August 20, 2012

This picture was taken at a members house today. (8/21/12)

It has been a crazy week! Mom, you should know better than to leave your phone out.... i am happy that you have learned not to do that... EVERYONE!!!!! knows how to work an iphone so be careful!!! and you farting is the best! it made me laugh thank you! Jenni your kids are so cute on their firsst day of school! cali has gotten so big! and her hair is so cute! is zoey's still red wow!! that has lasted FOREVER!!! poor cade, i really loved his picture it made me smile and want to hug and kiss him!!! i really do miss little kids... sister taylors little girls are the only interaction i really have with little kids and her oldest girl came to church wearing a dress that zoey used to have and it made me a little homesick to be hugging on little ones... but i do hope and pray that cade does get better!! that is no fun to be sick!!! I am also glad to hear that zayen is a growing boy :) and that chris is going back to school that is the best thing he can really do for himself. Thank you for FINALLY telling me what is up with my father... i write him letters but i never know what is happening with him... so thank you for the update!

WHAT!!! bishop morgan is going to be relaesed!!!  that is crazy!! but he has been the bishop for some time now... please call my mission office to let them know that there is a change... or tell me asap!!! i need to let them know... they always remind us of these things... i wonder who it will be... CRAZY!!!

Mom how was the quilt show... i hope you didnt fall in love with any new quilts... you have too many that you have started and have not finished yet! :) Thank you for the update on payton... i wrote joe last week to just drop him a line... i hope they like when i write them letters... or that they know that i still think about them, so the boys ever say anything about getting my letters???

So, this week is a new transfer, i cant believe that it has been 6 weeks with out sister jackson now!!! crazy!!! and guess what!!! ... yep im not leaving the deaf branch... but i already knew that... but i have so much fun with all the people we are teaching!! We were also blessed with many appointments this week. We received a new investigator, Xa but we are a little confused by what she is telling us a lot of the time, we do know that she has been learning from the JW's so we will see what happens but one thing that was very clear, when we commited her to baptism her answer was a definate no. But she invited us back for the next day, so we know the Lord softens hearts. We also started teaching Kreim, she is hearing, but her parents are deaf, and she wants to come to the Deaf Branch but we are trying to encourage her to go to the singles ward, she is 21 and we know she will like it a lot, we are planning on bringing a sister from that ward for our next lesson so she can have a fellowshipper in that ward, but she did come to church and very much enjoyed herself, she also did meet the Elders of the singles ward, we pray that all will go smoothly. :) We also have Tony and Michelle, Tony's girlfriend Vivi, who had her baby this week. But we learned that Tony is only 17, very intersting. But they all want baptism very badly. Tony and Michelle made to church this past sunday but Vivi did not cause of just having a baby. They are trying to be baptized in early Sept.Then there is Adela, she is so cute! And we just love her to death, she had an addiction to smoking but she told us since she  has been coming to church she has been smoking a lot less. :) Our only problem is that when we make appointments with her she is never home but when we show up randomly she is always ready and willing to learn, and even wanted to come to a baptism this weekend, and asked about President Monson's birthday brodcast, but she didn't make it to church this week so we will be visiting her as soon as we can.
WOW!!! so many people the lord as blessed us with in such a short amount of time!! it just proves that this is truly the lords work and not mans. :) i am so happy to be a missionary!! :)

The weather here.. has been hot, hot and more hot... but at night it cools down to the 80's and it is a lot nicer to knock doors then, but at night when we sleep sister tagge freezes me out with the ac... it reminds me of home just a little bit... thanks mom... :)

I recently started reading the new testiment and i am now in matt 20, and i am trying to understand all that i am reading but i am learning so much about the chararter of christ! no matter what he stops and helps and heals everyone and feeds them too, and he answers all questions even though he knows that we wont like the answer that we are going to hear. I also learned that when peter james and john go up to the mount with christ they hear heavenly father's voice, i never knew that i love to see when heavenly father is talking in the scriptures. :) also i have notice all through out the book of mormon that the story of the firey flying serpents and the children of iseral are EVERYWHERE!!!! i think there is something to learn about having faith to just look and live, how can we look and live in our lives... we can look towards the savior and his atoning sacrafice and partake of the sacrament every week and be renewed. I love how the scriptures are like a story book and no matter how many times you read it you learn something new from it each time!! :)

Well, i love you all! i hope you have a good week! :)

 

God be with you til we meet again!!

 

<3

Sister Longan