SO MANY BIRDS

Why hello!

Gonna start sending my emails to more people, because it was demanded of me.

Limited time to write and I'm behind in my journal again so...

Last Monday evening we went to the Eggs' house and I held the green dog/tree chicken/chameleon again. :D Brother Egg and Hannah taught us the Plan of Salvation. They're just so fun.

Tuesday we went and helped Susan out for a bit. She's been having a rough time and was soooo grateful that we offered to help clean up her house a little. We also retaught her the Restoration and really focused on her needing to pray. She's quick to bring up questions and concerns, which is awesome. She wants to start reading the Book of Mormon again! :)

Then we went down to the very bottom corner of our area.. It's so far out of the way and I'd never been down there. But we had a surplus of miles and it was the last day of the month, so... We didn't end up doing much work other than a little bit of tracting. But it was gorgeous down there. So pretty. So many birds. If nothing else, it made us so happy.

Wednesday we did Castle at Give Kids the World! Woooo. There were some super cute kids that were super happy to get pillows. But then construction was happening and the Castle smelled like it was on fire. So they closed it.

Visited Brian and Angie and company and talked about Alex preparing to be baptized. They want her to be more prepared and understand better what she's getting into. We really want to see them start working on stuff together as a family.

We saw the R family, a recent convert family, for the first time in ages! The kids, especially the 4 year old boy, just wanted us to color with and talk to him. The 2-ish year old girl is adorable too, but much more shy. She's way more comfortable with us now than before though. :D

Thursday we had District meeting. Met the new babies! Sister Jamison is Sister Lamborn's new trainee. She seems awesome. Had some good Adjusting to Missionary Life trainings. Sister Lamborn talked about the balance between pride and inadequacy, and gifts of the Spirit. That there are things that come naturally to some people but others need to work on. To some is given one thing and to some another. Sometimes we're on spiritual crutches, and that's okay.

I honestly don't remember what happened the rest of the day. We updated some stuff. Dunno. Visited Sister Jones. :)

FRIDAY WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE. We woke up at 4 am to get to the North Sisters' apartment early, so that a member could drive us to the very first session at 7. It was awesome. It was so, so great. It was amazing to see all the people that I work with and love all dressed in white. We sat in the Celestial room for quite a long time. I love the Orlando temple.

Went to the tiny distribution center next to the temple after, so now I have a spiral hymnbook and the missionary library. :D Yay books. Yay sheet music.

Did some planning. Then we went down to Sister Jones's house and the Elders came over to give Jamie, a nonmember who lives there, a blessing. She's had some health concerns. It was probably one of the first blessings Elder Mikos (another greenie) has given. Sister Jones told us that Jamie stopped smoking the day after.

Saturday we helped out the Burtons some more! Clearing away grass and vines. It's a good workout and it's fun. :P They also took us out to lunch afterwards.

We broke our fasts early this fast Sunday again, because the Hammocks had us over for lunch. Again. Haha. They're great to talk to, especially Autumn, the 17 year old.

Also went to a party that evening at the Torres family's house. They looove the missionaries. Even though we're the "wrong" missionaries. :P We're going over to their house next Monday and spending time there. Their 15 year old said she'd assist us with online shopping. :P

Anyway. That was the week. It's been somewhat up and down, but the ups have been fantastic. Heavenly Father knows how to help us when we most need it, it's just a matter of us reaching out and asking for it.

Love you all. Hope you have a fantastic new week.

Love,

Christine