CarWash Gratis

Wendys

Lunes: I was reading about the church members that traveled miles and miles across the plains on foot with no more supplies or protection than a handcart company provided. And this quote was very interesting to me...
 ¨I was in that company and my wife was in it... we suffered beyond anything you can imagine and many died of exposure and starvation, but did you ever hear a survivor of that company utter a word of criticism? 

We came through with the absolute knowledge that God lives for we became acquainted with him in our extremities...

The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privelege to pay.¨

Is that the way that we usually look at our trials?

For pday we had a ¨bbq¨ with ¨hotdogs¨ and poor Elder Curtis was sick with Dengue but still made a cake. 

Martes: Zone meeting 

Miércoles: Medical care in Hondy me llega. We had to go get an x-ray and it was just 300 lempiras and a zap and we dipped. Like no waiting at all and no messy medical insurance.

Jueves: Remember the part in the Bible about Martha serving everyone and Mary is just sitting there and Martha is like ummmm excuse me master can you tell Mary to get up and help me or something? Well I never really thought too much of it just like okay we learn from this that we should chill and that spiritual things are important. But I liked this quote ¨Martha´s primary mistake on this occasion seems to have been focusing on herself - even as she was serving others. It is not enough to simply serve the Lord and our fellow men. We must learn to lose ourselves in the process of serving and seek the Lord's will to guide our desires and motives as well as our actions¨

We were in the city for doctors appointments and we went to a real live mall and ate in a real food court and there were so many options for food but my companion wanted Wendy's and I didn't want to stress her out by ordering from somewhere else since it was pretty crowded. But dang it they had a Zara and I wanted to
go shopping SO bad.

Sábado: We did a carwash as a way to meet new people to teach! 

We only ended up with six references at the end of it all and every single one of them was in our area #score

Oh and we washed like a huge school bus and took people for tours of the chapel while they were getting their cars washed. 

I think it was a good idea. A lot of people have seen our church building but have never been inside and I'm pretty sure it's the prettiest building in existence here in La Lima.

  All empty!

Domingo: That Hondy moment when you don't have enough purified water to take your vitamins. I had to go borrow from the neighbors.

But today I heard news! Morazan, my last area, is finally becoming a branch! Like an official congregation! It's been years in the making but I'm so proud of all the people in that pueblo and all of the growth that they've had.

I always hoped that I would be able to see the day that they would become a legit Branch of the church but at least I got to hear about it while I was still in the mission :)

Gringas!

Lunes: This scripture is one of my new favorites; Alma 58:40 ¨Mas he aqui, han recibido muchas heridas no obstante, permanecen firmes en esa libertad con la que Dios los he hecho libres; y son diligentes en acordarse del señor su Dios obedecer sus estatutos y sus juicios y sus mandamientos continuamente; y su fe es fuerte en las profecìas concernientes a lo que està por venir.¨

Translation for those of us who don't read spanish (40 But behold, they have received many wounds; nevertheless they stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has made them free; and they are strict to remember the Lord their God from day to day; yea, they do observe to keep his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments continually; and their faith is strong in the prophecies concerning that which is to come.)

Martes: I talked to this one elder that's new in my district and he told me that he's gained 70 pounds in the mission. It's a real struggle with this stress and la comida llena de grasa. President Klein was having a meeting for just the leaders but he let hermana Haight and I mooch some warm dinner rolls and bottles of water. He's always so nice. 

At the end of the day we went into Lima to this spot on the side of the road in front of the muni, and it's just this stand run by dudes. And they cook! and they cook de miedo! We all ordered gringas, which made me laugh but they were SO GOOD. I honestly wasn't even sure what I was eating because it was dark, around eight o clock. And I was just sitting there thinking if there was an actual dream job food discoverer journalist time, it would be right then. Four dudes just outside of one of the most homocidal cities in the world, with their baseball caps and jeans, just making some straightup crazy delicious cathrachan comfort food. 

¨ ¿Os imagináis que podríais sentaros en vuestras hamacas y que, debido a la imensa bondad de Dios, vosotros podraíais no hacer nada y él os librarías?

He aqui, si habéis supuesto esto, lo habéis hecho en vano¨Alma 60:11 

Translation:  "Behold, could ye suppose that ye could sit upon your thrones, and because of the exceeding goodness of God ye could do nothing and he would deliver you? Behold, if ye have supposed this ye have supposed in vain."

