tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24254552100337596972024-03-12T19:42:57.516-07:00Called To Serve HimSister Christine A Hayes has been called to serve in the Tucson Arizona mission!!Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-20657726842825587842011-11-20T21:40:00.000-08:002011-11-20T21:46:36.382-08:00Come see her in person!!<div><span style="color:#000000;">Christine is speaking in church THIS Sunday. We just wanted to invite you all. I know she would love to see you.</span></div><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677320294559837330" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OqfCoRgjl1Y/Tsnkumla7JI/AAAAAAAAAFU/YGv1L4vj9iw/s400/Christine%2BHayes%2Bcopy.jpg" /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-8474841133693353812011-11-20T21:14:00.000-08:002011-11-20T21:32:43.117-08:00The Last Email!!!I cannot believe that I will be seeing my sister in only a couple more days. I am so excited. We got the most beautiful email from Sister Hayes yesterday. I just had to share with you some of my favorite parts.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">"This week has been bitter sweet in so many ways. Alot of people here in this area know that I'm going home and so they often ask if I'm excited which brings up mixed emotions. Just yesterday we had one of the <strong>most powerful lessons that I've had my entire mission</strong> with Luis. Everyone in the room including Luis was crying. The spirit felt as strong as it does in the temple and I was filled with gratitude to my Savior for how gracious he is. At the end of our lesson Luis asked me if I was excited to go home, as the tears began to flow down my face I told him I was but that I would miss people like him that I have grown to love soo much. I have been filled with so much love that I almost can't stand it."</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">"I know that I needed to be here with President and Sister Walker and with specific companions. I also know that this is the same with all of the people that I have met and taught on my mission. I then received a very comforting feeling as I thought about my time here in the Arizona Tucson Mission. Yes, it's true I don't want to come home, I want to continue serving the Lord 24/7 but my time is up. It is time for me to go home and to be there for my family and many other people that I will meet and work with through school and work. Even though I will no longer physically care the name of Jesus Christ on my chest I will always carry him in my heart. "</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">"How grateful I am for all that I have gone through on my mission. I can honestly say now that I would do it all again. All of the heartache and the trials and the homesick feelings I would do it all again. More then anything this mission has changed me and I feel so blessed that the Lord has shown me so much mercy. I want to be all that Heavenly Father wants me to be. I want to serve him all my life and I pray that others will be able to see his light in me. "</span><br /><br /><p align="center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677316534784980562" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B6iLnMQ2394/TsnhTwVPdlI/AAAAAAAAAFI/hrSoG-3W9hs/s400/DSC00373.JPG" /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;">We love you Sister Hayes and will see you soon!!!</span></p>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-90844529409352481992011-10-23T12:50:00.000-07:002011-10-23T14:00:56.623-07:00Counting Down the Days!!<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cc0000;">Can you believe it!! <strong>31</strong> more day until </span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cc0000;">Sister Hayes gets home!! </span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#000000;">Yes I am counting down the days til my amazing little sis gets home. In fact, Megan and I made a paper chain the other day to help us keep track. Megan is getting really excited and talks about picking up Aunt Chrisy at the airport all the time. From Christine's emails it looks like she is really excited too. She has loved being a missionary and serving the people of Arizona but she is so excited to get back to her family that she loves so much. Sister Hayes will be arriving home bright and early at 10am on Nov. 23 (the day after her dad's 50th birthday and the day before Thanksgiving). Some of the things she can't wait for are seeing her family (of course), Cafe Rio salads, wearing jeans, going to a movie with her dad, holding the twins, playing with Megan, shopping, seeing her grandma Bibby (who is flying in from Alabama) and sleeping. </span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Well now that we got that out of the way you are probably wondering how she is doing. Sorry it has been so so so long since an update. Well it is way to hard to go back and update you on all that she has done so we will stick to what she is doing now. Sister Hayes is currently serving in the Gila Valley which is where the temple is. The mission president wanted her to learn Spanish in her last couple months on the mission so her last two transfers have been with Spanish speaking companions. It has been hard but it sounds like she is working really hard at it. <span style="color:#cc0000;">"At first when I heard that we would be covering all of the Spanish Branch I thought. What? I can't do that, I really don't know Spanish! (which is the truth) But I then remembered something that was said in my patriarchal blessing, it says something along the lines of dismiss doubt from your mind. I know that I am supposed to learn this language because during some point in the future I will need it. I plan on really hitting my knees and pleading with the Lord to help me. I hope that the spirit will help me get across the message that I so badly want to share with these people.....Now about my Spanish again. It is slowly getting better, not that I can speak it at all but I can understand alot more then I ever could before :) We'll keep working on it and praying my heart out." </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Her current companion is Hermana Harris from South Carolina. They are serving in the Young Single Adults(YSA) Branch and the Spanish Branch. The work is pretty slow but they are trying hard to find people to teach. Please keep them and those they met in your prayers. <span style="color:#cc0000;">"Oh, I've also decided that when I go home, I'm staying in a family ward for a while. I hate singles ward, it is so awkward.UGH! People are very immature and worldly, but at the same time we are all learning. So, just to let you know don't sign me up for Singles Ward anytime soon"</span></span></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">Sister (Hermana) Hayes had an amazing experience this week that I though I would share with you. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cc0000;">"Also this week I met a wonderful member of the Spanish Branch. Her name is Sister Barney and let me tell you this world is a small world. So, I was on splits in the Spanish branch with Sis. Barney while Sister Harris was in the YSA Branch. Once sacrament was over in the Spanish branch, Sister Barney took me to go pick up a young lady to bring to the YSA branch. She started asking me the usual missionary questions,<br />"So Sister where are you from?"<br />West Jordan, Utah<br />"Oh, really I have a daughter down there and another relative in South Jordan"<br />Who's your daughter?<br />"Her name is Kristen Miles"<br />Seriously? Oh, my goodness, does she have twins?<br />"Yes, Grant and Jenny and Anna..."<br />She's in my homeward, I helped her bathe and dress the twins when they were young, oh my goodness.<br /><br />During the whole conversation, I was just beaming with excitement. <strong>It's like the spirit filled my whole body and I was filled with joy.</strong> I was so thankful for this experience because the past few days have been a little rough in this new area with my new companion. <strong>Again this was a testimony to me that God is aware of each one of us</strong>. This small <strong>tender mercy</strong> from the Lord brought me so much joy, my whole day was turned around and I had a better attitude." </span><span style="color:#000000;">What a simple blessing.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Everything else is going great with Sister Hayes. Like I said before they are just struggling to find people to teach and with their current few investigators. Please remember Sister Hayes in your prayers and if you have time send her a little note. After all, time is running out.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;">A picture she sent us...</span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666790450032212994" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_fB6bQ7pyw0/TqR74-6-_AI/AAAAAAAAAE8/X_Lsq3kIPKY/s320/DSC00349.JPG" /></span> <br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;">The field is white already to harvest!!!<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">(cotton fields where she is currently serving)</span></p>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-88987772736400854252011-07-06T19:30:00.000-07:002011-07-06T19:30:24.535-07:00Another Milestone<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sister Hayes has been serving her mission for 14 months can! Can you believe it?! </span><br />
