December 30, 2013

Dear Family,

It was so great seeing you this week. :) I hope you travel safely tomorrow on your way home. I will send a different email with my testimony on it. Don't worry I won't forget.

Well to update you since Wednesday. We had other Sisters living with us this week so that was a blast. I love how on missions you just make life long friends. Sister C was one of those for me this week.

We did some service at the Salvation Army and that was fun. We also ran out of miles

so we have been bumming rides off of members and walking around. On Saturday it was 62 degrees. It was SO nice! we didn't even have to wear a coat. We got to our appt all hot and

sweaty. The weather here is a joke.

I also was asked to speak on Sunday. It went really well. Instead of freaking out and getting all nervous about it and writing every word down. I just wrote a couple of my thoughts on my topic

and then expounded when I got up there. It was really cool because I wasn't nervous or anything. My topic was on keeping the commandments and then relating it to New Years Resolutions.

When I was preparing for the talk I got really overwhelmed and frustrated and stressed as I wrote out a list of things I really need to improve on. But Heavenly Father helped me out and reminded me that I have

a life time to work on these things. He gives us weaknesses to be humble. It's like renovating a house. Just take one room at a time. So mom, don't stress to much. Just work on one thing. One week or one month at

a time. There is extra and spirit and power that comes from continually striving to improve yourself. :) One of my favorite quotes form M. Russell Ballard is "I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don't set goals in our

life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small potential.  When one learns to master the principles of setting

a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life." So that's my goal this year. To master the technique of goal setting...There will be much prayer involved. :)

To answer your question if we are having any luck with LA and Investigators in Lincoln. We are. We are seeing a lot of success in our less actives. Whether it be quitting smoking or they're reading their scriptures

for 30 min a day. Rosetta, that one I told you about. She called me and was like Sister Curfew read D&C 38. I really liked It. Read it and then come over tomorrow and we'll discuss it. We did and it was so cool

as she was marking her scriptures and was so excited about them! I felt a little bit of the joy that Heavenly Father has for his children as they do what's right. :) Laura recovered very well from surgery and is walking!!!!

We taught her the Plan of Salvation and tried to set her for baptism but she is just scared. We are hoping that as we take more members over with us she won't be as intimidated.

There were also so miracles that happened it our ward. Our Bishop invited us to Ward Council!!!!! This is huge because Bishop hates missionaries...We were pretty pumped. Even though he made us feel like we weren't

doing anything during the week in the meeting. At least we were invited!

So yeah this week was great. I feel more and more the influence of the Holy Ghost in everything we do. I had a really cool experience with the sacrament yesterday. After taking it I felt new. Like brand new. It was

an amazing feeling. So I hope to continue having those experiences.

 

Well I love you and it was great to see you.

Thanks for all of the support and love that you give me. I don't deserve to have the amazing family that I do.

Love, Sister Curfew