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A note from your Sister

My Dearest Family!

I am so thankful President Sweeney is allowing me to email y'all today. He called me this mornin and let me know about Gramma's passing. Gramma is an incredible woman. She is the perfect example of service and love. I have always looked up to her and how much she loved Granpa. I always wanted a relationship like that! They are so adorable and there was no denying the beautiful and pure love they have for each other. What a wonderful thing, that she can now return to be with Granpa! Can you imagine their reunion?? How tender and happy that must have been. After I got off the phone with President, I hit my knees and asked Father if she was ok, if she was happy, if she is with Granpa. My whole body was flooded with warmth and a resounding YES entered my mind. Then Gramma's voice ran through my head and said- "Did you think I was gonna let anything stop me from getting to him?"

I know without a doubt she is happy. She is with Granpa and they are going to be powerhouses doin the work of our Father up there. I am so thankful for the knowledge that we have that it is all going to be okay! We will see them again! And what a wonderful day that will be! It's ok to cry, let it out. But don't let it stop you from pushin on. I pray for y'all with all my heart every day. Don't you worry about me. I am so happy. It makes me so thankful that God lends me my breath everyday to go and do His will. 

King Benjamin is my hero haha I talk about him all the time. Mosiah 5:15 reads: Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you may bebrought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. Amen.

Family, let God seal you His. Give your hearts unto Him. Allow Him to comfort you and make you stronger. Never doubt who you are and where you came from. This life is merely a fragment of what lies ahead. I am so thankful for the time I did have with Gramma. Taking care of her while she was in Tennessee and getting to listen to her stories and watch the Kentucky Wildcats ball it up are some of my most cherished memories. Gramma and Granpa have left a legacy of love and faith, and now they are both lookin down on us. I can feel Granpa here with me everyday. And now they are both by my side, helpin me do the work that they hold so dear. 

I love you so so much. I am so excited to skype y'all in just 3 short months! And Royce is gonna be born soon! So many happy and marvelous things my goodness we are so blessed. Thank you so much for your prayers. Because y'all are strong, I can be too. We pull together in times like cause that's what we do, we are there for each other. And I am here for you! I love y'all! Team? Team.

All my love,

Sister Crystal Snow Flake

CRAZIEST WEEK of my LIFE

Familyyyy!!!

Wow. You will not believe the week I have had. Like seriously it was NUTS. I wish I could tell everything but that would take ages haha I am still debating on whether or not to tell the demon dog story haha Ma may freak out so nahhhhh ANYWAYS haha so my hair is so long I accidentally sit on it sometimes. I would get it cut but it is such a good conversation starter and has helped me get in doors Im just gonna keep it! 

So Monday was Pday and had Zone Conference tuesday- which was AWESOME. Have y'all heard of the Meet the Mormons movie that is coming out?? We get to go see it! Its in October holy cow AWESOME missionary tool!! Everyone go see it and take your friends kay? Then Wednesday was exchanges and Sister Crandall came and was with me in my area!! It was SO FUN she is amazin. We did some service and I think somethin in the garage we were cleanin out I was alergic too or somethin.. I kinda brushed it off and kept goin and we had some awesome contacts and met some incredible people!! Welllll when we got home that night it all came crashin on me... 4 asthma attacks later and the Elders came and gave me a blessing and then I got a cold and so I was deaadddddd oh it was bad!! But its ok!! So I woke up in the mornin on thursday and was sooo sick... but I got up and kept workin! 

Sister Lieberman then was like ok youre done when we were halfway through studies and made me lie down. Cause I was pale and shivering. So I lied down and boom fell asleep. So I was sleepin for a while when Sister Lieberman came and woke me and said "umm how fast can you get dressed? Sister Carambelas needs to go to the hospital" WHAT so I shot up and got dressed and was out the door in like 30 seconds. She was having awful stomach pains oh my goodness it was so scary. We got to the ER in show low like 20 min away and I grabbed her and took her in and checked her in and sat her down we got the paperwork filled out and I turned it in and was like "Lady you need to get her in asap" so we got her in and was in there for 4 hours runnin tests and such. Thank heavens all is well and we got it all taken care of!