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It is a bitter sweet feeling today to hit my 14 month mark. I am excited and grateful that I have made it this far but I am also sad because I only have a little 4 months to be a servant of the Lord 24/7.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What an amazing milestone she has hit!! And if that wasn't great enough, she also had an awesome week! Want to know why?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What a wonderful blessing for Sister Hayes and her companion! The stories she has to tell are great so I'll let her tell them to you in her own words!! </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>On Tuesday we received a call from a member in another ward telling us that her in-laws were interested in taking the lessons but that they were requesting to be taught by sister missionaries. So, even though they are not in our ward we are teaching them. What a Powerful lesson we had with them. We started out the lesson by getting to know them and they all had a church background and Tim especially. He knows the Bible very well. So, I was a little bit nervous but as the lesson went on we realized that Tim was agreeing with everything we said, he kept saying, yep that goes along with the Bible I agree. The time came for Sister Mostert to say the First Vision, and they all felt the spirit. Tim and his wife Melina, shook there heads in agreeance and Melina even had tears in her eyes. Melina's mom Linda had her mouth open as if she was in shock. As we asked them how they felt they said that they knew it was true and they were just full of peace and joy.</em></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But just wait, this story gets even better!! </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>We then set a baptism date with each of them and they will be getting baptized on July 30th. Then the next day when we went back to see them we set a baptism date with 2/3 of their children. They have 3 kids, Tyler (14) Brittany(11) and Trevor (9). We are hoping to talk with Tyler soon and see if he wants to be baptized as well. Just like the subject line says, everytime we go see them I am SOOO Happy! We come home at night from our appointment with them and I can't sleep because I am so happy and bubbling over with Joy!!!!! I LOVE IT, I AM SOOOO HAPPY! </em></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Another wonderful story from our favorite missionary!! I am so happy for this family and so proud of Sister Hayes for sharing the gospel with them!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But there is one little snag in this story. One of the family members, Linda, is currently in the hospital with pneumonia and a lung infection! Say a little prayer for Linda, that she will start to feel better soon! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And here is another story about one of her new investigators!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Another investigator we found this week was Jim. We were tracting in an apartment complex and he didn't answer his door but when we were knocking on some others doors he opened his door and asked if we knocked on his. We told him who we were and he wanted to know the difference between that at Catholic. We weren't able to go inside since he is a single male but we made an appointment with him the next day. The next day we brought a member with us about his age (60's) and we taught him the first lesson. He had tons of wonderful questions and we set a baptism date with him. I think this is the first person that I have taught with a big Catholic background. He served in two wars and he has really struggled sometimes with the concept of God, but he has also had some really strong spiritual experiences/miracles. We invited him to come to church the next day but he is still recovering from surgery on both of his feet so we told him he could come next week and then we went ahead and set up and appointment for the next day. Well we were planning on teaching him the Plan of Salvation and then he called and said that he had to cancel on us because his 90 year old dad is in the hospital in a coma and he wasn't sure how long it would be. Satan sure has been working hard this week, he knew what we were going to teach him and he knew it would help him. GRRR. So we are hoping to stop by today and see him and hopefully comfort him with God's wonderful plan for us. I'm so excited for all that is going on here in our area right now. We have truly been blessed and the Lord is doing miracles right before our eyes. </em></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm so glad Sister Hayes had such a wonderful week!! I don't know about you, but I cant wait to hear more about these wonderful people!!! Now on to some pictures!! </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xzVO1UY_ZlA/ThUVrgtSx2I/AAAAAAAABes/dFQL2DnSU0o/s1600/IMG_0630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xzVO1UY_ZlA/ThUVrgtSx2I/AAAAAAAABes/dFQL2DnSU0o/s320/IMG_0630.JPG" width="320px" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The lovely Sister missionaries celebrating the 4th of July! They all look so cute in their patriotic colors!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was a very good and spiritual week for Sister Hayes and even a little emotional! Her mission president and his wife {President and Sister Walker} have finished their three year mission are headed home. They had their final Zone Conference with them last week and it sounds like there wasn't a dry eye in the house after their testimony meeting!! </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-utgWy9Unn80/Tgurtwf8GII/AAAAAAAABdk/L6LuZLGpLpI/s1600/IMG_0602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-utgWy9Unn80/Tgurtwf8GII/AAAAAAAABdk/L6LuZLGpLpI/s320/IMG_0602.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GL3XneSEAFY/Tguru6CvaiI/AAAAAAAABdo/-AUPM-EvCGE/s1600/IMG_0604.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GL3XneSEAFY/Tguru6CvaiI/AAAAAAAABdo/-AUPM-EvCGE/s320/IMG_0604.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>It was President and Sister Walkers last meeting with us, we ended the meeting with a wonderful testimony meeting, and during the closing prayer all you could hear were sniffles. Oh, and I was able to do a musical number, Sister Walker asked me to sing so, I found out what President Walkers favorite hymn is and sang that while Elder Bradley accompanied me. So, I sang 'Our Savior's Love' and after sitting down Sister Mostert told me that President was in tears as I sang. I just love President so much and it was my way of saying thank you to him, by singing his favorite song.</em></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have never met the Walker's but from everything I have heard about them they sound like amazing people!! I am so glad that they were part of Sister Hayes' mission experience!! </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qIOC6qzyang/TgursnRpkUI/AAAAAAAABdg/b2Fm15UIa6w/s1600/IMG_0599.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qIOC6qzyang/TgursnRpkUI/AAAAAAAABdg/b2Fm15UIa6w/s320/IMG_0599.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>At the end of the meeting we all gave President and Sister Walker a HUG!!! Yep I finally got to hug President Walker! I am so grateful for them and all that they have done to help me. I will truly miss them. As I hugged Sister Walker she whispered in my ear, "Sister Hayes, you will always be our little miracle" it even makes me tearful now. I am so thankful to have been able to serve with them.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bXslyQH7dDM/Tgurwtqk4-I/AAAAAAAABds/gP-GTC7ptUc/s1600/IMG_0608.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bXslyQH7dDM/Tgurwtqk4-I/AAAAAAAABds/gP-GTC7ptUc/s320/IMG_0608.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but that makes me a little tearful too!! I am SO proud of Sister Hayes and all her accomplishments so far!! </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now, onto a crazy story in Sister Hayes' own words:</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>So on Wednesday night we had no one else to go see and it was 8 o'clock, so we decided to go and see Tracie and watch the movie Legacy with her. She was also feeling a little under the weather so we brought her some orange juice. Well, after watching the movie we are saying our goodbyes and as Sister Mostert starts to walk out the door she says, "Tracie, there's a snake in your house." Yep!!! Right as we were walking out a baby snake was slithering in through her front door. (He really was a baby snake, about the same size as the ones we used to kill in the yard but just a little bit longer) So, we all had a little freak out moment for a second and then we said, We have to get him out. Well, my adrenaline started pumping and I was brave enough to say, "give me some gloves and I'll pick him up and put him outside." By the time we found gloves he was slithering up against Tracie's wall behind her shelves which meant that we had to move everything quickly so we didn't loose him. Finally, we found him, as I started to approach him with my gloves and some plastic tuperware to put him in I got a little nervous. I thought, What are these gloves going to do for me? NOTHING, they are only covering my hands, what if he bites my arm. So, I tried my best to get him into the tuperware but he was scared and so was I. (By the way I just got my boot and was hobbling around like a dork.) So, after a few attempts of not getting him into the tuperware I told Sister Mostert to grab me a stick from outside and then we would just scoot him out. As she was grabbing a stick, I started investigator our little snake and thought to myself, wow his head is really profound, what if he's a rattlesnake, well I quickly pushed that scary thought aside and started moving him with the stick. He eventually got to the point where he was coiled up and he looked either really scared or angry, I like to think he was scared. Well, to make a long story short we led him to the door and off he went. Also, while having this little adventure I kept thinking of the movie Toy Story, where Woody says, "There's a snake in my Boot". Thank goodness the snake didn't find my boot. Well, after telling Tracie that she would be fine and that we would pray that there would be no problems that night we headed home. We were a little late for our curfew but we eventually made it home. Once we were home we asked Sister Charlotte Walker (the member we live with) to look up some pictures of baby snakes. Well, this didn't make us feel any better. After a little research we discovered that our little snake was a baby RATTLESNAKE!!!! AHHHHH!!! Wow I had a hard time sleeping that night. Then the next day we had Zone Conference and we were telling some of the elders about our encounter, and they started telling us that Baby Rattlesnakes are more poisonous then adult ones, well it's a good thing we didn't know that last night. </em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Isn't that CRAZY!! AHH! So glad that everything went okay and no one was bitten!! