#pday stuff

[beeapocalypse]

very vague possibly made up memory that there was some bit w the new safehouse update where hox had all the illicit stuff packed off to the mansion but i do not care for that. complete destructive impulse that nearly gets the crew nailed (secret basement aside. no chance there wasnt SOME illicit shit left in those boxes labeled as past heists that couldve survived the fire) and worsens absolutely everything instead

[beeapocalypse]

^ 2 bonus volyas bc i like him ^_^

truly afflicted by the payday illness once more. here is mine heister oc volya :-)

[dinoshmino]

where’s that ‘next week has drained me’ post cause that’s literally me right now

[snsmissionaries]

3/24/19 -- Sister Nicole Ritman, Spain, Madrid Mission

Hermana Rihanna and Sister Shakira Getta Anotha' One 👌

Subject Line: It's a long explanation that will be given throughout the email.

 ¡Hola a Todos!

 So last, last Saturday we had the baptism that we weren't planning on, and this last Saturday we had the one we originally were planning on jaja. Her name is Karent (the t is silent) and she is amazing because she was actually a street contact! As much as we do it, anyone who has been a missionary in the past few years knows baptisms most often come from member references and part-member families, not random people off the street. But it does still happen and Karent is proof! Her prayers are the most genuine and beautiful Oraciones I've literally ever heard. The other great thing about Karent was she was praying and forgot my last name so she called me "Hermana Rihanna" (like the singer) and she thought it was so funny so she even mentioned it in her baptismal talk 😂

 WE WORKED SO HARD to put her baptism together and it paid off! We had a solid amount of people and a cello/piano musical number trio (we randomly have super musical youth in the ward. Several cellists and violinists and a million pianists). It was super spiritual, she cried during the talks but during her own testimony she didn't and gave the sweetest account of how the Hermanas found her and taught her and how she just wants to follow God. So cute!!

 The rest of the week was kind of a blur to be honest. Even though we were busy with the baptism, we managed to hit my personal mission record for new Amigos (new people you're teaching). I won't say the number because it is probably like what some missionaries get in a single day but oh well jaja

 We had zone conference! It was a super spiritual one because we tackled the Atonement of Jesus Christ and Pres Bussey knocked our socks off a little just reminding us of what an incomprehensible yet accessible gift it really is. Also my Mom (like my actual Mom, not my trainer in the mission) and my Aunts happened to be at the temple (she didn't know we had zone conference at the church by the temple) and President let me see her for a bit during lunch. That pretty a unexpected but well-received surprise jaja. Now I can't say I haven't seen my fam for a year and a half but I'll forgive my mom for breaking my streak (jaja broma 😉). 

 The Sister Shakira part is a result of being in a really small district. It is just Elder Young, Elder Cordovez and us. And when she have a small district you just have more random craziness. For example, E Cordovez said that H Brumble said that she sounds like a girl, but she didn't like that so he agreed that if we hit our finding goal he'd say she had the voice of Shakira. We cleared the goal, so now to fit the theme I'm Hermana Rihanna and she's Sister Shakira and we gotta anotha' one because we had our second baptism in two week. Don't expect more for a while though because now that we absorbed the Elders area we have 1000000 people to teach but currently no one who is actually progressing haha 😅 We're working on it. It's going to be a filter process. 

 Also since I am close to Madrid now I got to go to the temple the morning and it's felt SO GOOD LEMME TELL YA. It has been a LONG WHILE since I've been. Man I missed that place. ❤️ (That's why our Pday got switched--the temple isn't open on Mondays). 

 After, we played sand volleyball and when we weren't on the court we were munching on our pastries we grabbed from Lidl for lunch . Literally the entire zone just went to Lidl and attacked the giant pastry wall (savory and sweet pastries). I'm talking doughnuts, focaccia, pizza, empanadas, classic Spanish puff pastries, palmeristas, etc. You stuff it all in your bag and check out. We were quite a sight. 

 Well tbh I can't really remember anything else that's happened since last Pday. I wrote a long group email because when I have so many individual ones I'm ignoring I just write a long group one so everyone gets to here something at least and I don't have to write things twice. Okay lame excuse I know, I'll go focus on my individual ones now. 

 Chao! 

