April 21st-27th 2026

Apartment on Fire

CHAPTER 42: Fort St. John (BC Canada)

WEATHER: 

Uhh still snow but we got some sun as well so thats fire

LIFE UPDATE: 

We have a mission conference in edmonton this next week and me and my comps after lots of convincing get to go!!! (We dont have to attend over zoom) So on wednesday we make the 8 hour drive to edmonton for mission conference!!! Wish us safe travels because we've been getting some snow storms lately but we are all super hyped!

HIGHLIGHTS:

♡ My comp brunt lots of cookies

♡ Our apartment complex set on fire twice this week and we had to get evacuated 

♡ Went on exchanges (theres only one set of sisters even close enough and by than it was an hour and a half drive- meeting half way) 

♡ Had 11 friends at church

♡ Killed a spider 

♡ Made homemade icecream

♡ Had family home evening with our RC

♡ Had a member buy us a case of DP

♡ Had the weather in the 50s with a UV of 1

♡ Finally ran 3 miles to prepare for the 5k

♡ Hit 300 days as a missionary 

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: 

Random thought of the week but i was recently asked to send in my biggest lesson i learned while serving in YSA for 6 months and I thought i would share what I sent in.

"Know what you believe and believe what you know"

I wont say much on this quote but if theres one thing that YSA taught me its to stand firm in your belifs but to also know what you believe in. It was a crazy experience to see so many people my age be so firm in their faith or religon. They knew what the believed and they believed what they knew. It was admirable and something I learned to do while I was in YSA. Obviously im still learning more and more but its cool to see that as we work to learn more god will help us understand the things we are learning. God wants us to increase our testimony and knowledge!!! 

I love and miss you all!

Sis. Monson

 

Redoing the Pool

Man grandpa and grandma can not catch a break with their pool.  Finally they had someone come out and break down all the cement and redo all the plumbing and everything.  After they had finished up the tile work and everything we figured we could go in a finish off the rest of the job.  We helped out one day after school and got it all done in just a couple of hours.  The boys loved painting and it went quick with all the people and rollers. 

 

Messi & Messi

Landon's Favorite soccer player is Lionel Messi. He loves him.  He came to Utah to play against RSL and we couldn't get tickets so we made sure he got to watch if with his jersey on.  He made us take these pictures of him with Messi on the screen.  This boy loves him some soccer.

 

April 14th 20th 2026

Another week down 

CHAPTER 41: Fort St. John (BC Canada)

WEATHER: 

One day I won't put those snow emoji anymore...

HIGHLIGHT: 

♡ Me and my comps accidently drank alcohol 

♡ Went to a work party for our friend and won a raffle 

♡ Filmed a fire video for our district (see my Google photos for our 5 minute video) #bouttomakethedistricthype

♡ Ate alot of Philippine food

♡ Played just dance and clearly need to increase my knowledge of the "trendy dances" 

♡ Had to speak in church, with no time to prepare, and no phone or scriptures 

♡ Had interviews  (virtually of course- because we are to far away)

♡ Had 7 friends at church

♡ Went shopping during out lunch break (at the one store thats here)

♡ Got to go running because we have a indoor track here (and its to hazardous to run outside on the ice because to many people fall..) #tranningforthemission5k

♡ Tried to cut a frozen loaf of bread for 10 minutes

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: 

Okay yall cool miracle for ya.

We went contacting last week outside. Because im in the boonies and theres limited people to talk to i cant chicken out of talking to someone even if they look scary. (In YSA i could really pick and choose who I was going to talk because there was so many people and you couldn't talk to them all) but here you got to talk to the rare people you do see. So im showing my trainee how to go finding and theres this guy walking down the street. He looked a bit scary but I convinced myself we needed to talk to him anyway. We went and talked to him and turns out bros parents were members of our church and they stopped attending when he was about 6 years old. (Which means odds are he hasnt gotten baptized!). We had a church tour with him this week and walked him around our church building. We showed him the baptismal font and he said that baptism is what hes been looking for in his life. It was such a cool experience and it was cool to see God leading us to those that are ready to accept and choose him even in this small town. 

I love and miss you all!!! Reach out!!!

 Sis. Monson

 

Warmer weather mean tennis