December 17, 2012
Well, almost. :) TOMORROW! SO NUTS! We
have transfers tomorrow and I just keep thinking of the Elders coming in and
thinking holy crap! That will be my brother super soon! HOW CRAZY! But I am so
excited for him! Seriously! (P.S. I decided to call Dave today so I won't take
time out of working time. So Davie
That is so cool to hear all went well
with the farewell. If I remember correctly, we overplanned food as
well. Gotta love planning for an unknown number.
I would include sentimental things here
for Dave, but I will just tell him today. HAHAHA! THAT IS SO COOL!
Speaking of transfers, I will be
beginning another fun journey tomorrow as I begin yet another transfer in
Resaca Pointe. :) You thought I was getting transferred there for a sec didn't
ya? :) Nope, I get to stay!!!!! Which is really fun! So this will be my 4th
transfer here. I have been here for almost 4 months now so after this transfer
it will be around 6. I think I am just destined to stay in my areas for a very
long time. But it works. Now I can't even imagine how people get things done in
one transfer in an area. But it's cool.
We are teaching some really fun people!
I love the people here! We have the biker, I don't remember what nickname I
gave him but it's probably something along those lines. He was supposed to get
baptized yesterday but had some minor hiccups so I think he will be getting baptized on the 30th. This year for sure! He knows this is what he wants, he just
has to get up the will power to give up some stuff. Which he can. (P.S. I
took his rubiks cube and Elder Cullen is going to teach me today how to do it.)
We also have a few families that
we are trying to help commit to be baptized. They are all WONDERFUL people and
I can already picture them as awesome members.
The Christmas Conference was
awesome. The song went AWESOME and Elder Browning recorded it so I will
have to show it to you in 4 months. :) He is going home with me. I had my
recorder but didn't think about it until after because I was just making
sure I didn't sing the wrong words. :) But everyone liked it so that is good.
There were some awesome harmony parts and because Sister Dudding and I are
both altos, there were parts where the Elders had to sing the higher part which
made it SUPER COOL! And we all wore black and white and gray so we looked
just classy! After that little Christmas program, we had a fun pinata
and gift exchange. I seriously love the Trayners and all that they do. They are
just the most amazing people ever! Then we watched this year’s DVD and it was
great! This year was cool because I actually knew the people. I will be
sending that home shortly with my Christmas card from the Trayners. On the
card is the picture of the whole mission. We're all pretty small, but it is
cool to have!
Other than those highlights, this week
was probably the hardest week of my mission so far but I am so grateful for the
opportunities that I had to learn and grow. I am so grateful that I learned how
to truly lean on the Savior for support because there are times on your mission
when He is all you have. I think so often that I can do it by myself
but there are times where I just can't. I can't do it on my own and I need to
lean on Him and he will succor me in my afflictions. I think that is
probably the greatest lesson I was able to learn this week that will help
me throughout the rest of my life.
Well, today Sister Ramirez and I are
going to go to Cavenders to smell the cowboy boots. I thought I would make up a
story about something crazy fun that we were going to do today but I realized
that smelling the amazing genuine leather of a cowboy boot is probably as fun
as it gets. :) Oh man, I am such a Texan....
O yes, Sister Ramirez is staying too.
:)
I love you all so much and I hope that
next week I will have more awesome things to tell you. I think that as time
goes on, my letters just get shorter and shorter because I get so use to all
these things that happen. I promise that I will be better though! LOVE YOU
ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
K
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