hop never dies... There was English and Russian but no Armenian ... Am I the only one that finds that odd?

There is a pic from out side my door looking at maybe I'll need an umbrella maybe not ... I took the umbrella.

My book that I found a way good pic when I teach about the Atonement

Christensen and I went to a church that's in our area it was way beautiful its cool how they keep all there old Churches

So the pics this week are kind of random that puppy was the one I tried to pet

Well I may be crazy but your stuck with me for life so take it as it comes lol.

So this week has gone by so good I really had a lot of fun! Nork is so great I finally feel like I’m really a missionary. A lot of time I do the work but I don’t feel like much is happening. I know I’m doing good I just don’t know where. But here at Nork I can see the need is so great for the missionaries and they just love us so much.

I did some research and found out more about missionaries in Nork. Back in 06 there were sisters that had part of this area but they lived in Arabger which is about 20 min away from here. Then they split the ward 3 or 4 years ago and gave the Elders that part of the area and the rest of Nork… then like I said in my last letter they had to close it down for a while. Now I’m here, so for most of the area my comp and I are in we are the first Sister missionaries here.

So I want to tell you we have awesome people here, our first few days were hard! We did like 6 hrs of walking straight for the first few days because we had no investigators. And didn’t know any of the members or less actives. So we got out our ward list and would pick one and go try to find their house. We spent a full hr. trying to find the 12^th dorm, they don’t order them in order it’s all crazy and really hard but we found it… God found it and showed us where to go. That’s really how it went down.

The members here love us and keep giving us referrals. It’s so nice that they trust us and want to have us teach their friends. It makes the work a lot smoother when the members help ya out. We also have a way good Branch President and that helps a lot.

So we found investigators!!!! Yay!!! Well I just can’t tell you how much my testimony of how much this is not anything I’m doing its all the Lord at work I just get to come along for the ride. We have way good investigators really they are bomb! Luisa has decided to be baptized on May first. And Fina was trying to figure out if she wanted to wait for her son (Degron) or not and she came to the decision that she should get baptized now and not wait!!!! I could have cried I was so happy. Most people here put it off, and then it doesn’t happen, but she really wants it and I’m so happy for her! Oh so fun world Fina and Degron are Russian so My American companion and I are teaching in our second language and they’re learning in their second language. And somehow they know this church is true and keep coming back for more. I’m so grateful that the Holy Ghost only has one language!

So after writing you last week I found a puppy and decided that I didn’t care I was GOING TO PET IT!!! That was until it TRIED TO BITE ME!!! AND RAN ME OUT OF THE PARK!!! I had no idea puppies could be anything but friendly lol. So I saw it and was going to it and it came to me and right as I was like yay a puppy… it started to make biting noses and charging me lol then it called its attacker killer puppy friends and the 3 of them chased me out… But it’s ok when we were leaving our apartment I saw them again and gave them some bread and after that we were friends but I didn’t end up petting them… It did try to bite me… We also found a bear in that park! … ok so it turned out to be a massive dog but still I thought it was a small bear!

How has the weather been there it’s been really rainy here but it’s warm for the most part. Whats going on with the family? How is Grandma and all of them? I need an informant that keeps me updated on whats going on with the family.

Hey what are the chances of me getting a hand written letter from home? You don’t have to … lol

Well love you all so much hope all is well. Love your Favorite missionary Queer Fergie

A picture and a story... or maybe a lot of pics.

In Nork two months ago one of the Elders here got sick and had to go home, so they had to shut down an area to make up the difference with a lack of an Elder. So Nork was the area to get shut down. The Apartment is one of the best so the church kept the apartment. Well then they Moved me and my Comp from Gyumri to Nork to Re-open the Area.
People speak English to us here a lot. Like my Branch president, it's so cool that He Knows Joe Carbine. We also have a lot of others that speak English to us. It's so hard to try to talk to them, I just get tung tied. It's almost easier to talk in Armenian. Most of the time its easier when they talk to me in Armenian.
It was so hard to leave. Gyumri in the MTC my branch president gave us advice "Ever transfer should break your heart, that's how you'll know your doing it right." Holy cow I had no idea leaving people that I didn't really even know would brake my heart so much!!
Now don't get me wrong Nork is good too, and there is this old Grandpa I'm already in love with. His name is Raffiek the popeek ... not as cool in English...but in Armenian it's a way cool name. And instead of getting my mail every Month when someone makes the drive to Gyumri I live a 10 min ride from the office and can pick it up every Monday.
I really excited for my new area its way fun to re-open an area. We walk around alot getting to know everyone and my Branch president is way cool! love you lots

HOly do you see my DAD!!! he is 100 percent STUD!!! this is me reading my emails.

this is just one of the Mossies that were over in "Nork" there is 9 total mossies and two little ville gages. The city is huge Nork is just a part of Yerevan. nothing like Gyumri. Gyumri was a small city Now I'm in "there" down town New York.

this is my new area we stopped by a Grave yard. There graves are bigger than most of there homes

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me in my apartment I was so happy to get that micro wave!!! I ate my warm food next to it because I couldn't get my self to leave it :) and I sent you a bunch of pics of the microwave and what I ate from it!

this is my back yard!!! I have a back yard !!!!!! and it has Fruit trees in it. If I stay here long enough I'll get to eat the fruit.

so normally your not Double transferred into an area. But that is what happened. So for the pic the elders that were in Nork two mounts ago didn't know that Queers would be the next to get the Apt... so we found old cloths. lol my queer got a new shirt and new work out shorts.
Elders moved in to our apartment and We moved into old Elders Apartment.... well the Elders left stuff behind for the next one to come but they didn't know it was going to be girls Sisters haven't been in Nork in over 6 years... lol we found a bag of random stuff but now I have a new hat :) and the sweater did fit me.

That's the bug we found in our apartment our first night. I had to find a dime so you could see how big it was. So cool! But we didn't want to kill it, so my companion let it out. In our back yard. I still can't believe we have a back yard!!!

is my kitchen its so nice!!! I didn't know they had nice like this. they just didn't have this in Gyumri.

These are my old investigators in Gyumri they are really cute girls. One is 20 and the other is 16

This was my old district we were at my Minni's parents house and had a big BBQ the plate of food is what I ate! SO SO GOOD!!!

this is Any she is so cute she is about 15 Her mom and her were less actives but they are coming to church now. There way cool!. Gyumri has a lot of inactivates so we spent a lot of time working with members.

this is Jerjanek (translates to happy in English) and Suzanna