Maybe It's Emily

I found out about a book that explains how I feel about this subject: I seriously hate dating. Something that has been a blessing to me is the counsel from Pres.Uchtdorf that he gave in a CES fireside in November of 2009: "I know this may be a disappointment for some of you, but I don’t believe there is only one right person for you. I think I fell in love with my wife, Harriet, from the first moment I saw her. Nevertheless, had she decided to marry someone else, I believe I would have met and fallen in love with someone else. I am eternally grateful that this didn’t happen, but I don’t believe she was my one chance at happiness in this life, nor was I hers." Dating and finding my eternal companion is all my choice! Nobody controls this part of my life except for me . "There are those who do not marry because they feel a lack of “magic” in the relationship. By “magic” I assume they mean sparks of attraction. Falling in love is a wonderful feel

When returned missionaries say that there should be an RMTC, they're not kidding. At least make a support group or something! At first coming back home wasn't too bad. I was doing really well actually! But the more I'm home the harder it is. I think I actually got depressed yesterday. I hate being depressed . The anxiety of not knowing what's going on in my life or where she's going has been getting to me. I've heard that when you get home you don't feel like doing anything anymore. Like all the stuff you used to love to do doesn't really entice you anymore. I used to love books and movies; I loved to learn and go to school. But the desire hasn't been there since I've been home. I don't feel like doing any of that stuff. But I also hear say that you kind of have to get in your mind what you like and what goals you want in your life and push yourself (aka force yourself) to do it. Because it's not easy. It's not easy coming from a very

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. -Jane Austen I love how every woman I know loves Jane Austen. We can all relate to one character or another. I can relate to Emma. I'm not a matchmaker, I'm not rich, but I can relate to the fact that I'm young and live in my own ideal world. I'm okay with that. Although I love Emma, I do not appreciate that Jane Austen was not writing about a character in her head, but about me! In Emma, Emma takes young Harriet under her wing to help educate her and set her up with a smart match. Emma vigorously takes up this challenge until Harriet falls for Mr.Knightly, who Emma has unknowingly loved. And then Emma goes through the torture of wondering if she has lost Mr.Knightly forever. Now change Emma for Emily. I'm dead serious. This is happening to me. Add a bit of Elinor from Sense and Sensibility. I've meet a guy. Wonderful. He's great.

I'm home! Just to let you know... 1. I will call you! 2. I made a new blog for spanish speakers wanting to know more about the gospel. Refer whoever you want! 3. I'm doing alright. Thanks for all your support and prayers; I have felt them! 4. I love you! Besitos y abrazos, Emily

Emily called about 6:45 a.m. to let us know she was in Dallas. So it looks like she will be in SLC at the scheduled time. Airline: AMERICAN AIRLINES AA604 Leaving date: 17 JUNFrom: DALLAS TX at 12:05 p.m. Arriving: SALT LAKE C, UT at 1:40 p.m. Gate A3 I know there will be lots of missionaries coming home from Argentina. So we may be hard to find.

Emily wrote that they were leaving early this morning. She neglected to tell where she was going and how. But we will assume that they made it to Santiago. The flight was on time into Dallas at 6:11 a.m. on Friday, June 17th. (as of 11:30 p.m.) Anticipated time of arrival in Salt Lake City is expected to remain the same. I will check first thing in the morning to see if she sent out any messages when she lands. We will call the travel department to make sure that the missionaries made it onto this flight.

Emily sent an email saying that they would not be leaving until Saturday and coming in late Sunday. But an hour later we received her new itinerary. Parts of this letter are below: The missionaries will be traveling to Santiago Chile tomorrow (Thursday) and they will travel from Santiago to the United States. This is the new itinerary. Airline: AMERICAN AIRLINES AA940 Leaving date: 16 JUN From: SANTIAGO, Chile at 8:50 p.m. Arriving: DALLAS TX at 6:05 a.m. Airline: AMERICAN AIRLINES AA604 Leaving date: 17 JUN From: DALLAS TX at 12:05 p.m. Arriving: SALT LAKE C, UT at 1:40 p.m. We think they are sending them by bus to Santiago. I am curious about the volcano ash in Santiago, but they seem to think they can do it. If you are thinking about coming to the airport, please check here to make sure she has made it out of Santiago on Thursday night. At that point, she is on her way home and it should be okay. I will make sure to post it as soon as American Airlines verifies that the flig

Yes, you read that right. Emily's flight has been delayed by a volcano. Let me explain. Last week, a volcano in Chile erupted spewing tons of ash in the air. The ash has reached Buenos Aires and is making it difficult for planes to take off. She is in a hotel in Buenos Aires with other missionaries on their ways home. She will call me as soon as she knows when she is flying out. We are all bummed. Anyone who still wants to come to the airport, please call me at 208-705-6090 and I will put you on the call list. Marilyn Georgeson (Emily's Mom)

Anyone desiring to come greet Emily when she comes home, here is the itinerary of her flight into Salt Lake. Date: 15 June 2011 Airlines: AMERICAN AIRLINES, Flight AA 2529, Terminal 1 Leaving DALLAS TX at 300 P Arriving SALT LAKE CITY UT at 440 P Please look for our family and join with us to make her homecoming a big one.

