I took way too many photos

I have way too little time. So I'm sorry that this email is brief and that I didn't reply to most

of your emails. I STILL LOVE YOU I PROMISE.

So. 

Tuesday: We had zone conference and just let me tell you how much I absolutely adore President 

and Sister Miles. 

.......

I adore them. 

They're just the sweetest, funniest, most loving and caring people ever. Besides my own parents. Plus, 

President always makes fun of the elders and it's great. Everything they had to say at zone conference

 was so inspired. And full of love for us. And they just rock. I wish I could send you all the notes I took 

but you probably wouldn't be able to read my chicken scratch and I'm sure you'd be bored. But I enjoyed it.

 I also got to see some of the elders I served around in Airdrie and it was like a little Airdrie reunion. 

Pronounced Air-dree, for my mother(;

Wednesday: We went on exchanges with the STL's and I went to Banff with Sister Blaser. The sister 

that trained her trained me, so we always have lots to talk about(; All good things, Momma Layton, 

all good things haha. Banff is really pretty. I love it there. It'd be rough to serve there because I

'd probably just stare at the mountains all day long and forget that I'm actually supposed to do 

missionary

 work lol. We had a blast together. We tried to do family history but we had no clue what we were doing,

 so I just stared at my tree at the part where 

it says 

"Add Husband" and then looked at 

ancestors' names trying to decide what

 I wanted to name my kids. 

Real effective, I know. I also saw deer like right 

next to 

our car just walking around someone's front 

yard.

 I've seen deer before, I grew up in hick town 

Missourah 

where they're constantly hanging from people's 

trees in their front yard, but never alive and this 

close! So, I

 squealed. A lot. 

Thursday: We visited this old lady (I'm still in Banff

 at this point) and she was just the sweetest thing

 ever. I had to get a photo. We went 

to a retirement center and provided 

entertainment for the dimensia unit. But they

 kept running away from us. So.... Yeah. 

That happened. We drove back to 

Calgary and exchanged back and then Sister Sears 

and I had a lesson with Ryan. When we first got to the 

institute building for our lesson, we ran into Jacob,

 Nutella mustache guy, and they knew each other 

from high school! So Jacob joined our lesson and 

was able to answer a ton of Ryan's questions. 

Definitely divine intervention, because Jacob was 

about to leave as we were getting there and neither

 Sister Sears or I had answers to anything he wanted 

to know. #GodIsGood. 

Friday: We weekly planned. Forever. It's normally on Thursdays, but we were on exchanges, so we had to 

make it up. But we were able to attend a fireside about race and the priesthood and it was super informative! 

The guy who spoke on it was really educated in that kind of stuff and he talked a lot about how in the

 scriptures, the whole "skin of blackenss" and curses and whatnot is metaphorical for the most part and how 

God loves ALL of His children, regardless of their race. I thought that was pretty neat. 

Saturday: We went to Cochrane for the elders' baptism they asked us to teach at. During the break when the

 family was getting changed into dry clothing, Sister Sears and I taught a brief lesson of the Restoration and 

we showed the new #Hallelujah video. It's so neat how much power that message has. Christ lives! The video 

is pretty neat too, I'd encourage you all to watch it(: We then took some photos because Cochrane is pretty 

and you can see the mountains. But not from my cheap Canon. Sorry about that. We went back to Calgary 

and did service at a community garden, we helped lay mulch with a guy named John, who reminds me of the 

moose off of Brother Bear. He said "eh" about 132 billion times. True Canadian. One of our members works at 

a pizza place, so he bought us pizza for supper and it was so good, I literally almost cried. So good. So. So. 

Good. Mmm. Whoever said the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

 didn't know me. (;

Sunday: We did the usual church meetings and such, but the really exciting

 thing was that Scott passed the sacrament for the first time! It was so neat to 

watch that. What a 

guy. He and Kelsey are both attending the family history class to learn how to 

find names they can take to the temple. Which brings me to my next cool 

story. We had supper with Kelsey and her parents

 at the Cuckow's house. Brother Cuckow is a family history freak. But it works 

for my benefit because he helped me find TWO NAMES to take to the temple!!!!

 I was so excited,

 I squealed, for like, ever. Ah. So cool. Family history is awesome. We also went to a YSA

 fireside that evening and

 Sister Tilley was there. At our 1 month mark, we took a photo together. So in honor of our 1 year

 mark on Friday, we had to 

take another photo together. 

And that's my week! Love you all! Thanks so much for the love and support(: It really does mean a lot. I love it 

when you

 send photos and videos and whatever else is going on in your lives. It rocks to remember what you all look

 like(; 

<3 Sister Pipkin 

Ok, really fast, I have to explain all these photos now

, cuz I forgot to do that.

1) bro. Cuckow and I with the names I found. 

Imagine lots of squealing. 

2) Sister Tilley and I. 1 year! Woo hoo!

3, 4, 5) Cochrane!

6) Sister Blaser and I... our old people left us. 

7) Sister Blaser and I again ft. the mountains that

 are kind of hidden by the fog 

8) Sister Blaser and I AGAIN in a really cute little 

bagelry because om nom nom 

Sister Peyto and I