Maple Leaves - The SCARIEST Mascot Out There!!!

Helllooooo! 

Happy Halloween! What did everyone go as? Send pictures please!!!! HAHA. I think as a missionary at this time now instead of letters (although you really appreciate those too) you just love love love photos:) so send them away!

Man, this week… so many stories so little time. So I will save my craziest one for the end.

Story number 1 

Title: They dun got dunk 

When: Saturday 

Where: Kuna 

My dear dear friends Ken and Jannet got baptized gahhhh! It made me so happy. To top it all off it was Jannet’s birthday that day and she just kept on saying "you see this is my BIRTHday and I'm being BORN again. Ha. Get it? It just makes sense." She is so flipping funny. Man and ... don't tell President... I even got to hug Ken! Ah, it made me so happy. He said to me after I gave him a handshake "it's a special occasion you can hug me now" gah I died! I love them:) 

Story Number 2 

Title: Let’s GLOOOOW!!!!!!! 

When: Last Monday 

Where: Church Gym

We had the freaking dopest pday last week. All thanks to yours truly. So we had what was called a district P-day because everyone else was off on their temple trips and let me tell you everyone always complains about district P-days because they think they are so boring. Ha Ha wrong-o. I love district P-days, you just have to put some thought into it. So I received a package by my dear friend Sara earlier in the week with a bunch of fun things in it including...wait for it... GLOW STICKS! So we decided to do a bunch of glow in the dark games. Glow in the dark volleyball, glow in the dark hide and seek, glow in the dark lookout. It was the best and everyone enjoyed it.

Story Number 3 

Title: The invisible trunk 

When: Halloween Eve 

Where: Church Parking lot

My dear companion is a convert to the church. She has only been baptized a little over a year. So she had never been to a trunk or treat before so of course, I had to take her to one. She was obsessed! Absolutely loved it. When it came to trunks ours was definitely the best... it was invisible! (remember, we don’t have a car, we are in a biking area)  WOW. We sat in a parking lot and handed out candy and whenever anyone past our trunk we would scream, wait you past our car! They would be so confused. Then we would give them some candy and a Halloween pencil (again thanks to my dear friend Sara). It was the best. 

Story Number 4

Title: Cereal for days 

When: Dinner time

Where: Only the best family ever

WE HAD A FREAKING CEREAL BAR FOR DINNER! what the what??!! it was the best thing ever. Everyone got two bowls and two cups so we could have chocolate milk and orange juice and two different types of cereal all at the same time. Needless to say, we love the Ashtons. 

Story Number 5

Title: What's Halloween without a little blood

When: HALLOWEEN

Where: An innocent looking neighborhood

So here we were riding our bikes home for lunch after a great time contacting. Sis Maschino and I were 1 starving 2 freezing so we were so excited to get home. So we were just traveling home and we saw these gorgeous maple leaves and we love to ride through them because the crunchy sounds give us joy... they did not give us joy this time. I biffed it so hard. I as my family would say pulled a big fat Quinn. Man, so there I was laying on the ground not able to move and out of nowhere this man comes and says "are you okay". Being so embarrassed I looked up at him and said no no I'm okay. And he just looked at me and said haha no you are not okay. I then looked down and I saw a bunch of blood yikes. So they fixed me up and then took us home.  Then Maschino checked for a concussion and I was all good and so I took some rest. I woke up to a bunch of elders in OUR APARTMENT. They gave me an amazing blessing and it made me feel so good. Wow, I love the priesthood. So do not worry about me. I'm all good now just a black eye and a couple bruises on my face (haha my face broke the fall lol). And now I have a fear that cannot be tamed of bikes (not really I'm good just a little scared of leaves now). But the blessing of this is I was wearing my gloves and leggings so a literally have no scrapes on any other part of my body just my face haha.  

Story Number 6

Title: I all alone there's no one here beside me

When: A dark dark night 

Where: A confusing neighborhood

So here we were again back on the bikes and it was pitch black. Sis Maschino wanted to see this family to say goodbye to them and I was totally on board until we got outside. I just kept on saying to her, Maschino this is so dumb. But alas we went. So I was going really slow because umm pitch black and fear of bikes haha. But it was freezing and Maschino is from AZ so she was going really fast. Before I knew it, she was gone and as much as I yelled her name she never came back. I was a little nervous to say this least. So here I was in the dark, with no companion, and no idea where to go, and had a missing contact lens (dang black eye... it's been making my contacts fall out... I've only completely lost one though). Let’s just say I was companionless and lost for 20 minutes. It was terrifying. I have realized that the adjustment of coming home and being without a companion is going to take me a while. 

Man so this has definitely been the most eventful week of my mission, but I have loved every second of it. Even the scary ones. As Sister Maschino says it's all part of the mission experience right. 

I hope all of you had some exciting things happen to you this week. I love you guys so much and stay safe out there... far away from the maple leaves. 

Sister Aase

Photos:

1. Us at pday glowing in the dark game - bomb!

2. Maschino and I with our invisible car

3. Me recreating a picture of me as a youngin' with a black eye haha

4. Jannet and Ken's baptism