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I bet you are wondering about the boot she is talking about! Sister Hayes has been having some pain in her foot. She went to the doctor and they gave her a fabulously stylish boot to wear around for the next few weeks!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Unfortunately, they didn't give me a black one so everyone usually tells me that I look like I have a storm troopers boot on from Star Wars. What do you think?</em></span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A9AznI8CnBQ/TgurxTddb2I/AAAAAAAABdw/ZimZR3qAWt8/s1600/IMG_0609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A9AznI8CnBQ/TgurxTddb2I/AAAAAAAABdw/ZimZR3qAWt8/s320/IMG_0609.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Look at these two wonderful hop along missionaries!! Say a little prayer for Sister Hayes' foot that it will start feeling better soon!! </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--U5E4SJ5E-8/TgurmRuB8RI/AAAAAAAABdc/qs4are2BPyI/s1600/IMG_0596.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--U5E4SJ5E-8/TgurmRuB8RI/AAAAAAAABdc/qs4are2BPyI/s320/IMG_0596.JPG" width="240px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fb154ub7kkk/Tgur1RXWQQI/AAAAAAAABd0/_L1fkK5DCMY/s1600/IMG_0600.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fb154ub7kkk/Tgur1RXWQQI/AAAAAAAABd0/_L1fkK5DCMY/s320/IMG_0600.JPG" width="240px" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-76241871882193180922011-06-18T01:39:00.001-07:002011-06-22T02:35:16.433-07:00Transfers & TwinsSorry that it has been so long since I have updated you. If you didn't already know Sister Hayes became an aunt again times two. Her only sister Tiffany (me) had twin baby girls in mid April. Christine is so excited about them and can't wait to hold them. I also can't wait for Sister Hayes to meet her new nieces. Christine is so good with babies and am amazing help. She has a natural talent for caring for others. I have missed her <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">alot</span> but I am so grateful for her sacrifice and service. Our little family has seen the double blessings because of it. <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 234px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620974528940369602" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6FTFhoWn9F0/TgG2jYkCZsI/AAAAAAAAAEo/gH8CBY6Wc5g/s320/Tiffany%2BBack%2B6.jpg" /><br />Well Sister Hayes has been through two transfer since my last post (sorry my hands have been a little full). Sister <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hamano</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">returned</span> back to her mission in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Nauvoo</span> and Christine was put in a threesome with Sister <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Burri</span> and Sister Olson for about two weeks until transfers. They where pretty busy looking after both areas.<br /><br /><span style="color:#006600;">"So, on Saturday Aileen was baptized!!! <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Wahoo</span>! She was late to her baptism because she woke up sick. When she arrived at the church I stood outside with her and rubbed her back as she threw-up. I was so worried, and told her if we needed to that we could have her baptized next week, but she said "no, I want to do it today." So we went inside and got her dressed. I was so emotional watching her get baptized, we have grown so close to each other and both of us wished that Sister <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hamano</span> could have been here. Well, after she got baptized she was feeling a lot better, it was a miracle. She called into work and to make a long story short, she got fired. It's amazing what Satan will do to discourage us, but she realized that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">maybe</span> there is something better for her out there. So, on Sunday she was confirmed and she said that the spirit was so strong when they were confirming her. The best part about all of this is that her mom and sister were there and I know her mom felt the spirit, there was even a few times were her mom was wiping away tears."</span><br /><br />She also had a interview with President Walker and got great advice <span style="color:#006600;">"It was great to be able to ask him questions about the work and really have a heart to heart with him. As I met with him, he told me how much I have changed. He reminded me that when I go home it is very possible that people won't realize that I have changed and when they do they might be confused but he said, don't change, continue to be the person that you have become out her." </span><br /><br />Transfers came and Sister Hayes remained in her area but got a new <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">companion</span>, Sister Hughes from Mountain Green,<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ut</span>. This <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">transfers</span> was full of up and downs. They had lots of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">success</span> at one point they were teaching 10 people. But her and her companion had a hard time getting along (you have to have one of those eventually.) We got to talking to her on Mother's day which was wonderful. Her Grandma Hayes passed a away which was hard for Christine to deal with but <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">luckily</span> she got to talk to her before she passed away. Christine also celebrated her 22<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">nd</span> birthday. They got to go to the temple, what better present could you get. Happy Birthday to you!!! She also got a pretty good tan as they tried to get out and walk more.<br /><br />And finally to where she currently is. Sister Hayes has been <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">transferred</span> to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Pantano</span> ward which is just about 5-10 minutes east of her last area. Her new companion is Sister <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mostert</span>. <span style="color:#009900;">"Well, more about my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">companion</span>, she is an air force brat so she grew up all over. She even lived in Japan for a while, AWESOME! She is an absolute sweetheart, and I think we will have no problem getting along. She is majoring in theatre and she went to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">BYU</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">pre</span>-mission. So we can talk about movies and sing our little hearts out. " </span><span style="color:#000000;">They have been having a good time. On P-days they go to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">commissary</span> on base to get groceries (thanks to sister <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mosterts</span> ID). She got a cool Japanese soda their last week that had a marble in it. Here is her new apartment address:</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Sister Christine Hayes</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">8865 East <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bluefield</span> Street</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Tucson, AZ 85710</span><br /><br />Two last things before this post becomes <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">officially</span> way to long. We found out that She gets o choose when she comes home because her 18 month mark is November 5<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> she can go home on October 12<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> or November 23rd. <span style="color:#009900;">"I'm still not sure what I want to do. It's only six weeks difference but you only get to serve a full time mission once. So I will be praying about what I should do."</span><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><p>Sister Hayes' will get a new mission president the end of this month. I am sure she is excited but that it will also be hard. She has grown so close to President & Sister Walker.</p><br /><p><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ok</span> well I think you are now fully updated. I will try not to get so behind again but I can't make any promises. If you get a chance send Chris a letter it would make her day.</p></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-50939691252642454792011-04-04T14:53:00.000-07:002011-04-04T14:57:02.057-07:00What's Going On<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Have you been wondering what on earth Sister Hayes is up to?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know you are all dying to know, so here is the latest!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sister Hayes has now been serving for almost exactly 11 months! Here one year mark is coming up so fast which is crazy to think about! This is also her last full week serving with her current companion, Sister Hamano! