Hi family and friends!
WELL I DID IT! On Saturday I hit my official one month mark!
Hip hip horray! It feels so good to have a little bit of time under my belt.
All of the missionaries in my zone have been out for at least a year-well
except Sister Magleby, but she's halfway done. Anyway feeling new is kind of
hard, but at the same time I love it because I have a lot of time and
missionary experiences to look forward to!
Alright I guess I'll start off with a quick story that might
scare you a little bit, but personally I think it's hilarious. Thursday was super pretty outside and so we thought we
would go over to a park to do our weekly planning. There was a whole
bunch of kids and moms there so we thought it was fine, but pretty soon all
these sketchy teenagers and young adults started coming to the park. Then
before we knew it they were all yelling " EAST SIDE" "WEST
SIDE" soooo me and Sister Magleby made like a tree and leafed. We almost
witnessed a gang fight. But don't worry because we are safe and it was just a
funny thing that happened. We got a good laugh out of it. Good old Banning.
OH MY GOSH MOM I ATE THE MOST DELICIOUS FOOD THIS WEEK.
There is a Filipino family in our ward named the Lagazo's. She is an AMAZING
cook! She basically fed us this delicious feast and I was soooo happy. Tara
will get a kick out of this next part- they started talking about Balut. Do you
remember that Rhett and Link episode where they ate balut? Yeah that's all I
was thinking about. Apparently it's a huge delicacy in the Philippines and they
make all the missionaries eat it... Luckily they didn't have any then, but they
sound pretty determined for us to try it.. I'll let you know.
Alright so I think I have talked about Monique and Natalie
before, but I don't know if I have explained the whole story. Monique lives in
the nice part of Banning with her mom and grandma and she has three kids.
Sister Magleby and the Sister before me found her and apparently it
was quite the miracle. We have been giving Monique and her 9 year-old daughter
Natalie lessons. Oh my gosh they are so prepared! They totally get everything
and I just want it for them so bad!!! They just really need the Gospel!!!! It's
been super hard getting them to church. Yesterday Natalie broke her arm so they couldn't come. But
they know like half of the people in the ward because Monique grew up here.
Isn't that awesome???? Please pray for them. Satan is working superrrr hard on
their family right now. Ugh I hate Satan. He's so annoying.
Oh lol I forgot to tell you I gave a talk in Church
yesterday. I just talked about missionary work. I didn't have anything to record
it on... but I will send you my notes! Everyone said I did a good job, but
people always say that, sooo... One of the Zone leaders in my district shook my
hand after and said I did really good, so that was nice. The missionaries in my
district are really great missionaries. They're just super nice people.
Last night we had dinner with the Westbrooke family AND THEY
ARE AWESOME. They have 5 kids and their oldest is 16. Madi-she's 14- is such an
awesome little missionary! She brought a friend who isn't a member, but has
less active parents. She wants to take lessons from us! We watched the
"Because of Him" Mormon message and the "Come unto Christ"
mutual theme for 2014 music video. Taylor, Tara, and Dannon need to watch that. I loved it. We just talked about
the importance of Christ in our lives and the spirit was there so strong.
Eating dinner in member's homes is seriously the best. After you have been out
all day in the lone and dreary world, walking into a home that has the spirit
present feels so good. Having a worthy priesthood member in your home makes
such a difference. I think I totally took advantage of it when I lived at home.
I even noticed a difference at USU when I was living with all girls. Tay Tay,
Tara, and ManDan- TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LIVING AT HOME! The spirit is so strong in
our home and I miss it so much! Remember when that family bought our house in
Virginia and said something about all the love she felt and that's one of the
reasons why they wanted to buy our house? That's because the Holy Ghost was
there.
Alright I guess I will leave you with a spiritual thought. I
have to do an hour of training everyday in addition to my other studies.
Yesterday, Sister Magleby and I were reading in Alma when Ammon astonishes King
Lamoni. When we were reading about everything that Ammon taught him something
totally hit me. There are missionaries in the Book of Mormon! I honestly feel
so dumb not knowing this before now. I feel like I have never really understood
the Book of Mormon even though I have read it before. Now I read it and study
it every day and I can't get enough of it!!!!!
So when we were reading Alma 18 it totally hit me.
Missionary work is really God's work. It has been since before Christ was even on
the earth. How cool is that?!? And honestly, Heavenly Father doesn't even need
missionaries. If he wanted he could come down and do it all himself. But he
lets people like me do it!!! I seriously feel so blessed and basically awesome
because I can be just like Ammon.
Wow..I'm such a geek...
Anyway-the church is true! Heavenly Father loves all of his
children-even the ones that lived centuries and ages ago!!! This is just a huge
testimony to me that this really is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and God
is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You're all awesome. Go read about Ammon cutting a whole
bunch of arms off then rendering Lamoni speechless. I hope it gets you as
pumped as it got me!
LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!
Love, Sister Shlee.
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| Thank you so much for the valentine!! I love it!!! Also I am wearing a random skirt someone left in the closet so that's pretty cool I guess.... |
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| This is Precious the Pomeranian. I thought Dad would like this picture.... |
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| This one is kind of blurry. This is my first investigator to come to church! Yay! Her name is Kaitlyn and she is nine. This is also the day I gave my talk. |
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