 Hermana Ritman 

 P.S. So I haven't had many funny language mistake stories for some reason so far, but I have one know that I thought was pretty hilarious at the time. So my companion understands pretty well, but she is still new and Spanish over video call is super difficult to understand. So we were teaching this guy who is probably almost 30 and we are teaching him to pray. We tell him that he can pray about his feelings, thoughts, questions...anything. He asks, "So I can pray to ask God to make Hermana Ritman fall in love with me?" I was trying to think of something to say that was missionary appropriate and not a sassy retort, but before I could think of anything, my comp (not understanding) is like, "Ya of course! You can say anything at all!" I think I need some of you guys to start praying for me not to fall in love with this guy to counteract his prayers because I think he's going to try it out for a while now jaja

 Also to explain the crepe and milkshake picture: We can only meet with men in public or with another woman and for this one cita, we couldn't find another woman and it was freeing outside so we agreed to me in a cafetería (like a cafe, not like a school cafeteria). We had to order to stay, so we just ordered a crepe (an homage to my job in college at a crepe shop) and a MILKSHAKE to share and hoped to finish it before he got there to not be rude eating in front of him but still reserve the spot. But when it came, it was GIANT. We were like "how are we gonna finish this milkshake". But then we realized it wasn't a milkshake--it was actually just milk flavored like cheesecake and that's why it was called a "milkCake" and not a "milkSHake" on the menu. If tasted good, but still what a ripoff- I call it a milkFAKE because they totally made us think it was a milkshake! And it was just flavored milk!! With whipped cream and everything! But the guy never ended up showing up to the cita and we just used the WiFi to contact on Facebook as we ate and waited, so the jokes on him. 

  Contact Information

email: nicole.ritman@myldsmail.net

 Sister Nicole Ritman

Madrid Spain Mission

Avenida de Tenerife, 11

28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes

Madrid, Espana

  To see all the photos and videos from this week, click on the link below.

Villalba Week 2: https://photos.app.goo.gl/C31jAA1ywp3SnjS19

 To catch up on all the photos from last week, click here

Villalba Week 1: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9UJDsroQPxanHCKQA  

Our Crazy District: https://photos.app.goo.gl/kATRQip2yudjEGDD9

 "The MilkFake"

Karent

 Pizza waiting for the font to fill

Zone Conference

[slaytencio-blog]

something about you.

there’s something about you that i’ll always be in love with. there’s something about you that will make me keep coming back. there’s something about you that sets you apart from the rest. there’s something about you that you thought was unlovable and i fell deeply in love with it.

you have so many aspects that i fell for , every single aspect makes me fall deeper and deeper.

maybe the thought of waking up next to you, is what i’ll always be in love with.

maybe how we could fall asleep singing to each other, keeps making me run back.

maybe your ocean blue eyes are what sets you apart from everyone else.

maybe your jealousy , or clinginess is what you though was unlovable but i sit here everyday missing and adoring it.

maybe there 100’s of things that make me want to come back.

Here is 100

1. Your smile , how it can easily put a smile on my face. The thought of your smile brightens my day.

2. Your ocean blue eyes, how i get lost in them. I can see my future in your eyes.

3. Your laugh, is my favorite melody, i would without a doubt listen to it on replay if i could.

4. Your kisses , i quickly became addicted to your lips on mine .

5. Your presence , something about it calms my soul.

6. Your scars , showing how unique you are. How strong you are.

7. Your dimple , the one thing that stood out to me in the very beginning.

8. Your heart , its golden. It has a spark, that hopefully will never die out.

9. Your mind , it’s a wonderland , full of unspoken things. Holding in emotions and thoughts that only you will understand.

10. Your teeth, one bigger than others on the lower set. Top set straight as can be, as shiny as pearls.

11. Your hair , naturally curly, with an admirable flow.

12. Your ability to stay up hours after hitting your limit, all those late night calls. Mumbling words , but knowing exactly what the other said.

13. Your slang, something I caught onto.

14. Your voice , like a lullaby , so precious and graceful.

15. Your style , wanna be bad girl, but just a girly girl.

16. Your taste in music , something we have in common. I’ve never been fond of classical , but something about watching you sing and dance to it made it my favorite genre.

17. Your strength, physically it’s growing as you grow. Mentally it’s remarkable. You are the strongest person i’ve ever met.

