Empty Sea . . .

Hi! It's transfer week so . . .  I email today!  My new companion is Sister Garner.  She was in the empty sea with me.  An AP told me that and I laughed literally forever.  MTC.  Empty Sea . . . HAHAHHA.  Okay so anyway that was a lame joke, but this week has been really good.  I'll write longer but I want you to know I'm on.

This week, i got to go on an exchange with Sister Eyre.  I missed her a lot a lot.  We listened to Veggie Tales all day and it was the best.  It was a pretty rough week work-wise. a lot of things happened that I wasn't too thrilled with, but everything in the Lord's time, right?

Sister Garner is just as fresh and i am, so we're going to rock this area!  I still don't know it very well.  I'm rambling today, cause I'm scatterbrained.  Rough email week.  Can't think straight.  Anyway, I'm looking forward to this next transfer.  Sister Bishop is still in my zone, but she's serving in YSA which is something I don't think i could do because it would kill me to see everyone getting married all around me.

This week it's become very clear to me that each missionary has at least one person who they were sent to find.  I haven't seen it directly from my own efforts but with Sister Bishop saying bye to certain people, it was very obvious that she was sent here for them.  I hope to find my one.

There was a man we took out to teach with us and he was telling us a story that I love.  His daughter cannot keep her room clean for the life of her and for her karate class she was told to clean her room for homework.  One day, he got home from work and she came up to him and said, "Daddy! I cleaned my room!" and he walked in expecting that she had picked up one or two things and thought it was clean.  When he walked in, it was spotless.  He held her in his arms and said, "I am so proud of you.  I know this was hard for you.  I love you" and hugged her forever.  He explained that he knew the next day that it would be a mess, but that for the time being, she had tried. and that was enough.  God isn't asking for perfection.  He knows we will make mistakes, but we have to keep trying to be better.  It's hard but it's worth feeling His love.

The District

Sweet Sister Bishop 

The Zone