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here are some exerts for this weeks email:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Wasn't conference great? We were able to to go to the stake center and watch all four sessions of conference. We watched three of the sessions in American Sign Language so that Sister Hamano could get some practice in. It was pretty cool I picked up a lot of new signs." </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"A mission has helped me to realize that Satan really does have an attack on marriages and families in these latter days. I have seen so many families torn apart by Satan grasp on the world today, that's why I love teaching families that against all the horrible things that may go on, they can be a family forever." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sister Hayes's favorite talks from conference were:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">*Elder Scott: <span style="color: purple;">"what a love and respect he had for his wife....I hope you took good notes on what he said."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">*Elder Holland: <span style="color: purple;">"He is my favorite! I loved the part where he said 'This isn't a fast food joint, you cant have it your way.' He speaks so powerfully...he has the spirit and charity when he speaks."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">*Elder Bednar: <span style="color: purple;">"[He] has such a wonderful of presenting his talks. I was so grateful when he told everyone that they were normal if they didn't receive amazing revelations all the time. I also loved the way that he related it to the light bulb or the sun slowly coming up in the morning." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Want to know more about LDS General Conference? Go </span><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2011/04?lang=eng"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to find out more and to listen to Sister Hayes's favorite talks!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sister Hayes and her companion are currently working with a wonderful woman named Aileen. She was able to watch some of conference this weekend. Aileen has some things she is working on but she is hoping to be baptized on April 16th!! This will be such a wonderful blessing for all three of them!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Another piece of exciting news that Sister Hayes shared is that a family that was recently baptized is working on going through the temple! The woman's husband is currently deployed and the woman and her children are living on a military base. The woman was so excited to show Sister Hayes the dresses her little girls will wear when they go through the temple to be sealed together! Sister Hayes wrote:</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"I AM SO EXCITED! They are truly on the right path doing all they can to make it to the temple. Even though her husband is deployed it is not stopping them from preparing." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Speaking of investigators, please remember Sister Hayes when you are praying! Please pray for them to find those that are ready to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and that the hearts and minds of those in here area will be open!! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-82833846658190608502011-02-25T10:08:00.000-08:002011-02-25T10:11:17.465-08:00Transfers!!!So a lot has happen to Sister Hayes since my last post. Sorry it has been so long since I updated all of you. First off Christine has been transferred back to the east side of Tucson. She is white washing the Palo Verde Ward (that means both of the missionaries that were there before are going to new areas so we are starting out fresh and have to rely upon the members and the area book) If that ward sound familiar to you it should it was one of her first wards that she served in with her first companion Sister Jarrett. The ward was very excited to get her back and Christine is looking forward to checking up on her old investigators and converts.<br /><br />Sister Hayes’ new companion is Sister Hamano. She served in the Nauvoo Visitor Center Mission as an ASL missionary. She will be serving in Arizona for about 3 months and will then return to Nauvoo. Maybe Christine will learn some sign language along with the bit of Spanish she has learned. <span style="color:#ff0000;">“It's nice to be back where I know people but it's still hard making changes. I miss Sister Bodily's bubbly personality, when I was around her I could be as dumb and goofy as I wanted. Sister Hamano is very sweet, she is from Hawaii and she is naturally soft spoken. One time she apologized for saying something too loud but really it wasn't loud at all. Maybe I can get her to come out of her shell a little bit more.” </span><br /><br />Right now they are living with a member named Sister Solomon. <span style="color:#ff0000;">“She was telling us that when she was preparing the room that the missionaries would stay in, (cleaning it top to bottom) that she felt as if it were a sacred place. She works in the temple and she compared it to preparing a room for a temple service. She told us that she knew this is where we would study and pray to our Heavenly Father and that this room would always be a special place. I just thought that was so cool.” </span><br /><br />At the first of this month Sister Hayes passed her half way mark of 9 months. <span style="color:#ff0000;">“I really am loving the work here and so thankful that I have the opportunity to serve but the longer I'm out the more I realize how MUCH I LOVE MY FAMILY!!! It will be a sad day to leave the mission but it will be such a happy day to be with my family again.” </span><br /><br />Well there is still a lot more to update you on but I will just save it for another post or this one would be really long. Hopefully that will be up in a couple days. If you get sometime send Christine a little note she would love it!!Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-6643743528808735442011-02-25T09:40:00.000-08:002011-02-25T10:07:52.653-08:00Pictures to sum up the last two months on the Mission.<div align="center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8klFuPY0aVs/TWfugAIvBLI/AAAAAAAAADQ/2JvY_G3X-lw/s1600/sister%2B004.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577688897081509042" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8klFuPY0aVs/TWfugAIvBLI/AAAAAAAAADQ/2JvY_G3X-lw/s320/sister%2B004.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brTyRdt8aXc/TWft-L_bB0I/AAAAAAAAADA/zdCymcrLnVk/s1600/sister%2B003.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577688316148123458" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brTyRdt8aXc/TWft-L_bB0I/AAAAAAAAADA/zdCymcrLnVk/s320/sister%2B003.jpg" /></a><br />Sister Hayes' area included where the recent Safeway shooting was. We are so thankful that she is safe. Here are a couple pictures of all the flowers at the site.<br /><br /></div><div align="center"><br /> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sMhbzYQWCBo/TWftC8CIfXI/AAAAAAAAAC4/bKHaAfPDVN8/s1600/sister%2B001.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577687298252242290" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sMhbzYQWCBo/TWftC8CIfXI/AAAAAAAAAC4/bKHaAfPDVN8/s320/sister%2B001.jpg" /></a><br />"On Thursday, we went and did some service at Sister Velluti's house. She is a widow and she has a walker to help her get around. We went over and racked her leaves and picked lemons off of her lemon tree. Well you know me, since I know how to make yummy Chick-fil-a Lemonade I went home and made some. Delicious!" Isn't it crazy that it is lemon season in the middle of January!!</div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OXe5SsYluaI/TWfrUBhKnxI/AAAAAAAAACo/xUUOzekHsSE/s1600/SISTER%2B001.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577685392759103250" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OXe5SsYluaI/TWfrUBhKnxI/AAAAAAAAACo/xUUOzekHsSE/s320/SISTER%2B001.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--RfCBGs4hro/TWfrgF8ZbHI/AAAAAAAAACw/d0sZzSb1k7A/s1600/SISTER%2B004.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577685600105491570" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--RfCBGs4hro/TWfrgF8ZbHI/AAAAAAAAACw/d0sZzSb1k7A/s320/SISTER%2B004.jpg" /></a><br />Sister Hayes cutting a Recent Convert Tammy's hair. This was her first time cutting someone's hair, but Tammy didn't know that. Crazy Christine!!!</div><div> </div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-45536820272539308102011-01-09T18:12:00.000-08:002011-01-09T18:34:11.235-08:00Snow in Arizona!<div align="center"><span style="color:#000000;">I just wanted to share with you all a little bit of Sister Hayes' last email. </span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TSpr1TikMZI/AAAAAAAAACc/gv52KN9eQp0/s1600/snow%2Bin%2Barizona.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 275px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 369px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560375253464789394" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TSpr1TikMZI/AAAAAAAAACc/gv52KN9eQp0/s400/snow%2Bin%2Barizona.jpg" /></a> <span style="color:#000000;">What is that Sister Hayes is holding? No Way, It Can't Be!!!</span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">SNOW in TUCSON, ARIZONA</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#3366ff;">"The weather has been pretty cold for Arizona. In some parts of Oro Valley and Marana they received snow but we didn't see anything falling. It was probably snowing when we were sleeping. But as you can see from the attached picture we found some snow to hold! That day I was wearing 2 coats, a scarf, gloves and we had hand warmers and toe warmers. It sounds kind of dramatic but once you get used to hot weather and then it drops below 32 degrees you get a little cold."</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Sister Hayes and her companion also have been having a hard time finding investigators. Their district and zone leaders came down to help out. They "blitzed" some streets in their area and found some potential investigators. Hopefully their investigator drought will end soon. Please keep them in your prayers and also the people they are contacting.