Family and Friends!
Hello everyone alll my family and friends
that i love so dearly! Dad thank you for your email it made me cry and
really appreciate you updating me on everything and for the scriptures
and advice...its wierd did you like go on a mission
or something?!? can you do that every week? cool thanks. I like how you
address me as yo sister heywood yep thats my dad! miss your
sillyness. This week at the MTC had flown by and like they all say the
week feels like one whole day! I have loved my stay and
leave wednesday morning we need to be at the bus to leave for the
airport at 3:30 am haha whoohoo! Ive loved it here so much and know
being out in the field will be just as enjoyable and hard but so worth
it. Everything here is so inspired of God...you have
your companion for a reason you're in a certain district for a reason
and zones and teachers and branch presidents and experience and what you
put in you will get out! This week elder Row, one of the two in our
district from canada went home for reasons he
didnt want to share and we all miss him! Our district has really grown
close through much laughter and testifying of the truth! We sang his
favorite hymn and prayed together and he thanked us, he said being here
has changed his life and we know God has a plan
for him as He does for everyone. He was quieter and being a heywood and
just london and with the help of everyone else we really broke him out
of his shell and i think that was a blessing to him to express himself
better, eating meals is not the same either
cause as a district we would all try and sit together and honestly this
is when i laugh the most! I love to Laugh. Okay so which brings me to
Elder conley if you can picture Brady Boren for me..how goofy he is and
loving, that is this elder. Elder Boren always
brought out the best in me so if you could imagine that is what elder
conley does for me haha And Sis Paskett picture mallory...that is my
companion!!! I figured it out and its freaky. Love her to death! We had
infield oreientation this past tuesday at the
main mtc and boy was that awesome i wish it never ended, learned
alot. I first finally got to see my friend Kimri clouse in the hall way
and then saw natalie Fehlman in the lunch room at the main campus and we
hugged for the longest time and just cried i was
so happy to see her, it was home away from home but i didnt get a pic
with her but maybe will today, we are going back there for haircuts and
to pick up our clothes that are getting length added to! :) Im going to
miss this place, there is a great spirit
here!
How have i seen the Hand of the Lord in my life!?
Honestly through it all..im so happy to be out here, on the Lords time
and through exact obedience we will be blessed. I love the
little blessings that happen cause i know he is aware of
me and sometimes they are the biggest blessings. Sometimes it can be
hard but the more and more i learn to rely on the Lord it will become
easier, He is in the drivers seat. And i couldnt do life without the
Lord and my savior on my side. I and we have had
so many great experence this week. Through companionship inventory and
class and zone teaching, it is always something i need to hear or
something we are missing in our teaching. The teachers here are amazing
and they have really helped me become the kind
of the missionary the Lord needs me to be and i want to be. I cant wait
to meet my mission president and wife this coming wed. they talk to us
about giving a good first impression and how the elders should always be
in there suit coats unless they are given
permission to take them off. We are representing the Lord and i feel
very blessed to be that at this time in my life! but it will not end
when i get home i will always be a defender of the faith! I wish i could
clue you in on every amazing experience i have,
its hard to remember everything. A scripture i really love is D&C
84:88 "And whoso receiveth you, there i will be also, for i will go
before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my
Spirit shall be in your heart, and mine angels round
about you, to bear you up.".. Sis Paskett and i had a special heart to
heart saturday night and she began to tell me how she was only born with
half a brain and after a blessing it was made whole as a little newborn
and the passing of her mom 5 years ago and
all her grandparents and aunt. And i told her about my grandpa heywood
and grandma keeling and that all of them are cheering us on and they are
the angles baring us up and we could feel them in the room that night
laughing and crying with us. Sis P wants so
bad for them to be proud of her along with the Lord and i told her that
they already were so proud of her. Another scripture i love is D&C
100:6 and it applies to teaching "For it shall be given you in the very
hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall
say." as long as we teach by the spirit we have nothing to worry
about..Humility is the key to to knowlege not eloquence and Heavenly
Father needs all my heart in His work and boy is it ever, Brothers and
sisters it is a great joy to be apart of this hastening
of the work!
