Hey guys :) So glad to hear your week went so well!! And thank you so much for your mission letter dad and also for your effort mom and cam, I'm so excited to hear all about it!! I've literally been craving so much to know about your mission experiences!! When you send them, please include things like your investigators, companions, hard times, good times, all of it! I really want to learn from your examples and experiences and they will totally uplift me and help me more than you know!! I'm so blessed to be apart of this work just like you all :)
Yes! That indian (filippino) man was talking about my birthday package for sera!! I have the information today for her to claim it, maybe they can just send it back quickly! If they send it back to me I'll just send it again. That information is DHL-USA: telephone number #1-480-636-2571 AWBH: 2656169924 Reference #: 201031193460 (LBC) It's a super funny package and I sent it forever ago but some of the stuff in there is having trouble coming thru customs so just call that number and see if you can get it, if not once it gets back here I'll just send it again.
We didn't go to that broadcast, so it would be awesome to hear what it was about!!! I'm glad you all got to hear it though!
Package suggestions:
-A new journal, I"m already like halfway through the one I have and I'm not in an area to be able to get the kind that I would like, so if you could please go to barnes and noble and get me another leather journal with a strap on the front that holds it closed- it actually doesn't have to be leather or have the strap, Sera! I trust you to choose a good cute one! haha :)
-More garments- about 5 tops and 5 bottoms would be amazzzzing
top size: xsp (and it's called like carlita or something? it's the spandexy ones) bottom size: 32pa silk
And this is random and not about packages but holy skinny Alyne!!! I saw those pictures and you've always been a model but like what you are so tiny!!!!
okay back to the package
- Will you please send me the neutrogena healthy skin mineral foundation,. it's about 11$ and at walgreens or anywhere and I don't know the exact color but if you go to Ulta and show them the Bare Minerals foundation in medium C25 and ask them to match it to the same neutrogena color then they will
-there are these mod-bod or something mormony brand shirts that the sisters here use and they're basically like those modest undershirts but they're only half a shirt so it's kinda like a sports-bra-top-thing but I'm sure they have them at downeast so if you could get some white ones that would be awesome as well.
and of course all of these are just suggestions and I'm not going to die without any of them but I would be nice if it's not too hard to send a package to have them :) totally up to you guys though!!
Hannah, thank you for the pinterest workouts!!! You've just saved my morning sanity hahaha
Okay now about this past week!
We had transfers this week so a lot of changes to our zone but Sister Bendoy and I are still together, but we moved!!! Still in Sum-ag but to a new nice little house!!!!! I love it and I'm so happy and it's such a tender mercy!!!! It's in an area called "Firmville executive estates" (please read in a snooty-british-butler-accent) and it's a little house with a kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom... and the bathroom has a shower!!!!!! and a flushing toilet!!!! and even a sink!!!! It's all in a 5 ft. by 2 1/2 ft space hahaha but I don't even care!!! and yes, there is not a water heater but that's not so bad, and yes the water is a little yellow (I don't know why...?) but I just call it "golden" and I haven't died or contracted leprosy yet! It's a new place and we're the first ones to live there so it's clean and new!! It's really tiny of course hahaha but it's plenty big for just two people!!! When sister bendoy and I were moving all our things and organizing and stuff I felt like a new couple moving into their first house hahahahahaha which then made me think of when I come home and get married and have my own house and I just can never stop thinking about home and all the things that will happen after my mission and I wish I could just turn off that part of my brain but it's all good and I'm not like crippled with homesickness or anything so I can endure trunky thoughts for a while hahaha. Sorry for the huge sentence!! But yes. I love our new place.
I've been focusing my studies this week on the enabling power of the atonement. I had always known about the atonement for sinners but I never really thought too much about the atonement for helping good people become better people too. The atonement is also to help us have patience in our afflicitions, it's to help us to have the courage and strength to face adversity and trials. The atonement enables us to have the power of God to help us overcome those things we couldn't do on our own. I don't really know how to explain everything I've been learning but I do know that what I'm doing is really really hard hahahaha it's hard!! But I also know that I can do anything through the atonement of jesus christ, not just by repenting of my sins but by receiving heavenly help with all my trials. I've always been blessed to accomplish the things I set my mind to, and I know that this comes from divine help. Every time that it gets really hard I always first pray. and after that I do everything I can to keep the commandments, read the scriptures and liahona's like no other, and try so hard to give everything I can to the work. And it hasn't been easy but it has been possible! I know that there are soooooo many things awaiting me in my mission. One of the reasons I've been dying to hear about your own mission stories is that they really help me to have patience and faith! Like Cam, your experience with Elder Hatch has helped me so much!! and I know that you would never ever sacrifice your mission just because you had it tough at first! And mom and dad, I can't wait to hear about your experiences as well because I can relate them to my life right now and use them to become stronger! Also please don't think of this as some cry for help or like i'm all depressed or something haha, I'm just admitting that it is really really tough sometimes!! And even though I can't really expalin everything I've been learning and experiencing how I want to over email, I just wanted to share that it makes me so happy to know that I'm somehow blessing you all back at home, and I want to you know that I feel your prayers and they help me so much so keep em coming :) I'm so grateful to have you guys!!! And I'm so grateful that you're all so strong and active in the gospel, that blesses me so much!!!! I just love you all so much :) :)
I don't have much time to talk about the work this week, but I have to quickly share that we had a less active come to church on sunday who hasn't been in years!! We visit her about 2 times a week and we always invite her to church and offer to come with her and help her with her kids or whatever she needs and she always says "sige lang sisters, if I have time!" and then yesterday morning she texts us and says that she'll come with us and that she's getting her kids ready right then, it was so so so so awesome, i'm so grateful for her progress!!
All of your letters are so so awesome and so uplifting and it's such a highlight of my week to hear from you all!! Please remember to also include the "spiritual" things of your week as well :) But don't stop talking about what's going on in the every day stuff, I love to hear about it!!!
Nathan. Holy stud pants. I'm so excited for you to go to promcoming as well hahah :)
Okay! That's all I have for today!! And I'm totally good with you guys sending me dear elders, just know that they do take a while to get here, if you have sent any so far I haven't gotten them, so you can send them but please include important or the stuff I want to hear weekly in your weekly emails and then the dear elders can just be a nice little treat when I get them! but yeah, the bulk of your emails should be weekly so I have something to read and keep up on :) I love you all, keep being awesome, and I hoope you all have such an amazing week! You're always in my thoughts (whether I want that or not hahahaha ;) ) LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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