May 4, 2020 - "Oh, thanks! I've ALWAYS wanted a drone!" (Week 59) - Susquehanna, PA

Hello beautiful friends and family!

Today is a great day because guess what!?!? IT'S STAR WARS DAY!!

May the Fourth be With You!

We took some AMAZING tours this week!

We took a super cute family on tour from the Philippines. They were so nice and friendly. I was also able to take a family on tour from Brazil. It has really touched me to see how grateful these people are to have the chance to see the sites even though it may not be in person. They always say how they wouldn't have a chance to make it in person and the spirit honestly has no bounds. They can still receive a witness from the Holy Ghost from thousands of miles away.

But since it is Star Wars day I figured I'd share a nice spiritual thought related to Star Wars. 

"At the very End of 'Return of the Jedi', just when it seemed all hope was lost, something incredible happened. Darth Vader, the long standing antagonist of the series, sacrifices himself to save his son and defeat the emperor. Vader thought he was too far gone to ever find redemption. He had done so many terrible things, betrayed so many people. How could he ever be forgiven? 

Luke, on the other hand, never lost faith in Vader. In fact, he believed so strongly he was willing to pay the ultimate price for his forgiveness. There are many people like Darth Vader who look back on their mistakes and think it's too late, but they are wrong. It doesn't matter how far we've strayed or how mangled we've become, Jesus gave his life so we could be forgiven."

Shout out to Bryce for sending this to me. THANKS!!!

I hope  you enjoy your week! I Love you all!!

Sister Larsen

we found a new toy! WHEELCHAIRS!! we are getting kind of bored.... 

the cute Sisters that took us on tour of the Mormon Battalion

Filipino family, our cute tour!!

We decided to go to NY

it was a beautiful day and so we went to the river

this is just a funny picture lol

some nice Elders made us cookies!!!

it was a nice day so we went outside to make hearts for the senior couples

District Video: We are All in This Together

Compiled and Edited by Sister Jadyn Larsen

April 27, 2020 - "This is it, and that's not it..." (Week 58) - Susquehanna, PA

Hello! there is officially another week in the books! 

There were some pretty interesting things that happened this week. First off we were able to have a phone meeting with Elder Renlund. He spoke a lot about finding joy in our circumstances. Especially with all of this crazy pandemic going on it can be a little hard. But as we know, with Christ all things are possible. 

Later in the week we had another zoom devotional with Elder Vai Sikahema. He spoke about an experience he had on his mission. How he brought his Holiday Bowl ring with him and a mission leader told him that he needed to send it home because with it he would not become the missionary he was meant to be. He was kind of salty about it, but that's when he learned to sacrifice for the Lord. It got me thinking, what do I need to sacrifice for Jesus Christ? And what do you also need to sacrifice for the Lord? 

This week we also ended up going viral. And by we I mean the site, and it was all thanks to Sister Reynolds. I don't know if you are part of the World Wide United group on Facebook, but somehow Sister Reynolds got her post approved. Well, it got hundreds of comments and shares and we are currently being swamped with requests  

well that's embarrassing..... I did not mean to send my weekly yet😂😂

Anyways.... we are being super overwhelmed with requests to take tours. So, sorry if you really wanted a tour haha. 

But this week was a good one! sorry that my email has been super confusing.....

Sister Larsen

April 20, 2020 - Sister Frosty (Week 57) - Susquehanna, PA

We have officially survived week 5 of quarantine!

Although we may be quarantined, things definitely aren't slowing down. We are still doing virtual tours, so sign up if you want one. They have been really successful and we have been taking people from literally all over the world. We have taken people from Italy, Spain, Armenia, Hungary, Canada, Philippines, Mexico, and Chile. 

Also, update on our fort: we have officially finished it (there are pictures down below). It was so sick that we have slept in it all week! Hit us up for all of your fort needs. 

We also got to take the sacrament yesterday which was super nice considering we haven't taken it for 3 weeks. I am never going to take it for granted ever again!

This week it also snowed which was super fun for us! We got to go outside and build a snowman, make snow angels, and have a snowball fight. It was super fun and 100% needed. 

I hope that you are all surviving! So sorry that my emails aren't the most exciting, it's kind of hard when things are the same every day.

Love you all!

Sister Larsen

Also, we have currently run out of all the puzzles we have, so if you want to send us any that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

SNOW ANGELS!!!!

the snowman we built

us with our snow friend

Mayte got a little cold

our fort

our fort 2

Mayte had a rough day

Pretty flowers

Dinner we made

wildlife

the girls

April 13, 2020 - "Your bird flipping the bird doesn't even make sense, birds aren't even real" (Week 56) - Susquehanna, PA

Hello Everyone! 

Happy 13 months to me!! And to celebrate, we are going to build a fort! Woohoo!!

Here are some highlights from this week:

- We found out that birds aren't real (if you would like more info email me)

- We took lots of tours from people ALL over the world

      - some of those places include Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Philippines, and    

        Armenia

- I dyed Sister Reynolds' hair! She is now a brunette!

- We flew Hermana Rodriguez's kite

- CROCS!

- Easter was amazing!

- We dyed eggs and the Senior Couples set up an easter egg hunt for us!

- We got to watch a live stream of my brother getting married!

     - CONGRATS DAVIS AND BROOKE!

- I finally have a sister after 20 years.....

- We had a dance party down our street

- listened to some super sick bops

- we completed our 8th puzzle of the quarantine! and let me tell you, they were not easy

I hope you all were able to have a great Easter as well, I really hope that you took time to remember our Savior, Jesus Christ. In an email my dad sent this one thing really stood out to me, "I am so excited that we are celebrating Easter today. Today we don’t celebrate the Easter eggs, hunts, candy or other decorating but we celebrate the first fruits of the resurrection that opened the door for each one of us to be resurrected and return to our Heavenly Father.  It is through Christ’s Atonement that we are able to accomplish this for everyone." My pops is one wise man! But, I really hope that you can remember Jesus Christ not only on Easter, or Sundays, or Christmas, but ALWAYS! 

I love you all and keep on quarantining. 

Sister Larsen

April 6, 2020 - You're Closed (Week 55) - Susquehanna, PA

Hello everyone! It was definitely a great week here at the PRS. First off, I really hope you all were able to have an amazing weekend by watching General Conference. I hope you were able to feel the spirit as strong as I did. Here are some updates from this week:

- Lots and lots of tours! if you are interested in taking a virtual tour of the PRS hit us up!

- I chopped off basically all of Hermana Rodriguez's hair.   

- Imma bout to do Sis Reynolds hair too hehe (I won't say what though, it will be a surprise)

- We made some super yummy food

- The weather was nice enough to have a picnic where we ate our yummy food

- GENERAL CONFERENCE

I hope you all were able to have amazing weeks as well. Keep being super awesome.

With lots of love,

Sister Larsen