5-14-2012

So i don't really have too much to say today because we just talked. AND IT WAS WONDERFUL TO TALK TO ALL OF YOU! I was debating whether or not I should divulge my ukulele secret or just wait til I got home and surprised you all... but I love it so much I had to share it! Megan and Justin your puppy is so stinking cute! I can't wait to get to see him for real! He'll be so big by then! I love the picture of him hiding under the couch. It reminds me of Rachel falling asleep under the table cloth and we couldn't find her anywhere... haha. So to all of you... I love getting pictures on email but send me real pictures too so that I can look at them all week! Dad, I definitely want to learn those songs, especially Come Thou Fount" so if you could find some music with the chords and lyrics... that would be awesome. Even if it's just the words with the chords written above them. That's perfect. Although if piano music is also involved that's okay with me :-) I would love to have something I can play! Currently I raid old new eras and pull the music out of them. There are some awesome songs in there! So I won't send a ton of pictures but I wanted to send some...but apparently that is also something that doesn't work on my camera anymore... It was just a picture of me and ElDee and then one of me with the skeleton of a fish that I had eaten clean and one of me and a golden retriever. I walked into a memeber's house and there was a golden! I was so excited! Anyway... I'll send them after I get a camera (friendly reminder daddy :-) haha) I'm very excited because we have another appointment with Josh tonight. It's going to be awesome. We are teaching about the Plan of Salvation. Just the first half though becuase we are going to take it very slow to make sure he understands everything. This kid is so awesome. I just can't even tell you how awesome he is. So my heroes today are Ammon and his brothers. Read Alma 26:27-29. He is talking about their missions and how they went door to door and taught in the streets and were rejected... sound familiar? It does to me! But then he talks about how they were persecuted. spit on, smote, taken and bound, stoned. I am so lucky that I don't have any of that in my mission! They went through all that and kept the faith and always relied on our Heavenly Father. They are such wonderful examples of missonaries! Why? Because they totally gave themselves to the work. They really worked with their hearts, might, minds, and strength. They dealt with so much and kept going. It just reminded me that I have absolutely nothing to complain abuot. Not that I have anything to complain about anyway. I love being a missionary. I love being able to teach and invite others to come unto Christ. This is the greatest work ever! IT brings so much joy! Now read verse 30 in Alma 26. I would like to echo Ammon's words. "That perhaps we might be the means of saving some soul; and we supposed that our joy would be full if perhaps we could be the means of saving some." Not if we could save some, but if we could be the means of saving some." This work is not ours and we cannot do it by ourselves. It is the Lord's work that can only be accomplished if the Spirit is teaching through us. In chapter... 8 (?) of Preach my gospel (How to begin teaching) one of the points is that we are imperfect teachers, we are guides, helping people come unto Christ. How lucky that we have the Spirit, who is a perfect teacher, to help us! Well that's really all I have for today. I love you all! Keep smiling! I do! :-D Annie PS Tealofa ei te oi! PSS Fiafailemu! PSSS that means I love you! Take it easy!