Author: Lily Aho

  • what’s wrong with your mirror?

    Okay 3 things. 1. California is freaking HOT. 2. Facebook work actually works lol. 3. Painting people’s houses is a party. 4. People of 29 palms are mega fire. (Okay I guess 4 things;)) Well, for all y’all that actually read weekly emails, this week was super good!! We kinda went crazy with Facebook work…

  • my name is sis p and I like to party.

    The two highlights of this week were definitely: 1) getting to go out in the middle of the desert and shoot bow and arrows with our marine friends!! We had a bonfire fireside and the stars were SO pretty! I love getting to hang out with those kool kats all the time. 2) getting to…

  • semper fidelis.

    Greetings from the wonderful desert! I’m realizing I still struggle differentiating the words “desert” and “dessert”, but in all honestly I’m surrounded completely in both so really no difference here lol. Random updates: -We are now driving a Tacoma truck while our Rav4 gets fixed and it is SO much funner going off roading in…

  • mega missionary day? I think yes.

    Hallo hallo!! Twas a wonderful week for sure. We had transfers and my wonderful trainer, Sister Taylor, went home :(. But Sister Fry and I got a new companion, Sister Carlile, who is literally my fav person. LEDGENDARY FRIDAY: so on thursday night we decided that we were gonna set a new district record for…

  • so. much. food.

    Hello all y’all!! Here’s the tea of the week(: So this week we ate a lot of food obviously. The members give us SO much food and then the Elders give us all the food that the members gave them that they dont want and then the marines buy us food and then we just…

  • chocolate cake and sunshine.

    hallo alle! This week has been super stellar! Here are some highlights((: BASE FHE: we started doing this thing where we meet with our marine buddies every monday night and read about war stories in the Book of Mormon and pig out on food (tacos, hot chocolate, cookies, etc), because if you know anything about…

  • ich liebe die sterne.

    hallo alle!! This week flew by so fast I dont even remember what happened. We saw lots of miracles as always and has some awesome experiences with outdoor finding and got a couple new people to teach! Woot woot!! EXCHANGES: we had exchanges on saturday so Sister Taylor and I went down to Palm Springs…

  • share dinosaurs to share the gospel.

    HALLO!! This week literally went so fast I can’t believe it’s already Monday again wowzers. The days are always super busy and we get like a weeks worth of stuff done in one day so by the time the week is over I feel like it’s been a month but it also goes so fast.…

  • off-roading for the win.

    Hallo alle!! This week was awesome!! Lots of miracles, lots of wonderful studies, and lots of laughs. THE MIRACLES: -We have been teaching this wonderful lady named Lydia who is scared about her daughter being possessed by a demon, and she referred us to her daughter so we’ve been teaching her too! (Her daughter lives…

  • truth.

    Sometimes I beat myself up about how “weak” I am and how I “can’t handle a lot” or how “I’m not as strong as I thought I was and I can’t rep the Parker name well” because of it. I hate that place of my mind. I hate that little voice that lies to me…