Mièrcoles:  Started off the day contacting and it's weird how as a missionary, people just look at you and decide to open up and tell their life story and their deepest problems and like we don't even ask! How often, in your first conversation with someone, do you hear ¨well my husband just left me and my kids are working because I can't afford to pay for their schooling and right now I just feel like a failure in life.¨?

Like literally they see the nametag and even though they usually don't accept our message they recognize us as people that can help. It's weird. 

oh and it's mango season here so I thought I would show you what we got going here mango wise. They are huge and delicious.

Jueves: We contacted this house and this ooooooooooold lady with long white hair and a dressing gown just stood there looking at us and said nothing. Just shook a skinny knarled finger slowly back and forth. So we took that as a no and dipped.

Viernes: Went to lunch at a less active family`s house. It was chuleta and rice and refried beans and avocado with mango juice that she made as well it was all really good. She showed me photos of when she was younger and I asked if she had photos of her wedding and she tells me that she tore them all up during a fight that they had. and I was just like...oh...

Fourth of July! ´murica. "hardwork n beans". No but seriously we worked really hard in the morning. We volunteered in this construction site and I got to shovel a bunch of rubble and even make some because they let me use the hammer on part of a cinder block wall. Felt like Miley. I like working, you don't have to think or worry about anything. Just shovel. 

We visited Leonidus and he's gone one day with out drinking coffee. So claps for Leonidus. 

We also visited this really old guy that told us about the evil spirits that he keeps having to chase out of the house with his cane.

Hna Haight asked me to call her and sing her the national anthem so I did. 

Domingo: We got fam Murillo to go to church! Little mauricio looked so cute I just wanted a picture with/of him but his mom always wanted to be in it too. 

haha. 

One of our investigators that we've been (or maybe I've just been) frustrated with lately because he doesn't seem to be progressing, came to church!  and he stayed all three hours!  And he's from that one barrio that I told you about how nobody has ever been baptized from there! 

We also had a lesson with this gorgeous future pediatrician and she was so sweet I thought she was just being nice when we contacted her and she said we could come back. But we had a lesson with her and she was listening and had good questions and when I let her keep the book of mormon we showed her, she was like great! "I was going to ask you where I could buy one!" It soooo nice to have a lesson with someone that acts like they actually want you there.

That's all I got. And being here in Hondy I've grown to appreciate a lot our nice roads in the states, our good education systems, and the saftey we enjoy, that we can usually trust our policeman and that we can be outside at 8 o clock at night and not feel too scared. Our country isn't the best but we can at least appreciate what's good. If you don't appreciate what's good, what's the point of having more good that you're just not going to appreciate either right? 

Cartoons & Pancakes

                                                                                                                                                   29 June 2015

Lunes: we went on splits with some other hermanas and I was with the a boliviana but she had a different accent because she was from la paz instead of cochabamba like my other companion. I was nervous because I'm still not too familiar with my area and even worse when it's dark but it went okay.

That night there was 8 hermanas in total in our tiny apartment. Because we're close to the church building where they have all the mission activities, we get to be the hotel for all the missionaries that have to travel a long time.

Martes:  You know I would be perfectly fine with mosquitos taking lil sips of my blood but the itchy poison that they leave in return is completely unnecessary and frankly quite rude.

Oh and my first district meeting with my new district. 

We had an lesson with a mom and a daughter from two different religions talking at the same time and my companion already had a bad headache so it really didnt help at all with their differing and unfounded ideas.

Miércoles: We had 7 lessons today even though my companion still had a really bad headache all day :/ 

We visited an abuelita with the mouth of a sailor. 

We also went contactiong and I noticed that I'm getting to be kind of pushy haha.

After lunch and language we visited my 85 year old "guider" Miguel and he said he'll only get baptized if ¨lo haga la gringa¨ I was like okay lets do this! 

But we might have to break up with him, he's not progressing.

Jueves: At lunch at a member's house we learned the history of gang activity in our area and how there's hardly any gangsters left because this one family had enough and started killing off all of them and there was like this gang family war and that's why there's hardly any more gang activity in La Paz!

Viernes: Service project. We mowed a lawn. Well, we chopped it. With machetes. It was a huge lawn but the work was super fast with so many elders, we have a ton of elders in our zone. 