</span> </span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-57950647664862868092010-12-22T13:08:00.000-08:002010-12-22T13:29:19.577-08:00Highlights from this weeks emailSo first off we found out Sister Hayes was not transferred. So her address is still<br /><br />Sister Christine Hayes<br />12396 N Camino Del Plata<br />Tucson, AZ 85755-2063<br /><br />She will be continuing to serve with Sister Bodily. The only difference is that now they will only be over one ward, the Tortolita ward. Sister Hayes also shared sweet experience with us:<br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;"> "I would like to tell you about a Recent Convert from my last area. So I didn't teach this Sister but Sister Jarrett did. Well, her name is Judith Boyd and she is such a sweetie. She is the lady that would usually feed us roast for dinner and one day we ended up washing her dog. Well, she has had cancer for a little while now and I guess things got really bad. Well on Saturday I found at that she passed away which was really hard to hear but I was also happy. I know that she was in a lot of pain in her last few months. Well here is the cool part. Exactly one week before she passed away she went to the temple and received her endowments. The amazing thing is that she hasn't been baptized for a year yet. She received special permission from the First Presidency to receive her endowments and then she passed away exactly one week later. Can you believe that? That is just a miracle. I am so grateful that I was able to get to know her. She was such a sweet Sister and I am glad that she no longer has to deal with the pain that she was going through." </span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Isn't that neat. We also learned that Christine is actually going to be able to talk to us on Skype on Christmas day. She is going to be calling around 7 pm (so if you call or stop by the house that is why were are not answering). It will be so fun to talk to her. I am sure she will be very surprised to see how much he little niece, Megan has grown up. Also her only sister Tiffany is excepting twins and they are planning on telling her what gender they are when she calls. I am sure she will be excited to know that she will have two more nieces when she gets home. </span><br /><br />We also learned that Sister Hayes is having no luck finding her drivers license which she misplaced about a month ago. She loves to drive and I am sure she is dying to find it. It looks like we are just going to have to get her a new one.<br /><br />Well that is about it for this week. It sounds like everything is going very well. She can't believe how fast the time has flown by. She will be at her half way mark in Feb. It is so wonderful to be able to see Sister Hayes really get lost in the work. She have truly forgotten about herself and is trying to use every moment she has to serve the Lord. Keep up the wonderful work sister. We can't wait to talk to her on Saturday.Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-7027536188444485442010-12-08T15:30:00.000-08:002010-12-08T15:32:34.304-08:00<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We've fallen behind again!! I am sorry!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But new posts are coming soon!! Please keep checking back!! </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And dont forget to send Sister Hayes a little note for Christmas!!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">{See the post below for the mission home address!! That is probably the </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">best place to send something to her this time of year}!! </span></div>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-84678449059392009822010-10-28T10:07:00.000-07:002010-10-28T10:56:28.187-07:00Where is Christine again??<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMmuDZ0JjXI/AAAAAAAAAB4/CFNHzKPHlEo/s1600/Tucson+Map1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 385px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 374px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533144990693821810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMmuDZ0JjXI/AAAAAAAAAB4/CFNHzKPHlEo/s400/Tucson+Map1.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Sister Hayes has been in the Oro Valley area for a little over 4 weeks. Have you been wondering where that even is. Well here is a little map to help you see where Sister Hayes is right now. I think I remember her saying that Oro Valley is about 40 minutes Northwest of Tucson. In one of her emails she told us what the area is like.</div><br /><div></div><div><span style="color:#009900;">"Well I must say that being in the North West is very different then my last area. Everyone is rich and they are all "comfortable" with their own religion. It is so hard to find people here, they must be really good at hiding.<br />I really miss my last area because it felt more like home. Everything here is really spread out and you have to travel a ways to get into shopping areas. We have a Fry's Marketplace (smith's marketplace) close by...The only fast food that is close is Mc Donald's and Subway. The other places are about 15 minutes away and we don't want to waste our miles."</span></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="color:#333333;">It sounds like they are having a pretty hard time finding investigators. The one investigator that they did have was actually baptised last week. She was golden.</span></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="color:#009900;">"Gloria got baptized this past Saturday. When she had her interview with the District Leader he said that she was ready to be baptized a.s.a.p. Her husband even came to the baptism and came to some of sacrament. Maybe he will be next. She is so excited to go visiting teaching and she also wants to come out on exchanges with Sister Bodily and I... The ward has done a great job with welcoming her in. She even joined the Ward choir. Wahoo!! "</span></div><div><span style="color:#009900;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#333333;">Please keep Sister Hayes and her companion in your prayers. They are hoping that they will find more people to teach soon. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#333333;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#333333;">Here is Sister Hayes' current address just in case you want to send her a little package or letter. It is always fun to get something in the mail. Transfers are coming though so if you aren't going to send something this week you might want to wait or send it to the mission home. <strong>Transfers will be on Nov. 9th. </strong></span></div><br /><div></div><div><strong><span style="color:#009900;">Current Address</span></strong></div><br /><div><span style="color:#333333;">Sister Christine Hayes</span></div><div><span style="color:#333333;">12396 N Camino Del Plata</span></div><div><span style="color:#333333;">Tucson, AZ 85755-2063</span></div><br /><div></div><div><strong><span style="color:#009900;">Mission Home Address</span></strong></div><br /><div><span style="color:#333333;">1840 E River Rd, Ste. 102</span></div><div><span style="color:#333333;">Tucson, AZ 85718</span></div><br /><div></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-67783894251626074782010-10-24T18:42:00.000-07:002010-10-24T19:42:36.464-07:00A Couple of Pictures for the Mission.<div><span style="color:#000000;">Last week in Sister Hayes' email she attached some recent pictures. I just wanted to share them with you all. She said that she would be sending some more pics in the mail soon. I can't wait to get those and see some of her new area. </span></div><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Baptisms from her first area. Don't they all look SO happy. The gospel is a wonderful blessing! </span></div><br /><div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531807967284116802" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMTuCZelPUI/AAAAAAAAABw/J1I42wbaKoM/s320/sister+208.jpg" /></div><div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531799165660298402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMTmCE37_KI/AAAAAAAAABI/aqtMiJX-g18/s320/sister+047.jpg" /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531797132365141314" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMTkLuQmFUI/AAAAAAAAAAw/YmLOJO-zU0M/s320/sister+129.jpg" /></div><div><span style="color:#000000;">This next pictures is of Sister Hayes with some of her favorite converts Mike and Kelli. She loved these people and had a lot in common with Kelli. Mike and Kelli got married and baptised in the same day. Sister Hayes and Sister Jarrett helped out a lot with the wedding including: calligraphy for the invitations, did Kelli's nails, made the cake, took pictures... Sister Hayes will miss them SO much.</span></div><div> </div><div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531800053761082930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMTm1xTqhjI/AAAAAAAAABY/MvJr56192EE/s320/sister+218.jpg" /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Last of all is a picture of Sister Hayes' new companion Sister Bodily (she is from Idaho). What a happy companionship!!</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMTkfjVH_vI/AAAAAAAAAA4/mlYcJF-B9Zk/s1600/sister+017.jpg"><span style="color:#000000;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531797473028734706" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YrK0DH__9AI/TMTkfjVH_vI/AAAAAAAAAA4/mlYcJF-B9Zk/s320/sister+017.jpg" /></span></a> </div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16437002119148160852noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-5149324664863904872010-10-21T10:08:00.000-07:002010-10-21T10:19:48.965-07:00Another Week In The Northwest!