How is everyone?
Shout out to the soon to be Baylee Relf. Love you bay! Go marry in that temple sista friend. I'm still doing great! Same old happy Sister Dunford! IM SO THANKFUL for everything that I have. I am just constantly feeling blessed. It's a wonderful time of year.
It's P DAY. Sister Wilkes is having so much fun being a girl on our P days.. Hahah! You know what we did today? My hair, And then we got our nails done. And then we went shopping. And then we got our eyebrows threaded. Then grocery shopping. And then we made caramel brownies for a sister in our apartment because her birthday is tomorrow. HAHA. Sister Wilkes had never had her eyebrows threaded or her nails done so this was a new and exciting day for her! Preparation for the week you know? ;)
It's getting so cold here!! Time to pull out the winter coat!! haha. I have been a little sick the last few days so yesterday my companion and I had to stay in for a little while. Being sick as a missionary is not fun. I'd rather be busy and not have time think all day long. But oh well. Much needed resting.
Thanksgiving is real soon too.. And transfers are the day before
thanksgiving .. So you just hope if you get transferred that someone
will have you over for dinner.. Haha. It would be interesting to be in a whole new area with a new companion in a new zone for thanksgiving.
So first highlight of the week was MY COUSINS BAPTISM that I had
permission to skype into!! That was so amazing. It was SO good to see all my wonderful family on skype and say hello. That was so cool and something I will never forget. I'm so grateful for the opportunities that I have in this mission. Online proselyting is so great. (For those who are confused) I had the opportunity to contact my cousin on Facebook who wasn't a member and I had permission to teach him online. (He lives back home in Utah) well coolest thing ever he got baptized on Saturday and my mission president was amazing and allowed me to skype the baptism. SO COOL. I love my family SO much. Hahaha I was laughing when Ky and McCall were crying. HAHA. Love you guys. That was so special!!
Another highlight was zone conference!!!
It was SO fun. Haha. So it started and we had like a question/answer
meeting for like two hours where we could ask questions to the mission president and he would answer. The questions could be rule based, or doctrine, or anything really. It was SO good. He clarified a lot of the things for us. President Morgan is an AMAZING mission president. I only hope I can be half as amazing as him when I grow up. After the questions, we had lunch and then split into smaller groups like 8 missionaries per group. Each group was asked to make a video about why we believe in Christ. ... I have not laughed that hard since Sister Wilkes and I DOWNED the chocolate cake. HAHA. Oh my heavens. My group made up a dance. And two missionaries made up a rap and rapped while we danced. Ha ha ha. Oh my heck. It was so funny. Then after we finished making our videos we all got back together and we watched each groups video!! We had popcorn and soda and we all laughed so hard. Don't worry we weren't JUST having fun. President Morgan had some amazing remarks after and realllly brought the spirit. It was too good. I love President Morgan.
So there is a new woman we are teaching. She is 49 years old and her
name is Dana. Dana was a referral from a member in a different ward.. Well when I called dana to find out a time we could go meet with her, the first thing she said asked me was if I could bring her a pack of cigarettes. Haha. And then she continued to cry on the phone when I told her we couldn't and I told her we were going to try to help her to overcome smoking. Well we finally went to Dana's to meet her and OH MAN. I feel so bad. Dana is an intense drug addict. Intense... She is for reals struggling. I don't think I have ever seen anything like her. In all honesty her life is just NOT in a good place. I can't explain details but lets just say DRUGS ARE SO BAD. Dana is going to need A LOT of help to get out of this mess. She will need more than just two sister missionaries. (For real) But.. I know with my whole heart that Christ can heal her. I know that no matter how messed up things get, that Christ will heal us. No matter how far off we think we have gone, we can always come back. I know that if it weren't for Christ's atonement, We would all be trapped. And we would not be able to progress. But because of him we can change!! We just need to have faith in him and put Christ at the center of our lives. We need to commit ourselves to Jesus Christ spiritually, physically, and emotionally. He WILL bless our lives with direction, and happiness, peace, love, relief, joy!! When we live a Christ centered life, we live a MUCH better life. Not because there won't be trials, but because we can get through the trials with the help of Christ. I have a STRONG testimony of the atonement. I have felt it's cleansing and healing powers in my life. I know that Christ can lift the burdens off of our backs. I have witnessed it myself. I love Christ. And I am beyond grateful for the love that he has for ALL of us.
That's ALL for now people. LOVE YOU LOTS. CTR
Love abbba!!
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