Good Morning Elder Tall :)
Wow our last emails of 2012. The time is really flying by. It was soooooo great to talk to you last week. You look the same but I can tell the gospel has changed you and enlarged your capacity to love and serve. That's what it's all about. It was fun to meet your investigator and the host family. Such good people.
Well, where are you and how is it going? I will laugh if you are back in Iowa City -Ha. If so, you were meant to be there for a great purpose. I'm sure it was had to leave Elder Barger, but you trained him well and he will do fine.
We had a great time at Angie's house. She should be a cruise activity director. She had us going all over the place and doing some pretty cool things. Our surprise for Dad was an 18 hole round of golf at Pebble Beach- He was so surprised. Ang's friend works there and hooked us up with a super great deal. Cade is so cute and I loved waking up to him saying, "gramma, come pway twains wif me" then he would say--"wook, wook at da twains."
Beau is staying there a few days extra and then back to the arctic. We are back at home and hitting the work grind again but feeling refreshed from our getaway. Dad is still renovating the little house and hopefully it will be ready to put a for sale sign by the end of this month. Dad went to Eagle Cliff again yesterday to conduct. He's pretty dedicated.
Well, I'm so glad you are doing well. I have to get to work now. I love you and as always, we are praying for you and your mission. You have a beautiful smile- keep sharing it. (how are the whitestrips working?)
Love you! Mom
Mom!!
Where do I start?
Thanks for the whitestrips they are working great. My new companion is loving all the goodies as well.
Soo transfer meeting was so full of energy. It was the last couple weeks of the year.
We have all been striving to acheive the goal of 400.
Big changes were occuring in the mission, and seemingly we would not acheive the goal.
We have worked hard all year, and I can say with gratitude that I have tried so hard to be diligent. We made our offering to the Lord, and sacrificed a lot. I never lost faith that we would acheive it with the Lord's help.
The anxiety was tremendous though, as President jergensen read the transfer news.
I had chances of going with several zones. Finally He got to it.
"And in Oskaloosa Elder Purcell's new companion is...kinda short!"
Right when he said that I dove over three missionaries to him! haha.
All the Elders freaked out. I heard how President decided that I would be with Elder Purcell.
He had no intentions at all of placing us together, but he prayed and laughed and knew for certain that it was the Lord's will. I know it is as well. I only have a couple more minutes to be in the Library, but I am so happy and so grateful. The Gospel that we took for granted as teenage punks has changed us so much. We are so much happier and closer than we ever were, and we are going to have so much fun helping the Oskaloosa Zone acheive the Lord's will for it. We found out last night that the mission acheved 400 exactly, and the 400th baptism was right here in our chapel. His name was Spencer.
I love you
ps. I get to see April Higginbottom next week. She doesn't live too far away.
So when I go on exchanges, I'll see her. I know I am supposed to be here.
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