July 8, 2013
Hey family :)
Yes, I consider all of you my family, because you are so
great! :) I hate not having too much time to email. I want to read and re-read
your emails over again! And reply to each of you individually! But just know that
I pray for you every night and I love you all so much!
It was a pretty good week. Amazingly, we reached our weekly
goals, even with only 4 hours of working per day! But we are still having a
hard time getting members to lessons with us, which is very important :( I have
been learning something perfect for me over the past week. I've been reading in
Mosiah (Abinadi has always been my favorite:), and the Lamanites and Nephites
are fighting, of course. Anyway, it talks about how the Nephites fought their
battles in the strength of the Lord, and the Lamanites depended on their own
strength. And guess who won? It was perfect for me, and anyone who is just
going through trials! I have been depending on my own strength to get me
through my "battles," rather than using the strength of the Lord and
of the Atonement. I read in Preach My Gospel just the next day after that that
we need to have confidence/faith in God first, then in ourselves. In other
words, rely on the Spirit more than our own talent/ability. So those kind of
went together :) I have the spiritual thought at district meeting tomorrow, so
I am excited to share that :)
Let's see.. Last Monday the Sherwoods came and kept us
company at our apartment, and Elder Sherwood had rescued a baby turtle off the
road and brought it to cheer us up! :) It sure did! :) I named it Taffy. And we
let it go in our backyard pond. You will see pictures; I am sending them today
on my flashdrive!
We had exchanges this week. So one of the Sister Training
Leaders came here, and I got to work for a full day!!! :) Yes, it was very
exciting!! :) Our dinner appointment fell through so I made zuchinni and summer
squash and egg burritos. Dad, that made me miss you a lot because you always
made that :( Squash is like the one fruit/veggie that is better in Utah than in
Florida by the way! :)
The 4th of July was awesome! We had Zone Training Meeting
(ZTM), and it was so good. I felt the spirit so much as we learned about having
a positive attitude, being obedient, and working with members and the ward
council. Sometimes our ward council meetings drive me insane, but I just keep
praying for them and for the ward! After ZTM we got to meet our new mission
president!! :) He and Sister Berry came to our apartment to check up on us and the
situation! And not many people have got to meet them yet! They are super
personable and approachable. Very nice, and missing their families :( but we
are excited to have them! :) We are still playing Sister Salvesen's injury by ear.
We have a follow up appointment on Thursday to see what the deal is. She says
she feels like it's not getting any better, and she's worried they will send
her home :( I told her just to not worry about it and we will cross that bridge
when we get to it. (Comstock always says that, and I have picked it up:) I hope
she doesn't get sent home. That would be terrible. We are like rocking it here
in Titusville/Cocoa! Anyway, after we met them, we got to go to the Sherwoods
and have Navajo tacos with all of the senior couples in the mission! Also a
huge privilege! We got to do the lesson as well, which was very nerve-wracking
because President and Sister Berry were there!! Yeah! Ask me!! But everyone
said we did an amazing job. Even President was like, "if I didn't know
better, i would have thought you two had been out a year or more!" Heck
yeah :)
Grace got confirmed yesterday! Super neat. And Steve. Oh
Steve. Sometimes I could just kick him right in the butt!! At the first of the
week he was doing so great! Said that he felt different and thought different.
He was praying and reading everyday! He gave us each a tank top from hawaii in
exchange for us helping him get eternal life! Then of course the holiday had to
come. Then he went MIA. Then we finally got to see him yesterday. And I pretty
much ripped his head off. Haha not really, but you know me! I have no tolerance
for word of wisdom breaking!! ;) Anyway, I appreciate you all praying for him,
please keep it up! He needs it! He wants to get baptized this month, so we are
working hard! :)
I might have talked about Michael, the guy who we helped
move into our apartments and he brought his family to the BBQ? Well he came to
church yesterday! And he loved it! He is so so appreciative of our
friendliness, and is going to let us teach him! :) Pretty sure he will be
baptized pretty quick. He really needs the help of the gospel right now. His
divorce is really hard on him. But he really felt the spirit in sacrament
meeting yesterday. The testimonies shared were so good! You always worry as a
missionary because you don't want anything crazy to be said with investigators
there! So I just pray hard and count on the spirit to take care of the rest!
:)
You might be wondering about me? Well, I am fine! Pretty
bi-polar (like Toni) haha ;) Some days I'm great, others I'm not. But, like
I've said a million times, I am learning to depend on the Lord, and trust in
His will and His timing. I am also counting my blessings, because we have been
truly blessed, and it helps to remember that! I hope everyone has a great week!
And I hope you are dealing with the heat well! I will pray for some of our rain
here to go over there! It's only been about mid-90's here and humid as ever. I
decided i'm going to buy a blender so I can have smoothies. :)
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