18. Your intelligence , when you start to ramble about something your passionate in, there’s no stopping you.

19. Your work ethic, when you set your mind to it, it will get done to its best ability.

20. Your confidence , days go by and you are okay with who you see in the mirror. But at least once a week , you wake up and realize you acquire true beauty and you show it.

21. Your love for children , thriving to be a kindergarten teacher shows just how much you love them.

22. Your mesmerizing grin , could get you anything you want.

23. Your four year old self , throwing tantrums and asking to have play dates. Adoring fairies , believing in the good in the world.

24. Your past, bringing you to this exact moment reading down a list of reasons i keep coming back. Your past shaping you but you not becoming your past.

25. Your forgiveness , you give endless chances and believe everyone can grow.

26. Your ability to put a smile on everyday, even after everything you’ve been through.

27. Your eating schedule , one that does not exist. You are the absolute worst at eating correctly, but something about it makes me want to take you to a buffet at 2am just to see you stuff your face with cookies and cake.

28. Your encouragement , when a friend asks for help or support you’re always there to give it.

29. How open minded you are , always willing to take new ideas and such.

30. How good you are with children, watching you get along with my younger siblings made me fall more in love with you.

31. How you can speak Russian , hearing you speak another language , saying you love me in it. Has got to be one of my favorites. “ya tebya leublu”

32. Your inability to stay focused on one thing for longer than 2 minutes.

33. Your humor , similar to mine.

34. Your ability to get me to laugh, had me head over heels for you on day one.

35. Your love for the Divergent series , showed me you were capable of getting lost in a book.

36. How you get jealous about small things , which you don’t have to worry about.

37. Your family, man will i miss your crazy Jewish Russian family.

38. Your ability to box me, but still be scared to hit me.

39. You and your crazy Russian foods.

40. How you deliberately tell me to go just so I can chase you.

41. Your hugs , I feel safe in your arms.

42. Your ability to wink like a dork, which I find absolutely adorable.

43. How you could spend hours on FaceTime with me and never get tired of me.

44. Your collection of stuffed animals , that you chose to share with me.

45. The smell of your house , every time I got there I knew everything was okay.

46. Your scared cat Leo, who has only ever let me touch him once out of 7 months.

47. How we could laugh for hours and hours about one simple joke.

48. How you take 50 minute showers and think it’s normal.

49. When you used to put charcoal face masks on over FaceTime.

50. Your ability to spend countless hours typing or writing about me, which I loved so much.

51. How crazy in love with me you were.

52. Your caring friends , that would blow my phone up with texts.

53. Your fingers, they were so long yet so skinny.

54. Your body, how perfect it was in my head.

55. How you would go against your teacher rules and FaceTime me in the middle of class.

56. How we would wake up exactly at the same time , its was like psychic or something.

57. How you have been my person for the last 7 months for everything.

58. How you would hang up on your BEST friends for me because I’m needy and I always wanted to talk.

59. How you handled my clinginess so well.

60. How you offered to pay for everything because you knew I never had money.

61. The way your little how are you hairs was like a black girls curly hair.

62. How you love animals and are so caring for them.

63. How we can be using the bathroom on FaceTime and it’s normal.

64. How your bladder isn’t that shy anymore around me.

65. How when you stand up too quick you get dizzy.

66. Your inability to beat me in arm wrestling.

67. Your stretch marks , they're one of my favorite things about you.

68. The fact you don't fall asleep on you stomach, except for the night at my house. [1.21.17]

69. How your biggest fear is the Orange Flame Monster.

70. How our lucky number is 2, 22.

71. Your desire to look good on days you go out.

72. How amazing you look without make up, but with it on you always look stunning.

73. When you wear beanies, I lose my breath.

74. How you feel free while swimming because Papa AK.

75. How you don't have a middle name , gives me a reason not to get mad at you cause I usually call people by their full name when I'm mad.

76. How you were deaf for some time when you were born.

77. How even though you're terrified of spiders, you offered to kill them for me.

78. How you endlessly make my tummy explode with the entire zoo.

79. How we can go from lovey to joking in seconds.

80. How no matter how many failed attempts we had when we tried seeing each other we always made up for it the one time we could.