Welllllll then I passed out..  so we got me home and Sister Lieberman and Crandall had to go to the valley for MLC and so Sister Carambelas and I were left behind- dead and defeated. Haha we were seriously just these zombies dyin on the couches hahaha it was pretty funny. So we studied and watched the district and talked and talked and talked then Mel and Katy brought me soup!!!! Oh my goodness I love them so much!! And Mikayla Hatch brought me her guitar hot dog I was happy. 

Then Friday we were dead all day. We slept in till like 8 and then got up and tried to get ready but I couldnt even walk straight so we stayed in and studied and slept and rested and talked about life and I played guitar! It was crazy. I felt like a horrible missionary because we had to cancel appointments and such and I cried because I felt so bad :( but there was no way I was going to be able to walk let alone get on a bike! 

So that was nuts. Well then Sister Carambelas was havin a baptism that night and we found out that no one had made a program! And the baptism was in like 2 hours. So we got up and walked to the stake center and my goodness made the program- everything was going wrong- and we were freakin out but it was funny we were laughing our heads off cause everytime we are on exchanges something crazy happens!! but yeah we made the program and made it to the baptism. Well the baptism was awesome... from what I remember haha i kinda passed out in the back for a while. The Elders came and we standin on both sides of me at the end. I was strugglin my word I felt so dumb but hey what can ya do? So we came home that night and I fell asleep almost immediately- name tag on and all. (that happens a lot though haha)

Well Saturday WHICH IS THE DAY OF TRAVIS'S BAPTISM I woke up feelin like death still but I wasnt about to miss another day! So we got to work and went and did some service at a funeral luncheon and helped there and then we came back and practiced our song for TRAVIS'S BAPTISM!!!! oh my goodness ok so I made up a fingerpicking for Be Still My Soul on the guitar and put together a really cool arrangement for S. Liebs and I. Oh it was so good!! So then we met Travis at the church!!!! He was beamin. Family. My eyes were opened this day.

So we got everything ready and the font was filled and we took pictures then went in for the service. I have come to know Travis this past month and a half and his wife Mari and my goodness.. I love them so much. Sitting there by them and feeling of their spirit.. Before he went to be baptized we sang our song! I was still really sick so I kinda butchered the beginning but half way we were cruisin. the spirit was so strong. Then we went and Travis entered the font and was baptized. I cannot describe the feeling I felt. When he came up out of the water... He stood there with his eyes closed and a big smile on his face.. just soakin it all in... His wife looked at me and said "8 years.. I have been waiting for this for 8 years" i just was cryin and we hugged and oh my goodness I have never been so happy in my life! 

The talk next was on Temples and the speaker asked Travis "You can be sealed to your wife and daughter for eternity, how does that sound" and Travis with tears in his eyes said "That sounds amazing."

Travis accepted to invitation to follow his Savior. He had quit smoking and drinking and all of that. He was prepared. Christ is the ONLY WAY we can make it back to our Father in Heaven. Seeing Travis be baptized and feeling that spirit.. was indescribable. My eyes have been opened. I cannot describe to y'all what I felt that night. But I can tell you what I know. I know I am right where I am supposed to be. I know that when we follow Christ and utilize his atonement... we can be enabled to become like our Father in Heaven. These people are incredible. I am here to find those who have been searching for this. I am here so show them that Christ is the only way. The gospel changes lives. It has changed mine. My whole outlook on the mission has changed. What if I never came? What if I decided not to come? No way haha I cant see myself bein anywhere else than right here. I only have like less than 17 months left... thats not a lot of time!!! I have so much work to do and so many people to find!! I never wanna come home haha but I know one day I will have too so I am going to give my 110% every stinkin day. I want everyone to feel what Travis felt when he received the Holy Ghost and that full remission of his sins. You dont have to droop in sin!! You dont have to live with the guilt of doin somethin wrong!! King Benjamin talked about this beautifully. Christ came and sufferered for it all so we dont have too. He came so he could stand at the judgement bar of God and say "Hey, I know what she went through was hard and she did her very best to stay righteous" and he will advocate with the Father to let us stand spotless, to stand blameless and enter into His rest. Family what more could we ask for!?!? And Travis received that. You bet your bottom dollar Im gonna give it all I got to get this message to everyone. lets go team.

So this week was phenomenal. Though I was dead for half of it, Travis's baptism was incredible. Every rejection I have had, every heartache and homesickness and fear and bad day... it is all worth it. Family I can feel your prayers. Really, I feel it. I pray for y'all too, life is so good. Everything is going to be ok. 

