UG! I only have 1 year left! soon I will only have 10 months left, 6 ....... :( :( :( :( :( :( nooooo!!!!!!!!!!

I love everyone out here! how can I go back!??? this is my home! this is where I sweat with exhaustion, this is where I cry and have been held by angels, this is where God has set me free, this is where my testimony has become so unshaken, this is where my heart lies. In this land, I have felt a glimpse of full joy, i have made new eternal friends. I have brought my lost family to the feet of Jesus. I have help uplift the feeble knee, the worried heart, the lost spirit. I have poured out my testimony to the souls we teach!

I am soo excited for Eric! He has no idea what awaits him! .. I didn't!!!!! It is SO Wonderful being a missionary! SO BEAUTIFUL. Its such an honor. HE IS GOING TO BE AN INCREDIBLE MISSIONARY! The Lord needs those who are willing to work! and boy, if you let him know that, he will put you to hard core work! hehe!

I just have to bear you my testimony. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has the fullness of Christ's gospel! It is the Church Christ established when He was alive on the earth. This gospel changes you and makes you want to become better! I can already SEE a difference in Thaddeus..... From the first time we saw him and he yelled out to us, "HEY!! Are you guys the Mormons??" To him bearing his testimony to US just yesterday. He is SO awesome! He was SOO excited when we came to visit and teach him this past week! He kept standing up and saying "this is what I'm talking about!" He is sticking up for Mormons left and right to those who oppose him attending our church. He just pats his chest with his hands and he says "I feel it, I feel it. I want to do better. I know I can do better. I want to learn the Bible, I want to be on the right path! I feel it!" He said to us "I know you guys are gonna be mad at me..but...I got another piercing!" BUT he knows Satan tempts him, and he is trying to stop. Even if its, passing up the joint at the next party. "Step by step" (his words), he is changing and "will change , that maybe one day he can be baptized." The last day we met with him he said, "Ya know I was going to get another tattoo today, but then I remembered our lesson, and I couldn't do it."

HELLO! HEAVENLY FATHER IS AMAZING! It is all his timing!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHH
From lesson to lesson...can you not SEE and FEEL how my joy is full? People are accepting Christ, and witnessing that, we feel a portion of God's holy spirit! in abundance! I know that when you put your FULL faith in God, he WILL deliver you. I see His children putting their faith in him, and I see miracles DAILY. Daily people! This is the BEST NEWS EVER! See how close you get to God and Jesus Christ by serving a mission? You get to feel a little of how Christ felt!!!! ;) Our God is a God of miracles!!!!!!!!

We come closer to understanding our savior BY experiencing trials. We put our faith him him, and that is how we feel the prints of his nails... by believing him, and putting our faith and trust in him, and then seeing the miracle. "Having Faith in God, is having faith in his timing." -Gordon B. Hinkley. Keep trusting God and keep going!!!!

I love my beautiful family ward! They are amazing! each woman...i love them all! I got to be the last one to bear my testimony on Sunday, and as I looked over the great crowd, I simply and boldly told them "you are Zion! I look out at you and I see heaven! You are Zion because you have true faith. you sacrifice everything for the lord. There's no doubt in my mind that Heavenly Father would sacrifice his son for you. You are so righteous and he longs to bless you! I promise you, that if you keep putting your faith and trust in him, and as you sacrifice everything you've got to building his kingdom, he will take you and shape you and mold you and your life into something more beautiful you could ever imagine." One sister came up to me after and Said "thank you for your testimony! 'We are Zion'...that's fantastic!!!' Its so nice....one of the other mothers who is struggling a lot with things, came up to me and said crying "I wish I could have just half your perkiness!" I said smiling "you can!!!!!!!" :) I just love bearing my testimony and always being happy! I love it! Even with all the trials (you guys get the real scoop lol) , I still just try to be HAPPY!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! I LOVE BEING HAPPY!!!!!!!! :) :) :) Smiling makes a HUGE effect on everyone else around you! I honestly have no Idea if I was this happy before my mission. Probably not..... I AM HAPPY AND JOYFULL!!!!!!!!! and Love to express it! I love my family ward.

Our Heavenly Father is AMAZING! His plan for us is so grand!!!!! This earthly life is just a fragment of our eternal perspective..... I showed Thaddeus 2 weeks ago a pen (a Property Loss Management Pen) , which is all white, except for a black 1 cm space, 1 in down from one end. I said, pointing to that 1 in space. "this is our premortal existence." and then pointing to the small black area "this is our earthly life...." and pointing to the huge white space "this is our eternal existence!!!" He told me this past week..."ever since you told me about the pen and our eternal experience, its helped me to think." ..... I can tell you that our every action matters. If we are not building up the kingdom of God, what are we building?

Last week, we where rushing off to our next appointment. I was driving, had just pulled up to a HUGE intersection, waiting to turn right! There where cars everywhere, tall buildings, the wind was blowing, people running illegally across the street, it was just a busy typical Las Vegas intersection with everyone on the move. And then, I saw this little girl with pig tails who looked like Rosie.. She was walking across the street with her dad right in front of us. I just stared at her, looking through my white sun glasses. I actually wasn't smiling, just was watching her walk past us, my hands where on the wheel, and then just as she was walking out of the bottom right hand corner of EVERYTHING going on at the intersection, this little girl turned and looked at me, smiled, and picked up her hand and waved at me!!!! She waved at me!!!!! Out of all that was going on and moving through my head, that little angel waved at me. I call that a tender mercy! I was soo happy! She didn't even know who I was! She waved her little 7 year old white hand at me. Awww!!!!!!

anyways, today we went Hiking today at Red Rock! Red Rock is actually one of the top 5 hiking destinations of all the United States! :) It was awesome! We hiked Ice Box Canyon...for the last part of the bouldering, I took off my shoes!!! It was so fun (and hard) climbing up and across the steep slopes! It was awesome being barefoot! Gripping the cool rock,.... you can never take your shoes off here lol. NO GRASS! :(

Its funny, everyone has rummage sales out here! I know! Rummage sales!

Well, Got to go! I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep being amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! be the hands of Christ! "

Love!