September 22, 2014

Hey My Family!!! I'm so glad to hear that ya'll are doing good!!! Thanks so much for the pictures they are awesome! Nice work winning the Spud Tug Jessa! I was telling a family that we were eating dinner with on Saturday that it was Spud Day back home and they thought that was the craziest thing they had ever heard to have spud day haha That's awesome that mom and jessa did a 5K! And horary that you made it to spud break nice work!!!!! I bet that feels good!! Thank you so much for you letters and pictures that you sent me they made my whole week! This week has been great!! It has been crazy but awesome! I can totally understand why people gain so much weight while they are in a mission here. We have been fed like crazy here!! I had my first gumbo it had big ol crabs in it and like whole giant sausages and a ton of shrimp it was pretty great! We also eat a ton of red beans and rice and shrimp shrimp and a little more shrimp haha We have had a dinner appointment almost everynight and a couple of nights we have had 2! The members here are awesome! I did talk on Sunday. I'm glad that Sister Thalgott got that picture to you that was so nice of her. They called me Saturday and asked me to talk so that wasn't very nice but it worked out alright haha I talked about temples and how we get to be families forever and since mom gave me her soft heart I pretty much stood up there and cried that whole time haha but that's alright the spirit was there and I got to talk about my family and how much I love them so it's all good! We got a new investigator this week her name is Sue she is awesome! She is an older lady and her brother that lived with her just died and she is really sad about it. But she had us over for dinner and we talked and laughed and showed her the restoration movie and then talked with her a little bit about how she would get to see her brother again and it was a really sweet spirit and I am so excited to see her this week. We also had a lesson with Mallory Thursday at the browns house. It was amazing!! We kind of taught her the 5th lesson and mostly just talked about how her family is really being hard on her for her trying to become a Mormon and it has been really hard on her, and she really wants to do what's right but she wants to have it be her choice she we all knelt down in the living room and she said the most sincere prayer that I think I have ever heard and as soon as she started saying it she just starting crying and you could just feel Heavenly Father's love flood into the room it was awesome! Everyone was crying and it was just really beautiful! We talked about Eternal Families with her too and I cried talking about my amazing family then too, I have not been doing good this week on the not shedding tears thing haha darn mom :) On Saturday we did some Service in Madeville and we had to bike 31 miles haha It was a long ways and it wasn't pretty but we made it haha I am doing so good!! He is taking such good care of me it is crazy! I have SO many blessings in my life and one of my favorite is my awesome family that I know I get to be with forever!! I hope you have a great week!!! Thanks for all of your love and prayers!!! I love you with all of my heart and soul!!! Love Elder Dye