4 Months Is Coming! (11/4/13)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

How time is flying by......on the 10th I will have reached my 4 month mark!! How crazy is that!? I'm so old in the mission, yet so young! Sister Oswald and I were talking about days in the MTC; was that really in July that I was there stuck in prison? Longest 12 days of my life, yet so rewarding!! I think spirit prison must be a lot like that: a strong learning environment with a spirit so strong that you are being hit by a spiritual bus every day, all day long!! Stuck in that place but you just want to be free to tell everyone about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

So many miracles have happened this week!! Did you know that the week before one is baptized, Satan is the biggest jerk!! But Taylor is so strong and ready for the Gospel!! Blessings!!

Also, something funny!

I have found a new pass time in out apartment in awkward hours when I have nothing to do or can't sleep ....Cleaning!! Yes, that's right Mother, pick yourself up off the floor! I love organizing and getting stuff to organize! I love finding new ways to be even more organized! Sheet protectors are my new favorite thing!! And colored pens to color code things! And dividers! I also Love to keep MY kitchen clean! My comps know when they can't eat because I'm cleaning it! They know where I like all of the dishes in the kitchen...it's really nice of them to let me take over the kitchen each P-day! Also, crazy thing I'm not sure if you know, but I'm in the mission choir where I mouth all the words because I cant sing well enough for the director. No more sisters will join so he is stuck with a warm body named Sister Carlson!! Its Fun!

LOVE,

Sister Violette Carlson!!!! HEEEEEEEYYYYYYY I LOVE YOU!!!!! SOOOOO MUCH!!!!! Pray for missionary opportunities!! And jump in a rain puddle!

Today I'm Not Being Lazy And Writing All Y'all (10/28/13)

Well it's been a crazy week, that's for sure!! I don't even know where to start!!!!!!!!!!!!

First, I'm on a new diet!! Along with no chocolate (yeah, I'm allergic to that stuff), no food with acidic stuff in it, and nothing spicy. I said good bye to my smoothies in the mornings. I also have to eat smaller portions, but more times during the day...I like that. All to help out my acid reflex - its' a party in my tummy!! But it gives me a reason not to eat so much at members' homes! When you feed the Sisters think of them and how much they don't want to grow a food baby on there missions...be kind to them...Thank you!! Sometimes I put food on one of my companion's plates while no one is looking so she has to eat it not me!! Hahaha, We love doing that to each other!! Its a fun game! Also, just last night I sprained my ankle! Again!!! My Sister Trainer Leader told me to slow down or I would be slowed down...I was slowed down, I should have slowed down! Listen to your leaders! I'm in a boot now, it's way cute! I plan on decorating it! Blessing come in many different ways!!

So a total HUGE MIRACLE happened yesterday at church!!! Taylor came to church with the Vogler family! We had never met or heard about Taylor until Brother Vogler told us in passing that she was a non-member! We ended up talking to her and planned to take her to R.S. and we got talking to her and she had been in a car accident. She was in a lot of pain and also had been going throw some other stuff...so Sister Oswald told her about blessings and asked if she wanted one. She said yes, so we ran and got our Elders as well as Brother Vogler and she got a blessing...she said it was so powerful and she felt God's Love!! (Yes she did!!) I'm so happy right now!!! Then we started talking and she had a bunch of questions. As we explained things we all knew that she was ready to be baptized, so we asked her and she said yes! She wanted to be baptized that day but we told her we would have to teach her more before we can do that...November 5 is the date she is being baptized!!! So exciting!! What I love most about this is that all Brother Vogler did was talk about the church in a conversation and was an example of the believers!

So my studies have been in Matthew 14 this week when Peter walks on water!! What a great lesson to be learned there. We read that in verse 30 that Peter is afraid because of the storm and starts to sink and says "Lord save me!" And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand to help him! We can be just like Peter, we can have the faith to walk on water and we can be afraid of the storms, and we can always ask for help to follow him! He makes up the difference!!

This week I hope you are all showing kindness towards others and trying to be like Jesus! I hope you will be able to see the blessings from the effort you put out, and pray for missionary opportunities!

With so much love for all of you!! Keep up the good work and you will all be blessed because of your kindness!

Sister Violette Carlson!!!

(10/15/13)

2 transfers, 4 companions, and 4 different apartments! Heavenly Father loves to bless me with change! My companionship of Dana Point is still the same but we are moving apartments so that we will no longer have to share but we will be able to live in the ward boundaries!! Its so great!! Now we will be able to cut down on miles and be able to have a car fast!! I cant wait! 

Who knew you could feel the spirit at Fred's? It was the works of our Greenie as we were driving away from dinner out with our favorite member! It was a crazy loud place but we were able to tune out all of the noise and feel the spirit! We gained so much knowledge from her!

So much has been happening in these past weeks that I forget a lot of it, but the work is growing and we picked up and investigator last night!!! Party!!!

We are going to be singing with him them teaching him a lesson! Oh yeah!!

Question for you to all think about: Is there an Edge to the Universe? Let me know what you think and tell me your reason!

And a shout out to all of you readers from the Hemingford Telephone Office! I LOVE YOU!

