Always More....

WOOT WOOT WOOT!! look at the happily married couple! Sounds like everything was just fabulous! Everyone looks top notch and spiffy and camera worthy! Way to clean up! haha Couldn't be happier for everyone! Clint all shaven, Rach with perfect wavy hair - did you two get all sentimental remembering your big day? Seems just like yesterday..... mom - now there is one hot momma! Love the hair and the dress! You look very classy and cute. Good choice. dad- you are looking very handsome as well....I bet your program and words couldn't have been more perfect. And think of it this way - you've spent enough time in a wedding line to last you a lifetime...no need to go to another wedding in your life. eh? curt - I can't tell if your hair is still in a mohawk or not (i'm gonna just infer from how I remember mom being that that did not fly - or maybe? and rapping? boom baby. way to represent. oh, and how was waiting outside with all of the little kids? paha...not for long buddy. And I think I have to mention that the two most goodlookin characters were the ones next to the refreshment table who didn't move a muscle all night. hey hey.

Ohhh seems just like yesterday that I was the only one that Jed would cuddle up with during a movie night (nevermind that Mitch was like a teddy bear)...and lookie there, he's holding a girls hand and dipping her and kissing her....aw. I'm so proud of my biggie bro. haha they probably are a little unavailable right now, but when they get back, make sure that they get a big "FELICIDADES!" from the south and a big hug from the lil' sis.

As for my life and the work and the things that are happening this week we are just plugging along the best that we know how! I can't say - I don't think I'll ever be able to say - that I've reached a point of "comfort" in the mission..where I feel like I've got everything down and I'm just expected to continue. And I think that's how life is too. There is always more that we can learn and do, always more that we can be, always more that we can sacrifice and love and always more that we just can't do alone. From the time I wake up in the morning at 7:00, leave to go jogging with Hna. Da'Luz in the dark hours of the morning with thick fog, to the hours of studying we do afterwards, to the morning contacts, to the lunch with a member who just showers us with love and encouragement and support and sometimes strange conversion stories, then off to reciting the first vision in english and phrases like "watch out!" during language study, all the way to the lessons we have planned throughout the day, the family nights and the "push time!" and even all the way to planning and the final prayer of the day...during all of this time, I really try to give it all I've got...but when I stop to think about what I'm doing and what I've done, I really truly feel like there's more in me that I can give, there's more in me that I can do and change. Thank goodness I don't have to eat the whole elephant in one day...right?

This week we had a lot of beautiful moments and a lot of learning moments and I really am learning a whole lot in regards to this whole mission thing. I wish I could explain every person that I'm teaching and every lesson that we have and every missionary, member, and person that really has made an impact on me, and how I view myself and this whole life and gospel. But I don't have time nor the words to really do it. I just hope you all know that I have a testimony of this gospel and that I know that it blesses families, that it brings lasting changes, and that it really is the only way we can be comfortable and calm with ourselves and others in this life and in the next. How BEAUTIFUL heaven is going to be...with our little child row...and how wonderfully white and glorious we will be. I know that it's going to be so INCREDIBLE and so WORTH every effort we put into our testimonies and lives right NOW.

I love you all very very much. Sorry for the quick letter. Photos are of Hna. Bustinza and I (how lucky am I to go to bed and wake up with someone so CUTE?!!?) haha and Mitch keeps braggin about bringing blisters to his green bean...check these feetsies out. gross. haha and then a pic of a convert of Hna. Young....Patricio...and then also us in front of our house with Hna. Clawson - the "mother" of the office.

So great. Love you!! oxoxox

Hermana ChAIL

This is a picture of a convert of Hermana Young - Patricio

Here we are in front of our House with Hermana Clawson - the "mother" of the office.

Hermana Bustinza and I - How luck am I to have such a cute companion!!

My companion - Hermana Bustinza's feet :(