Oh! Hey family! Fancy seeing you here! (; March 3, 2014

Oh! Hey family! Fancy seeing you here! (;


Well. Warning! This email is going to be BORing! Not a lot happened. Ha!

We had a Sisters Conference! That was special! It was for all the sisters in the mission. There are 90 of us. Out of 240 missionaries. So that's pretty good! It was so much fun to see everyone again! I saw Sister Clawson (my trainer), and Sister Sofele (who randomly left me!), and lots of other girls too who I saw and knew. Apparently people still ask about me and wonder if I've gotten my visa in my past two areas. Ha! Nope. Still waiting! But it's kind to know people remember and ask about me (: If I were to put a theme to what we learned in that conference, it would be "you are beautiful." Classic theme for girls. Also learned that Satan is dumb and not to listen to him (that I already knew, but learned more about how to recognize when it's Satan and how best to overcome his stupid lies). It was really fun. Sister White and I had bought matching shirts on Monday (for only $3! It was a STEAL!), and we wore them, so we were subtle twins (cause they were different colors). It was fun. Sister White is my friend. We took a giant picture of all of us at the end, and I was so lucky and was squished between my two best friends, Sister White and Sister Sofele (: It was a happy moment for me.

I realize that it's going to be really hard to leave this mission.. I love President and Sister Porter, and all the missionaries here. It's going to be so sad to leave them (if I ever leave)... (which I will!)... (eventually).. But I realize that I have friends here and have learned a whole bunch. I'm grateful for that.

All of our appointments with investigators and all our dinner appointments for this week cancelled. Yepp. You read that correct. ALL of them. It was the WORST! Seriously. This was probably one of the hardest weeks on my mission. It was disappointing. But I just believe that last week was so bad because this week is going to be so amazing! (: And besides, as long as I'm working hard and doing my best, that's all that matters!

I got to watch '17 Miracles' this week! I'd seen it at an FHE activity at college, but didn't get much out of it cause people were distracting and loud and so I didn't really pay attention. But I did this time! And it's so good! I was like bawling! If you haven't seen it, go watch it! It's incredible. I have so much respect and love for the pioneers. They went through so much for us. I'm grateful for them.

And I was thinking. This church is so true because there's no way it would have continued and prospered after Joseph Smith died. But it did. He died, and that was a terrible tragedy, but that didn't slow down the progression of this church! It's true and it's Christ church, so of course it continued. We are so organized. I love it. This church is true. And I'm grateful that we have a living prophet today! How blessed are we! Thomas S. Monson is truly a prophet of God. And I can't wait to get to hear from him and his apostles in General Conference. It's coming up! Yay! (:

Seriously. Boring email. I'm sorry. But I have like a gazillion pictures, so that'll make up for the lack of words (:

I love you all so much. Thank you for your support and love. Really. It means a lot.

With all my love,
Sister Clara Kay Dunn.

OH! I forgot! When we had dinner with the Garcia family, they were just so chaotic, it was hilarious. Well they were trying to get them to sit in their chair properly and I told them how dad would say, "one two, one two" and that meant we had to have our legs and feet down. Hahah! Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why we said one two twice.. As a kid I figured "one two" meant one leg, so of course it had to be repeated for the other leg. Haha! Well a little while later, I was sitting with one of my legs under myself, and the Garcia kids weren't sitting properly, and he says, "one two, one two!" And it like triggered this weird and automatic response and I just like put both my feet down cause that's what I learned! It was SO funny! I didn't even think about it, it just happened. We were all just cracking up! It was fun. I love you Dad.

1.It's a tradition that after District Meeting on Wednesdays, the zone goes out for lunch. To Wendys. Ha! It's fun! I wanted to be cool, so I wore Sister White's shades and was going to take a picture and then every one joined in (:

2.So this is just me being cool in borrowed shades in front of Wendys!

3.I was messing around on a white board at the church, and I decided to see if I could forge dad's signature. I think I did pretty good (;

4.Look what I found at the grocery store!!! I was SO excited! They were huge okras! Seriously. Huge!

5.No makeup. Comfy clothes. Eating delicousness.

6. This is at the Sisters Conference! They gave us all roses. They were super beautiful and smelled delicious.

7. Sister Sofele! Happy day to see her. We were freaking out. And super excited.

8. Hahah! Just taking pictures.

9. Squished between my friends! It was a happy moment.

10. Friendship! Yay sister missionaries!

11. We were standing on chairs for a long time waiting for the picture to be taken. This is our friendship (: We just love each other. And I just love this picture.

12 There we are. Standing on our chairs (:

13.Sister Clawson!

14. Sister White and I in our matching shirts (: Super cute.

15. We think this is how cool people pose during pictures. So we wanted to try it ourselves. Yep. We look cool (;

16.This is me, Clara, holding a cat whose name is Clara! Twins.

17. This is Sister Macy, our Relief Society President. She's super hilarious and I love her and we matched on Sunday! So I had to get a picture.

18. It was snowing GIANT snowflakes yesterday, so after church, on our way to our car, we got super distracted and tried catching them on our tongues (:

19. We're goofs.

20. Licking my lips cause it kind of missed my mouth and landed on my face. Ha!

21. Friends.

22. This is Steven Garcia, he's 6, and he was licking down the whole entire ice cream carton. For about 10 minutes. Hahah! He was doing work on the lid. It was hilarious. He is so dang cute!

23. Sometimes I let my companion scrape off the ice while I wait inside the warm car. Haha! But only sometimes (:

Well that's all! Love you a whole bunch family! Vocês são os melhores!

Te Amo,
Sister Clara Kay Dunn.