July 6th, 2015

It sounds like yall have had quite the week! I hope that Jake has an awesome birthday and that all goes well with Girls camp! Good work in Volleyball Jessa!! Things here are going really well! Things with my companion are going a lot better, thanks for all of your prayers. I am still working on always being patient with him sometimes but it is a good lesson to learn and I am getting a lot better at it! I'm not sure why I always get to be such good friends with all of the older ladies but for some reason a lot of my best friends on my mission so far are older women haha I got hugged by two different ones this week, one while we were visiting here and the other after sacrament meeting after I had borne my testimony, she gave me a big ol hug and told me that she didn't even feel bad about it haha I love these people so much! and I love being a missionary so much. The lady that hugged me after sacrament told me that I had to share my testimony with yall today I don't want to get beat up so I will :) I just really am so grateful that I get to be a missionary! Cause I get to become even better friends with our brother Jesus Christ and with our Heavenly Father. They are my homies :) They loves me no matter what, they humble me when I need to be humbled a little bit, they teach and test me, polish and refine me, and when I feel like they are never going to find a diamond in this lump of coal they laugh with me and talk a little trash with me until I realize that they don't care how much I fall short every day, they just want me to be happy and keep on trying until I make it back home to them. And that we have a perfect atonement that is even for white trash Louisisana rednecks like me so that we can keep on trying until we get to be with them again. I also know that one of the greatest tools to pick us up and dust us off is the Book of Mormon another Testament of Jesus Christ. And that prayer is one of the sweetest things ever cause we really do get to talk directly to our Father in Heaven. I love my family and I love my Shelley 8th ward family to! I can feel everyones prayers and they mean more to me than I can ever say. In the name of Jesus Christ amen. I love yall!! Love mud :)