9/16/14

HAPPY HALF WAY TO ME! HAPPY HALF WAY TO ME! HAPPY HALF WAY TO ME (ON THURSDAY) HAPPY HALF WAY TO ME!!!!! :) Woohoo! 9 months out and still going strong! Who knew I'd make it this far? :) Just kidding! Boy oh boy life is good. Thank you so much for the pictures and packages!!!! I LOVE THEM SOOOOO MUCH! I have the best family ever :) Also, I am very sorry to Manda and Emily both for apparently taking forever and a day to respond back to your letters!! I lost Emily's and forgot to mail Manda's...so sorry! I love you both though and I promise they're on their way! And! Oh my goodness!!!!! DELI HAD HER FAREWELL!!!!?????? I just barely got her letter in the mail the other day cause it sent to my old address, same with Sue's and Nelson's so I'll try to mail everybody back as soon as possible but ma how long will Deli be home????Should I mail it to her house next week or will she be gone??? EEK!! I'm so excited for her!! She's going to be great! :) So, a few updates here in Henryetta! Sister Gregson is fantastic and has taught me how to knit...yes it's true and I LOVE IT! I'm kind of addicted to it and so I walk around looking like a 90 year old woman with knitting needles and yarn sticking out of my bag ‘cause we don't actually have like any time to jsut sit and knit haha except when we're driving so I let her drive and I knit away! :) Maybe I'll be so good at it I'll be able to knit yall some sweaters for Christmas hahaha probably not. Maybe some dish towels :) But ya it only took me like half an hour to get the hang of it and I'm half way through with my first project! I'll try to attach some pictures. Now in more important matters haha... oh wait! Yes this Thursday Sister Gregson and I will be symbolically chopping our hair off (well someone with skills will be I mean). I will be reaching my half way mark and thus my hair is being cut half way off and Sister Gregson will be reaching 1/8 of her mission so she will be chopping her hair 1/8 off  hahaha it'll be a party. Now! As for missionary work things are going really well. I've really felt myself grow spiritually these last few weeks. All of the hard HARD times I've had before have seemed to lead up to this moment. I used to be so scared that I was wasting God's time or that I wasn’t' being a good missionary but recently I've realized what REAL missionary work is. I've truly come to understand what my role is in this great and marvelous latter-day work. I'm to stand in place of the Savior in whatever way that means. Christ went about doing good and being good. He served, he taught, he comforted, he took the time to search out the one, and he performed everything his father sent him here to do. He was the ultimate example of what missionary work is. Sometimes we don't have a ton of people to teach, sometimes we don't have a bunch of people lined up to be baptized, but we ALWAYS have children of God looking for comfort and love and peace ALL around us. My job is to be there when they are searching for Christ. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has entrusted me with this call and that I have come to understand his infinite love more clearly as I've strived to complete the tasks God has here for me. I love this gospel and I'm so grateful to share the testimony and conversion I have gained thus far. Thank you for teaching me the ways that I must go and for teaching me who to turn to when I don't know exactly where that is. Here's to the next 9 months! May they be the best of my life thus far! :)
Love,
Sister Moreno