After that it was just a really frustrating and disappointing day that I'd rather not revisit mentally.

Sàbado: We started out the day right with a healthy bowl of tracting in the neighborhood that gives me the creeps because it's like an eerie 50`s movie set with cookie cutter houses in bright colors and wide, strangely clean streets. 

And nobody outside.

So we were going house to house and not having much luck and wishing that we could be inside watching saturday cartoons and eating pancakes as well. We get to this one house and we're calling ¨BUENAS¨ and nobody is coming out and the neighbor's dog starts barking like mad and I'm like frick we are for sure not contacting that house and I see the owner and he ushered us inside but I thought it was just to get his dog to shut up. But turns out he's super friendly and he attended the church for a good while and LIKED IT, but didnt like that everyone pressured him so much to be baptized. But he was interested in what we had to say and wanted us to come back when his wife was home so that she could hear too. They've been married (yes actually married it's a miracle here) five years and have a little girl.

After we left the house I prayed and thanked God. I felt like He knew that I had a rough friday so He put us in the path of a kind person that gave us water and pens, which was a little unusual but hey I'm always losing my pens.

Domingo: The hermanas that lived downstairs called me so that I could take out the tarantula that was in their bathroom. So I grabbed it in an inside out plastic bag but I forgot to take a picture! it was a real life tarantula furry legs and everything like I've never seen one of those in the wild before hahha.

Church was good, a family that we've been inviting forever finally came!

Sop de Heiba

Lunes: I played volleyball with the elders and then we had sopa de heiba? idk I took pictures. But it was really good! The crab barely had any meat I think it's just there for looks.

This week there was many tender mercies but I've only shared a couple here....

But I testify of the fact that if we look for the Lord's hand in our lives, we will find it. 

Cuidase mucho te quiero mucho y ya

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." -CS Lewis

                                                                                                                                                        22 June 2015

Martes 16 de Junio:

Old lady flipped me off today. But I think she was crazy. 

I went to the house where we eat the first day I got to Honduras and I remember thinking that it was ratchet and cramped and I felt uncomfortable. But today I was like wowww this is a really nice house, spacious, well furnished wow. So there's that.

While we were teaching lecciòn 2 about mundo de los espiritus to this lady in a wheelchair that's always sick. She made this really good analogy to how it's like an operation and then you go to this room of recuperation to wait the results of the operation. And I was like yeah that's a really good example! Then she goes and tells us about how when her mom died and then her dad some years later, she had this dream; there was this big white field and everyone was dressed in white and it was really pretty. And she saw her mom. And her mom told her not to cry. Because she had been crying a lot and asking why her mom died if she was such a good person. And her mom told her that they were all just waiting and there was this realllly long line of people and they were all waiting as one by one they got to talk to the person at the front of it all and pass through. 

But she said that she never saw who was at the front of the line, who they were talking to...

And she had that dream twice. So I thought that was pretty neat.

Mièrcoles: I have an 85 year old guiper. (someone who has a crush) He said that I have a really nice body. Not creepy at all. 

But we have this other investigator that's really old too but he's adorable and his hair is super white and he just smiles all the time and has the cutest dimples. And today he told us okay after 5 months of recieving the missionaries I think it's time to get baptized. And I feel like nobody believes him but I do!

Jueves; We went to this neighborhood called casa nava but everyone calls it casanova. We talked to a family there and they said that they were the only members in their neighborhood and that the missionaries have been visiting for 7 years and havent baptized anybody. Yay!

New goal is to baptize someone in that neighborhood

Viernes: ¨Es una cosa seria de vivir en una sociedad de posibles dioses y diosas..No hay gente comùn. Usted nunca ha hallado con un simple mortal.¨ -("“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses ....There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.")       C.S.Lewis

We had a multi zone conference today! This was different from the other meetings because I didnt have to wake up at 4 freaking o clock in the morning to catch a bus out of the pueblito de Morazán.

Just had to catch a Rapidito and in like 10 minutes we were there. But I feel like it kind of makes it less of an event.