Soooooooo now I have a challenge for all y'all!!! I want each of you to share something gospel related on facebook. Whether it be a Mormon message or a picture- POST IT and BEAR YOUR TESTIMONY. Just a quicky kay? kay. I will be following up so you better do it. Conference is coming up soon- GET THE WORD OUT!! Tell everyone invite people over make cookies i dont care. Will you post your testimony on facebook and invite a nonmember to watch conference? BOOM. you have been committed now getcho tail feathers out there and gidderdone. 

Well I love y'all SO MUCH!! My life is changing as has my heart. Each of us have felt that burning feeling of the spirit at some point in our lives. Are we still utilizing the Atonement? Are we continually striving to be better? You have felt it. I will echo the words of Alma "And now behold, I say unto you, my bretheren, (my family!!) if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?" 

Can you? Are you striving to be better everyday? Let's help everyone feel that too.

I love you Family!

xoxo- Sister Crystal Flake

September what?

Family!!!

Welcome to another addition to Sister Flake's crazy life. I cannot believe another week has flown by! So much has happened my word! Well I am sitting here in tears (happy ones) cause of Dad's beautiful email, thank you Papa, and Becca's preggo pictures!!! Oh my goodness you are so gorgeous Seester! And Matthew is forever a stud that baby is gonna be a cutie! I miss y'all all so much! But the cool thing is that I have family here to help me along! We got to go to the temple last tuesday woowwww it was incredible. First thing I saw- VERNELL FLAKE!

Oops i got so excited i accidentally sent the message haha allow me to continue! so I saw vernell!!! That was incredible. She came up to me and gave me a big hug and she wasnt even supposed to be workin in the temple that day but she took someones shift and boom! That seriously lifted my spirits so much just to feel of her love and talk to her. I love her so much she is an angel. So the session was full and so we went and did sealings- my first time! Oh the promises made there are so beautiful! I want all my investigators and less actives to have that! Its amazing!! God loves us so much and the blessings from being righteous are phenomenal. Makes me way super excited to have a family of my own someday! So the temple was incredible. I saw so many Flake's haha it was like a mini family reunion! One after the other and Vernell came and got me and was like I wanna show you off to the other workers haha it was so cute I love her. So that was the best day ever! SO GUESS WHAT i have made my bed every morning and hung up my clothes every night for the past 2 weeks. Miracles do happen people!

Travis is getting baptized SATURDAY!! I cant believe its already time! I am borrowing a guitar it only has 4 strings haha but im gonna play it at the service! 

Then there was the sweet corn festival!!! So fun. Corn everywhere. I love this little town! Its so cute!! And they celebrate CORN ah i love it. We got to be on the float and helped build it it was so fun. We ran around passing out popcorn balls haha So much fun!! 

Family... I am so sorry for who I was before the mission... Like seriously what a lame bucket I was!! I have grown so much and have learned so much its crazy and its only been like a month. But I look back on who I used to be and all my old habits and hot dang I was a mess I am so sorry! I am not going to come home the same Crystal, and I am so excited for that. Focusing all I got on Christ and the people here have humbled me. So please forgive me for all my short comings. I am workin so hard to give all of myself to these people. I know that as I do that I wont have to worry about who I am, God will take care of that. I just gotta put myself completely in his care and He will help me. I know He is protecting me! 

We were able to teach the young women lesson yesterday on why temple marriage is so important! It was awesome. One thing we stressed was what Dad always would say to me: "If you want Superman, ya gotta be Superwoman." How true that is!! I hope and pray that I can continue to be the best Sister Flake I can be. the girls were so cute we had them write letters to their future selves saying they wouldn't settle for anything less than a temple marriage. It was awesome. The promises we receive in the temple my goodness that we can be together forever with our family!? Y'all are stuck with me forever mwahaha but really. Heavenly Father loves us so much its awesome. 

The work here is really starting to pick up. The members are awesome and we are doing a lot of reactivating work. The Book of Mormon is so incredible. I hope y'all are reading from it everyday cause my word it is the most amazing thing!! I always have known it was true, I prayed about it so many times and have read it at least 9 times or so. But seeing it CHANGE LIVES. Seeing someone read a verse and look at me with the light of Christ just beaming from their eyes. Seeing someone stop smoking. Seeing people come closer to Christ because of that book. Its incredible. The principles taught in that book and the the pure and simple truths.. this is your salvation in 531 pages. It tells you everything you need to do to get back to your Father in Heaven. Please read it. Ponder it. Not only is it like instructions for us- but it is a safety net, a comfort. I just finished studying Enos. I love how much he loves his dad! Jacob was awesome you can tell how much Enos loves him. In the last verse, verse 27, ah it makes me cry he says "And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest." what comfort!! Christ is our rest. Come unto him. Now my favorite part "And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen." 

