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Hello my most wonderful family! How are you all? It sounds like you are all just pluggin’ along doing great 🙂
Mom:
Oh! I did know that Al Fox got married, I am so happy for she. She is adorable.
SIX MONTHS?? You. are. kidding. Just kidding I knew it was! But really it amazes me how fast time flies by. But then at the same time it feels like I have been here for a long time in learning and growing sense! It’s going by too fast 🙁 It scares me. Sometimes I just feel really sad when I think about leaving.. Especially where I am now. This place. Awwwww… My heart belongs here.
SO.
This week and month I have been thinking about all of the things that I am so grateful for. I am going to make a list this week of all the blessings I have.
Scripture(s) of the week: Alma chapter 32. I have been ever so grateful for this chapter. It talks so much about Faith and Humility and really those two go hand in hand together.
Don’t forget to tell Tasha Bear that I love her so much.
That story from Matt Hales sounds great! I am sure he did great 🙂
Church was awesome. Matt Hales gave an excellent talk. He told a story from his mission. He said that he and his companion were walking down the road on the way to an appointment. They passed a woman walking and pushing a stroller. Matt felt like they should talk to her. They talked to her and got an address from her so they could visit her later. Then Matt got transferred. He found out later that the address was not her address, but when the elders went to the door the lady who answered the door said that she had been praying for the missionaries to come. Wow!!! She was baptized. Great story.
The past couple of days I have been reading through my journal at entries from a while back. It is amazing to see the miracles that have happened and the struggles and joys that I have been through. I am so grateful to be a missionary. I have been learning a lot. Even learning how to be a better mother when I am one. Learning to love even when it is really hard. Which blows me away because I usually can love people so freely. I always remember what you said growing up, “the ones who are hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” That has blessed me out here a lot. I am so grateful that I get to be humbled very often it helps my faith to grow. I am grateful for the people here. They are my family and heart belongs to them. I’ve laughed with them, I’ve cried with them and they are such a strength to me. I am so glad to be where I am. I know this is where I am supposed to be and it is wonderful 🙂
We have been doing tons of service lately and are finding wonderful teaching opportunities through that.
Funny Story: SO we were in Gospel Principles (the investigator and RCLA (Recent convert and less active) class) and we were learning about the WOW (Word of Wisdom) and somebody was talking about cooking birds (meat) and they made a cheesey joke about taking the feathers off before you eat it. Everyone just kinda laughed forcedly… BUT Sister W. thought it was the funniest thing in the world. She laughed and laughed(she has the cutest laugh) so she just keeps laughing. Next thing ya know we are all laughing just because she was, so the whole class just like erupted in laughter. It was hysterical. (I am not sure if this was “you had to be there moment”) But it was so funny… Hahahaha
Anyway M., she is struggling bad with her cancer. It is so sad. We had a lesson with her this week on the floor because she was in a lot of pain and we all just cried….The Elders came over and gave her blessing. It was a great experience. I love she bad. I hope everything will be ok for her.
anyway I love you mama! Have a great week. Stay excellent.
Daddy: I am glad to hear you fun with Grandmother on Sunday 🙂 Is everybody getting a dog while I am gone?? I am sorry that you will miss the Thanksgiving party! You and me both 😉 I love you Pops! Keep hanging in there. How is Murph? (Emily’s car Brett is driving)
News for this week: We are doing a Thanksgiving lunch with all of the missionaries today!
Sister H. started driving today!
I have read the BOM (Book of Mormon) two times through on my mission 🙂
We met some really nice people this week.
I tried a fig, it’s like a baby banana.
Ammm….. I think that’s all for this week! I love every single one of you a ton! Have you been getting my letts and stuff??
The Church is true!
Love, Sister Emily 🙂