Hey Elder,
How are you? How was your week? It's good to hear things are going well. As always, we enjoy hearing from you and seeing your great pictures.
Things
are good and busy at home like they always are. Dad and Megan flew to
Dallas, TX early Friday then picked up a used ambulance and drove it
back home for Symphony on Friday and Saturday. It was exhausting Dad
says...long road trip. They are finding that used ambulances are cheaper
than box-type trucks to buy. You know Jon and his "deals". They stopped
at the four corners and while there they saw a lot of wild horses.
Megan was thrilled!
Marissa
got home last
week from her three-month mission. She gave her Homecoming talk Sunday.
She did a great job and talked on Thankfulness for the Plan of
Salvation.
She made an interesting comment that really stuck. She said, "God leaves
nothing to chance and we cannot fail unless we do not try." He honors
our agency but leaves nothing to chance. God is definitely always with
us and always there for us.
It gave us comfort to hear that. She also talked about an investigator
she was part of the entire three months whose heart became softened when
the Plan of Salvation lesson was given. She was baptized within three
weeks of finishing reading the Book of Mormon. Marissa's companion ask
the investigator if she liked cake when she started reading the B of M,
she said yes, then her companion said reading the Book of Mormon is like
eating cake, you want more after eating one slice. In the follow up
lessons after the investigator was baptized she said to Marissa and her
comp, "The Lord was beside me before baptism, once I was baptized, the
Lord was inside me." At the end of her talk, Marissa said she knows she
was lead to going on a short mission. She loved it and learned so much
in just three months. She wishes every woman could serve at least a
three-month mission. She was going through a lot of dark times before
she left and was confused of where her life needed to go. When she
returned and went to update the journal that she left at home, her last
entry said, "Lord show me what to do." How cool is that...she was lead
to go on a mission to Logan, UT.
We
hope you have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving! We are so Thankful
for you and the time you are taking to serve the Lord. Keep up the
great work you are doing.
We Love you,
Your Family
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