Dear Fam bam,
HEY EVERYONE! WHAT UP WHAT UP?? Finally feels like winter here right after christmas... I swear that always happens!!! Thank you mother for the fleece lined tights... the humidity can go through anything as thin or thick as grandpa HR's legs but they MOST definitely help!! How fun it was to see you all on skype you cuties you! I just have the bestest estest family of allllll time! Christmas is amazing as a missionary! I just seriously love life. I think that's the one thing I've mainly learned from serving a mission. That LIFE IS AMAZING! It's like a big bag of pop rocks tied in satin ribbons. SOOO GOOD! It just sizzles and pops. Somedays are terrible and some are amazing but that's just life and it's so darn fun! I love it! And I love you guys! Let me tell you just one of my favorite christmas memories from this year. THERE ARE SO MANY TO SHARE! But we wrapped up so many books of mormon to give out on christmas day. So christmas comes and Christmas night we just walked around and handed them out to everyone! We went up to this group of little boys who you could tell got nothing for christmas. We handed them this incredible book and they just DEVOURED it like little wolves. They were so excited to open it and then they kind of looked bummed out like, ahh man just a stupid paper back book? But we looked them in the eyes and told them, "This is the best gift you will ever receive." Who knows if they read it or threw it away that night but they KNEW and they could FEEL how powerful this book is. They held it in their little hands!
Well let me tell ya a little bit about our trip to 5151 on saturday. I have no idea where in the world I am but man all I know is when we have our day scheduled to bike to 5151 I never want to get out of bed and go run at
6 a.m. because I know what kind of day I have ahead of me... all heck breaks loose. It looks a lot like preparing for a backpacking trip up the Windriver mountains. You get prepared for a heck of a ride and just prepare well because it's going to be a whole day long ordeal. So I pack up my snacks-granola bars up the wazoo, and pretzels. Next you get your best riding shoes on- rain boats for me. Check. Get your garbage bags in case the Texas rains hit you. You'll never make it home alive. So we head out... first mistake.. forgot my water! I'm dying! We hit a couple of storms along the way but we made it in one piece... The people we were going to teach were either hung over from Christmas or just not home because NO ONE ANSWERED!! So we start heading back and we decide that the first store we come to we will stop for water. This ride however takes you past fields of grass and flowers and lots of land....
We had no idea they were diggin up a pond and so we start riding and then it started getting really really muddy and before I knew it my wheels stopped turning. I WAS DARN RIGHT STUCK IN MY TRACKS. This mud was thicker than cookie batter. I got rolled up in a cookie all right. Clogged up my wheels quicker than J
ackies candies will clog my throat. I felt and looked like I was dragging a small angry child to the first day of school. My bike would not move. I ended up having to carry it. Everyone was yelling out their window helpful hints like "try running it on the grass!" ok thanks! "That's mud! watch out!" ohh yeah i didn't see it thanks! We make it to Sunny's food store and met Ralph the Cherokee Indian..... What a man what a man.... Now i really felt like i was in the WindRivers. He's like, "ladies man o man! you got caught in my street! I'm sooo sorry. I'm just digging myself a fishing pond back there." I'm like, "Ralph you know I was a little angry but to hear you are building a fishing pond -I'd go through your mud any day!"
He then invites us to grab a bite to eat at the taco truck and we didn't turn him down because NO ONE DOES THAT HERE! i mean this isn't utah. The ladies wearing long shorts aren't mormon moms. The mini vans with family stickers on the back with thousand of kids still aren't mormons. But Ralph wasn't either. He is a missionary for his First Indian Baptist Church. what a guy! He taught me some valuable lessons that day. We start talkin religion and I'm like Ralph do you believe in the bible? "Don't we all?" he says. I'm like no there are a lot of people who have never read the bible and don't believe. He's like, "you're right. You can be in a grocery store and still be hungry. You can be in a library surrounded by books and have no knowledge. You can be in a church your whole life and not know god!" YES RALPH YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT!!! He just got out of prison 8 months ago and is now diggin ponds! What a turn around!
Well guys- It was wrapped in a cookie with an indian kind of week! It was a terrible morning at 5151 but God always sends something beautiful after bad things happen. I know I was suppose to meet Ralphy that day! so good! God is good! people are great! and texas is crazy!
love you all so much!
tiny tinnie tony
the stupid COOKIE BATTER MUD!!! thank heavens for Ralph the indian always makes things better!
from my side! best family EVER!!! i would pick you guys over any family anywhere!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD YEAR! Most of her gifts were food storage... haha I know how she feels. I got food storage one year at HRs party!
wowwzeerrrs we are loved
Girls in my district and me and my companion
Christmas conference!
Christmas Eve
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