Mom and Dad!
I loved reading your letters! I really loved the
photo of Laubs doing the "Vader" haha it looks super awesome!! All of the
pictures of you guys at the game/conference looked really fun! That's too bad
that the Utes didn't win!! Super frustrating! But that seems to be a typical Utah
game right? Either we smash until the 4th quarter and then we lose or almost
lose, OR we are down super far, and end up pulling it off in the last 5 minutes
hahaha :) #UtahFanLife haha Moms night out sounded like lots of fun! I will have
to remember that Chinese place for dates ;) haha Poor dad working like a horse
though! (Canyon voice) haha. I Hope Mom´s scans go well and that that scar tissue
has gone down and that you don't have to deal with those stupid steroids
anymore!!! I will for sure write Christian too! and if I get a chance I will
look for Mom in the General Women's Conference haha.
So to answer your questions, this
week is not change week, change week is on the week of my birthday, in a week
and a half basically! hahaha I have not yet killed my companion, but he did have
his final interview with president yesterday! He said he liked it a lot! But he
is not ready to go home! I guess the thing with being here in the mission is
that by the time you finally get used to being out here, it hits around your 20
month mark, and by that time, time is going by so fast, that the mission just
ends in a split of a second!
For me, i already feel like this whole mission is moving way too fast! I know time will only be getting fast, and we will
only be closer and closer to the end! Crazy!
This week I have been
thinking a lot about the Atonement of Christ. I have put in a lot of study time
just trying to understand more about it! It has been a great experience! One
thing that I have been doing and have been trying to put into practice in my
life right now is a saying that we have here in the mission, which is, "Live in
a way in which you let the mission pass through you, and not you pass through
the mission." I really have been trying to humble myself to everything around me
and just to let myself go, be a better person, and be changed by the experiences
here, rather than just be a rock and not learn anything from these two years
that the Lord has given me! I know I am a different person, I can feel it, I can't tell you how I have changed, but I know I have, for the better, obviously, haha!
Crazy, I mean super crazy story this week!!!!!! So Elder
Kersey and I are walking through our area on Sunday night, and like I have
always told you, our area is the most dangerous area in all of the mission, seriously. But we were just walking through, trying to get to one of our
appointments in that area, and we end up walking behind these three guys, and as
we approach, they all stop and look at us, So, we begin to pass quickly on the
left side of this group, As I pass one of these guys, he grabs my arm, and
stops me. He is looking at me, and he just had this empty personality about him,
like he was just zoned out. So I am stopped, being held by this, I'm sure drugged
out, guy and his buddies are all around me. I just froze, and just could not do
anything, I then remembered I had my wallet, which has license, Nicaraguan
ID, Credit cards, Personal cards, money...etc. and I was not going to let these
three jack-wagons take it, so I shoved this guy in the chest super hard, but he
still held onto my arm. So now this guy is mad, and pulls out a knife and is
holding it in the air like he is going to stab me, and that is when Elder Kersey
screams, run run! So I push this dude one more time and started to book it, but
before I could get away, he shoves this knife into my arm!! My brain didn't
process it, but we just ran, and my arm hurt really bad, so as we got away from
these dudes, we checked my arm, and there was no hole, in my shirt or through my
garment, and my arm just has a slight small cut, which wasn't even bleeding.....
We both just kind of stopped and looked at each other, and just thought, what a
miracle, seriously. I saw that knife hit my shoulder, but i just have a tiny
cut, and a bruise. Miracle! Seriously! ANYWAY morale of the story is, I'm fine, I'm not in shock, I got over it fast. I made copies of all my licenses, and I
don't walk around with my debit card anymore haha. I'm
just super thankful that
God is watching over us and keeping us safe :) Picture of my arm are online
:)
Other than that experience we have been working hard! Our
baptism fell through! He went and moved temporarily in the North Mission till
the 20 of October! Jack-wagons! hahaha :) but he will get baptized when he gets
back! We have 4 awesome people lined up for baptism on the 11! It will be a
great week!