<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The letter from Sister Hayes was short this week!! She was trying to upload some pictures so she could send them home in an email! It sounds like she got them on the computer okay!! But the email part of it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">didn't</span> want to work with her!! </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So, here is a little exert from her letter home:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ffff00;"><strong>Well, Gloria is doing great. She stopped smoking on Saturday and she is<br />preparing for her baptism on October 30<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span>. She is always telling us how much<br />she loves us and to drive safely.<br />Holly one of the ward members brought a friend to church and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">hopefully</span> we<br />will start teaching her today. Oh and last night we spent a lot of time over<br />at a less active members house. We've really been able to get to know him<br />and we had some brothers from the ward come over to give him a blessing.<br />Hopefully as we continue to work with him he will come back to church.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">There are only 3 weeks left until transfers!! And then Sister Hayes could be moving on to a new area with a new companion!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em><strong>***PLEASE</strong> remember to keep our favorite Sister Missionary in your prayers!! Also, <strong>PLEASE</strong> take just a moment to write her a little letter!! It only takes a second!! It <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">doesn't</span> have to be anything long or in depth!! You could say something like <strong><span style="color:#993399;">"Hi Sister Hayes!! How are you!! Guess what I had for lunch today?? I ate some nachos and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">green beans</span>!! What did you eat today??</span></strong> Seriously!! That's all you'd have to write!! </em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>If you are her friend on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Facebook</span> you could write something on her wall, <strong>or</strong> send her a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Facebook</span> message!! <strong>Or</strong> I can get you her email <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">address</span> and you can send her a fast note!! <strong>Or</strong> I have her mission home address or her apartment address!! Snail mail is awesome!!</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em><strong>Or </strong>leave a comment on this post and I will make sure she gets it!! I know she would {REALLY} appreciate hearing from everyone!!!! </em></span>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-26276011870624254632010-10-20T14:47:00.001-07:002010-10-20T14:55:17.831-07:00Let Me Fill You In!Sister Hayes has been serving her mission for over 5 months now!! Isnt that crazy?!? She has been through 3 transfers and has had a few different companions!! Do you remember her??<br /><div></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530248459995905346" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TL9jrIG0_UI/AAAAAAAAAFg/hVrroCTppew/s320/christine.jpg" /> <div> This was Sister Hayes' first companion, Sister Jarrett!! Since I wrote last, Sister Jarrett finished her mission and has returned home. I know that our favorite sister missionary had a pretty hard when she left!! Sister Jarret helped Sister Hayes so much and they had such a close bond!! But missions are all about learning and growing and serving so Sister Hayes has been transfered to the Northwest part of her mission! Her new companion is named Sister Bodily and she is from Preston, Idaho {just in case you didnt know, that is where they filmed Napoleon Dynamite}!! In one of her letters, Sister Hayes said this about Sister Bodily: </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">"This is her second transfer and she is doing great. The first time I saw her picture in the mission office (before she came out) I just knew we would be companions someday. So I'm excited to get to know her more." </span></div><div> </div><div>I thought that was cool!! Amazing missionary insight and being in tune with the spirit!! Here are some experts from the letter Sister Hayes emailed home on October 11th! </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">"So the NorthWest is the same as it was before. We still only have oneinvestigator but she is doing great. I don't know if I told you or not butshe is 62. That's a miracle in itself. Mostly the older people and the richpeople don't want to listen to the gospel." </span></div><div> </div><div>**Oh, I probably should mention that the Northwest part of the Tucson area is the more wealthy area. It can be hard to share the gospel in that area because people already feel like they have it all!! </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">"The members here are nice and pretty welcoming, I still don't think theycompare to the Kenyon ward but I'm getting to know them. Just like my lastarea we have two wards but this time the wards meet in seperate buildings.We get to church at 7:30 in the morning for PEC and then that ward starts at9 and goes till 12 and then we travel to the other building and go to churchfrom 1 to 4."</span></div><div> </div><div> **Busy, busy, busy missionaries!! I think this next story is pretty cool!!! </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">"Yesterday the needed a teacher for the 14 year old class so thebishop asked us to teach. Oh that was an experience. We decided to teachthem about the restoration. There were 3 girls on the front row who wouldnot stop talking so I looked at the girl in the middle and said would yousay a prayer. She said the prayer and then went right back to talking. Wetried to do our best to teach them and then we just said oh well. That's when the real "Christine" came out. I looked at them and said, "do you evencare about the gospel because it sure doesn't seem like it?" they all staredat me, then I told them I wasn't afraid of them staring, finally we got themto open up a tiny bit. We talked to them about missionary work and onceclass was over one of the girls came up to us and asked us what she could doto share the gospel with her friend. It felt good to know that at least oneperson got something out of our lesson."</span></div><div> </div><div> **I am proud of Sister Hayes for standing up and letting the class know who important the gospel is!! Sister Hayes also said the weather is starting to cool down!! To the point where she needs some sweaters!! Crazy to think about...... since only a few months ago the tempurature was over 100 degrees on a daily basis!! Sister Hayes and Sister Bodily could also use your prayers that they will be directed to those in their area that are ready to hear the gospel!! They could also use some prayers that peoples hearts will be softened and their minds will be opened!!</div><div> And one more thing, Sister Hayes {LOVES} to get mail!! Emails...... snail mail......postcards....... you name it!! Now that she has been transfered, she has a new address!!! {PLEASE} let me know if you need it, or if you need her email address!!! I know if would really make her day to hear from you!!! </div>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-54931132103866016202010-08-10T19:49:00.000-07:002010-08-10T20:19:45.073-07:00Happy Sister Hayes<span style="font-family:arial;">It's been awhile!<span style="color:#ff6600;"> I am <strong>SORRY</strong></span>!!! I really feel so bad that I have not been a good blogger and that I ha vent kept you posted on all things Sister Hayes!</span> <div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">I have all of her emails saved.......... my plan (when I wasn't so far behind) was to do a catch up post and tell you about all the things Sister Hayes has been up to!! But now I am REALLY far behind!! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">AHHHHH</span>! Sorry again! </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">So I figure I will start over fresh!! Starting with the great email she sent yesterday!! I do have some really great pictures to share though so you will still get some exerts from past emails!! </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Oh, and come back later for <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Fun <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Foto</span> Fridays</span></strong>!! They are back too!!! </span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503980317661091890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TGIQ8ATuWDI/AAAAAAAAAEo/es3iL7Iw-90/s320/CH+2.JPG" border="0" /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">So, Sister Hayes just celebrated her 3 month anniversary!! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">YAY</span>!! She has made it so far!! I cant even tell you how proud I am of her!! She is a big time trooper!! </span></div></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Let's start with the weather! First of all...... it's <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>HOT!!!</strong></span> I cant imagine being in the kind of heat all day!!! Sister Hayes and her companion had cupcakes in the back of their car one day..... they weren't in there long but they still melted! Crazy huh!! It's also monsoon season down there, which means every so often they get heavy heavy rain fall!! A few of Sister Hayes' emails have talked about the really loud and powerful thunder they have experienced!! She loves it and is always writing about wanting more rain!! This is an exert from this weeks letter:</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;">We haven't really had rain lately. Just sunny as usual. There are always lightning and thunderstorms off in the distance but we never see rain. Oh and supposedly we haven't had a really bad monsoon yet. That's what some of the members have told us. So I'm waiting to see this big Monsoon everyone talks about.