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| Part of my birthday present was this incredible sign. My favorite quote- "In God's plan there are no endings, Only everlasting beginnings." 20 years ago my eternal life with the best parents began.. I'm so lucky! |
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| All my chocolate... well there's more..but this is what I felt like taking a picture of. And yes that is a Jesus chocolate. And yes, that is organic healthy chocolate in that bag! I found the answer to my addiction! This is even healthy! It has no sugar. Just dark chocolate and honey. My goodness I love it. |
4-28-2014
First of all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA LEATHAM! I love you so much! I've
loved you since the day I was born, and for eternity before then as well. I
feel so blessed to share a birthday with such an incredible woman. I look up to
you so much! You are the most amazing blessing to our family. I hope your
birthday is so wonderful. I'm sending you hugs and kisses!!
and Yes it's my birthday too! It's been a great one so far.
I really do have the best family. All I wanted was a letter from each of them
and they definitely exceeded that expectation! And thank everyone for all the
birthday email! I feel so loved! Out of all the presents I've been given,
probably 90% of it was chocolate. People know me too well. God, love, and
chocolate. Those are my basic needs and wants. I love my family and friends! I
really have been so blessed to be surrounded by the most incredible people.
Wow. Also for my birthday I FINISHED THE BOOK OF MORMON. Wooh! Perfect timing.
Wow, I love that book!
I can't believe I am 20 years old. I seriously feel so old
today. I am no longer a teenager! I don't even know how to be 20! But I'll take
it one day at a time. And now I want to take a moment and admire God's hand in
my life. We had interviews this week and Sister Durrant spoke about what a huge
blessing the 'age change' was for so many. I thought about it. It changed my
life. Completely turned it around. I couldn't help but cry because God
literally loves me so much, He lowered the age at the exact moment I needed it.
He once again saved my life. My mission is and forever will be the best
choice I ever made. I heard a story from someone in our ward. His brother
taught the deacons a long time ago and told them if they went on missions he
would pay them $500. All but one went, and he said it was worth every cent! It
is most definitely. The same man taught a group of primary girls. He gave them
each a dollar and said they could spend that dollar or they could save it and
if they got married in the temple, he would pay them each $100 if they brought
back that $1. What an amazing man! And I love the emphasis on missions. My
future marriage would not be the same if I didn't serve a mission, I know that
for a fact!
So we had such an amazing week!
We found 5 new investigators. It was such a huge miracle.
Two of them are super solid, too. One lady and her family were a referral
from the Evans. Her husbands family all joined the church within the past 10
years. Her whole side of the family is Catholic, so they get pressure from both
sides. She wants to investigate and see which one fits her family the best.
What an amazing mother! Then we are teaching another lady who was a referral from the Bishop. Her story is incredible. So she is 45 and is
fighting colon cancer. She goes through intense chemo treatment and it's really
affecting her and her family's life. Her biological father died when she was
very young. She never knew his side of the family, but 5 years ago she was doing
family history work on her father and his side of the family (who are all
members) found her! They told her she should get a blessing, so they contacted
our bishop. He then asked her the willing and brief invitation and BAM we are
teaching her! She is such a strong woman. She really has lived a difficult life. The gospel will help her so
much. It's so amazing to be able to know and love her.
Robert hasn't been to church in 3 weeks...pray for him and
Judy.. :(
John Cook is pretty sick.. I need prayers.
The Riegals are going to church and the father is taking the
lessons! Prayers answered!
Byron ran into anti material...prayers.
We had a ward talent show on Saturday and Sister Reboquio
and I wrote more words to the Cup song/Called to Serve. It was really good,
everyone loved it! We also spoke on Sunday. Everyone said they loved that as
well! Interviews were great. Those were the last interviews the Durrants will
give before they leave! Crazy. They asked me to sing at that meeting as well.
I've been able to sing practically every week! I love it! I heard David
Archuleta is home.. crazy!
My companion is incredible. She's doing so good! Her life is
such an example. Her foster parents are the mission president and his wife of a
mission in the Philippines. Her family is in too much poverty to take care of
all the kids, that's why she is fostered. She converted to the gospel at age 10
and a lot of her family is less active now. Seriously she is so strong, I love
her! She is such a blessing to me. I thank God every day.
Ether 12:27 is my scripture of the week!
"Pure Christ like love flowing from true righteousness
can change the world." Elder Holland
I love y'all so much! All y'all and each y'all. Thank you so
much for such a wonderful birthday.
Sister Kristina Dalling
Sorry everyone but I had to get evidence of this!
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This is my gigantic spider bite. Yep, it's 2 weeks old and
still nasty. You should have seen it last week. This seriously looks like it's
healed a ton. The story: We were just outside and my arm started itching, I
scratched it barely and my skin started peeling. Then I had a huge bump and it
was red and my skin was raw. It was disgusting. We tracted into a nurse last
week and she said it was a spider bite and that I was super lucky and I should
have seen a doctor. Apparently spiders here in Texas can be very dangerous. And
this was a huge spider. Those are the bite marks, pretty gross right? Good
thing I didn't die! Just kidding ;) It's fine, just kind of horrible looking.
p.p.s. Also! This is completely unrelated but when the group
of missionaries that Sister Reboquio entered with came into the mission, one of
the new sisters came up to me. She said 'don't think this is creepy or anything
but I know all about you! I stalked your blog ever since I decided to serve a
mission.' Made my day! Seriously-haha. This is such a small world. Thought
y'all would enjoy that!
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