Honor Bee/Service/New Mission President

7/18/16

HEY MOM!!!

So I'm working on my honor bee :) Sister Nelson, the young women's president, is ordering me one cuz I've finished the Book of Mormon recently and we've done about 16 hours already and it's only the beginning of week 3, so yeah that's gonna be fun. Has Miranda finished personal progress yet? I feel like she has, but I can't remember :) oops. If she has she should do it a second tie and work on her honor bee. Also tell her she needs to write me :(

Is Tyler any taller? Bigger? The pictures from Craig that I saw of them shocked me a little bit, he has the beginnings of facial hair!!! Does he work out in the garage or does he do those things at the school gym? Does he still eat a ton or has he been watching his figure? ;)

Have they got all their service hours to graduate? We've been doing some service for this lady named Maureen, it was super cool, we were able to make a dent in the mountain of boxes from when she moved in a week or so ago. we were also able to finish painting her kitchen, she was so so grateful to us she was on the verge of tears. It made me so happy to be able to do that for her. Even though we spent a bit more time there than we had planned, seeing her so happy, made it all worth it.

So Sunday I was asked to speak in church on the 31st of July!! Miranda's Birthday!!! Yay!!!!!!! So think of me! :) It's going to be on "what I've learned form serving others" I'll have to think about it, I'm glad they gave me two weeks, but I'm sure I'll be able to come up with something. ;)

We also found a new investigator her name is Clarissa. We tracted into her while she was outside getting some sun. She did the survey with us and we got to talking about the Book of Mormon, she has heard about it but had never actually read it. So we gave her a copy and she said she is excited to read and research about it. YAY!

Sister Webster and I get along really well, so far we like each other, although she has ever seen Lord of the Rings or read/watched any Harry Potter. Oh the horror! But she is a Sherlock fan so my respect went up a little after that. Oh! and one of her favorite places to eat is CULVER'S! YAY Custard! I miss their cheese curds :P

Also how was youth conference? Has that happened yet? What else is on the schedule before school starts? How's Nana? Planning any fun trips/reunions that you're going to while I'm on a mission?!

Oh also if we have any John Bytheway or Hank Smith talks/devo's could you put those on a USB and send them to me :) and is it possible to get a very very simple Spanish CTR ring?

Alright so we had a meeting in Montrose on Monday with our new Mission President, President Gifford and his wife. They seem pretty cool :) President Gifford was the dean of the BYU Idaho business college before this, they are really great. They have three sons, Scott, Ryan and Jacob. Scott is at BYUI for school, Ryan just got off his mission (South Carolina) on Wednesday and going back to school in January at BYUI and Jacob is 17 and going into his senior year of high school, at a new school no less :) I don"t think I could do that. 

They are an outdoorsy family, before this they lived near the teetons (is that how you spell it?) so hiking, fishing, skiing, and President Gifford like to ride motorcycles. :P President Gifford served in the Italy Catania Mission and Sister Gifford served in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission. 

And they've also expressed that they will be making changes. It's hard to imagine this mission changing, cuz it's felt like it's always been this way and always will be. But as they said they have been trained differently than President and Sister Murdock and their vision for this mission is different. I also know Heavenly Father wouldn't have called them to this mission, at this time, if he didn't want the changes to be made. I know that President and Sister Gifford are called of God and the Colorado Denver South Mission needs them right now. That's enough for me :) 

Any who that's all for this week :) 

LOVE you LOTS 

Sister Sanofsky