</span></em></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Guess what Sister Hayes bought this week??? <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503982970980867698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 201px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TGITWcsdHnI/AAAAAAAAAEw/pxbh4zfgVIQ/s320/Saturdays+Warrior.jpg" border="0" /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Sweet huh?!?! I'm not gonna lie............. I still love listening to the Saturday's Warrior soundtrack!! Good music...... good memories!!!! </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"><em>Last P-day Sister Jarrett and I went to the Latter Day Cottage and got an amazing CD, are you ready for this? We got... SATURDAY'S WARRIOR the soundtrack. We laughed and sang along in the car and it reminded me of Tiffany and I and how we would run over to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Palmers</span> (i think it was the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">palmers</span>) house, and she would say that we were faster then a speeding bullet.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">And guess what else Sister Hayes did this week.............</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"><em>Last night we taught Amy. A newer investigator, she informed us that she quit her job. We were so excited. She worked at a not so good place if you know what I mean. (bar/strip club) As we started teaching her, her daughter wouldn't sit still and wanted her attention. So I played Barbie's with her daughter. Yep <strong>I played Barbie's with a 4 year old</strong> so her mom could listen to Sister Jarrett teach. Her mom was so grateful and at one point Chloe (her daughter) started laughing. It made Amy so happy to hear such an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">innocent</span> little laugh.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">And now for some updates about her great investigators:</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"><em>We have a new investigator her name is Thelma. She is originally from Texas.She is Golden. She even came to church on Sunday. I thought she might feel a little uncomfortable because she's black and our church has a lot of white people but she loved it. I know she really felt the spirit.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"><em>We took Donna one of our investigators on a church tour and when we went into the chapel Sister Jarrett and I sang a song. The spirit was so strong, her less active friend was there and it brought him to tears.What a great experience.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"><em>On Saturday we had Johnny and Julia's baptism. It was great. They are such sweet little kids. They are so shy, it reminds me of me when I was younger.Oh yeah, before the baptism we went over to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Judiths</span> house a recent convert and we washed her dog Molly. Yep we washed her dog and then went to the baptism. Hopefully we didn't smell like dog! :)</em></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">These are honestly just a few of the great people she is currently working with!! She has a really awesome couple that just got baptized and married!! Check back soon for their story and some really cool pictures!! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503984950938353506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TGIVJsnGv2I/AAAAAAAAAE4/yLtLRRaCnYE/s320/CH+4.JPG" border="0" /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"> (This is Sister Hayes, her companion Sister Jarret and their mission presidents wife)</span></strong></span><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"> </span></strong></span></p>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-646277039714839232010-06-18T18:32:00.000-07:002010-06-18T18:33:40.326-07:00Fun Foto Friday!!<div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBweToB6KAI/AAAAAAAAAEY/n_opKlm2gzo/s1600/Christine+Mission+1A.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484291768742193154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBweToB6KAI/AAAAAAAAAEY/n_opKlm2gzo/s400/Christine+Mission+1A.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484291860462025650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBweY9tnu7I/AAAAAAAAAEg/Ug8F-wTcOP0/s400/Christine+Mission+1G.bmp" border="0" /></div></div>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-65887347288657072432010-06-14T18:44:00.000-07:002010-06-14T18:53:54.193-07:00Did you know........<span style="font-family:arial;">* In the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">MTC</span> they not only learn about gospel principals and scripture..... they also learn how to FLY!!! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482812124831911778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbclA7Pj2I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/ohrxbtkbwZw/s400/Super+Sister+Hayes.bmp" border="0" /></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><span style="color:#ff6666;"><strong>SUPER SISTER HAYES!!!!</strong></span> I LOVE this picture!!!<br /></em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* When missionaries are backing up a car, one is in the driver seat and the other stands outside to make sure there are not accidents!! </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* Cupcakes will melt in your car in the Arizona heat!! Even the candles with start to bend!! </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* Sister Hayes in NOT a fan of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">maraschino</span> cherries...... but she ate them anyway when someone offered her a piece of cheesecake covered with them!! What a trooper!! </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* While she may not like cherries, she does like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Popeyes</span>! There is not one here is Utah but she sure is close to one now!! Have one of their fantastic biscuits for me friend!!</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* And while we are on the topic of food............ Sister Hayes ate lime green Jello....... with shredded celery...... Yum......... Okay not really! </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">* Sister Hayes LOVES letters!! A LOT!!! You should send her one!! RIGHT NOW!!! =0)</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">P.S. Come back Friday for something extra awesome!!!</span>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-64901521885527410122010-06-14T18:04:00.001-07:002010-06-14T18:41:07.546-07:00I May Have Been A Slacker<span style="font-family:arial;">But Sister Hayes sure wasn't!! Can you believe that she has already been out for over a month!! Man!! I feel like these last few weeks have been busy, so I really apologize for not updating you on our favorite sister missionary!! Before I start sharing some of Sister Hayes' wonderful mission field experiences I thought I'd share some of her last MTC pictures!!! I love looking at them!! She looks like she is having some great experiences!! </span><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482806729534516402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbXq94GrLI/AAAAAAAAAEA/qrEgo6QWSwQ/s400/MTC+Collage.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">I know I said it before, but Sister Hayes made is safely to Arizona!! Look at this cute picture of her with her mission president!! Doest she look good in <span style="color:#ffff00;"><strong>yellow?!?!</strong></span> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482800675847179362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 261px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbSKmIkjGI/AAAAAAAAAD4/GAkJWfEBxwM/s400/Christine+Mission+1.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Here are some exerts from Sister Hayes' very first letter from the mission field:</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;">"So my area is the Tucson East and my companion and I are over 2 ward, Kenyon and Palo Verde.<br /> More about my companion. Her name is Sister Jarrett and she is AWESOME. She only has 2 more transfers left so hopefully we will be together until she leaves. Then I will get to kill her. LOL It's a thing they do her. You have a birthday every month so on the 5th of June I will be one month old, for your 9 month birthday some girls stick a balloon under their shirt and take a picture. (so goofy) Like I was saying about killing her. Since she will be going home soon I will be the one to kill her. (i wonder who came up with all of this, they must have been bored on a p-day) She is also considered my mother since she is training me and the person that trained her is considered my grandmother. None of this probably makes since but I don't understand either. LOL"</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33cc00;">"THE APARTMENT- well the apartment is pretty small but then again it's perfect. I will have to take a picture and send it to you ASAP. All of the houses here have caged doors on the front and then a regular door so it makes it kind of hard to knock on doors, it hurts your knuckles. There is an extra mattress on each one of our beds so we call them the princess pea beds. "</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">"The field really is white here. A member of the 70 recently visited our mission and told us that missions in the SW united states have usually 7 baptisms per missionary a year and the rest of the U.S. usually has 2 per missionary a year. Sister Jarrett said that she had more than 7 last year. So I know I am here at the right time and our New Investigator Robert is proof of that. He recently got out of jail but you can tell the Lord has prepared him. I can't even tell you how prepared he is. Everytime we leave his house I leave with my jaw on the floor.