Part of one of the activities we did I had to ask an Elder to say the names of all four of his grandparents. And he was having difficulty so I was like Jose maybe? Jokingly but he was like yeah that's one of them #typicallatinonames

Sàbado: Wooohooo happy anniversary yo my fav couple Elise and Leo Silva

One of our investigators, Jose, is addicted to coffee. He drinks at least three cups a day. So when we taught him that it's not healthy for him physically or spiritually to be addicted to something he said that he would stop, but poco a poco...

But just the other day he said I haven't had coffee in three days. I tried to have a little bit but it made me feel sick.
 It's a little thing but it's an awesome thing for me.

Domingo: Today I was reading the Liahona magazine with all the conference talks and I wrote down in my study journal just all of the testimonies at the end of every talk, it was like a testimony meeting on steroids and it was really cool to see the faith of such spiritual giants all condensed like that.

The church is true and the work is hard but it's worth it

love you! 

My photos arent loading on dropbox...

Hola! from La Paz

I ended up in La Paz. You can look it up if you'd like.

Martes 9 de Junio: Last zone meeting in Santa Rita. I got to give my going-away testimony but it felt off. Like I didn't feel like I was actually leaving, like I'd been that zone my whole mission haha.

After the meeting we went to restaurant ¨International¨ and it was POURING rain and I spent too much on soup. Had to say goodbye to a lot of people I don't like saying goodbye. But there was cake, and pastelitos, and I finally took a picture in front of Pulperia Nelson!
Definition of PULPERIA. : a Spanish American rural grocery store often functioning also as a drinking establishment.

Mièrcoles: So I'm in La Paz and it makes me baggy because this was the first place we went after the airport in december. Well, after the chapel. Oh and there's an actual chapel in my area! 

Jueves: So I miss Morazan :( today was super long but we only had three lessons. We contacted for a long time but I started to get a little frustrated because I feel like we only contacted old people that are sitting outside of their house. Like all they do is sit outside all day, they arent going to have the initiative to change their lives but I guess you cant know that until you try. 

I'm getting eaten alive here by mosquitos. 

The members feed us a lot here though so it seems...Everyone's been really nice. Contacting however the people don't seem to be as receptive here.

Viernes: I can't tell if the dogs here are just meaner or they don't like my companion. here they eat pasta with rice a lot because they like to carbo load I guess.

Sàbado: This one guy I saw said I looked like I was from germany.

Domingo: Church in a real chapel!! 

"Adios Morazán"

"Hosanna" is a Greek form of the Hebrew expression for ¨Save us now¨ or ¨Save, we pray¨ 

 Martes 2 de Junio: We ordered pizza for lunch after our district meeting and it was pretty funny because there's no addresses here so Elder Mendieta just described where the house was as best as he could, and it arrived really fast! #smalltownbenefits

Some of my notes from reading Jesus the Christ, JT did a good job with this book.

¨No other man, however great his powers of physical or mental endurance, could have suffered so; for his human organism would have succumbed, and syncope would have produced unconcsciousness and welcome oblivion¨

Even bodily, the atonement of Jesus Christ is an awe-inspiring thing to consider. 

Also, Judas Iscariot partook of the sacrament. One of the guys that we're teaching, William, didn't like the fact that anyone could partake of the sacrament in our church if they choose to do so. We offer to everyone because how are we supposed to find out who is worthy or not??? That's not our job.

¨Herod is the only character in history to whom Jesus is known to have applied a personal epithet of contempt. 'Go ye and tell that fox' He once said to certain Pharisees who had come to Him with the story that Herod intended to Kill Him. 

As far as we know, Herod is further distinguished as the only being who saw Christ face to face and spoke to Him, yet never heard His voice.¨ #bloodisthickerthanwater #hekilledhiscousinJohn 

¨The present writer believes that the Lord Jesus died of a broken heart. The psalmist sang in dolorous measures according to his inspired prevision of the Lord's passion: ´Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.' 

We were all checking out our family history trees and I found an ancestor with the last name ¨Hansen¨ and Elder Hansen and I were like omg we're RELATED but nobody else cared I think they consider all gringos related.

Miercoles: Made a snake out of plastic cups and yarn with Wendy. 

Went over to visit our abuelitos and swept up the back yard and stacked some firewood. Then Rosita asked me if I was going to go ¨Misionar¨ and I told her not yet so she goes and makes this elaborate lunch and I didn't know what to say, they really just live day to day but they are so generous. 

