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| Sis Jara and I in Park City! |
I have officially been out for 5 months, as of Saturday!
I
got your letter the other day. I can't wait to get another letter from Adam. It's really special
when I get to talk to him. I love my brothers! When I get older (and am
not on a mission), we will have family reunions frequently!
I
feel like Shane has been working on his Eagle Project for a long time
now! That's awesome that he is sticking with it and that he is getting
so much help from friends and family. Make him write thank you cards!
That
sounds like a really fun fireside. Some ideas: Make sure that you have
pass-along cards so that members can take them and give them to friends!
Also, challenge everyone to give away a BOM and maybe have some copies
available for them to take and give away. Maybe have a referral sheet--
If anyone can think of a friend/family worker/co-worker that would
receive the missionaries, they can put their name, number, address down.
It's great to get people to remember their missions and the
missionaries, but put an emphasis that the members can be missionaries
too! I don't know. Just some ideas! Wishing I could Skype! I think
Rachel McCarl would be a great speaker! I remember when she got home
from her mission and spoke. It's partly because of her that I wanted to
go on a mission. She speaks with the Spirit and has a really strong
testimony and knowledge of the scriptures. I love that girl!
I loved your little story about Charlie saying that I am on vacation. I
am in a huge vacation city, so everyone always thinks that I can go
skiing or snowboarding on weekends. The Sundance Film Festival is in
Park City for the next couple of weeks. The Family Tree Visitors' Center
is right on Main Street where a lot of the action takes place! The
streets are closed down and there are so many people. It's wild. There
are a lot of people who dress crazy and we just watch them from the
windows. haha. It's really fun though because people come from all over
the world. I love that part. And I love when they come into the Family
Tree, especially!
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| Sis Jara with Casey's hat. |
Sister Jara is leaving this Wednesday
and I will get my new companion. I am so sad! I know that my new
companion will be great and things will be fine, but Sister Jara has
become one of my very best friends! She is going to do so much good in
Chile and I know that she is ready to go, but it will be so hard to say
goodbye!
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| The Judds working to get a splinter out of my hand! |
There
are so so many changes happening in the Family Tree. The directors when
I got here were Elder and Sister Mulford. They just had their last day
last week and now we have Elder and Sister Jerman. There are 2 new sets
of Senior Couples and there are 3 sister missionaries leaving this week!
Everything is going to take some adjusting!
Have you been reading the New Testament with the mission? I love love love the New Testament. Have you seen the Bible videos on LDS.org? They are so so good and they are helpful to watch, especially when reading the New Testament. (http://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos?lang=eng)
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| Bowling with the zone |
Last P-day we went bowling with the district. Casey and Cortney came too! It was a lot of fun!
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| Book of Mormon Celebration |
Last
Thursday, one of the wards had a Relief Society Book of Mormon
celebration. We took an investigator and her 5-year-old daughter. She
really liked it! It was a great event. It was kind of like a Primary
Program, but for adults. haha. There was a little dialogue and then
there were a lot of songs.
I
loved this week! Sundance is kind of crazy and wild, but it brings more
people to the city and in turn, brings more people into the Family
Tree. On Thursday, this man came in and spoke just a little bit of
English. He said that he is from China, but is living in the U.S. for a
short time as a film director and a part-time professor. He said that we
probably couldn't find anything on his family, but we tried and he
really liked the FamilySearch.org website and said that it helped a lot.
He was super nice and we had a really good conversation and he accepted
to have the missionaries visit him at his house in New York after the
festival. So the next day, Friday, a girl came in, saying that her
friend told her to come because we had some good information. I asked
what her friend's name was & she said the name of the guy that I met
the day before! Right away, she accepted to have missionaries come to
her house and teach her. She is from China, too, and said that she has
always wanted to know more about Jesus Christ. We watched a video and
she felt the Spirit strongly. She accepted a Book of Mormon and was so
so happy about it! She is sooo great. It was one of the coolest
experiences just to see how the Lord prepares people. Anyway, I am
hoping to keep in touch with her and I hope that she has a good
experience with the missionaries!
The French at a glance book would be fine to send. It's small and light and I could
keep up on basic phrases. I met a little boy the other night when we
went to a member's house. The little boy is in a French immersion
program at school. We were speaking French to each other and he's not
even 8, I don't think! haha.
Well,
I love love love you! I hope that everything is going well. You are the
best! I miss you! Thank you for everything that you do! Mwaah!
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