</span> "</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Cool huh!?! I love reading her letters!! She is such a wonderful missionary already!!</span> </p>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-89900144362065372612010-06-14T17:47:00.001-07:002010-06-14T17:58:44.897-07:00Companions<span style="font-family:arial;">While Sister Hayes was at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">MTC</span> she had two great companions!!!<br /></span><div><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482796047641560914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 86px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbN9MuXR1I/AAAAAAAAADY/Brl8xHzVe0M/s400/Christine+Mission+13.jpg" border="0" /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Sister <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Farnes</span> is from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Pocatello</span> Idaho and Sister <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Zahrt</span> is from Spanish Fork Utah. She was So grateful for these two sisters!! She mentioned in one of her letter that she knew Heavenly Father put them together for a reason and that they were a great source of strength to her!! What great companions!!!! </span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482797459776314754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 314px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbPPZVhnYI/AAAAAAAAADg/ijs57OpAsGs/s400/Christine+Mission+7.jpg" border="0" />There were also about 6 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Elder's</span> in Sister Hayes' mission district!! I know that there were a number of times she was very thankful for them as well!! GOOD LUCK all your wonderful missionaries!!<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482797726461544482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbPe60PSCI/AAAAAAAAADw/9xC6YODhlqU/s400/Christine+Mission+1C.bmp" border="0" /><br /></span><p><span style="font-family:arial;">I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">dont</span> think I mentioned that Sister Hayes got a calling which she was in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">MTC</span>!! She was in Music Coordinator so she got to pick out songs for different things!! Perfect calling for my musically gifted friend!! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482797559325791442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TBbPVML-FNI/AAAAAAAAADo/gAC2ads43eQ/s400/Christine+Mission+12.jpg" border="0" /></span></p></div></div><br /><p align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Isn't this such a cute picture of her!! I love it!!!!</span></em> </p>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-62409538469327417172010-05-31T19:46:00.001-07:002010-05-31T19:51:41.057-07:00I Say A Little Prayer For You<span style="font-family:arial;">I just wanted to remind everyone to keep Sister Hayes in their prayers!! Just like the first few days in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">MTC</span>, the first couple of days in the mission field can be challenging!! </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Please pray for her to have courage and a feeling of peace!! Pray for her to find those that are searching for the gospel! And please pray for her to feel your love and the love of our Heavenly Father!! </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Please also remember to write to her often! It's amazing how much little words of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">encouragement</span> can lift a persons spirit! Even if your letter/email is short, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">don't</span> think it will be looked over! I know she will love every one of them!! If you need any of her contact info, leave a comment and I will make sure you get it!! </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">THANK YOU for your continued prayers in her behalf!!</span>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-50389215988426769102010-05-30T15:14:00.000-07:002010-05-30T15:24:14.525-07:00Lucky Arizona!<span style="font-family:arial;">I thought that since Sister Hayes has officially made it to Arizona, I would give her blog a little face lift!! My computer has not really wanted to cooperate today so there may be some slight changes in the next few days! But onto today's post!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sister Hayes has made it safely to Arizona and is ready to start her missionary work!! How lucky are the people of Tucson!! I cant wait to start getting letters from the mission field and I'm anticipating all of her wonderful and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">inspirational</span> stories!! They will be great!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I recently saw a news story about the dedication of a new <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">LDS</span> temple! That is always exciting news but it was even better when I realized that this brand new temple is in Sister Hayes' mission boundaries!! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477190748431124866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/TALj919LCYI/AAAAAAAAADQ/YQh_xWhffx8/s400/Gila+Valley+Temple.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">It looks beautiful!!! I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">don't</span> know how often Sister Hayes will get to visit but I am sure excited to get a picture of her standing in front of the House of the Lord!! </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Arizona is also lucky because it is supposed to be about 97 degrees tomorrow!! If you are here in Utah you know that we have had some pretty chilly days this past week!! I for one and ready for some warm weather!! Enjoy it Sister Hayes!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">P.S. Sister Hayes has mission address and email address!! Let me know if you need them so you can write her lots and lots of letters!!! =0)</span></p>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-40344432589299214872010-05-26T20:56:00.000-07:002010-05-26T20:59:47.353-07:00Birthday Girl<span style="font-family:arial;">Today Sister Hayes is celebrating her 22<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">nd</span> birthday is Tucson Arizona!! It's her first <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">official</span> day in the mission field and I cant wait to hear how it went!!! </span><br /><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size:180%;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY</span> to my wonderful friend!!</span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475794340082406002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/S_3t8Le00nI/AAAAAAAAAC4/tYrA0IQU86Q/s400/Christine+2.jpg" border="0" /></div></div>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425455210033759697.post-65803281892371079922010-05-20T18:19:00.000-07:002010-05-20T18:36:02.582-07:00Letter #2<span style="font-family:arial;">Sister Hayes has less than one week until she is in Arizona!! I got a letter from her today that says her flight leaves around 10:00 a.m. but she has to be at the van headed to the airport at 6:00 a.m. The crazy life of a missionary!!!<br /></span><br /><div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">This weeks letter from Christine went to her wonderful sister Tiffany!! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473527505260713938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/S_XgRBtlF9I/AAAAAAAAACg/GoR3T_Nbd9A/s320/Sisters.jpg" border="0" /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#33ff33;"><strong>CUTE SISTERS!!!!</strong></span> They are two of my very best friends!!! </span></div></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">So here are some of the things Christine had to say this week:</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><em>"We had a 2<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">nd</span> appointment with a mock investigator named Gloria <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Despain</span>. She is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">SOOO</span> SWEET! At the end of our second appointment she shared with us as scripture from Joshua 1:9. Read IT!"</em> <span style="font-size:78%;">(I'm not going to put the scripture on here!! I am going to make you go get yours out!!)</span></span></span></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;">"My testimony has multiplied everyday from the things I"m learning. Yesterday in Brother <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">McQuay's</span> class he took us to a special spot. He brought us to a portrait of Jesus after he was resurrected and he was talking to the 11 Apostles. He was telling them to preach the gospel throughout the world. As sisters we <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">discussed</span> the experience after and we all concluded that the spirit was so strong. It felt like we were in the temple."</span></em></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Sister Hayes also got complimented by her Branch <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Presidents</span> wife for having one of the cleanest rooms she has seen in a long time!! Good job Sister Hayes!! As her friend, I am so proud of her for making it so far!! It sounds like she is doing great and she cant wait to get out to the mission field!! Remember to keep her in your prayers!! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473530751744731250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YeDO_h5njjI/S_XjN_zr6HI/AAAAAAAAACo/Ehsb9tgKIBc/s320/Christine+3.jpg" border="0" /></span></p>Family and Friends of Sister Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13242504508326778903noreply@blogger.com0