February 23rd, 2015

Hey my family!! How's it going? I am glad to hear that you survived the week, I can't even imagine a dance recital that big...dad is a strong man haha It is so crazy to hear about all of these people moving and growing up. It seems like just yesterday we were over at the moultons and I shot Darin in the eye haha Jordan can't be old enough to go on a mission yet! 12 degrees that is freezing!! People are settling down after Madi Gras which is really nice. It has been a pretty good week this week! We had a service project with this crazy old lady and we were chopping down a huge tree in her backyard. The problem was that she only had like a 8 foot ladder so there wasn't a whole lot that we could do for her unless we fell it right into her neighbors barn. So we were trying to figure out how we were going to do it when her nephew showed up and he grabbed the chainsaw and yelled "I'm from the south I don't need any tools like that to cut down a tree!" and he just went ape crazy and started cutting it down right towards the neighbors barn, so we got out of the way and prayed that we weren't going to have to fix a barn next week. And truthfully I can't tell you how, I have cut down quite a few trees in my lifetime and there is NO reason that tree should have fell how it did he didn't wedge or direct in anyway. But the boss man upstairs must have laughed at us and our prayers and he guided that tree down safely. He really does always have our back :) Elder Kipishka of the Seventy came and spoke to us at zone conference on Saturday and it was awesome! He is from Germany and is just a happy guy through and through. He is always smiling kind of like Bro. Hoskins. It was one of those meetings were he rebuked us and told us how we could be doing so much better than we are, but since he did it with a smile on his face it didn't hurt quite as bad haha I am having so much fun being a missionary!! We are teaching a guy named lee forret who is getting baptized on the 7th of march I am so excited for him!! Hope that yall have a great week!!!! Love Mud :)