May 25th, 2015

Oh my awesome family!! I'm glad to hear that things are going well with yall and that everyone is doing good and is hanging in there! I can't believe that school is already out that really is crazy! That's crazy that it is raining so much there and thought that was just a South problem right now. This week has been a really good and a really crazy one! It started out pretty mellow and then bam on Tuesday night things got kind of crazy and we had to stay up really late for some missionaries to come and spend the night with us. I felt like a parent waiting up for my kid to come home after doing some things he probably shouldn't have been doing, it was definitely a different perspective.They are both awesome missionaries things just happen sometimes but that made Tuesday night and Wednesday pretty interesting. Then on Thursday we had a pretty normal day but on Friday we went on exchanges again and it was pretty interesting. It was my first time taking over our area on an exchange and I haven't been here for very long so I really wanted to do my best to be able to do a good job helping the area and helping the elder that I was on an exchange with. So I kept trying to get things set up and Heavenly Father wasn't having any of it. Plans kept falling through and I couldn't figure out why. And then as I prayed and pondered the quote kept coming in my mind, "Never let a problem to be solved be more important than a person to be loved." And I realized that I was letting the little things get in the way of truly loving this missionary, who is going through some tough things right now, the way that the Savior would have me. And so I stopped everything and just tried my very best to listen to him how I should and it was awesome, I know that the Holy Ghost was helping me listen to him and just truly love him as the Savior would. Also me and Elder Johnson and Elder Davis (the 2 other elders that live with us) had a watermelon fight the other day at lunch. It was so much fun!! We were eating and then Elder Johnson slapped me with a piece of watermelon and then I slapped him back and then he threw a piece and it went down hill from there haha you don't have to ask me or dad twice to throw things :) So needless to say we had a lot of fun but then had to clean up a lot of watermelon haha I also gave a talk on Sunday and started out by quoting the Aaron Tippon song, "you've got to stand for something" and then talked about prayer :) I hope that's not sack religious I love and miss you guys so much it is crazy!! But I know that I am hear for a reason. And I know that I am learning the things that I need to learn to be able to not be quite so white trash so I can return home and live with yall and with our Heavenly Father again someday :) Thanks for all of your love support and prayers they mean so much to me!! I was thinking of a few ideas for my birthday if that is alright maybe a new black belt, some new black shoes, a few new ties (twin ties are really good) , and maybe some cool uncle tyson sunglasses if that's okay :) Talk to you next week!!!