Called To Serve...428.26 Miles Apart: 5-21-12

*First off… sorry I haven’t been updating much lately… maybe now with both siblings out, I’ll do better!

Hello family!

Sometimes I feel bad becasue I am always asking you to do stuff for me... Megan, could you look up some more addresses for me?Also, i DID get the new camera and case! Thank you so much! I love it! At first I didn't think I would becasue I wasn't sure if it would have all the settings my old camera had- I really loved that camera- but I managed to find them! yay! so thank you thank you thank you! Also Mom, I did get the box of clothes thank you thank you thank you! and yes the stuff I bought at Goodwill was summer clothes. I found some fun stuff. Most of it is waaaay too big but with belts and stuff I can totally make it work. One skirt is about to undergo massive reconstructive surgery though. It's super cute but needs changed. Good think I learned how to sew! (Thanks mom!)

Okay, now to the important stuff! I had my first baptism yesterday! It was very awesome! The spirit was so strong and Kris was sooo ready to be baptized and you could just see the peace and joy he felt radiating from him! I was lucky enough to be playing the piano for the baptism and the room was SO PACKED that I just sat at the piano the whole time which meant that I got to see his expression during the whole meeting. I could just see his testimony written all over his face! He knew that he was making the right decision and coming closer to his Heavenly Father. It was such an amazing experience! Another way awesome experience regarding him... on Tuesday Sister Boxx (an awesome ward missionary who reminds me SO Much of Megan) and I went to teach Kris (he is really shy so we don't have all of us and the Boxx's go--waay too much!) so it was just us two and we were teaching the Commandments (lesson 4) neither of us had ever taught it before. I hadn't even taught it in the MTC beacsue we foucs on the first 3 lessons. I told her that I didn't have the scripture background that Sister Va'asili and Finefeuiaki have so we probably wouldnt' be able to use many scriptuers in the lesson... well during the lesson these scriptures just kept popping into my head! Like daisies! (name the movie... it's Mulan in case you couldn't do it). The spirit will bring things to your rememberance when you need them! I remember being in Seminary and memorizing the scripture mastery scriptures but I would always forget them. Brother Palmer always assured us that since we memorized them they would always come back to us when we needed them. Man was he right! Thank you Brother Palmer for being such an amazing seminary teacher! (someone can get on facebook and tell him I said that!) Speaking of seminary, we got to go on Friday! They have morning seminary... I am SO grateful for release time seminary! We are lucky lucky people! Also, their teachers are called. It's not what they do for their living like it is at home... weird, huh? ya. Anyway, we had the students all write their testimonies so that we could put them in the Books of Mormon that we give out (name the movie with the Books of Mormon/ Book of Mormons argument.... Best Two Years for those of you who didn't get it). Anyway, we all bore our testimonies and some of the students did as well and it was basically just super amazing. The spirit was so strong and it was an incredible morning! It does make me a little jealous of people who get to start their day with seminary. But not jealous enough that I would have wished for early morning seminary. nope. not even a little. This week on Wednesday a little girl from the ward is getting baptized so we get to go to that and the next week we have another awesome investigator getting baptized. I am SO excited for that one! The work is progressing here in The Great Ohio! It's pretty wonderful. So here are some pictures (since I can put them on now!)

me eating...something out of a mayo jar... no worries, it's potato salad! yum yum!