June 9: Big Deal!

So you're probably wondering what the big deal is, but I'll get to that at the end of the email(: it's a pretty big deal.

So this week was better! The beginning of the week was still slow moving.. But by yesterday I was all amped up and ready to go!! What happened was.. Was my companion was sneaky.. But doing the best thing and called Sister Craig and Elder Andrew while I was asleep... Hahaha. But! So after a bunch of stuff what I ended up doing was stop the medication I was taking and started drinking 120 OUNCES! Of fluid a day! So Thursday, Friday and Saturday a drank a collective 360 ounces of fluid (half Gatorade, half water mixed together). And it helped! They wanted to flush out my system. So I'm not dizzy! But my vision is still wacky. So now I'll probably go to the optometrist. But my ward is so cute! Everyone has been so concerned and asking how I'm doing. Everyone's been like "I've been praying for you!" Nona put my name in the temple.. The whole bit. So I've had a lot of unseen help working in my favor(: The Lord is good!

The elders gave us a super solid referral that they tracted into! It's a mom and a daughter and the mom really wants her daughter to get involved in youth groups and wants her to gain a relationship with Jesus Christ... Um.. Young women's is perfect!!! We teach them tonight and I am SO excited!!! I haven't had very many lessons lately.. Or found anyone new... So The Lord had definitely been blessing us! Prayers and fasting really does work(:

So on Thursday we had zone meeting, and it was wonderful! I was pretty out of it... But the teachings were really good! And we found out about the "big deal" at the end. But I'm still not telling you. 

I had a trade off with Sister Pettingill on Friday and Saturday.. Oh goodness I just love her a bunch hahah. We're basically besties and have 2 transfers to become companions before she heads back to Ideeho. She's pretty swell haha. I really did learn a lot from her. STL's always have he greatest advice.

I finished the Book of Mormon again yesterday!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! If you haven't read it for awhile, read it. Right now. I know without a doubt that anyone can draw closer to Jesus Christ if they read it. I love this book with all my heart and I just want to share it with the whole wide world!

Which leads me to...

The BIG DEAL! 

So president has really been trying to figure out a way to get the Book of Mormon out there using social media. So him and the AP's have been thinking of something for the past few months and the came up with "Discover the book" so basically they want every member ever on Tuesday the 10th at 11:00 AM Mountain time to post a picture.. Which you'll see what to mimic in the event page on Facebook.. And post a brief testimony on how you've discovered the Book of Mormon. We want every single person on Facebook to at least have seen what the Book of Mormon is! We've contacted many a famous person to post on their Facebook. People include:

Mitt Romney

Alex Boye 

Mindy Gledhill 

Jimmer Fredette 

Jabari Parker

Stephanie Nielsen

Steve Young

Noelle Pikus Pace

Gladys Knight 

And the list goes on!.. So family... Friends. Please please do this!!!! Mother.. Please do this on your page! We want to make a big difference! We want to flood the Facebook world with the Book of Mormon.

This something the FJM (Florida Jacksonville Mission) came up with, took to Salt Lake and now every single Facebook mission In the world is doing it and inviting their friends!

There's two different pages. The first is "Discover the book" look it up in the search bar on Facebook. The second is "Called to share" and here's the like to that https://www.facebook.com/groups/774654132574908/

The Lord is truly hastening His work! So let's all participate!! I love being a missionary. I love you all. And I love The Lord.

Love,

Sister Bradford 

Trade off with Sister Pettingill!

Nona makes the best pound cake!

June 2: Doterra cured my cancer, Brain parasites and spider slaying

Soooo this week... Tthiiisss week. Haha

I have had a rough week haha. I've spent most of it sleeping haha. So you know my funny vision that happened on Sunday? Well it kept happening.. And got worse.. Like continual never ending. I've been dizzy and my vision has been CRAZY and so I would get tired super
duper after working for a couple hours... So I would come home and sleep for 2-4 hours and then still sleep like a rock at night.. Sooo I was going to go to the optometrist because that's what elder Andrew (he's a senior missionary over medical stuff) told me to do. But then I was like... This not just my eyes. So we went to a walk in clinic. And they were doing the normal check up stuff blah blah blah. The doctor leaves. Another guy comes in and says "I have to draw some blood and then you're going to go get a ct scan." ..... WHAT?! First of all.. I hate needles and second.. CT scan? So he goes to draw blood and misses my vein so he goes through my hand! My hand is bruised... And then they left me in the room by myself for several minutes... Needless to say I started crying and all I could think was "I just want my mom... I just want my moooommmm"

Kids. I don't care how old you are, where you live, our what you're doing. You will always want your mom haha.

So anyway. The ct scan and blood work came back good. They just said I have fluid in my ear and to take the prescription they gave me and if I'm still not getting better in a week they're going to do an MRI on my noggin. Ssooooo. Yeah hahaha.

But on a brighter note! We had our social! Which is where most of my title ties in.

So I'm sitting there rehearsing to the elders what happened, because it was noticeable to everyone that I wasn't with it haha, and Elder Stallard was like "maybe you have one of those brain parasites like that one elder that was here. He had to go home and everything.. Well Sis Bradford, you're probably going to be seeing mountains a lot sooner than you thought." (We had been talking earlier about how we miss mountains) SHUT UP! That's what I wanted to say haha. I don't have brain parasites haha.

Dottteeerrrraaaa. A couple ladies in the ward hooked me up with doterra and gave me a diffuser thing to sleep with at night. They gave me peppermint oil in the diffuser... All my dreams that first night were Christmas themed. And I felt fantastic that morning!... But then it wore off.. So it's not all it's cracked up to be hahaha.

But the social was really good! 9! Non members came!!! That's a lot!! And we fished and everyone loved the JDawgs sauce! Everyone kept asking me about it hahaha. Thanks for sending me that(: but it was great to have that many non members! Twas exciting.

As for the spider slaying... We had to giant spiders on our door this morning! So I valiantly sprayed them with shout and hairspray.. They died. Also, I've been killing spiders with my bear hands! Just baby ones.. But still! Tell Kass she'd never make it here. Haha

Well I love The Lord and this work! I know He has reasoning in all things. Hopefully this week I'll get better! I wish I had more spiritual things to share! I love you all!!

Love,
Sister Bradford

Fishing at the S's.

This is a legit gator RT caught. Gator hunting is some crraaazzyyy stuff.

The spiders I slayed.