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week.
ITS BEAUTIFUL here. The trees. I'm just speechless. AHHH.
So I loved this last week. It was just good. I seriously wish that
there was a way for all of you to just watch the highlights of my week like a movie. Because there is no way for you to even understand the things I'm doing and learning. The emails don't do it justice. One day I will invent a camera that magically follows missionaries so that their families can see what they are REALLY doing. I just love my mission.
I think this email will be way random!!
I really really love my companion. She is SO funny. We DIE laughing all the time. This is one experience we had this week. So. One of the members in our ward made us dinner and had us come pick it up. So we pick it up and it was a yummy taco salad. And she gave us this giant chocolate cake. Haha. We looked at it and We were like psh. Not even tempting..(or so we thought.) I told Sister Wilkes I wasn't going to eat any of it because I would just feel sick after. HA. Well she opens the box and mmmmmm. I stared at it really hard. And then I said MMM I will just lick the frosting. So I lick a tiny tiny bit. Then she's like I wanna try!! So she gets a piece and is just loving it. Then I was like mm I will have a liiiiitle more. ... 5 minutes later we had devoured the cake. Hahahah. I was like SISTER WILKES what the crap just happened!!! We had chocolate everywhere. I was just not feelin so hot. And then we were just crying laughing. I haven't laughed that hard in a loooooong time. Well you might think this story is pointless and boring but let me tell you what I learned. Temptations come LOOKING very nice. That chocolate cake... Looked real good. I thought I could just be around it and not even give in. But it took ONE tiny lick and then 5 minutes later I looked like a criminal with chocolate on my face. I couldn't even remember how I got from point A to point Z. If I had just not even licked the cake I would have been healthy and happy. This little story is just way too similar to the temptations we have in life. They come lookin real nice. And you KNOW not to give in. You KNOW that you will feel like crap after. But for some little reason right when the temptation is in front of you, NOTHING else matters. Am I right? And then after you've given in to that temptation you can't understand why it was that you let your guard down in that moment. DONT GIVE IN TO TEMPTATIONS. DONT DO IT. Just make your decision RIGHT now that you won't give in to certain things. Life will be better that way. CTR.
Now let me share my favorite green smoothie recipe with you all because Its so good.
1 cup of unsweetened coconut water
2 big handfuls of spinach
1 frozen banana
2 tablespoons of almond butter
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 scoop of protein powder
And ICE
And then think of sister dunford when you drink it. YUM.
We had stake conference which was great!!! This stake is real great.
Super awesome members. We were at a training meeting and some man
walked up to me and was like do you know me? I was like no. And then
come to find out he is my dads REAL good friend!!! I had another one
of those moments where I just felt SO blessed to be where I am. He is going to take my companion and I out to lunch. I can't explain how grateful I am for the people that are so kind to me. Ahhhh so
grateful.
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| My dads good friend from college! |
Another one of those blessed moments was when this cute investigator
named Monica from Brazil bought me two pairs of real nice tights!! She had seen me at the trunk or treat on Friday night and saw that I was a little bit cold. And my legs were just a shivering. So the next day she went and bought me tights!!! HOW NICE!!! She didn't even know me very well and she isn't even a member of the church!!! I love people.
OH my goodness I just read Alma 32 today in my Book of Mormon reading and I just AH. It's SO good. FAITH really really is like a seed. Everyone needs to go read Alma 32 right after they are done reading this email because it's just my favorite thing. Doesn't even matter how many times you have read it. Read it OVER and OVER. I love the Book of Mormon.
Okay. My thoughts are so scattered right now I wish I could keep
typing. But I will end now :)
I LOVE the crap out of all if you. And I know, with my whole heart
that this church is true.
Love abbs!
Ps I painted this on a window at the care center we volunteer at :)
the old people LOVE it. SO fun :) hehehehe
HAHA and whatever the crap Ebola is I am laughing so hard at this
little picture. Ebola Ebola Ebola. Wah wah wah.
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