Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Holy Cow! Can you believe it?! I'm
getting super amped about going to DC and still dreading the heat wave! haha,
you'd think I'm not from a desert climate but I am.
So this week was pretty great! My district got to host for the first time
and it was awesome! That's when the Elders tear the new missionaries away from
their parents (okay nicely escort them to their buildings) and with the sister
missionaries we take them to get their name badges, drop of their luggage, get
all their learning books, then drop them off to meet their district (oh - a
district in the MTC is the class you learn with for how ever many weeks your
here - doesn't change because you are all at the same pace and they don't switch
that up.) OH - and we get to host again tomorrow!! SO COOL! and next week the
Temple is closed for cleaning and we get to help clean it - can I just tell you
that things are awesome! I love service! I challenge you to do some service for
someone - anyone...Just do a little something to help someone out. Any service
done with happiness and love it your heart is a blessing and an act of love.
COOLEST THING - Mission Presidents Seminar is this week and General
Authorities get to come to campus (we never see them) and talk to the new
mission presidents and their wives that go out this year. They are here from
last Saturday til tomorrow I think (and mission presidents get switched out
every three years if im correct so about a 1/3 of the worlds mission presidents
are switched out every year).
SO that's whats been happening. I've been work on taking less quotes and
writing more notes (haha- im a poet :D) so that i can actually remember what i'm
writing down. The Spanish is slow and so is the reading but I'm learing and
growing through the help of the Spirit which is SOOO Crucial to have in this
work. If I learn by the Spirit, I can teach by the Spirit and really let him
guide the lesson not my companion or me. So I'm working on it, and I don't think
I will ever be perfect at it but I can still try and do eveything I can to have
it with me.
NOTES of Awesomeness that I know you all want to hear:
-Daddy: how was California? Have a blast? Mom said that Hazel's son past
away - if you are still please give her a big hug for me! I love her! and I know
her son will see her again.
-B-man: Hows that hair of yours? mom sent me a picture and you look like a
stud - Taylor Lautner status all the way! But I always knew that ;D you still
rocking those V-necks?? well you should. Oh and I have a challenge for you to
doing over your vacation - get a Preach My Gospel and start reading it - study
the words on the page and go study the scriptures it gives you. If there is one
this I wish I had done before the mission it's that (because I'm still lacking
time to do it here) - it is an amazing resource and I can't wait to use it more.
Plus - it will increase your testimony and knowledge of the Savior and the
Atonement and help you to have the Spirit with you and that will help you at
every point it you life!
-Kylan (erika can you make sure he sees this please): What is the world are
you up to my dear friend?? I need a letter from you telling me about all your
great adventures? Oh - i have an adventure to tell you about. So this past
Saturday we were allowed to watch "The Other Side of Heaven" and I was
overwhelmed with awesome missionary thoughts - I think I wrote more thoughts
down then I stared at the movie but it was great and I hope you still think it's
awesome! Thanks for opening my eyes to the wonderful quotes in that movie :D
You're awesome and I miss you friend!
-MY PARENTS = = = = HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! Did you like the Monkeys on that
card?! haha - i thought I was pretty clever for only having a few choices. But
seriously - i love you both and am so grateful for you in my life! Thank you for
always being such wonderful examples to me and letting me make my own decisions
and always being there when I needed help! you are both amazing and I'm blessed
to have you as my parents :D
Well thats about all i have. On Sunday
we sang "We'll Bring the World His Truth" and it was so super awesome because
the words were changed from "we will be the Lord's missionaries" to "we ARE the
Lords missionaries" - pretty cool when something you've sung about your who life
was a dream you never knew you had. It's pretty cool to see how you've changed
and how far you've come. I know I've gotten to where I am because of a decision
my parents my many years ago and am so very very grateful for them and their
trust in the Lord. Missionaries brought them the truth and that is what I'm
doing. I'm sharing God's love for all of His children - that's you! That is
everyone on this Earth! and i'm grateful to have the oppourtunity to share the
gift that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This work is true and I may get
discouraged at times it is still what I want to do and need to do!
Well i Love you all and will talk to you next week!
Te Amo!
-Hermana Word (2)
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