A few weeks ago Hannah and her companion were rear ended and she has been getting some treatments. -just a note of explanation....
I'm not too worries about what Dr. Peck told me. If you want you can feel free
to call him and ask him some questions. I'll be going to see him Wednesday so
don't call until maybe Thursday. That way i can give them a heads up and you
won't have any complications with getting the information you need. I don't
think i have any major problems, not much pain. I do pop more in the back than i
use to, and when i haven't gone in a while it get a little stiff. I can feel it
especially if a sit too long. I talked to Claire about housing. I think be
rooming with Keri so that should be fun. If i don't register till the first of
March i think I'd rather wait and do my TB test out there. I could get it that
weekend and then have the Dr. office fax the results. I don't really have time
to do that much running around. Mom and i can "diet" life style change it
together. I have some pounds i want to lose as well.
Sounds like a lot
of crazy things are happening in the Newton Clan. I received my wedding
announcment last week. Friday is the big day. WOW! I can hardly believe it. Mom
we need to scedule a back packing beach hike trip before school, just a couple
of days...maybe that will give you some incentive.
Sister Clark and
President Clark are such sweethearts. I will greatly miss seeing their smiling
faces. They love the work and they love the missionaries here. You can just feel
it when they enter the room.
I've been doing a lot of reading these last
couple of weeks. I alternate between the New Testament and the Doctrine &
Covenants as my focus points. Here are a list of some of my latest favorite
scriptures:
D&C 42:29, 40, 52, 60 and then 1 Corinthians 9:24, 10:22,
Romans 15:1
I've recently been learning about weakness and also agency. I
think one of the hardest things for me to see is people using their agency
unwisely. It kills me to see it. But at the same time i know how important
agency is to God's plan. That is how we learn. I can't expect people to know and
understand the things i know if they haven't experienced it themselves. Its like
trying to explain what salt tastes like to someone who has never tasted salt.
"its salty?" ya it doesn't work too well.
Violet came to church and stayed
for the first two hours. That is huge for her. She's only ever stayed for
sacrament. And we set a baptismal date with Anna. We saw her this last week and
she accepted the invitation. We set it for February 23rd, that's her sons
birthday. He will be turning 8 on that date. We asked Anna if we could start
teaching Eric her son, which she also said yes to. So hopefully as we teach we
can have them both shoot for the 23rd of February. We tasted some sad
disappointment this morning. Debbie whom we thought was progressing so well
called and told us that she and Tony wanted to stop meeting with us for the
moment. This is always a sad thing to hear, again sometimes agency as good and
important as it is can also be very frustrating. I think it really made sister
Duncan sad. She's had a pretty easy first couple of weeks on the mission. But i
know that it is through our choices that we grow. God gave man agency from the
very beginning. It's a very precious and sacred gift from our Heavenly Father.
Desiring/forcing someone to make certain decisions was what Lucifer wanted for
us. How happy i am have been given the ability to make choices for myself. I am
not perfect, i have many faults and make more mistakes than i'd like to own up
to. But at the same time i have learned so much. I am grateful for a loving
Heavenly Father who knows what we need and will prompt us in the right direction
when needed. I am grateful for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. He has
becoming my favorite companion here in the mission field. I have learned much
from the quiet promptings he places in my heart.
much love sister salmon
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