Mario said that he would drive me to the bus stop on Wednesday with all my luggage and we all got a little misty eyed...

Jueves: We did the weekly planning and I was just like 

'whatever I'm not even going to be here. I mean I really DO care and all and I hope everything goes well but it's going to be out of my hands honestly." 

Bought some RayBans knock offs for like 5 bucks that now that I think about it I don't think I'm ever going to wear. 

And foundation that isn't as powdery as I hoped and too dark for me and smells like grandmotherly.

Then we all went to Negrito which is about 30 minutes away from Morazán and met three families that are members. They don't go to church because it's far and costs money. This one lady was suuuuper nice and made us all stay for baleadas and even though everyone before, was like we're only going to stay for five minutes because we have to go but then she brought up food and suddenly we had all the time in the world haha. 

Viernes: Spent the morning helping Ilda with her English, that's the thing I don't liiike. I thought I wasn´t going to have to do homework for at least a year and a half. #littledidsheknow Then I went to go ask Maribel if she could sew up my backpack and after an hour and a half and lunch she told me yes, she could sew it. Yes, she made us lunch, and yes I took a picture, and yes that is a chicken foot. you can see my meal in all it's claw-like finery.

But with the hna Maribel, I know that whatever typical food I'm trying, it's the absolute best version of that dish. 

We talked with this guy that was trying to tell us that God the father and the son were the same person and I'm just like that makes no sense. And he still didn't change his mind even after we talked about the vision Stephen saw when he was about to die when he said that he saw two people, God the father and Jesus Christ like you can't accept the new testament and ignore that simple doctrine that they are distinct beings.

Sabado: We passed by to visit Alejandra and she hid under a blanklet and didn't want to talk to us. 

Went and helped Dersi with her English homework and it was a little difficult because it was all banking terms like that's not a vocab that I know well. 

Domingo: There were good parts and not so good parts of today.

not so good- Carla didn't wake up to go to church and wendy didn't wan't to take her teething baby

good- the way Isis's face lit up when we came to walk her to church because she thought we weren't going to come

not so good- I cried while directing the last hymn in church.

good- this random little girl ran up and gave me a hug afterwards because she said she didn't want to see me cry.

not so good- we didn't study 12 semanas and we took a 3 hour nap. 

good- we were able to leave after and visit with Johnny and Bernadino. 

not so good- Marta shut the door in our face, fam Lemus hid from us and Israel told me he wanted to give the Book of Mormon back that I gave him and that he doesn't want us to come and teach him anymore.

good- I talked to Maria and she said that after our family home evening that we had with them, her husband has started to change and that they've been praying together as a family. 

not so good- both Selvin and Eduardo didn't show up for our planned appointments. 

good-Selvin's mom fed us dinner and I played (tried to) chess with Elder Alfaro while we all watched pinnochio 

"Endowed with Power from on High"

Martes 26 de Mayo

Santa Rita otra vez. The Mission President called me on the bus ride about this Sunday. And with some things I was asking the elders and he was like "Hermana Nelson...who else are you talking to?? Why do I hear a male voice are you in divisions or whatever you call it?" And I was like noooooooo I'm on the bus so that's why the Elders are with me! Because it was in the morning and we are just supposed to be in the house studying with our companions not hanging out with Elders haha. 

Went out visiting and a 19 year old señorita came with us and it went well, but she called me a boring person and I don't think I've ever been called that before.

The power went out around 7:30 so we had to go (almost run) back to the house early and we studied for my comp's 12 week training with flashlights.

Miércoles

I took a shower this morning for the first time in IDK how long. Still hardly any running water in our apartment. 

¨Peter, with all the fervor of his soul, voiced the great confession: ´thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.´ This was no avowal of mere belief, no expression of a result at which he had arrived by mental process, no solution of a problem laboriously worked out, no verdict based on the weighing of evidence; he spoke in the sure knowledge that knows no question and from which doubt and reservation are as far removed as is the sky from the ground¨

This made me think about the reason I'm here and the testimony I have. And how some people I talk to have tried to shake that and I was so surprised. It caught me off guard. That anyone would even feel satisfaction cutting other people down. Yes, we teach people of other faiths and it would be a lie if we said that we didn't try to change their minds. But the way that I see it, we are just trying to bring more light. Not create doubt. I always laugh a little bit in my head when people try to make me question my testimony of my calling and of this church. Like do you really think you have the slightest chance of changing my mind? I have been endowed with power from on high. I have been set apart from the world for this specific period of time and in this specific country. I may not know everything but I am absolutely positive that no outside force can make me turn away from the promises that I have made with my God. Only I have the ability to do that. And I will not. With all that I have seen and experienced in my own life and in the life of my friends and family, I can't. The Lord lives and this is his church. Just like Peter, what better answer than from God?

