Dear Sister Emery Collins

Hey everyone! I hope y'all enjoyed general conference this weekend. We are so blessed to have living prophets & apostles on the Earth today! General conference is a great time to bring your cares & questions to the Lord. I had many of my own questions & prayers answered. I also had many that were left unanswered, but I know as I continue to study & ponder the messages that were given, I'll gain greater insight on the things Heavenly Father wants me to learn. I know the same can happen for everyone.  I feel so blessed to be a missionary in Arkansas. If there's anything I've learned on my mission, it's how much our Heavenly Father loves all of His children. You meet so many people who have nothing, people who drive you crazy, people you didn't even know existed, & yet you desire more than anything for them to have the knowledge you have of God's plan for them. God works through us to help his children feel His love. I love this go...

Hey y'all! Hope you're all doing well. The work is still going over here in Arkansas & I love it ❤ I want to share a scripture with y'all that I absolutely love. Enjoy! "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them." [Ether 12:27] Challenges and hard times come with being human, but God knows us and our weaknesses. I have a testimony that having faith in Christ and His Atonement will make us stronger through times of trial. Love you all❤ Sister Emery Collins

  Hey y'all!! This week was spring break out here in Arkansas & thankfully it went by pretty quick!! So we'll be back into our normal routine on campus this week.  Sister Miller makes everything fun! So while we struggled with finding & teaching this week, we did lots & lots of service (28 hours!!) & had a blast!! We went to the animal shelter of course (which is so much fun in the pouring rain😂), but we also did a service project as a district. All 15 of us missionaries went to this little farm & planted onions & kale for about 4 hours. The cool thing about the farm is that they donate 50% of what they grow to charities. It was a kinda cloudy & wet day, so we got pretty muddy, but it was so fun & so worth it!! I cut Sister Miller's hair!! She wanted it significantly shorter so I cut a good couple of inches off. That was one of the most stressful things ever😂 but I did not screw up her hair!! I did pretty good and it looks super c...

Happy Monday y'all!! Sister Miller & I realized something pretty mind blowing this week. We saw a random flock of geese by a pond & Sister Miller said, "Why the heck are there so many geese here? They fly south for the winter... oh my gosh we're in the south!" I don't know if they mean Arkansas when they say "birds fly south for the winter", but I'm in the south & there are birds & it's winter so it all adds up to me😂 The highlight of our week happened on the way to Bentonville for zone conference. We had the car this week, so we took it through a car wash because the companionship with the cleanest car gets money. Well fast forward a few minutes, we were sitting the parking lot feeling pretty good about ourselves & looking cute. Elder Dike starts walking up to the car with a confused look on his face & says "Sisters, what did you do to the car?" We look & the casing of one of the side mirrors had c...

Hey everyone! It's been another great week here in Arkansas👍 Although, its kinda creepy out when they test the tornado sirens every week. They're super loud & they make me feel like a character in a horror movie, like A Quiet Place or something (... which is a horrible movie btw). I think tornado season is coming up soon too, so that's cool.  We reached our goal of finding three new people this week! One of them is a student named Alex. He came & started talking to us at our booth on campus. He was super interested & wants to come to our bible study we do on Wednesday nights. It was also really cute & funny when he said, "My best friend is mormon. He's on one of those trips where you give up your phone for two years"...while Sister Miller was handing him her phone to put his number in. Good times. We still volunteer at the animal shelter for 10 hours a week & I love it! This week, we helped give a few of the dogs a bath. One o...

Hey y'all! What a week this has been. Sister Miller and I always think we're in for a short week after every long one, but that never seems to happen for us😂 So this week was long, but it was so so good! I'm halfway done training (woot woot!), so we had 6 week training on Tuesday. It's just an all day meeting for trainers and greenies run by President and Sister Strong. I got to see some of my MTC fam! Missed the rest of you in Arizona and Colorado!! 💓 Okay, get ready for this! It was probably the best part of my week. Elder Dike is our zone leader. He's serving in the YSA ward with us too. Sister Miller and I pran ked him by stealing his name tag and putting it in jello😏 That's right, just like Jim from The Office. I'd actually been planning to do it for weeks before, but I was finally able to snatch his nametag off his coat while he was in another room teaching a lesson. I could not have been more excited to present it to him at district coun...