Chadwick, Hayley

you guys. LIFE IS SO GOOD!!!!!  I had an unexpected call on thursday night that I was being emergency transferred to the gila valley AND I LOVE IT HERE!!!!!  so for y'all that dont know, the gila is kinda the middle northern chunk of our mission, and it literally looks like orem utah, but with a little less grass and a couple more palm trees. Theres also more members here than non members pretty much and it's pretty much straight up Utah. I LOVE IT!!! I spent like 15 minutes in walmart on friday and SO MANY people said "hey sisters" and so many kids waved at me, I just felt like a straight up princess. It was incredible. Also my new comp is INCREDIBLE! I served around here in west and have always wanted to be comps. We are pretty much BFFs already and we have gotten SO MUCH DONE! We are getting the work MOVIN here! I'm really getting the hang of the quarantine life and I'm actually totally loving it. It's actually been a nice change from the norm....  So y...

welllllllllllllllllllllllllll. a LOT has changed since my last email home. If I am being completely honest, this has truly been the hardest past 5 days of prettty much any time I can remember haha. we got put in quarantine on wednesday and on friday we found out that 3 members of our district, along with about 50 other missionaries, were being sent home this weekend due to their health problems that make them more susceptible to the virus.  dang. I didnt really know you could come to love a group of people so much. many many many many many tears were shed this weekend hahaha.  It's honestly been so so hard for me to see the good in all of this. I usually have no problem seeing the bright side but WOW this one has been really challenging. But, throughout this week, I have had a reoccurring thought about pickles:D!  hahaha, there's a pickle analogy that I have heard a few times on my mission, and I dont remember it perfectly, but basically, the point of it is that a pi...

Well, things have obviously been a little weird lately, but I have been able to stay positive and I am actually really enjoying being able to share some light with others at a time when it's hard to find:) We have actually seen so many miracles at this crazy time! At one point, we were praying where to go and I heard the name "megan" in my head so we started walking to megan's and it was so crazy becuase on our way, we ran into a lady walking her dog, and it was someone the ward has been wantin us to get in touch with for a long time but we havent been able to! Last week she yelled through her door to go away but when we saw her walking her dog, she stopped us and we were able to have a really good conversation with her!!! It was a cool miracle! We also tracted one single door last night and ended up having an hour long lesson with someone on his porch. He has been searching for years for answers to his questions & to find any sort of purpose in his life. It was s...

Yo yo yo yoooooo!! Its cockroach season again here in AZ I had a fun experience this week when I was taking a nice shower and looked down to see an usually large cockroach in the tub:) so I decided to just keep calm, get out and put on my towel, and recruit my companion for help killing this bad boy. We tried trapping it to get it outside, but that didnt work in the tub. We tried pouring bleach on it, but it didnt work. Then we had to get out the shoe. My comp was holding the shower curtain, and I was holding the shoe and it was a big red splatter......it was super gross. Then we were trying to rinse the bleach and cockroach guts down the drain and someone called and we thought it would be quick but it was so long and i was just so cold and still had soap in my hair hahahah ahhhhh it was a party. We ALSO pulled a big birthday surprise on our district leader! He turned 21, so we played early morning bball and me & my comp filled the WHOLE car with balloons! It was honestly so much f...

hey sooooo no time! my comp & I will be staying together another transfer wahoooooooooo!!!!  today we had 6:45 district cardio, zone breakfast, zone sports, went to the outlets, and did more shopping so it was just a busy crazy day!!  anyways heres some pictures! -car selfies -the elders saved "millions of lives" this week from a fire haha, heres a pic. It was quite the story haha - district pic from THE BEST DISTRICT EVER RIP -got some new kicks today!!!