My loved ones, one day we will all face our Maker. I cannot wait for that day. I will work everyday to get there. The feeling I get when I think of seeing my Savior and my Father in Heaven are indescribable. I want to be ready for that day. Thank heavens we have the Atonement, because I am so imperfect and I mess up so much. But I know, with all my heart, that Jesus is the Christ. That the Book of Mormon is the Word of God, and as we abide by it, we can stand blameless before God. I love you. I love my Savior. I love the people of Arizona. Don't let anything stop you from inheriting your place in His mansions above! I am praying for each of you. Have a blessed week and Happy September!

Much love,

Sister Flake

I think I'm in Heaven: Aug 25th

Hellllooooooooo Family!! 

WOWZERS what a week! I honestly can't believe I am sitting here emailing again! It feels like I was just here this week flew by so fast!! I have now been out for over a month can someone say crazy sauce?? Time is starting to fly even faster and it freaks me out. I brought my journal here today so I can look back and remember cause it went so fast I cant even think about what has happened haha.

So I went on exchanges with Sister Carambelas again I LOVE HER we get along so perfectly! She is so funny and we just have the most lovely time. We got to go to a member home for supper and it was incredible! Dad you would have loved it. He built EVERYTHING. The house and an ampitheatre with a house upstairs in it and all this awesome stuff! Ill have to bring you back here! He also HANDMAKES guitars. And I have missed playing guitar so much! It is how I clear my head and relieve stress and so i was dying to play and he let me play his 12 string acoustic guitar! It was seriously such a tender mercy. I played hymns and sang for them, the spirit was so strong. I was so happy!!! Oh how I miss my guitar. But that was flippin awesome. 

So Travis is still on set for baptism September 6th!! I am so excited!! He asked me to sing I am so honored. I think Liebs and I are gonna sing a duet. I super pumped. When I first met Travis, Liebs was like hey lets sing a Childs Prayer for them. I was like wait what? So we sang! The spirit was so strong! Then the next lesson was when he committed to baptism! Music really does speak to the heart. I never realized how based my life is in music until I got out here! Something tells me to stick with it because it really has been touching lives. 

We got to participate in the town clean up for the sweet corn festival! it was an awesome service project. I got to weedeat haha I was the only girl who knew how so they gave it to me and they all call me "farm girl" haha so they were like here ya go farm girl get to it! So i weedeated for 4 hours! it was so fun!! I miss manual labor so much haha it was so nice to be out in the sun just weedwhackin away! The people here are so great and the town is so cute! I think we are gonna be on one of the floats for the sweet corn parade! Im gonna see if I can throw some pass along cards ;)

Soooo i got sick. Pretty bad haha but its ok! Im doing great now. It was funny because Sister Lieberman would be like rest go take a nap and I refused haha i cant this is the Lord's time! So after the service project, Liebs was in the shower and I lied on my bed and waited and I fell asleep!! I woke up an hour later and freaked out! I ran into the livin room where Liebs was studyin and I was like "NOOOO why didnt you wake me up when you got out of the shower!!! I didn't mean to nap!!" She looked at me and said "Sister Flake. I was so happy when you finally fell asleep on accident because I knew I wouldn't be able to get you to go do it on your own!" it was funny we busted up laughing. She knows I am a stubborn mess haha I love her. 

So being on my mission has taken all of my weaknesses and thrown them up in lights. Honestly I am so imperfect and I make so many mistakes!! I am nothing compared to God. I love when King Benjamin addressed our "own nothingness" its so true!! We are nothing compared to God! But to God, we are everything. He wants us to come back to Him! US!! We are sinners and He is perfect! He loves us so much. I look back on all the hardships I have been through... but the cool thing is is God was ALWAYS there. He always helped me through it! And look where I am now! I know when hard times come its ok, God will guide the future as He has the past. It kills Heavenly Father when we are sad. But look at my knee injury experience for example. I was SO SAD. But having faith in Christ and knowing it would be ok, Heavenly Father helped me out and I learned SO MUCH. I grew substantially and I look back and I wouldnt trade that trial for anything because so much good came from that one bad time. So chin up family!! All is well!! 

