Hi everyone. How are you guys?? This week was beautiful! and I am so GRATEFUL to be a missionary!! I am learning and messing up and learning again just like life! I am also so GRATEFUL for a family like mine! I literally got so lucky. I am so blessed! This week I wanted to tell you why I am so GRATEFUL according to my five senses. I love the Thanksgiving season and I want to be more grateful throughout the whole entire year!- make that my life.
This week according to my five senses it went a little like this....
SEE- This week looked like the most beautiful beautiful fall day up Millcreek canyon. Not a cloud in sight, the sun rising over the city, and air crisp as a lay's chip that I always had a hard time stopping eating. It was quite deceiving when you walk outside and the air freezes you right to the inner thigh. But this week i'm grateful for the literal EYE BALLS I have! We volunteered with this project SEE TO SUCCEED. It was for all these kids who didn't have the money to buy glasses so they had volunteer doctors there to give them the right glasses they needed for FREEEEEE. I don't know how or who told them I was HR'S granddaughter but they knew full well that I had hand signals up the hiz-house! The director is explaining to me what I will be doing for the next 7 hours of the day, making me feel like I'm going to be doing this crazy job. She's like, "you are the one who will make this run smoothly. You are the one who will make all the nonsense go away." I'm like sweet. Picturing myself with a walkie-talkie in one hand and clipboard in the other. NOPE just got placed by the exit sign and directed the children which doctor to go to. "Head to the doctor in the red. Follow the group of kids to the doctor in the black." But I was so GRATEFUL to be there and I knew they are grateful as well. So I thought we need to change this up a bit and make it more fun. This is where HR really pulled through. Hand signals they'd never seen before where coming out. And to each kid I was like, "Do a dance move before you sit down in front of doctor in the red." Their dance moves were hilarious. Then the doctor in the red was like this is awesome why is everyone dancing... all the kids are like, "That girl over there told us too!" I had my rainboots on and the doc would just yell in this huge room. "Bootss haayyyyyy booots! I want your boots!" so freaky! but so grateful!
SMELL- this week smelt like turkey juice soaked into my fingers. This is where I'd also like to give a huge shout out to my hunk of a father for cutting the meat on holidays, Sunday, whatever occasion, he always pulls through. I had the scariest yet funniest experience at our ward Thanksgiving dinner on Friday night. I FULLY regret asking if they needed help serving food. The relief society president was like yes and just hands me a knife and tongs and says, "don't give them too much or too little." and thats when the fun began.... picture me hacking at this poor turkey as the ward is yelling body parts that they want, that I have never heard of, with turkey juice just running down my legs and arms! I had about I'd say 12 birds and a line of 100 people. I was so nervous! I started sweating so bad! This one guy was so particular about what part he wanted and I was sawing at it for a good 5 minutes... I'm like, "wait for it wait for it!" I finally just had to give him the knife. Everyone was dying because I was trying so hard but cutting turkey is not for 20 year old girls like me! It was a disaster but so GRATEFUL FOR MY DADDY! I kept saying "WHO WANTS THE GIZZARD? TOO BAD. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS!"
TOUCH- This week felt like globby bird poop everywhere!!!!! so I love myself a good challenge. ya know me! We are biking and said, "person who stops smiling first has to carry all the bikes up the stairs." So I already look like the biggest cheese ball biking and my cheeks are about to fall off and we are stopped at this stop light and I look up and I'm like noooooooooooooooooooooo thousands of birds above us and this is a long light... Pretty much looked like a can of whip cream was poured down on all of us. Best part of it all was we were still smiling and that made us laugh our heads off. sooo disgusting!
This week also felt like warm hugs from all our english class learners who threw us the cutest class party. Really reminded me of those fourth grade- right before break parties! ohhh how I love my english class ladies! We made a turkey and wrote what they were thankful for on a feather. In honor of my mother! i don't think they understood it at first because every single person put "family" but then they understood when I wrote trees and giraffes that you can be grateful for anything!!!
SOUND- this week sounded like the sweetest testimony from my recent convert Cristian. OHHHH HOW IT WARMED MY HEART SOOO MUCH!!! at church I asked Cristian if he would come out with us and he was SOOO excited! he was like, "really? you want me to come teach with you guys!?" and ohhh I wanted to cry when he was bearing his testimony for this new family that we met. He was like, "I have no doubt in my mind that this is the true church. It has completely changed my life. I use to know there was a God and Christ. but now I FEEL THEM WITH ME!" IT WAS SO HAPPY! and we three started walking out and he just stayed and was talking to the family. he was like, "No, really you guys HAVE to pray. This is the true church and I really want you to find out for yourself!" so wonderful the gospel!!!
TASTE- this week tasted like sacrament bread. The joy of being a missionary. The taste of grace and the taste of happiness! I am so grateful for the grace of god! In the new missionary mtg we had this week, President was teaching the new missionaries how to teach the atonement. and i just learned SOOO MUCH! God's grace is sufficient and it works for me! I am so far from perfect and sometimes i think that i have to be perfect for grace to apply to me but it does. it works after I DO ALL THAT I CAN! i love the atonement sooo much! that is was i am sooooo GRATEFUL because without it i am nothing and with it i am everything! i love you guys so much!!!
p.s. you can know that the weather is changing just by knowing that i have a cold sore or it might be picture day becasue that always happened on the same day as well. but hna. palmer asked me this week, "Does that weather thing on your lip hurt? does it make you sad?" and i said, "No it will go away. Things that go away don't make me sad." haha they have been making fun of me all week. They think I'm such a child which I am! but it's great! wohooo hooo hooo!!!
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