I Absolutely LOVE What I'm Doing!

   Who's got two thumbs and is glad the holidays are over? THIS GIRL! This last week has been quite slow. Every appointment except for one cancelled on us and none of our potentials were home so I finally broke down and went tracting for the first time in 5 months. Yeah, my stalking skills were a little rusty, but I'm back at the top of my game. One day I will be as good as Hermana Marroquin and be able to smell Hispanic houses :) JA! But we actually found a couple of good potentials and got a few returns-which a miracle in and of itself when you are tracting. And last night we received a referral from an English member who has some Hispanic neighbors that he has been working with for a while. I guess he has invited them to the Halloween activity and the Christmas activity in his ward and he gave them a Libro de Mormon and todo eso...he had finally been gracious enough to decide that the missionaries should be involved :) We have an appointment tomorrow with them. 

     Wendy and Ashley came to church yesterday which was great because we haven't seen them in a long time! Unfortunately, they have moved out of our boundaries. I have no problem handing them off to the Elk Grove Hermanas, I'm just not sure if Wendy and Ashley will be willing to go to another branch. We are also going to see them tomorrow. Just pray for us!

     Really, that is about the only exciting thing to report. However, after the car accident I think I will just count my many blessings :) We have been working a lot with the branch to try and get the members really excited for missionary work in 2014. Lots of good things are in the making.

     So, I was reading in an old Ensign the other day and I read this article by Elder Uchtdorf called Always In The Middle. I found it very fitting as I will hit my nine month mark this Friday. You should read it (just click on the link). It has a lot of good things for missionaries as well as for every day life.

    I just want to let you know that I absolutely LOVE what I am doing! I wouldn't trade it for the world. I know I am missing a few things at home, but it is nothing in comparison to how Heavenly Father will bless me and you all. I love this gospel and am so grateful to have it in my life. I have a firm testimony that my Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ know me and love me more than you or I could ever imagine! I have felt that love time and time again on my mission. It is through the Atonement that we can be truly happy in life. Though life is hard-for some worse than others-I know that our pain will be nothing compared to the joy that we can receive through our faithfulness. I love you all and am so happy that my family is an eternal one! Thank you for your prayers. I can feel your love. :)

     Keep staying classy and remember that the Church is true and the book is blue :)

Love SIEMPRE, 

            Hermana Freestone

    

P.S. Colossians 2:5 <3

we helped at a wedding, i got play with fire... i guess you could say i was "Catching Fire"