I have met SO MANY family members!! I love it. They are like.. Sister... Flake?? Where are you from girl?? I say Tennessee- they say the Flakes are takin over!! Hecks yes we are. And lots remember Jason! They love him so much! its really cool. And we got to eat Big Jake's!! I still have half in my fridge haha no way could I finish that! 

I am so thankful for this Gospel. Each week I know I am changing and I dont even realize it till I sit at this computer and type to y'all. Now I am not even close to the missionary I know I need to be! So any advice would be FABULOUS. Most of y'all are return missionaries so hey shed some wisdom on me! I need it! I love y'all so darn scootin' much. Keep your heads up! Even when the clouds are out, the sun in still shinin. 

Much love,

Sister Crystal Snow Flake

here are some pics of the service project!! I became the honorary weedeater fixer haha they put a wrench in my back pocket so i could keep em goin. It was so fun! the blonde lady is Katy Chee!! She is AMAZIN!! She is a member but her husband isn't and we are teachin him. They are incredible I love them so much!!

(EDITORS NOTE: She sends about a million pics each week so I will just make a post soon with all of em.)

Mighty Miracles

Holaaa!!!

Wow I cannot believe it has been another week! Time is flying by SO FAST :( I love it here. The people are so great. I spoke yesterday in church. It was so fun! Lots more people than our little branch haha. SO GUESS WHAT. Travis is one of our investigators whose wife is a member and he has been investigating through 3 sets of sisters. Last monday we taught him about the Book of Mormon but i felt impressed to go into the Atonement. Turns out he understood the mechanics of the atonement but wasnt sure why it had to happen. Heavenly Father just put the words in my mouth. I bore hard testimony that God loves us and the only way back to Him is through Christ. That Christ stood in our place and bled from every pore for US. So that we dont have to suffer! He did the hard part! Now we need to follow him and repent and be baptized! I looked at him, we both had tears streamin, the spirit was so strong, and I asked if he would like to follow Christ and be baptized. He said yes!!!! September 6!!! God is workin might miracles. Its all the spirit. Isn't that so wonderful!! I love Travis. He has such a great heart and family. You can already tell the difference he is making and how his countenance has changed. He was prepared.

So that was amazing! Another miracle was we got the impression to visit a less active lady. She has been struggling with depression. As we sat there in her tiny living room, God took the wheel again. Through me He testified of His love for her. That she was a beloved daughter and He wanted her to come back to Him so He could heal her and take care of her. She committed to come back to church! And her teenage daughter was sitting in there. We all felt the spirit. Her daughter wants to come to church now too! Heavenly Father knows His children. He knows what they need to hear. I am so thankful that I am worthy to have Him work through me. It is amazin.

This is the hardest thing I have ever done! My body, mind, and spirit are exhausted by the end of the day. Rejection and disappointment ah it gets so tough. But when you look into someone'e eyes, and they themselves feel the spirit and accept to follow Christ? Worth it. This is the BEST thing I have ever done. If it wasn't hard it wouldn't be worth it. and lemme tell ya its SO WORTH IT.

So Liebs has had to go to the valley for meetings and Sister Carambelas and I were companions for a day I LOVE HER haha we had so much fun! I love my bike. His name is buckbeak. We probably biked 50+ miles last week no joke haha

I think my favorite scripture for this week is 3 Nephi 13 32- 34. Just put God first!! in EVERYTHING you do ask yourself, would God be ok with me doing this right now? I promise as you do that, everything else will fall into place! I love the last verse, its so cute!! Dont think about tomorrow. Let tomorrow think about itself! As long as you are doing what God wants you too, He will take care of it. That is how we receive true faith. By knowing that what we are doing is in line with what God wants us to be doing.

I love this work!! I love everything about it! We go to church for 9 hours every sunday! its fantastic! I am so excited for this week. We got big things and are helping Travis get ready for baptism! I love you each! Remember, God loves ya. I love ya.

xoxo- Sister Crystal Snow Flake

Oh there's sunshine, blessed sunshine

FAMILIA!!! 

