My Ted Talk

 Hi hi hi!! 

It's been a minute but I hope everyone enjoyed that email hijacked by my lovely mother because i sure did hahaha 

Anyways it's time for an update!! My birthday was this week!!! I'm 20!?!? That's so crazy. But thank you to everyone who reached out and said so many nice things. I felt so loved and I am so grateful 🫶🏻💖 Also happy late Valentines day!! I LOVE Valentines day so I hope everyone had such a happy day 💌 

We had transfers this week and I got to be in this area for one more transfer to finish Sister Daniels training!! I love this area so I am so super happy to be staying here!! 

Things here in missionary land are going very well! We met this girl named Bree about a month ago and she is going to be baptized in 2 weeks!! She didn't know much about God or Jesus when we met her, so watching her learn and come to know them has been so special. The faith people have just always amazes me. To go from not knowing who God is but trusting in your prompting to learn more is amazing. And then to continue trusting in your gut feeling that what your learning is right because it makes you happy, is even more amazing. Ughh it's just so cool. The process of building our faith is kinda scary but as we continue to learn and trust God, our confidence in our faith grows. And watching this whole process through Bree has been so cool. 

We had a missionary give her homecoming talk in the ward I am serving in and everything she said resonated with me. So anyways these are my thoughts based on what she said:

I just feel so super lucky that God has allowed me to be here and witness people having these experiences. And what is so awesome about it, is that it literally has nothing to do with me. The joy that I feel as a missionary has nothing to do with me or with what I can do. It's all just people coming to know who their God is. It's their experiences. It's their testimony. And it makes me happy because I know who my God is. I know the JOY that this gospel brings. So watching people find Him makes me want to jump up and down and do 5 million backflips. It's so awesome!!! 

But that is not to say that it's sunshine and rainbows all the time because it's not. Some days and weeks are insanely long. Some days it feels like we do so much work and not a lot comes from it. Sometimes all I want to do is scroll on tiktok and then watch my favorite movie or read my favorite book. But if there is anything that I have learned on my mission, it is that there can be so much joy in everyday life. God is good at his job so He is very good at providing tender mercies that bring peace and joy and light into our lives. We just have to look for those moments, hold onto them, and not take them for granted. God wants us to be happy!!! And I promise that when we focus on that joy, even those long days can start to feel like sunshine and rainbow days!! 

Ok i'm done idk where that ted talk came from but thank you for listening hahaha 

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH 🍰💝💌🤩💃