81. How on our first date we marked our territory in the bathroom.

82. How I'm 110% comfortable with you and can be myself.

83. How our FaceTime record is currently at 14.5 hours and we adored each other for all 868 minutes.

84. How we would get lost in each other eyes and everything seemed perfect.

85. How we grew together as people.

86. How you encouraged me to be a better student.

87. How we could spam each other hundreds of text and never get annoyed.

88. How we've shared 1000's of secrets over the past 7 months and all have been kept.

89. How you tried so so so so hard to teach me Russian. Ya tochna ya tebya leubleu pathamoshtha thee crasivia.

90. How all our inside jokes always had amazing memories to go along with them. CHIPMUNK.

91. How we loved each other endlessly even through all the arguments and fights.

92. How we always managed to end every fight with "I love you".

93. How you were my best friend and my girlfriend all in one.

94. How my friends loved you almost as much as I love you.

95. How all our nick names had a special meaning behind all of them. Dory, Boo.

96. How well we both got along with each other's family.

97. How we spent your first PDays together. And rode the ferries wheel, and we some what got that kiss.

98. How we have a bucket list which can still be completed.

99. How we always knew what to say to cheer the other up, and always supported each other.

100. How even after 100 reasons listed , they only go over an 8th of the things about you that make me keep coming back.

something about you , is an understatement because everything about you is what makes me keep coming back. [ek.]

[sisterdoty]

(no subject)

Soo this was a really awesome week! We met with Hannah and she is so sweet! She has real intent which is really really important and we are absolutely stoked to see where things go with her. She even messaged us after our lesson and said she was about to start reading the book of Mormon! Woohoooo! Hickory is full of miracles.

We also met with Dan and Kathy- they're an older couple and Kathy has actually taken the lessons before but we aren't sure why she didn't get baptized. No wait, it's because she took the lessons because of the Osmonds, so thats probably why it didn't work out. Lol. Anyway, they are super sweet and Dan really seemed to be debating whether to come to church or not. (They didn't...). They also showed us pictures of the trip they took to Utah a few years ago so it was like I was transported back home for a few minutes haha. #tendermercies

We had the worldwide missionary broadcast on Wednesday and they announced some cool new schedule changes- our pday starts at 8 am now so thats pretty sweet. And we get more time to workout in the morning (say goodbye to those love handles! Woot!) So things are great.

Oh so our downstairs diagonal neighbor, Gemarr, is a recent convert and the other day we were talking to him about his life and stuff. He always calls us Jews (I'm not really sure why) so I told him that he was a Jew too but his response was that he's a "free jew". Hey- we get an HOUR of yard time each morning now so we're not THAT restricted...

Other than that it was just a typical, busy week here in Hickory! We are seeing miracles and having fun! Always remember that Heavenly Father loves you so much!

Sister Doty

1. Jackie's daughter was playing minecraft and I was really excited about it. :)

2. One time we found a swing

3. One time when got sushi 

4. And then took a mirror selfie 

5. Rebel Drive

[sistercampbell]

Woche 52 (Jul 4 - Jul 10) Hausfrau status...blah! New Mission President & Zone Conference.

Ahoi!

More than one german person has told me this last week I would make a good Hausfrau= house wife...just because I cleaned the table up or made some yummy cookies so yay...oh and we got transfer calls. Sis LaFontaine and I will be staying together for another transfer in the Burg!

Wednesday we were able to meet with Susanne and go back over the first lesson with her. 

She has come so far and it's really cool to watch her learn about the Gospel and have it all make sense for her. For example, she called early one morning because she had been scripture studying and was so excited when she read in 2 Nephi how the Book of Mormon and the Bible work together. First, it was amazing that she was doing early morning scripture study from the book of Mormon, mind you! Then second, that she understood what the Book of Mormon had said! She is the coolest! 

Then that night I had tausch (exchanges) with Sis. Passey. We did some finding and found some delicious ice cream as well as some secret wonders of Augsburg, then we went to a nice relief society activity.

Thursday we had zone conference, our year mark 'celebration' and got to meet our new president, his wife and his son. President and Sister Brown are so cute and are excited to get to work. 

Just some highlights from Zone Conference: there were 6 of us all together from my mMTC group to celebrate year marks/halfway marks hence the Dirndl dresses.

