4 Feb 2013

hello! i hope you had a wonderful week, i look forward to getting your letter in the mail :) i've recieved lots of lovely letters lately! (say that 5 times fast) :) & i really will write everyone back!! haha it's just been crazy busy on p-days lately, trying to get everything in before TRANSFERS on feb 20th!!!! we're hoping to go to the temple on the 13th and also go visit lake michigan and take pictures and maybe even THE CHEESE CASTLE....... yes that is a real place hahaha. but of course i'm most excited to go to the temple :) :) :) anyways it might take me a while to write everyone back but i promise i will! i love the letters so so much!!! :)

 

so NATHAN IS GOING TO THE MTC THIS WEEK!! whoooo-ooooooooooo!!! so so so exciting. you will just LOVE it. it's like summer camp for missionaries. greatest place on earth. well one of. :) so exciting! yeah missions! :)

 

sooooooo last monday we had family home evening with Sister D & her family, since she heard a lot about it at church and wanted to know more! we sang "i am a child of God" and "love at home" and then talked about the "prayer sandwich" and played animal charades (SO FUNNY) and ate brownies :) we're going over tonight again for home evening and this time they're in charge of the activity, so that should be fun :) we're planning on reading helaman 5:12 and teaching s & s "the wise man & the foolish man" for lesson -- complete with actions, of course :) anyways that was super fun. yeah family home evening! Br J even joined in and said it was really fun :) and we showed s friend.lds.org and after we left A texted us "s is coloring on that website you showed her and trying to sing love at home lol" hahah awww. so now she calls it "jesus.com" and always wants to go on it :) :) so that was fun. & when we went back to see them on Friday Sister D was watching President Uchtdorf online haha love it :) :)

 

for Book of Mormon sharing.......... I like 1 Ne 18:24 b

ecause it shows that the people were 100% committed. no "back-up plan" in case things didn't work. that's how we've gotta be! 100% committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. don't hold anything back in reserve in case it doesn't "pan out" or whatever :) love it.

 

also we've been listening to the new efy cd & there's a song on there where they use scriptures and one of them is "And they put to death every Nephite who will not deny the Christ... and I, Moroni, will Not Deny the Christ." & it gives us chills every time!!! aaaaaaahh shoot. it makes me think about how we do or do not deny Jesus Christ every single day... in our actions, what we do/don't say, all that. It's pretty obvious that if someone asks you "hey deny Jesus or I'll kill you" what the answer is supposed to be. but are there more subtle ways satan tries to get us to deny the Christ? is keeping silent a form of denying Christ? what about our actions? I always, always, always want to Not Deny the Christ. I want everything about me to declare how much I love Him!!!!!!!!! there should be no doubt in anyone's mind ever that I love Jesus Christ and know Him absolutely to be the Savior & Redeemer of the world & everything He claimed to be. hallelujah!! :) :)

 

um so on tuesday it was 60 degrees???? and it rained all afternoon????? so weirdly warm!!! and then it dropped back to around 0 hahaha brrrrrr. we went to the danish bakery on wednesday for a snack & the girl behind the counter asked what our nametags were for so we got to tell her, which was fun. and she said she could tell i was from out of town since i say "wis-CON-sin" haha it was funny to hear her imitate my "accent" haha.

 

ps -- there's an elder here from Tigard Oregon! wondered if Shaelyn or anyone knew him... his name is Elder Tanner Green. great elder. fun connection :)

the snow here is so fluffy! (i'm gonna dieeeeeeee!)

& with all the people here who live together it makes me think of that thing from like 2nd grade -- "i love pizza!" "then why don't you marry it????" ha ha ha.... but seriously. why won't these people just get married hahaha. basically, keeping the commandments would save everyone a ton of grief, the end, amen.

today we went to a huge giganto grocery store with Sister E**** and the cheese aisle.......... so huge. so. huge. we bought cranberry cinnamon cheese and it's actually pretty good! mmmm :) & last night we had Sunday dinner with the B***** and the main topic of conversation, no joke, was everybody's favourite types of cheese hahah. so good :)

 

wellll i don' have much to say! (for once haha) it's been a pretty good week! great lessons, great people... great miracles :) it's just cool to get to testify about the gospel and just straight up say "this is the truth and i know that it's true or else i wouldn't be in wisconsin where it's minus 8 degrees!" hahah. i literally did say that to someone on Saturday haha :) she laughed and was like yeah there's gotta be something to this for you to come out here! :) so that's fun.

 

brother y***** came to church finally! hooray! so he's on track to be baptized on the 23rd :) & sister h***** is on track for baptism in march. :)

 

thanks so much for all your prayers, dear family!! i'm grateful every day for you & i pray for you in every prayer :)

 

love love love love love

 

xoxoxoxoxo :) :)

 

cece :)