Really pretty green stuff (and I need to appreciate it, because the leaves are starting to change, and this is the last time I'll be in New Jersey to see this kind of green).
Ah! Fancy meeting you here! (Thanks Tim and James!)
President Monson's birthday! Yay! We got permission to show tunes! Yay! We were quite pleased!
Dearest Judy after her baptismal interview.
Family Dearest,
President Jeppson called me this week and told me about Grandma Healy. She surely was a great lady, and I'm going to miss her. I'm glad she gets to be back with Grampa Healy, Popsy, and the rest of her family. For all we know, they could be up there playing Tiddlywinks as we speak! I'm sad I won't be there for her funeral, it's probably going to be really sweet. Give everyone hugs from me:)
President Jeppson called me this week and told me about Grandma Healy. She surely was a great lady, and I'm going to miss her. I'm glad she gets to be back with Grampa Healy, Popsy, and the rest of her family. For all we know, they could be up there playing Tiddlywinks as we speak! I'm sad I won't be there for her funeral, it's probably going to be really sweet. Give everyone hugs from me:)
This week lots of stuff happened. Dawn's husband Bill went in for his double bypass, and she has been with him all week. The surgery went very well, and he is still recovering. She reads the scriptures out loud to him, and she said he has prayed out loud a couple of times. He also told her that when he got his priesthood blessing, he felt warm inside. He said it was like nothing he'd ever felt before. And that's what the Spirit feels like, for me anyway.
We had interviews with President and Sister Jeppson this week and he asked me how my relationship with the Savior was. I didn't know how to answer. Since Popsy left, I thought I'd feel closer to the Savior. And I have, in that I've been able to go day to day without having break downs and crying all over the place. I've been able to do what I came here to do, and with a lot of calm and peace about the whole thing. But I didn't feel like I felt Christ with me through it. When I went home, I pondered about this, and it sort of troubled me. So that night I prayed to recognize more of Jesus Christ in my life and feel closer to Him. Since that prayer, I have felt SO MUCH of the Spirit. I was probably feeling Him before, but now I'm looking for and recognizing Him more. At any given time, if I think about the Savior, or read the scriptures, or when I think about my family and how we get to be super happy forever, I feel the Spirit. And for me, I feel warm inside. And I feel a sort of, orb of light, and energy, and happiness inside, that feels like it'll burst out of my chest. So, since I've started looking for Christ in my everyday life, I've recognized the love and comfort He's given me. I've always known what He's done for me and been forever grateful for it, but now I can feel the Atonement more. Maybe that's a little of what Bill felt, but he just didn't recognize it.
Judy, Dawn's Mother-in-law, passed her baptismal interview on Sunday and she's going to be baptized this coming week! We're so excited for her, and she is too! After her interview, she and our District Leader came out, and he gave us a thumbs up, and she was behind him doing a funny little dance of joy! She is completely off cigarettes now, and she is excited to make promises with Heavenly Father and to come closer to Him.
Also, Kevin, who's dating someone in our ward, called us this week and said he wants to turn his life around and take the discussions. We had our first lesson with him, and he wants to be baptized! So that will take place on September 15! His girlfriend's family was there for the lesson, and there were lots of tears happening. He has been reading the Book of Mormon with them for a while now, and is already in Alma. He feels really good when he reads, and feels peace at Church. After their lesson we helped them look for one of the daughter's necklaces in their lawn. We were combing the lawn with our fingers, on our hands and knees in our dresses. We didn't find anything, so we went inside and they gave us foods. Two days later, the mother told us she found it. When they first lost the necklace the mom went out there and prayed and all she kept getting from the Spirit was "5." What was that supposed to mean? Anyhow, the day she found it she took five steps from the porch, looked down, and there it was, shining under the grass at her. Funny how the Spirit works.
Thank you ever so much for the lovely package! Those cookies were tops Lib and Rob! And the caramels were quite scrumptious, especially after being refridged! And T and J, those mustache glasses are a hit! And I love the scarf and gnome paper, thank you so much!
And Mikey and Shelby and the tots, we're gonna be neighbors, AAAGGGHHHH! When I get home we're gonna put string and can phones between my window and whoever elses and we can talk! How neat!
Love you all,
Sister Mister
