HELLO MI MUY BONITA
FAMILIA,
Thank you very very
very much for the wonderful emails and pep talks. I appreciate them so much.
Dad, great Eye of the Tiger talk. Probably your best one yet. In my scriptures
I have marked D&C 84:88 with your name. I read it often. And thank you mama
for your pep talk as well. Oh how I miss those. And you two. You have no
idea.
This week I have felt
a lot of appreciation for the priesthood. We talked about it a lot on Sunday
and I was just pondering about it, its this new thing I have to do as a
missionary lol, and I really, really, really gained this incredible appreciation
for the priesthood especially for the priesthood that you have dad. I think I
took your priesthood for granted, so I’m sorry. But I am really so grateful
that we have the priesthood in our home. It makes a difference. It really does.
Thank you dad. This weekend I will be receiving a priesthood blessing from an
elder in my district. I’m really excited. I LOVE priesthood blessings and I
have soooooo much faith in this blessing I’m about to get.
MOM I am so excited
that you get to meet with Christine!!! Hug her for me okay?!?! And I’m glad you
got on Ryan's email list too! That makes me very very happy. Thank you for
being involved in my friends lives. I really appreciate that.
I hope you are doing
okay mama. I have been praying for you a lot and Nana too. I hope you guys are
doing okay, I really do. When is Holly's funeral? Tell me all about it. And hug
nana B for me realllyyyyyy tight like she knows I would hug her if I were
there. We taught a lesson to a pretend investigator earlier this week about the
Plan of Salvation. Which by the way is a hard lesson to fit in only 20 minutes.
But we did it. Anyway, I talked about Holly. I was crying. lol. And I explained
that I know that me and my family will see her again. I really do know that to
be true and I am so grateful for the plan of Salvation.
Okay so socks. I
would like some crazy ones, some more conservative ones, and I need some more of
the weird little short ones. I don't know if I told you this yet but I got in
trouble for my socks hahahah. Apparently my socks cant show with my dress
clothes. But I can rock my sweet socks on p days and when I work out and when I
sleep. So I would like some more of those. Also, nail polish, purple and salmon
por favor. Whatever other cute colors you like.
I can’t believe I’m
done with the MTC. That is insane mom. I leave on Tuesday morning really,
really, really early. Like I think we leave the MTC at like three or four in
the morning. If I have time, and if I can figure out how, I’m going to call
you. It will be really early in the morning fair warning. So set some alarms so
you are sort of awake and turn your phones on. I really hope I can call you. I
miss your guy's voices. Like a lot. And I am really anxious to call. So just be
ready.
So I have given some
thought to the family motto, and I see you guys have too. I love all the
ideas!!! My ideas are #LESLIEKNOPE4PREZ2016 and D&C 6:36. Take a gander and
let me know what you think. I miss FHE with you guys. I am so so so so so so so
sorry that I took that for granted. I miss it. I miss spending time with you
guys.
I miss my sweet sugar
bear.
I miss my BEST
FRIEND.
I miss my Maxy
pants.
I miss my mama P
and i miss my Padre.
You guys are my rock.
WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU. Hey maybe that should be our motto. Consider that!
I went to the temple
for the last time this morning. I probably won’t ever get to go to the Colombia
Temple again. But I had a cool experience! When I got into the Celestial room I just sat there for a
while and looked up at the chandelier. I was feeling very peaceful but I still
had this whole mission Ecuador on Tuesday thing in my head. So I said a prayer
of course. I just needed comfort, my Heavenly Father knew it, I just needed to
ask. After my prayer I looked up at the chandelier again and I was looking at
all the different colors in the crystals. Then this bright green color showed
up on one of the pieces. And I just looked at it for a sec. And then this voice
said, "GO. JUST GO". And I was just like frozen. I got my comfort and
my answer. I just need to go. Stop freaking out and just go. I felt really,
really good after that. Really good! I know God answers prayers, in weird,
unexpected ways, yes, but he ALWAYS answers them. And I am just so grateful.
So here are some
pictures. We combined the two norte (North American) districts in to one big
one. I don't know if I already told you that. I was already friends with the
other district but now we are like closer than ever and its going to be SOOOOOO
hard to leave them. I am so not ready for that. So, there’s the picture of my
big district. and then a picture of me and my companion and my two best
friends. Hermana Steffen and Hermana Thomas. They got here during my third
week. And we got so close so fast. So its going to be very hard to leave them
as well.
I love you guys so
much. I am so unbelievable grateful for you guys.
TUESDAY! TUESDAY!
TUESDAY! Pray for me okay?
I LOVE YOU