We received a referral from the Ramos family and we hiked over to see her. When we got to the house she beckoned us in but she wasn't smiling or anything so I wasn't quite sure if she wanted to recieve us. Then we got to talking and she tells us that today she came home from work, closed the door and just sat down and cried because she felt so alone. She was praying that someone would come and comfort her. I was really glad we came right away instead of waiting until later to contact that referral. By the end of the visit she was smiling and laughing and excited to go to church on Sunday. 

Jueves: ¨Porque el me envió, conmigo está; no me ha dejado solo el Padre, porque yo hago siempre lo que a él le agrada¨ Juan 8:29 ¨The evident earnestness and profound conviction with which Jesus spoke caused many of His hearers to believe on Him; and these He addressed with the promise that if they continued in that belief, and shaped their lives according to His word, they should be His disciples indeed¨ ¨Y conoceréis la verdad, y la verdad os hará libres.¨

Learned how to make ¨catrachas¨ today. You just fry (of course) corn tortillas and put refried beans and crumbly cheese on top. It's funny because ¨catrachas¨ is another name for the women from honduras. 

Viernes: ¨Amados, no creáis a todo espíritu, sino discernid entre los espíritus para saver si son de Dios; porque muchos falsos profetas han salido al mundo.¨ 1 Juan 4:1 okay happy 7 months to me.

¨ Excuses are easy to find; they spring up as readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside; when the Samaritan came along and saw the wretched state of the wounded man, he had no excuse for he wanted none.¨

So my hija is sick again :(  I let her rest for a little while and then we left to work.

When we talked with one of our investigators, towards the end of the lesson her baby was finally asleep so we could talk normally but my comp was dying of the sniffles so we finally had to leave. 

Her baby literally does not let her rest. It's 18 months old but constantly needing her attention. 

We did an activity in the church and it was supposed to start at 6pm but nobody showed up until 6:30.

We were there for the spiritual thought and then left during the game to go make the catrachas, there was enough for everyone thank goodness. 

Sábado: I made spaghetti sauce and I got to let it simmer for a reaaallllly long time because my companion was sick and didn't want to leave the house. I couldn't find any tomato paste or canned diced tomatoes in the supermarket so I just used fresh tomatoes. 

Domingo: Today was the day that the mission president and his lovely wife visited Morazán! They both talked a little bit and it was great. Lunch was great, the salad turned out great and it was the same salad and bread that we had in that meeting for just the sister missionaries. And the spagetti sauce turned out really good if I do say so myself. President was really nice about it and said that all of us in the kitchen cooking together made him baggy. like he actually said baggy and removed his nametag part of the way hahah. IDK if I ever explained this, but baggy is what we say when we get homesick.

Like when I tried the cookies that Hermana Klein brought and almost cried. 

Oh and right when we wanted to all go our separate ways it started to rain cats and dogs (and it hasn't rained in quite a while!)

President took us to our house and we had left the windows open and water got in and also under the doors. Because it was raining and windy and for some reason in Honduras it's normal to have really loud thunder in the middle of the day. We stayed in the house a little while to try and get it dry and ourselves dry. I was absolutely soaked because I spent a good amount of time on the balcony just letting it all soak in. I think I'm gettting transfered to Progresso which is city instead of pueblito. Morazán is beautiful and green and I'm going to miss it. 

Also, I received the wedding announcement of Jennie and Walter on Sunday and I opened it in church after President handed it to me. Everyone wanted to see and said that my friend is very beautiful.

It breaks my heart to hear about her father passing away. Dan Lamb is a great man and always so kind to me and treated me like just another one of his kids when I was in their home.  How beautiful are the promises that we have that families can be together forever. My heart goes out to the Lamb family - I love them so much!

But this was the week! And I have one more full week in this area so I hope to enjoy it as much as I can.