THIS WEEK WE HAVE A MIRACLE BAPTISM!!! And we're excited. He's been a tough cookie. He's the husband of an ex-missionary and has been investigating for the past twelve years, and now he feels is the time to put his family together. That's his main reason. He's a good husband and father, and wants that family unity, and that's a big push for him. He will get his confirmation as he works and learns in the gospel. His son just turned 14, so we think that his son will be able to baptize him. BUT his family still doesn't know! That's okay, a sweet little surprise for his family on Saturday. This weekend is stake conference. We're getting a special satellite broadcast from Salt Lake. A baptism for stake conference. A baptism for my last week. That makes my little heart sing. We've been working more and more with members this past week. We had 13 lessons with members, when we struggle to get 7! We're involving members more and more and we've bee

Dear Family Georgeson Your daughter, Sister Emily Rose Georgeson, will complete her missionary assignment in the Argentina Neuquén Mission on June 14, 2011. We have greatly enjoyed having Sister Georgeson in our mission and appreciate more than you will ever know your willingness to share her with us and with the wonderful people of the Patagonia. Sister Georgeson has served a most successful mission as an obedient, caring missionary. You can be justly proud of her and her accomplishments. She is returning home with a strong testimony of the Savior and the spiritual strength that comes from having served Him faithfully. We feel confident she will continue a life of activity in the Church. We encourage you to give her ample opportunity to share her testimony and missionary experiences. Please recognize that adjustment is a difficult process for all returned missionaries and Sister Georgeson will need your continued love, support and understanding. Give her encouragement in making so

Get to feeling better! I won't let you get me sick :) Really. I'm sorry that you had to miss Barrett's graduation. But at least I'm not alone in missing out on everything. Did Barrett's graduating class do anything fun for graduation? I got my super trunky papers today. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! No gracias! Hna. Bundy says that the MTC is for the new missionaries to de-worldatize themselves. There should be something like that for returning missionaries. Between the freak out of finishing and having to sign up for classes at BYU-I, I'm starting to hate my internet time. I tried signing up for classes but it won't let me. I want to say ENOUGH! Trust the Lord shall be my motto, because it's totally out of my hands now. Okay. This week has been kind of a shocker. One of my converts, who everyone thought was doing really well stopped coming to church and began going to her old church. I have to call her because I haven't seen her in a long while.

Brother and Sister Georgeson, I just wanted to send a quick note and tell you how much we love Hermana Georgeson. She is so positive and so kind to everyone. She is such a wonderful missionary and has served so faithfully and with all her heart. Her beautiful singing voice has invited the spirit to be with us in many zone conferences as she has shared her wonderful talent. It will be hard to see her leave in a few weeks but we know that she is going to continue to be a missionary throughout her life. Thank you for teaching her so well. Love, Hermana Peterson

Here is a picture of our zone. I am in the front row next to Sister Bundy. Next comes the Mission President and his wife.

¡WOW MOM! I love saying that because if you print this out and flip the page upside down, it says the same thing! How cool and ingenious is that! Pero en serio! Crazy stuff! Sweet laptops, hijacked Internet stuffs, your bebito growing up, your other bebito apparently growing younger. The world has gone upside down crazy just like my ¡WOW MOM! Whoa. I hope you feel better, you must take care of yourself- drink water, drink tea, drink air, whatever you can get your hands on! I keep thinking that you're all in winter because it's turned freakishly cold here, but alas, these are summer bugs. Here you bundle yourself up more and drink tea. Mmm, tea... Don't contaminate! :) How's Papito doing? I haven't heard from him in a little while. I imagine it's crazy with Barrett graduating. Scream extra loud for me!!! This week has been fairly calm. It's gotten a lot colder. It snowed a little bit. Now that it's colder the snow isn't melting in the hills round abou

