November 17, 2014

Dear Family, 

That was a really cool story about that boy! I'm glad he's alright. Yikes! I have no idea who the Griffeth family is.

Occasionally I have a really hard time focusing but that's alright. I'm beyond grateful I've had this opportunity to serve

and my favorite thing about it is that I will continue to be a missionary for the rest of my life. I just won't have a badge on. 

Which will be great because then people won't stare me while I eat!! Biggest pet peeve ever. 

Anyway sounds like things are moving forward with the remodel. I can understand how the clutter would get to you...cleanliness is

next to Godliness right? 

Sound like winter season has hit just about everywhere...it's gotten really cold here as well. I'm still trying to figure out whose idea 

it was to put sister missionaries in a skirt in the middle of blessed Nebraska for the winter. Not my favorite rule ever! I'm thankful for long boots,

fleece lined tights, gloves, and a coat. Granted it takes me like 8 years to get dressed in the morning but I'm warm. 

This week was really the usual up and down week of a missionary. I'm getting so tired sometimes I just dream about sleeping. I don't know how

Elders do this for two years...missionary work is so hard. It's a great work but it's hard work. 

Some miracles that happened this week was we had a zone conference in Lincoln!! So I got to spend some time in a city that I served in for 9 months. 

It was great and a couple of Holmes Lake members came to the church and said hi! Oh my goodness it was so great to see them. 

But a really cool miracle happened on the way to Lincoln. We were driving on I-80 just chugging along and we were coming up on this car. It had Iowa license plates

and a Montana sticker. I was like I know that car! Where do I know that car? Then it dawned on me that it was my ward mission leader from Sioux City!!! 

We came up side by side their car and we honked and sure enough it was the Walkers!! AH!! It was such a tender mercy to see them. I hadn't heard or seen from them 

in a year. So we pulled off at some random exit cried and talked and then Bro Walker was like this is great but I'm cold meet us at Perkins in Lincoln and we'll all go get

hot chocolate! :)  It was wonderful. The exact timing of meeting them on the freeway was for sure not a coincidence. :) 

Zone Conference was wonderful we had Elder Nielson from the 70 come. Both Elder and Sister Nielson answered some of my questions and concerns and it was 

really great to see some of my past companions like Sis McCauley!!! I also saw some Elders and Sisters from my MTC district. It feels like just yesterday we were all 

there goofin off. 

Then another miracle happened yesterday...my comp and I felt like we needed to go visit this member. So we did and we were just talking to her because she was having 

a super rough time and was just struggling so hard with some things. So we went over and she's making pumpkin muffins and cuts her finger on the can of pumpkin. The cut is really deep, so blood is everywhere and she can't handle blood at all. So I'm holding paper towel after paper towel on her thumb and we're like Sister we need to go the ER. So we do. Luckily I know the ER people and they totally remembered me! So this Sister is just crying as she getting shots and stitches and what not and we're trying to distract her with funny stories. We make through the ER and then it dawned on us that we hadn't planned on seeing that Sister at all. She just came in my thoughts and in the thoughts of my wonderful companion. Sis Harris and I had been struggling so much this week, a lot of things have happened and this area is just so hard sometimes.  Yeah it's been rough, we hate going to church here because of some people. Anyway needless to say we felt like we weren't making a difference at all. We were discouraged. We felt like God didn't trust us at all in this area and many more emotions. But we realized that we are worthy to have the Spirit with us despite our weakness and despite our discouragement we can do the Lord's will. It's amazing how the Lord teaches us things. But yeah. 

We can only pray that we can see peoples hearts change this week.

Now that I wrote a super long email....whoops. Love you guys and thanks for all the support. 

Love, Sister Curfew