I know you all are dying to hear the transfer news ;)... Sister Gagon and I are staying together here in Zilker Park! Yay!! :)
That's super exciting for me because I really love Sister Gagon. We have so much in common and I've learned so much from her! Elder Pew (an Assistant to the President) told us that they all expect miracles from us this next transfer. And we're ready to deliver! :)
I really, really love Zilker Park. It's got to be the best area in the whole mission! I really love the ward and all the people that I have been able to meet. Just love them to death! So much that I rode my bike this week just to be able to see them! Our poor car is having transmission issues (I know, me and transmission problems...), so we took it in to be fixed. This week has been the coldest and rainiest by far, but we didn't let that stop us! We've been on foot and bike all week! :) And we've met some very interesting people that way... Haha! :)
The best thing ever happened this week! Alana and Jadon were baptized! They're both so awesome. Jadon got his hair cut, so you won't get to see his crazy curly hair... but it was awesome. It was so great to see them be baptized. Now that I think about it, the first time I've seen Alana REALLY smile was after her baptism. Wow! This really is the happiest message on Earth! Jadon is a crazy 8 year-old and he asked to bear his testimony... it was one of the sweetest testimonies I've ever heard. So simple, but so powerful. Especially for an 8 year-old! I'm so excited for them. :)
My little sister sent me a banana this week...
I haven't tried to eat it yet... but we'll see. ;)
So this week I've done a lot of thinking about our Heavenly Father. We all lived with Him before this life and were happy, because what else would we be in the presence of such a loving Heavenly Father? Yet we knew we needed to come here in order to progress, so we did it. But we're not left alone and wandering without guides! We have scriptures and prophets and all of that stuff, but we also have the PERFECT EXAMPLE, Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father just loves us SO much (John 3:16). I usually think of it as "He gave us a way to get back to Him. And we so want to be with Him again." But the other day I flipped it around. HE so wants to be with US again. And I may or may not have cried. (You'll never be able to prove it.) I've never thought of it
like that, but of course it's true! It's sort of like physics. When you push on something, it pushes back with the exact same force. We want so badly to be with Him again (even if some of us don't realize it), and Heavenly Father wants us back just as much. Probably even more, which breaks the analogy. Everything he does is to save souls. Everything. His very purpose is to bring us back (Moses 1:39). I love Him so much, and He loves me so much, and He just loves all of you so much, and it's just a whole lot of love going on. Always remember that!
Sister Waite
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