Hey Family!
Dad, I am so glad to hear everything is okay. I'll be waiting to hear more tomorrow but I am relieved its been an easy fix. Thanks for listening to Mom when she says to take care of your body.
Caleb,
I am sorry that pictures are being so difficult. Did you guys check my
tera-bite? I thought I told you they were on there and how to find them.
(not the family t-drive, MY tera-bite). And CONGRATS! on the part in
the musical! I wish mom and dad could take video of it cuz that would be
awesome to see. Keep it up! One of my biggest regrets in Junior High
and High School was that I didn't try new things like Drama or Choir. I
was always to scared. So don't be like me. All of you boys. Try as many
good things as you can, discover your talents (temporal and spiritual
and develop them!
So
guess what!!!! In just under month your sister will be taking her
mandate to share the gospel to new frontiers... namely FACEBOOK! That's
right! the digital wave has finally hit New York! Right now the Zone
Leaders and Sister Training leaders are testing things out so that by
the time we all get access we will know how. We will be using our home
accounts so don't be surprised come October 1st
to see my online! We are pretty psyched. Its going to be super weird.
Our ZL's have taken the first 2 weeks to just clean theirs up and make
sure that they are good representatives of Christ. It'll be an
adventure.
In other news. We had a baptism this week! It happened on Friday night in Flanders Bay and it couldn't have been more perfect. Pictures included.
Yesterday
we had Branch Conference and we were well taught by our Stake
President. He answered many of my prayers directly but the thing that
stood out the most to me was his focus on using the manuals of the
church. He said that the spirit and power of God is everywhere in the
universe and the way we tap into that is by priesthood processes, or in
other words by obeying our priesthood leaders and keeping our covenants.
He really stressed that if we have manuals written by the leaders of
the church and fail to use them and abide by their principles then we
are in essence creating our own church, because that is not the way our
Father has told us to do things. It was an eye opener to me and
increased a greater desire to understand and live by the principle of
PMG even more. He also touched on the sermon on the mount and what it
means to really be a peacemaker... I have some repenting to do. That
part was the answer to my prayer.
Transfer
calls come at the end of this week and everyone seems to think that I
will be leaving Riverhead. Our District has basically been the same for a
good 5 months so we're expecting a big upheaval. I don't know if it
will be me but either way change is coming. I am looking forward to
whatever that change is to push me to the next level and learn even
more. I will be very sad to leave though and I would be very sad to
leave sister peacock or have her leave me. Sigh... but hey! We'll have
facebook to stay in touch soon! Haha. Still not sure how that is going
to work...
I
love you all! I am so glad that everything is okay over there. Daddy. I
love you. I love all of you. I am so grateful for the family I have and
the peace that the gospel brings even in the face of hard trials. Our
mission President always says that if we are living the gospel right
then the mountains become mole hill and the mole hills of life we just
glide right over. I felt that this week. At first this seemed like a
mountain, but then through the spirit it became a mole hill and peace
came.
Learn, Live, Love. Know, Do, BECOME.
-Sister Maren Hale.
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