With so much Love to all and a Merry Christmas 

LOVE Sister Violette Carlson :)

P.S. Do missionary work!! Its fun and I will give you a gold star :)

It's That Time Of Year Again! (9/23/13)

It's that time of year again...When Violette starts singing Christmas songs ALL the time! I'm putting up a paper Christmas tree this week! Super exciting! I'm already putting Christmas outfits on; they just scream I WANT IT TO BE CHRISTMAS ALREADY! I'm not sure if my companions like it or if its growing on them or if they just put up with it! I borrowed a Christmas CD from other companionship in our apartment but it just doesn't hit the spot, you know! I have started looking for Christmas music but no one seems to be selling it, ahhhhh!

This is my companion Sister Oswald! I LOVE HER!! It was a long day :)

Life's a party! Man, I LOVE being on a mission! I love my companions so stinking much! Some times we have slumber parties down stairs (only twice now)..but we are always in bed by 10:30. No rule breakers here!!!

So awkweird moment for Sister Carlson: I have no idea what got into me! We were at a members house and I started eating before the prayer! Ahahahaha, Good thing this member said "be yourself" when we first got there.

This week we have been teaching about the butterfly effect. What is that? It is that when a buffer fly flaps its wings it can set molecules off in the air that set others off in a motion to create a Hurricane on the other side of the planet...just as people can do this with their actions and the things that they do and say. So as I applied this to myself I thought of two sister missionaries that knocked on my mother's door in Southern California (near our mission) when she was younger and they sang to her. My mom was "Golden" they told her after she was baptized. That right there is the effect of the butterfly! Because those girls knocked on her door I am able to be in the Gospel and serve a mission 24 years later. But if you go back just a little further you would have to thank those sisters' parents, leaders, and examples that helped them go on there missions.. the little things count...thank goodness they do! LOVE MY Mission!!!!


Well it's a party!! With Sister Violette Carlson!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!! remember to do missionary work!

I've seen the light...and its getting closer! AH, that's a bus!! (9/16/13)

So I have been out on a mission for 8 weeks in the field and I have had 4 companions!! Does anyone else see that as Hilarious? I sound like a hot mess when someone says it like that :)

Good news for the Mission! We have started a mission choir and I'm in it.....say what? That's right, Sister Violette Carlson is singing in a choir!! As of yet they have not kicked me out, but there is still time for that! It's fun: you get to see your friends! Party and doing missionary work at the same time! Yea Yea baBeeey!

So two full weeks of training!! ahahahahah, the only way I have been able to do that and not be a hot mess is through the Lord!! He so nice!!!! Helping me out like that... When I ask of course, and it's also like a calling (in church): you just know what to do and say some times! The Lord wants you to do your best!! So many times I have known what to do these past two weeks, not just training, but in the area as well! Talk about a Spiritual bus hitting you!! It's such a nice feeling to know that the Lord is watching over me and wants me to understand so much! What love he has for me!


Stay Humble and listen to what your mom says! No really, I mean it!


LOVE, Sister "Violetteireallylikechristmasmusicanditsnotevennovember!!" Carlson!!



P.S.

Sister Oswald and I are trying to decide what we want to do for 12 week training.

Line of the week:
Sister Oswald-I think we should pray!
Sister Carlson- No I'm not even mad at you!
Both-hahaahahahahhaahahhahahahahahahhaha

We cant even try to get mad at each other, such a blessing!

"Many are called but few are chosen" (9/9/13)

Well "many are called but few are chosen" was the scripture that was read in the meeting for new trainers on August 30th (Wait, what!? Why would Sister Carlson know that? She has only been out 6 weeks at that point!) I was called up to train! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH say what!!! "You're kidding, right?" was what I asked the assistant that called me! He was not. It was not a joke!

Pray for me!!!!

I was moved from my first area and moved to Dana Point to co-train (why couldn't they tell me in the first place? rude!) I'm training with Sister Oswald. She was with me in the MTC, same zone in fact. We are training Sister Haws, such a sweet girl! We love the area so much! We share the ward with Elders!! It's new trying to make sure we are not going to the same places at the same times, it happens more that one would think!

All missionaries are put in a companion ship for a reason, we just have to figure out why. There can be more than one reason, but our reason that we have found is Faith! We have the Greenie faith! No one has that in the companionship like we do, because we are all so new! We are going to do great things! So watch out Dana Point!!

I might be training at six weeks and it is kinda scary but I took that leap of FAITH!! (I swear that's the theme for the next six weeks!!!) I jumped out of that nest (where my trainers taught me) and now I'm trying to FLY!!! ahhhh

Thought of the week:

Greed gets you nothing but loneliness! So don't be a dirty greet bad (only some family members will get that) (The Lorax ending song:))


Well I love all of you!! No, I really do!! I just might love others more because they show there love with letters!

As seen in pictures I cut and colored my hair about 3 weeks into the field :) Sorry mom! LOVE YOU!!

Now Stay Humble, eat you veggies, don't eat yellow snow and all will be good!!!

Love Sister "Violettekeepingitrealbykeepingmynameinthemissionary"Carlson

Violette and her trainers (9/3/13)