July 14, 2014

Dear Family,

     Happy to hear that mom is doing well. Those were nasty pictures. Sounds like everyone is taking good care of her.

That's cool that Blaine is the Ogden shin dig. When is it being dedicated? I feel like Blaine will be much more prepared for serving
a mission than I was. :) It'll be cool to see where he goes.

Well right now I just super exhausted. I'm  pretty sure we'll be spending our prep day in our beds blissfully sleeping. :) haha

that was a joke...we don't even have time to do that. But all is well.

This week was kind of incredible. I learned SO MUCH. We had a really epic zone training this past week. President Weston

has committed us to baptize monthly. And so the zone leaders trained a lot on faith and etc...I left that meeting wondering if

I have any faith! My companion was like yeah let's do this! I was just doubted hardcore that we could baptize monthly...I mean it sounds doable but then  you go out and start
 working and it's harder than anything I'll ever do. People just don't like us.I don't know I was just doubting. I know I am a horrible person. But as I prayed about it every night
and was reading my scriptures I was like, what can God not do? Nothing. He can do everything and I know that so why am I doubting? So my faith
was strengthened very much so and then that day we were able to set a guy named Danny for baptism. He just happened to be home at the time
we were planning on being there and we had an amazing team up with us. Have miracles ceased? Nope not at all! They're very real. :)

So we're going to try our best to baptize monthly. :) Much prayer would be appreciated. haha

We also had exchanges this week. It was amazing. We got in with so many people who usually would not let us in.

I was a little stressed out planning for that night because I felt like we needed to see these people, but I knew they wouldn't let

us in. So we put them down in our dinky planners expecting it to be a failure and we got in with every single one. I was very humbled.

Man I just need to work on having more faith! I'm seeing a pattern here. Anyway. This week was just amazing.

It was still hard though because we had what we call "The Great Car Shuffle." So we had just set a plan with sisters we were sharing a car with and

it was going really well and great and stuff. And then we get a call from the zone leaders that we were getting a different car with different
sisters and so on. It was really complicated! Anyway the new sisters we are sharing with are new sisters and they're just really difficult to work with.

It's really hard to be like Sisters we have done this before, we know what we are doing, and we promise the plan that we have is really the most effective

plan for sharing a car. Yeah they didn't like it. Usually I would be like that's it get out of the car you're walking for the rest of  your mission. Peace out!

But my comp and I were like okay...you do your thing and we'll do ours and whichever one works better we'll go with that. Our plan did work better like we said,

but they just needed to figure it out on their own the way things work. 

It made me think of like Agency and the huge role it has in the Plan of Salvation. God set a plan for us to follow. Keep the commandments, follow Jesus Christ,

be baptized, and etc...But we are able to choose between right and wrong. How amazing of a gift is that? Good planning on Heavenly Father's part. :) We have to

figure out things by ourselves and that's much more effective than Satan's plan.

Anyway yeah...I'm doing really well. Enjoying the work. :)

Love  you all!

Love, Sister Curfew