President Brown can sing amazingly and he sung for us. Sis. Brown told us her conversion to the church story and holy powerful it was. She told us how people told her, her Mormon friends would go to hell because they were Mormon. Then as we were walking home that same day, a random guy on the street stopped us and told us directly to our face the exact same thing. It was shocking and sad he thought that, but it just made me want to tell everyone more about the church. It was quite the experience. All in all it was a good day.

Friday we visited a cute little old lady from the ward. Then we did more salsa dancing at the Spanish family's home. We had family home evening with them and I will just say singing hymns in Spanish is so fun. Jealous of all of you serving spanish speaking! Then we danced a bit ha!

Just a pic of a German Drinking Fountain

Saturday all of our appointments fell through unfortunately BUT a less active family we fell out of contact with suddenly contacted us and needed our help that day. So we went over and helped move a ton of stuff up into her attic. Then had a nice lunch appointment with the whole family and made a return appointment!

We celebrated Susanne's birthday on Sunday with some cake and then for pday, we celebrated it further with some mini golf and a lake! She's just the cutest and the ward made her birthday great for her! 

Mini golfing and visiting a lake for Susanne’s Birthday

Other than that I’m just loving life over here and the people around me. I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sister Campbell

Kirche Jesus Christi 

 Augsburg

GERMANY

[beeapocalypse]

think the big Thing for the getaway driver oc is that in the middle of a heist gone loud w/o proper planning sydney gets too fucked up to return 2 the fray after dropping off a couple duffles and the driver makes the call to borrow her mask + guns to go in there Herself and while that is instrumental to making sure everyone makes it out there alive + Not in police custody it ALSO throws a jug of gasoline on the whole payday Case media + fbi efforts wise. absurd speculation on this sudden change in operations (ie fifth heister out of nowhere. spirals out to impossible theories of a huge network of potential agents and all) that puts a TON of pressure on them. gets put on safehouse arrest and is constantly butting heads w dallas during that entire time (him thinking she acted out of line vs her believing it was thru her actions alone that they got out of there. she shot a cop in the head while he was in the middle of cuffing a wounded dallas) while him + bain try to figure out what the hell to do abt it all

[beeapocalypse]

strikes the i can imagine anything pose. trans woman dallas

[beeapocalypse]

playing toys

[beeapocalypse]

who is this man

[beeapocalypse]

refinement of last nights thought. rather than craigslist dallas buys the total clunker car from a chop shop and gets the owner to agree to let him + houston come by on weekends in order to work on it (car maintenance against their apartment rules). houston eventually starts showing up everyday after school just to hang out and look at the cars and the owner starts paying him off book to help around the place as his first job

[beeapocalypse]

like the idea that houstons interest in cars got started as a teen when he totalled dallas' car while borrowing it and initially was an obsessive trauma thing where hed spend nights on end at their shared clunky desktop pc staring at car wrecks of the same make and model that slowly migrated into learning abt the different types of damages accidents cause to the precautions taken against them to how to repair cars in general

[beeapocalypse]

entire basis of mine reading of dallas + houston is the idea w absolutely no roots in canon that houston lived w him for a couple years due to their parents going thru some financial struggles and was around when dallas faked his death. the drama

[snsmissionaries]

2/1/19 -- Sister Nicole Ritman, Spain, Madrid Mission

EXTRA! EXTRA! BAPTISM AND TRANSFERS EDITION!!!

¡Hola a Todos!

 So this week was just about my undoing because not only did my bestie Hermana Orjuela get transferred to Móstoles (Madrid) but that Sunday we were planning on planning the baptism in consejo because we didn't have it the last week but then we didn't have it again. And then all the sudden H Orjuela left, our ward mission leader told us it was finals and he couldn't come to the baptism, and I realized that since Elder Gergov has only been here 3 weeks I was the only one here with a full transfer in the ward and it was basically up to me to plan this baptism. In real life, this wouldn't be a problem. But without a laptop, knowledge of who was who in the ward (everyone was gone for the Fiestas), my Spanish struggling when I'm overwhelmed, and never having had another baptism in my mission, I was more than a little over my head.

