February

"People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel."

So I’ll get $1.00 per sentence?  Ha Ha…  Sis Chase said that I needed to step it up if I wanted to make some money, LOL.   About the guy trying to convert us: Pres. Archibald said that if us going to his church would make him trust us more then we should go, so when he brought it up again yesterday we had to say yes, so we are going to the 7th day Adventist church on Saturday (good thing it won’t affect stake conference this week, :-).  He did come to church with us yesterday.   A) he showed up late...and B) our ward mission leader who was supposed to teach the investigator class decided to not come to church and didn’t call and tell us beforehand either. We found out 5 minutes before the class was supposed to start.  Anyway we also met with another investigator this week and set a date with her for March, so hopefully she will talk to her dad and get baptized then.  Tell James not to worry and give him my email if he’s still worried...

Hey this week in Relief Society we learned how WORK is a good word not a bad word... :-)

So one funny thing, we are teaching this guy named Butch... and picture this... a little heavyset (not too much) Bald with a beard, and a tattoo on his upper right arm and he always wears a Harley shirt... haha sound familiar? :-)

Feb 22… I’m going to South Calgary

Hi, sorry. I had to read through all my emails before I got back to you, and I’m not writing this for the money just more stuff happened than usual this weekend.  I’m going to Queensland/Parkland area with Sis Hill (Las Vegas) and Sis Newbold (Utah). I’m nervous to go, but ready as well.

1) The quilt you might want to wait to finish in the summer

2) Good work on the genealogy.

3) Thanks for keeping me updated on things in the world. We have heard about the stuff going on in Egypt (even missionaries don’t escape that)

4) I heard from Nephi and Liz so you can calm down on them :-)

5) We went to the 7th day Adventist church on Saturday. It was nice and confusing.  Sunday school was about Resilience, and the Pastor made fun of other religions before he started his sermon....and the spirit wasn’t there. Then we went to stake conference and Elder Brimhall from the 70 spoke.  The spirit was very strong and confirmed to both of us that we are in the true church.  Then on Sunday we went to another stake conference meeting and then got an hour training from Elder Brimhall.  He copied our call letter (name, date and address too) and we broke it down and talked about what we promised to do. It was a very good weekend. 

So things are going well.  Sis. Hill has been out 11 months and Sis. Newbold 5 and they have been together for 4 1/2 months.  Yeah 3-leg!  It’s cool I have met a lot of people that Sis. Jackson talked about a year ago, it’s kind of funny, and today our plans are to go to the Army museum with the other 2 sisters in the zone. The area is really good, we have 10 investigators and all of them are really close to having baptismal dates. Oh! and Elder Christofferson (quorum of the 12) is coming to our mission on March 12th, so we will get another mission tour! I got my box, but the zone leader didn’t give it to us until transfers so I distributed most of it as best I could between us and I gave S. Hill and Newbold the 'love bugs'.  That will be cool for Nephi to take James to the MTC, when does James leave again?

Sis Hill knows Danielle Harter.  I thought that was pretty cool! 

Well I have 4 minutes and I probably won’t hear from you again before I get off.  I love you both and miss you and hope that things are flying by for you as well, I will get a picture of the 3 of us this week and send it off next week...  toodles!

"It's not the load that breaks you down... its how you carry it."

-- Lena Horne