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Sister Lee-Lo made daisy-chains for my birthday.(:
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So this week in my personal study, I came across a scripture
in Ether 12 that talks about how it was the faith of Ammon and later Nephi and
Lehi that caused such a great change to come upon the Lamanites. This really
got me thinking..because as missionaries, I think we often underrate the
importance of our own faith in the conversion of our investigators. I mean
obviously, their faith is so important - and ultimately, that's what it comes down
to - but I realized that their faith can be ignited by experiences that come
from OUR faith. This was a major revelation for me, and it made me realize how
much I need to strengthen my own faith. I studied it and really worked on
building my own faith in the converting power of the gospel, and it makes SUCH
a difference in our lessons. It's incredible.
Right after I had the revelation, we had a lesson this week
with a woman named L----- that has cancer. It was Soooo good. The spirit was so
strong; she was crying and everything. Sister Lee-lo is an amazing teacher and
so good at connecting with people. It was so cool because I could see how the
quality of the lesson was so directly correlated with my own faith...it
happened again later, with a woman named J------. So cool. Being a missionary
is the bomb dot com.
No I'm not gluten sensitive..I didn't eat gluten for a week
and it made no difference. But I did find out what it is. It's sugar. We ate
super healthy for a week - we didn't even really try to cut out sugar, it just
sort of happened because we didn't have any - and then one day we ate cookies
and ice cream. I swear, I FELT the sugar hit my brain. It gave me such a head
ache. So that's what it is. Sugar gives me headaches. What is that supposed to
mean? Is sugar intolerance even a thing? All I know is that should all the
elements combine to hedge up the way, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open
the mouth wide after me, nothing, NOTHING, is going to stop me from eating my
krispie kreme donuts.
Alright so this was a wonderful week... but there was one
tiny litttle small bad thing that happened. You know how I sometimes lose
things? Or actually how my stuff sometimes runs away? Well yes, that happened.
We all knew it was only a matter of time before I lost something important.
Well..... I lost my camera card. Yep. The one with all of my MTC,
Tennessee Nashville Mission, and all other mission pictures up till two days
ago on it. Definitely save the ones I sent you, because that is officially
all there is. I don't even know what happened! It was in my bag, and then it
just wasn't. It must have fallen out while we were gallivanting around
Busselton converting people. Come on we all knew something like this was bound
to happen eventually....it could be worse. There's way worse things to lose. I
could have lost a limb....or my self-worth....or my exaltation....well I still
have all those, just not my camera card. I think that the curse that was placed
on the land of the Nephites and the Lamanites and the Jaredites was also accidentally
put on me, because all things are slippery unto me. I lay a tool here and on
the morrow it is gone....my camera cards are taken from me in the day I have
sought them for pictures. Ha ha ha I shouldn't joke about it, it's not
funny...except it kind of is. I'd rather make it a joke than a tragedy.
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These pictures are ones that Sister Lee-lo got off my camera
card just before I lost it.
P-Day!
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Alright well I love all of you, my world-traveling parents
and my little munchkin siblings. Don't forget to write me long beautiful
letters and stuff! You can even send me a package, I won't even be mad.
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