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.)
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