NOW I get the message from Janelle :) Just kidding! Let her know I think about her too and I loooove her! Kristin is married!!!!!!!!! Rhawnie is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Por qué el mundo sigue tan rápido???? Ré loco!!! Anyway, zone conference yesterday! Bittersweet because it's my last! But it was great. We listened to the talk from Elder Oaks about desires, because in reality, everything has to do with our desires. It blows my mind away! The thing that I loved the most was when president showed a talk given by Elder Holland in the MTC in January this year. It made all of us think. It stirs up tiernos sentimientos upon thinking about this moment. I must say it again, I loooove being companions with Hna. Bundy. Ella es un pan de Dios! Really, she's a sweetheart, a hard worker, and a motivated missionary. She has patience and confidence in me. She's helped me a lot in these two short weeks. I know that Alto 1 will be in good hands when I go. She never

Anyway, I don't have an accent? That's cool. I've got a talent for accents, so it makes sense that I haven't developed one. I haven't spoken English at all for the past 3 months, and I'm going to end that way. My companion and I are both from the U.S. but we're going to be speaking Spanish the entire time until I go. I promise, I'm speaking Spanish the entire time! I didn't get to tell anyone, but the other day a man we were talking to asked us our names, and Hna. Bundy said hers, and I said mine, and he said "She's from here, you can hear it in her voice." And then asking Hna. Bundy, "Where are you from?" TRIUMPH!!! Hna. Bundy is amazing. She's great. She works in a way that I never have in my mission, and we're seeing so much more success. At times I find it demotivating the lack of progress the ward has made since I've been here. It really bums me out. But Hna. Bundy told me that her goal is to help me see the f

Letter dated May 2nd: Tomorrow is Día de Bariloche and yesterday was Día del Trabajador (like Labor day). Feriados all over the place! First things first. I'm sorry for not writing last week. I was so caught up in trying to leave instructions for registration that I wasted all my time. I got permission today from president to do registration, so I'll go ahead and do it at a later time. Once again I'm really sorry, it was a lack of responsibility and care on my part. Also Mother's day is the 8th so I can call home! I will be calling around the same time that I called last year so be aware! It'll be about 20:00 here, so I think that it would be about 17:00 there. Fa, I think. Wait - that's this Sunday! WOW MOM! Thirdly, today is transfers. I was not transferred. I get the immense pleasure of staying in Barioche 'till the end. But sadly Hna. Sancé is being sent to Neuquén. Mi refuerza me deja! She's leaving me! I'm really excited because she gets to pro

Letter dated April 18th: I'm not going to lie, everything about today has been a surprise! BARRETT WENT TO PROM! AND I MISSED IT!!!! He's like my young little adult! I freaked out and showed the pictures to my companion. By the way, what's a smartphone? The article about the sister from Puerto Madryn (April Ensign) is from another ward over there. I never knew her, but that's so cool!!! I'm kind of freaking out about everything. Don't make me trunky!!! ;) First thing, DON'T GIVE ME MORE MONEY. I'll be spending the least amount possible. I don't want to take out a loan. I would much rather do any menial labor to earn money, or even just do online classes before taking out a loan. Please tell Daddy to please do my registration quick. If needs be, please make Barrett do it. Or Adam. If we wait I will not be able to get into the classes that I need to. He he, don't tell Elder Chivers, but my Hna. Smith would be perfect for him. She's about the sa

I got the itinerary for Emily's return flight. She will be home on June 15th. We pick her up at the SALT LAKE CITY airport at 4:45 p.m. Anyone can come to welcome her home. I'm sure she'll love it. We have room for one person if you can't make it all the way to Salt Lake.

That's the amount of pesos I paid to send all my and my companions letters. I've been holding off on sending off letters, and now I literally have to pay. Haha! Before I forget, Mamma, soon BYUI will be sending a registration packet so that I can sign up for classes. When I left there was that big blue plastic document holder. In there you should find a syllabus-plan type of thing. The classes I need to take. There are some classes a little out of order, but basically it should let you know what classes I need to take in Fall 2011. Please sign me up as soon as you get the packet! If you need help I'm sure you can call the school. Or maybe you can even ask Barrett :) That brings me to another topic. Work. I've been thinking about what Daddy proposed to me before leaving that maybe I could live with... Oh my gosh, I can't believe I've forgotten their names! The ones that went on a mission a few years ago, that live in American Fork. That maybe I could live with th

