Dad and I received an email on Thursday from the mission office. You are leaving the 12th and arriving home the 13th!!!!!! I can’t act too excited because I don’t want you to get too trunky. The email asked us what airport you need to fly home to, and if we were coming to pick you up.
Hannah came over for dinner and brought Justin. They are pretty cute together, I think they’re a thing. We were at Carson’s volleyball tournament yesterday in Tempe, so we texted Hannah to meet up for lunch and she and Justin were together, so we met him for the first time at Cafe Rio, then dinner with him tonight at our house...I think it’s getting serious. Dad told the story tonight at dinner of you kids throwing up all night in the hotel in St. George, it was pretty funny.
Carson’s team did well yesterday. They won all their matches, so now they will play in division 1 this upcoming Saturday. Carson seems to be the number two setter on his team. The back up setter from last year has worked his butt off and is passing carson up. Carson thinks he is the shiz and doesn’t work hard, so hopefully this will be a wake up call for him and he can get volleyball and other things in his life in order.
This is our last week of quarter 1. Fall break starts this Friday. We are leaving after Carson’s tournament on Saturday for Newport Beach and San Clemente, we’ll be there for a week.
So this week has been hard one for me, I’ve been on my knees a lot. Today I needed some extra strength so I decided to read my patriarchal blessing. I took out three pieces of paper and categorized them into blessings promised, advice from the Lord, and declarations made by the Lord. I then went through my blessing and wrote down everything in my blessing in the category it fell in to. It was a very powerful experience. Annotating it that way gave me an entirely different perspective. I noticed things I had never noticed before. If you haven’t done something like this before, I would recommend doing it. :)
You are just awesome! I love you so much and am so proud of you. I feel like the luckiest mom alive to have been sent such an amazing daughter. Seriously, what did I do to deserve you? I admire you so much; you’re such a great example to me! I just love you so much!!!
Have an amazing week.
Love,
Mom
hi mom!
Im doing great, my companion is great, our
best investigators are too busy to meet but we picked up some new ones
and they are WAY awesome. i am super excited for how this trnasfer is
going to go. sorry i am running out of time but i will try to say as
much as i can. Wow! i cant believe they are already putting together my
flight plans. makes me kinda want to throw up but ill be fine dont worry
haha. yesterday i got my period and it was the most pain i have ever
been in my entire life so i went home during church and i threw up on
the rode and then layed on my bed for three hours with a pillowcase full
of hot rice on my lower abdomen and it was miserable. but now i am fine
:) we have a baptism in two weeks and i am way pumped. her name is
Phallin (pronounces pauleen) and she has so much faith. also my RC
brought her boyfriend from england to church yesterday and i trnslated
everything for him and i even had to translate the sacrament prayer and i
couldnt even rememebr it in english so it was way hard but he is a
catholic guy so he took the sacrament and did the cross thing before he
took the bread then after sacrament meeting asked me to put my hands on
his and my RC's shoulders and bless their engagement and i literally had
no idea what to do so i just folded my arms and said a prayer for them
hahahahahahaha one of the funniest moments ever.
yo hannah
has been updating me on Justin for a while and ive only seen one picture
of him and i want to know if hes cute or not. do you think they work
well together??? its killing me that she is getting a boyfriend while im
gone. oh my gosh i completely forgot about that story. that was SO
funny hahahahahahaha.
I actually have done that a lot with my
patriarchal blessing and it has helped me to understand it better and
pick it apart. another thing i do is i find scriptures that go along
with certain lines of my blessing so i have more personal connection to
the scriptures and my blessing. dont get discouraged mom. you have done
everything you can to be the best mom, wife, and person you can be. if
you ever feel like you arent doing enough, just remember that I love you
more than anything and i am your biggest fan. i think you are the
greatest mom ever and i am so lucky to have been raised and loved by you
:) I love you so so so so so so much Mom!!!!
Love, Maile
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