 So I am running out of time to write this but al final, everything came together with the Lord obviously guiding us because somehow at the last second, white pants were found, the papers were cut in pretty waves with pens to write notes, the brownies were made, the ward was invited and after asking a million people, we finally found speakers jaja. The musical number didn't turn out as well but the most important part was that even though we had to try three times, Sany (got permission to use her name tell her story and share the pics) was baptized. Presidente had the idea of confirming her right after because we had the baptism immediately after church and it was seriously the most beautiful blessing I've ever heard. And her testimony was also the strongest, most mature and genuine I've ever heard at a baptism. She even got to video call Hermana Orjuela after! The other great thing about the baptism was that we had record wars attendance because it was right after church! There was even a couple on vacation from Provo that stayed after just to come support and even helped us in the kitchen with the brownies. They said they don't ever get to see baptisms because the only people in their neighborhood who aren't members are Larry King and the President of Budweiser lol. I wish I caught there name but I didn't because I was running around like crazy. I was also relieved because I thought the Elders would roast us for printing our programs in blue, having a framed picture of Christ and putting our brownies on decorative plates and putting the notes in a flower stand like girls, but all they said was "hey that was actually a nice baptism" with a brownie in each hand. Whew. 😅(Homemade brownies are so impressive to people here. They have them in panaderías and in Gelato shops and stuff but they think it's like so foreign and they can't make it. If only they knew it were legit the easiest thing in the world maybe they wouldn't think I was so cool jaja). 

 Also I just realized I forgot to say that my new companion is Hermana Mecca! She's lived the first 10 years of her life in Argentina and the rest in Italy an hour from Milan. I had the gall to cook her pasta her first lunch. She actually liked it but the next day she cooked for me 😂 Her Spanish has an Italian melody but a strong Argentinian "sh" and sometimes she remembers the Italian words for things better than Spanish jaja. She dealt with all the craziness of the baptism like a pro. We actually have the same time in the mission except nativos get three weeks in the CCM first and are in the field while we are in the CCM for six weeks. But I'll be seeing her again when we go home.

 After a crazy baptism we decided to take a relaxing Pday and do touristy things which meant going to the Puerto and being basic tourists, which is still fun. We wanted to go to Hard Rock Cafe but realized it was still under construction. Someone Google that and let me know if it'll open by the time I leave or not.

 Well pretty much out of time and I'll tell you to the whole story of Sandy's conversion next week! Miracles to tell 😃

 Os quiero, 

Hermana Ritman

 Malaga Week 6:

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/xt9oEsG8LurAZ8B98

 Malaga Week 7:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8HHUbEj9FUqAdhCEA

  Contact Information  

email: nicole.ritman@myldsmail.net

 Sister Nicole Ritman

Madrid Spain Mission

Avenida de Tenerife, 11

28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes

Madrid, Espana

[snsmissionaries]

1/14/19 -- Sister Nicole Ritman, Spain, Madrid Mission

Tiquismiquis

¡Hola a Todos! 

 This week we went to *Sevilla*! For a big Andalucía zone conference since it was Christmas Conference (super late after Christmas lol). We had our workshops then did a White Elephant (I got a 2/3 used jar of coconut body cream lol) and then we had a legendary talent show. Some highlights were Hermana Bussey drinking a raw egg on stage, a Dora sketch where the map was carpeta de area and the goal was to find a reference, and of course Elder Toro and Elder Roger's singing the song they wrote (which you can see on their FB). 

 Today for PDay I wasn't feeling to good but we went out because we had a ton of shopping to do for the piso. I was looking for pants the WHOLE TIME but was too tall and gorda for these skinny and short Spaniards styles. Not the best PDay. At least we got some stuff for a girl in the ward who is leaving to Barcelona mission without any support from her family and they also aren't sending her to a CCM (Missionary Training Center) either! I would feel so unprepared. The Relief Society is helping her buy all her stuff and we used got her stuff left in piso and when we went shopping we got her stuff too. 

 We really had a great week and saw the biggest miracle of my mission so far but I won't say it until two weeks from now in case everything burns. I'm don't want to jinx it.

 Os quiero, 

 Hermana Ritman

 Socieded de Socorro (Relief Society)

  Centro from the window of a shop I was in

Centro

 Looked pretty in person but the pic only shows the dirt and graffiti. lol