Oh my gosh!!! For several reasons. A) How are you keeping in touch with Luis? B) Ada was pregnant? C) She's with a guy named Lamborghini? D) WAR! E) Radiation! F) Tsunami! G) I don't have any time to write! My fault, I was typing up something to help us find more people to teach- lists of acquaintances (I don't know how to spell that) and friends of members to help them invite others. He he. The CD playing in the mall is skipping. Anyway, I wasted all of my time for the Lord's work. How's Kristin doing? Has she gotten married yet? Don't worry about the trunky papers, I filled it out myself. I had to do it because I don't want to be enemies with the mission secretary :) Nah, he wouldn't hate me, but I don't want to take my chances with anything. Short story. We were to have a baptism last Saturday. Fam emergency had to leave town. Don't know when will return. Boo hoo. Helped R.S. with activity for anniversary. Now we have lots of sweets and left o

OH MY GOSH I did not even know anything about Libya! I heard something a couple weeks ago about something in Egypt, but this is insane! People ask us (me) if we (I) know what's going on in the world (with the US). And I had no idea! I was in the house of one of my converts the day of the earthquake and her TV was on when we came. I still can't believe the destruction. It's like those apocalyptic movies like Dante's Peak and Volcano. I can't believe it. My eyes deceive me. Yes, we are in the last days! Everybody cites a scripture that I still don't know where it is, but that in the last days the times goes by faster and I believe it! We start transfers today again, and I'm still here with my refuerza Hna. Sancé. This transfer and one more. I can't believe how much time has gone by. The last days indeed. I believe it. Let it be a warning that we really do have to prepare ourselves spiritually, for it's true. Following the prophet means so much more now

(Okay, this one is late too! Sorry.) I can't believe that they dissolved the branch! (They didn't.) Wow! The boys should drive out to Pocatello one Sunday and see how it is, just for kicks! I can't believe it! But maybe when I come back I'll have a calling in Primary or Young Women's just like every other sister here! :) Whoa. I really wish I could tell you that a bunch of stuff is going on, but now that I think about it, a bunch of stuff has been going on! We now are preparing two to be baptized! Andrés this Saturday, and Juana the Saturday after. Juana has been a roller coaster. The first visit we invited her to be baptized, and she said for right now, no. And then we challenged her again the second visit, and she said yes! We were so happy! And then she went to a baptism and said that she felt good. And then she went to church and she seemed to enjoy the classes and meetings, and the next day she said that baptism just isn't for her! Imagine our surprise! W

(This was sent March 7th. Sorry I'm late once again.) The situation with the ward... I didn't give my talk. A member from the High Council came so I didn't have to speak, but this upcoming Sunday they're going to give me a huge block of time. We have an investigator, Andrés, who really doesn't like the war chapters of the BoM. Every time we ask him about his reading he says "still no wars." But to be honest, I believe that he's not really reading to get something out of the BoM, because I've been in the war chapters this past week in my reading and I LOVE them! I feel like I have learned so much. This morning I read the epistle of Moroni to Pahoran, and it made me think a little about myself. I'm so willing to lay it into the members because from our point of view they're not doing anything- like lazy bums. But they have another point of view. Therefore there is something else going on here in the ward. It's not just that they're no

Alright, the pictures - Hna. Sancé, the day I went to go look for her in Neuquén (the elders aren't my zone leaders. The one next to Hna. Sancé is Elder Isidro from Peru. He was in my zone for a long time in Zapala [Which I found out means "swamp" in mapuche]), and Itziar's baptism. Hooray! This week has been really good. We've been working really hard and we made our numbers better. Not perfect, but better. We finally had ward council and we're going to be doing a marvelous work and a wonder with our members. They assigned me the talk the week after fast and testimony Sunday because they know that I'm going to tell the members exactly what's going on. It's not just us who feel it, but the bishopric too. They recognize that something is going on too. We (us and the ward leaders) have been having problems with ward participation in everything, and they know that Hna. Georgeson won't have any gaul letting them know what they're doing to rece

Well. This week has been difficult. We've been trying to work but I guess not hard enough. We got nothing moving forward in the work. Elder Aidukaitis focused on how us as a mission to see miracles, true conversion, and baptisms every week. He layed it into us good and hard. Which makes the results of this past week a lot harder to take. One good thing: Itziar was baptized! Itziar is Ayrton's little sister. Hooray! It was a crazy baptism. The brother who baptized is an ex-boxer, and I don't care what he says, he's got a little bit of damage on the brain. We wrote him the prayer so that he could memorize it, but it took him four times to get it right. The other Hermanos were getting a little frustrated. And we made him practice the movements of dunking her, but that came out kind of funny too. The most important part... She was baptized. Afterward I asked her how she felt. "Different. And clean!" And yesterday when she was confirmed I asked her the same questio

