Hey Thorne Fam!
Man, this week was a doozy! I feel like we did so much and
worked so hard and had some good plans but nothing seemed to pan
out. :/ But we will work harder next week and I know that we will see
more success.
As for me: I am doing so well! We had an interesting day
yesterday. We were completely iced in. It was my first big freezing rain storm!
Our car was completely coated in ice and I actually got to see ice shards
falling from the sky. Not snow, or hail, it's called "ice pellets",
little frozen shards of rain. It was so crazy!!! So we took the day to do
some more studies, and get a lot of little projects done that I just haven't
had the time for and had been really piling up. So I feel so much lighter now
and like I can focus so much more because I didn't realize how much I was
stressing about all those little projects until they were done! Sigh... :) Such
a good feeling.
As for investigators: we only have one progressing: Sandy.
Sandy is living in Lexington now during the week and in
Morehead on the weekend so he did attend Stake Conference with Sister Gibbs.
From what we hear he really enjoyed it. We don't really know if we are still
set on his bap date. Sister Gibbs said she is not sure if he's started on tobacco
again and we haven't been able to get a hold of him to check on that.... So I
guess we will see next week!
Danielle canceled our appointment again. Apparently she was
up all night the night before throwing up so she couldn't meet with us. Which
means we didn't get the WoW taught which means she can't get baptized December
29th... So we are meeting with her this week and we will assess and move
forward. Day by day.
As for everyone else, Tung we haven't met with. Jeannie came
to the adult session of stake conference when Brother Curry spoke but she
seemed really critical and not open at all... We are going to try to have one
more lesson with her and then see.
As for your email:
1) Thanks Daddy for the hump day package!!! It was so sweet
and we both really enjoyed it. :D
2) So I need to resolve something, Sister Saunders isn't
training Sister Austin. I got confused. But Sister Austin was Sister LeFevre's
comp in the MTC. So that's where the relation is. But I don't know where Sister
Austin is at now.
3) We didn't get to go to the Broadcast last night because
we didn't leave our apartment all day! :P We didn't even go to Stake Conference
because the roads were too scary. But I will have to try to find time to watch
it some time. :) Sounds incredible. :)
4) Brit: I'll talk to you more in your email. Love you!
5) Mandy: Sounds like you're having a blast with the Ovation
girls! Enjoy it! It goes by fast. :)
6) Josh: Congrats on your calling! How fun! I bet you're
doing an amazing job. :)
7) Brandon: Hey dude! I love and miss you so much! I hope
that you're having an awesome Christmas!
As for my spiritual thought: I've been thinking a lot this
week on Enduring to the End. EttE. It's crazy to think that I have been out
here for 9 months and how much I have grown and seen in that time. Sometimes it
feels like it's been eternity and sometimes it feels like it's all gone by in
the blink of an eye. But I think of Elder Dube's talk at conference on Looking
Forward. Yes, I have accomplished a lot. Yes, we may have come so far. But
there is still so much our Father still wants to do with us. So much growing
left to be a part of. One of my fav scriptures on EttE is 2 Nephi 31:20.
"Wherefore ye must press forward with a steadfastness... of hope. If ye
shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end...
Ye shall have eternal life." I know that though we have each accomplished
much in our lifetimes, as long as there is another day, there is more to learn.
I know that as we truly devote our entire selves to God, that we will be truly
happy enduring to the end. I would invite each of you to continue to press
forward in righteousness, feasting up on the word of Christ and enduring to the
end so that each of us may be able to partake of eternal life.
I love you all so much! Shorter email this week, not much to
report on. But there will be more next week!
Our next big
adventure. We got stuck. Like seriously very stuck in the mud. A nice neighbor
finally stopped and towed us out. It was like a foot and a half deep! That
takes some talent right?....
Playing in the snow.
It was also raining. Rain while there's snow on the ground. Kentucky weather is
so weird... But so much fun!!!
This was us being
iced in and deciding that obviously we needed to make a snowman. So this is
Iron Snowman because he looks like Iron Man with his pepsi bottle button. Can't
say we aren't creative!
So after we made Iron
Snowman, we obviously had to have a snowball fight... Obviously. So we both got
soaking wet and FREEZING cold. But well worth it. :)
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