Holy smokes I am so excited to sit down and write y'all!! Dang I can't even remember all that has been going on... I LOVE IT HERE. So much. the people here are so inspiring and wonderful. So here is what my days are like:

6:30- arise and shine!! We go running every morning. Then we shower and get ready!

8- personal study! I am reading some awesome talks. My goodness.

9- Companion study! It has been so fun studying for our investigators. Sister Lieberman (Liebs) is such a great teacher. I love learning from her. She has helped me so much!

10- GAME TIME. We usually do this 12-week study thing cause I am new but then we head out! We visit people all day. I love my bike. We can just stop and talk to anyone! So our dinner appt. got out late one night, and so we dashed down the hill on our bikes and we saw a man walking right where our turn was so we went up to him and started talking. He was having a rough day but said all of a sudden when we showed up he felt peace! So we taught him about eternal familes and i bore my testimony and we got his info and are gonna teach him! cool huh?! Crazy how he was right there at that exact moment! God is guiding us. It rocks.

So 5 is dinner and the lovely members always sign up so we have supper every night. Which rocks cause all I have is bananas and honey haha oh and slim fast. then we go back at it, get back round 9, plan, and then get ready for bed! I write in my journal and read letters and fall asleep and have crazy weird dreams. A couple nights ago I dreamt we baptized Voldemort hahaha yeah my dreams are mixed with missionary shtuff and Crystal's crazy brain. weird combo.

But yes. Life is so great. Yesterday, none of our investigators showed up to one of the wards (we are over 3 wards) so we were so bummed. So we went to visit people later that night and this one family let us in and they are so awesome!!! They are inactive but it was such a good visit. the people here are amazin. So we felt so good coming out of there. Liebs and I just hugged each other and were so happy! The moon was HUGE. As we were biking home, the air was so cool and crisp and the moon just lit up the road (no street lamps so that was nice) it was so breathtaking. So i started to sing How Great thou art. this was the best part-

"And when I think, that God His Son not sparing.. sent him to die.. I scarce can take it in.. that on the cross, my burdens gladly bearing.. he bled and died.. to take away my sin."

When I sang that I got goosebumps all over my body. Warmth fillled my heart and I could barely sing the rest. Christ gave his life for us. Willingly. Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee, How great thou art!! How great thou art!! 

One day I am going to fall at my Savior's feet, sweaty and exhausted, having given all that I possibly could.. "Then I shall bow, in humble adoration, and there proclaim, my God how great Thou art!!" I cannot wait till that day. I have so much work to do though! I am growing so much. I am becoming more confident and quite frank with people. If you want salvation, you gotta work for it, but God makes it so easy! He spells it out. Just do it. God gives us so many chances its crazy! That is why the Atonement is so beautiful. I can better myself everyday. 

Something super awesome.. is how we has humans need to fix our attitudes haha I mean that in the nicest way! This applied to me especially. My Mission President asked us, "Why do you think life should be easy for you, when it was not easy for Christ?" Woah. That buckled my knees. Even Christ, the SON OF GOD, the most perfect person ever- asked God if there was an easier way. This life is supposed to require something of our soul. Sacrifice and hard work brings about so many blessings. When you struggle and go through hardship, you are pushing shoulder to shoulder with Christ. He went through it all for us. Our work is never finished. We must press on and give it all we got no matter the opposition! Life is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. But you know what? Life ain't even that hard!! We got each other. We got ice cream. We got sunsets and daffodils and Biggs!! What more do we need?? 

My bishop told me- "There is no growth in the comfort zone, and no comfort in the growth zone" Hecks yeah I am in the growth zone but I feel all the comfort in the world from y'all's prayers and my Father in Heaven. So I send my love and my prayers right back atcha! This snowflake is a happy one. Oh Liebs and I did the math- if we got paid minimum wage for every hour we work on the mission (16 hrs a day) we would make almost 70 Grand!! we laughed haha then I yelled THATS 70 THOUSAND BLESSINGS! You bet it is.

xoxo- Sister Flake

pics1 and 2- This is our caterpillar. His tame is Taco.

pic 3- muh bike shot

pic4- im really bad at taking selfies. Josh needs to teach me how. ;)

pic 5- I FOUND FLOWERS. tender mercies.

pic 6- this is a live shot. i just took this. sorry i look nasty we biked here in the rain. it felt so good!

pic7- I LOVE LIEBS