Hooray! Bueno , my companion and I are not going to get chocolates or flowers, but tomorrow marks my year of being outside of the U.S.. I've been in Argentina that long! Whoa!!!! I bet you're all wondering about my new companion. Hna . Sancé from Guatemala. I'm training a Latin ! It's because I'm so cool! (yeah, right (: ) And humble too. We've had a rocky few days, but we're hanging on, in some miraculous manner. She's sweet and quiet. And she's going to cook a food from Guatemala today that's called Creamed Chicken. Yum! I like it already! Ha ha , just kidding! This week we have zone conference with Elder Aidukaitis . In all seriousness, he's coming! I'm going to know all of the presidency from The South America Area. But the conference is going to be way different. He let it out on our zone leaders and rebuked them for their lack of faith, planning and goal making. He told them there's nothing in our way if we open our mouths and

Tell Adam thanks. That really means a lot to me. More so since I have felt something different these few days. A peace and calm. We have transfers today. Hna. Dennison is leaving and I'm training. When President first told me about two transfers ago I freaked out. I did not want to train! I'm so not cut out for the job! But with something that President told me in our interviews has helped me to change my point of view a lot. He said "The Lord wants you to know how much He trusts you." Although I'm still a little stressed out because I'm companionless until Thursday, I'm okay with training. I'm okay. I think that's a miracle. So tell Adam thank you. Don't worry, just because I'm okay doesn't mean I'll let my guard down and be a lazy trainer. I have no idea of who she is. If she's white, Latin, what her name is - I don't know. My district leader said that he doesn't know either, so I'll find out everything on Thursday

About the money, don´t be too worried, after the first year I've had to buy some things to replace... Shoes, my watch, my backpack... The watch was today. I just bought a new one because fixing my old one was so not worth it. Just watch - I'll come home with a whole new wardrobe! :) Just kidding. I don't want to spend all this money on silly stuff like that! Did you get the photos? (No I didn't.) I was so happy to find a computer that recognized my camera! Today is the last pday of the transfer, so my companion and I took a stroll around Bariloche, because who knows who will be transferred! This week has been record breaking. Hna. Dennison and I are decided that we are not going to tell anyone any more where we´re from. We get into too many macanas (or pickles I should say). Two people thought that we were spies this week. One wouldn't even tell us his name because he thought that we would send his information to Barak Obama. Silly little man. The next day he was li

Today has been a hectic pday. If you find money missing, it is because I went gift shopping! Mamma, you're the easiest one to buy for, I've gotten you way too much! Micah was the hardest. What I wanted for him nobody had, but I got him some other things that are pretty cool. One of a kind. I went to a couple artisan fairs here in Bariloche, and they've got my head spinning! I love the arts! I just have to kick myself out of it because in an hour and a half I have to work and I can't do that with art and shopping on the brain... I hate shopping! I want to get one more thing for Barrett, but what it will be, I don't know... Only Daddy and Adam I have left. I want to get them something one of a kind! But what that thing is, we're still searching... But today has been fun getting to know artisans from the area and all over. We met some guys from Peru and others from other parts of Argentina. The girl who did Barrett's gift is a woman from Rosario, other part of

We actually learned about fasting that same Sunday too, and the Relief Society President taught it very well- I was inspired! It was aimed directly at us from the Lord. We actually fast once a week, but we've been noticing that we've been getting lazy in our fasts. I reread the lesson this morning in my personal study, and I loved it! We were actually fasting this morning, and so reading what it says in Gospel Principles really helped me to take heart and fast with gladness! I loved reading that lesson. So that whole thing about the ward... The thing is in the MTC they make a big deal about not spending too much time with the members like bum elders and sisters, because many times it's a time waster and our purposes as missionaries are not fulfilled. We love the members but they just talk and talk and talk and don't let you breathe, so a 45 minute appointment turns into a 90 minute appointment, or even more! In my personal experience I've never really spent too much

I'm going to Villa de la Angostura tomorrow!!! Just kidding! But really, I am going there tomorrow. Our entire district is going to knock and do contacts the entire day to help the elders there. It's right next to Chile! Alright. This week has been challenging. We lost all of the investigators that we've had. Nobody really progressing, going on vacation, dropping us. It's been tough for my companion and I. We've been knocking doors all week and almost nobody let us in. That's been a big blow. BUT it has given me time to think about the service I'm rendering to the Lord right now. I've been realizing that my companion and I can do better at getting more contacts, or talking more to people, talking to more people, and saying more things of quality! Our Zone Leaders have a zone study programito for us to follow, and the first two days helped me to think about why I want to open my mouth more. I loved all of the scriptures they wanted us to read, but I espec