Well hello again!
Long time no see! :) Oh my goodness, I can't even tell you how
absolutely wonderful it was to be able to see you all yesterday! That
was just so great and it made my day! I'm with you mom- I wasn't sure if
I wanted to face time because it might be harder to say goodbye, but it
was exactly what I needed. To be able to see all of your faces and know
that you are still there (!) and to be able to just see you after 8
months was just awesome! I am so glad that we did that! Whoever created
that I owe a lot to now! haha I never loved facetime as much as I did
last night, even though we were stressing out and were trying to get a
connection and it took us 15 minutes, but hey, it worked. That's all
that matters! Thank you guys for being so great and for lifting my
spirits and for talking! You all look great and seem like you are all
doing well! I cannot believe how big Emry is!! She looks so
different from when I left and I was not expecting her to be so big! She
is so cute though and I love her walking and her animal sounds! The
boys look so good and big too and are so cute! I'm glad they still know
my name and haven't forgotten me yet! :D
So, what to say, what to say. As we were facetiming our cell phone
died, so we lost communication to our missionary world, and then on the
way home we got lost for a little bit :/ Even though I have been there
multiple times it just looked so different for some reason. I can't
thank you enough for sending me a gps for christmas though because that
reaffirmed that we were still on the right road, and we were going in
the right direction. It was just weird though, so that put us home a lot
later than we thought we would be home, but that's ok. We got home and
our district leader said that 'he was so glad to know that his sisters
were safe and talking to him again.' It was so funny! As I was writing
that a thought came into my head that I thought was cool, so I will
share it with you. We go on our road of life just chugging along and
trying to do our best and looking for the signs and houses or people
that are familiar to us and get us through the day. But in this life we
can't do it by ourselves. We have to have Heavenly Father's help to get
us through this life because He knows where we need to go (just like the
gps will get you to the right road.) So, anyways, I don't know if that
made sense but it did in my head :) If it didn't make sense then I'm
sorry and you can take it off before you put this on the blog! ha
I think this week should be a good week because both Sister
Patchett and I have a good feeling about it. We are laying that
foundation and helping others in anyway that we can. I just know that we
are going to have a breakthrough sometime and that we are going to see
success here, but we just have to keep trying and working and it will
come. Often times the Lord doesn't bless us with miracles until after we
do our part and show Him that we are willing to let Him in and that we
will keep working towards getting better. I don't know what else to tell
you because I told you a lot yesterday and nothing is coming to my head
right now, so I guess I will close. Sorry this isn't the longest email.
I will have more to say next week to you guys! I hope that you guys are
doing well and that you have a wonderful week! I love you all and it
was so, so, so wonderful to talk to you and see you all in person! Only
like 8 more months now! ha Have a safe trip to TN mom and dad, and tell
grandma hello for me and that I love her! I need to write her again :)
Take care everyone and know that I love you!!
P.S. Jenna sent over 20 pictures today!!! They will be posted tomorrow. I'm still on a learning curve with posting photos on the blog! Excited to share them with you though. Gail
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