Awesome!

Sorry for the sideways picture, but anyways it doesn't seem to like to rotate. So anyways due to modern technology, it's pretty easy to keep track of the people we taught on the mission and so forth. Well, sadly due to the whole facebook thing I've found out that the majority of the people who got baptized in the YSA in Puyallup are less active now. (and it hasn't even been a year either) So I was thinking how it's sad that the majority of them were pretty golden and within six to nine months are less active. Well, there is one girl I can't say much about because she's not on facebook much at all, so I can't really talk to her. But the rest are pretty much less active, it was very happy though because last night I was talking to Courtney, one of the girls we taught, on facebook. And she was telling me how she got her very first calling and she's now a Relief-Society teacher in her college YSA. And her boy friend who invited her to church in the first place is turning in his mission papers in a few weeks. It's super awesome! And really it has got to be majorly hard to be a convert in the first place and then to be the only member in your family for that matter. But Courtney is way awesome and is the one who got baptized even though her family was fighting her the whole time and trying to stop her. (and didn't even show up to her baptizm)

Sideways Picture L to R: Sister Conger, Courtney and Me :)

L to R: Erin, Owen, Courtney, me and Sister Conger!

Also, some other good news is that there is a family that decided to make it their new years resolution to come to church, (January 2011) in my first Puyallup area. The ladies husband got baptized after we met them, since it was a part member family. Well, we wondered a little on how serious the coming to church was going to be, but they did tell us along with that they were going to get sealed in the temple as well. Super awesome because they are some other people that I've talked to on facebook as well, and the lady told me that they are taking the temple classes at the moment...:) Bytheway this isn't the Chism family that you all heard about, it's another part member family that we taught in Puyallup as well. (the Chisms are taking temple classes at the moment too :))

I wasn't able to get a picture of the whole family since my camera was low on battery life, but this is Tige Barker and his father in law who baptized him. (Him and his wife are taking the temple prep classes in Oregon since they moved there :))

Interesting News...

Well it turns out that I'm going to work in the Lunchroom at the High School, and yeah not to excited about that. But at least it's a job, although only a part time job, so I will be looking for another part time job.
The YSA Ward is getting a little better, but it's hard because alot of the people there have always livedin Roosevelt. So everyone seems to have the same friends that they've had since high school, which makes it hard to really make friends in the ward. (or really have a social life)
I've started talking to some of the people from Duchesne and that type of thing, not that fun being here. But at least there are events at the Institute and with the YSA!
Well hope all goes well with this new job, we'll see how it goes tomorrow ;)

I am back!

I am Sister Evans, or more specially Jeanne Evans, and I just got back from the Washington Tacoma Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints a couple of weeks ago.

Going home from the mission isn't really what it's cracked up to be, when you go home suddenly you have to start school or get a job. And sadly with this economy I'm on the job end of it, not fun at all :(

But it's pretty exciting because a lady named Janine that we taught in Puyallup Washington is taking the temple classes, so that she can go to the temple in the next few months. So although the mission was majorly hard the majority of the time it turned out great and I loved it.

Our mission president wife liked to say "I can do hard thing" and it's so true, the harder it is the better results you'll get. So let's hope I come across a really good job or something, since it's super hard at the moment :)