Loving The Work And Potatoes

Where is the time going?! The weeks are flying by. Im really not sure what exactly to write about. I’ll do my best to give you guys something. We've all heard the saying "you got a face only your mother could love" I think my emails are "emails only a mother could read". If you feel that way feel free to scroll down to the pictures.


I gave my very first talk this week in church! With nothing prepared I got up and spoke over a pulpit with no microphone and somewhere along the way mustered up the ability to say "I love my family so much and miss them. Most of all I miss my potatoes". I meanttt to say parents but hey...I guess I miss potatoes too. I don't have any more funny stories but it really was an awesome week.

I feel like I’m getting into the flow of being a missionary finally and I have officially completed ONE MONTH IN THE FIELD WOOOOOOO!!!!! It’s been one of the longer months of my life, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. Im going to steal something from someone else’s email I read this week. Elder Beau Miller in Brazil said this week "There’s beauty in the struggle, and ugliness in the success". What an amazing quote. There is 100% beauty in the struggle. I look back on the past month and I’m so proud of all I’ve accomplished, although it’s been lackluster I’m proud of it. I’m proud of the struggle, proud of the fight. I gotta put up an even harder even bigger fight for the next 21 months but I’m looking forward to it! I know in my life Ive never grown exponentially without opposition. Without pain, without struggle we can’t grow and we can’t become better and most importantly we wouldn’t know joy and happiness! Along with this I sent an email to some amazing missionaries in the field right now that have been out in the field for a while. And they had some advice for me. "Embrace the suck!” The time it sucks when you can’t speak spanish, you feel alone and you’re  missing home, but embrace it and learn from it!

Keep on pushing everyone I miss you all! I love ya and so does your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ! 


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