It's Going Good

Hope everything is going good for ya'll. Training is going good so far. I'm not dead yet so that should count for something haha. My new Comp's name is Sister Seymour from Indiana. She is a cutie pie and we have a lot of things in common. It's been weird how many old feeling and memories have been coming back from when I was being trained. At the training meeting I was probably just as nervous as she was haha. It wasn't until this whole process started that I began to realize just how far I've come and just how much I really have learned while I've been out. Change is slow and hard sometimes but I'm so grateful for it. My mission has been such a blessing.

 So I have officially been away from home for 6 months! How crazy is that? It seems like not that long ago but going through all of the days it seems like way longer. I'm one third of the way done with my mission now. So weird! Also, because I'm training I will probably stay in this same area for the next three months which will mean that I will be here in Diamond Bar for half of my mission! I was warned that I would be banned in Chino haha.

This week was filled with many miracles. I was with Sister Cromwell from Sunday to Wednesday until I got my new comp and man oh man, we had so many awesome conversations. Everything that we talked about was exactly what I need to hear and and helped me to feel so much more at peace about it all. God works is mysterious ways and my testimony of that was really strengthened for those few days. I've felt a lot of peace about things and He has helped me to understand that it will all be okay. I'm getting to the point where I can honestly say that I really love my mission. It hasn't been in the way I expected either. It's not that it has been super fun all of the time but rather because I have seen just how amazing the gospel is and I love being apart of that. The people here are so inspiring and I love getting to know them. They definitely aren't perfect but they try their hardest each and every day. I get to see how God works in each of their lives. How awesome is that? At the same time, it can be really hard and tiring but oh so worth it. "Salvation was never an easy task" as Pres Holland would say, but that doesn't mean that you can't learn to love the process. I challenge each of you who read this email to bring up the gospel in at least one of your conversations this week and see how it goes. You never know who you might  help and what you might help inspire. DO IT! It will be so awesome.

So I heard that everyone is going to Sarah's for Thanksgiving. Fun! Hope that everything goes good. I also heard about little Marlee's blessing and your food poisoning fiasco haha. Got to experience the bad to know the good eh haha. I know how you all felt if it makes you feel any better. Remember when I threw up in the LAX airport on our way to Australia and was sick the whole time hehe. Good times. Send me pics of Thanksgiving okay! Btw it is like 90 degrees here haha. It's like the warmest Thanksgiving I've ever had.

Okay, so I have decided that for Christmas I don't want anything. Instead, I want you to spend the money and time that you would have spent on me and give it to someone that needs it more than me. So start thinking of service projects or doorbell ditches or someone that you can help and then on Christmas you can send me an email(and pics, of course) telling me what you did and how you felt. I know it probably sounds a little cheezy but I am so serious. So start getting those creative juices going, emkay.

Well, I love you all so much. Don't forget to count your blessings every day and I promise that you will start to realize just how blessed we really are. President Utchdorf gave an awesome talk entitled Grateful in any Circumstance last conference. It is amazing and I would encourage you all to read it. Let me know if anyone ever needs any prayers!

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows