Birth, Mother's and other days

I love skyping. Then again, I am so miserably scatterbrained, I can barely hold a conversation with all of y'all (: I hope I was mostly coherent.

 

I failed to mention some of our most daring adventures/funny mishaps that have occurred over the past two weeks:

A week before the birthday, I got in my first "accident." No serious repercussions aside from a torked neck. And we got to literally "contact" someone, and share a mormon.org message with him. (: His name was Zebulon... perhaps we are gathering the 10 tribes. We have determined not to instate fender-benders as a permanent finding net, although it was effective. We believe the colateral damage is too much. So, what happened was: Sister Turley and I and Sister Bush and Sister Tanner were all drving up to MLC. When all of a sudden, the bumper to bumper traffic turned into a standstill. Sister Turley was slowing down just in time when we heard a screech of the tires, and Zebulon ran into our rear, crushing the bikerack into the trunk. Luckily, we had the bike rack-- we gave him a card, and exchanged information adn that was that. I get jumpy every time we're in heavy traffic now though, and remind Sis. Turley to slow down a lot more often :)

 

Next story, Neil L. Andersen: In the surprise mission conference with Elder Andersen, I had a Donald Davis experience. For the first time, I experienced one of those moments when my hands were doing things without my permission. My left hand peeked up to answer a question, and he called on me. :S Then we had a one on one discussion about inviting people to come unto Christ and how we extend commitments to help people change. I have never been more nervous to speak in my entire life. Yet, I have never felt so loved and validated in my entire life either. It was incredible speaking face to face with a prophet of God. It did a lot to strengthen my testimony. His main message to us was how specifically we could share the gospel with those of other Christian faiths. He taught us about the Atonement and the Book of Mormon and how we need to assure people that Christ LIVES. He prophesied that there would come a day in the near future when the majority of American's would not believe in Jesus Christ, and exhorted us to strengthen the faith of all who choose to believe in Him. He was also quite, quite humorous. At one point, we were talking about grace "the enabling power of the atonement," and how Elder Bednar stole that line from the Bible Dictionary (: Then he called on a Sister to share how she had been enabled, and she talked about being able to play the piano. He sheepishly admitted that of the 12, Elder Nelson and he are the only two who can play, but none of the other 12 know that Elder Andersen can play yet. hehe. He emphasized that he is praying for Elder Nelson's continued health. (:

 

Many other stories to come! The Lord is hastening His work. It's great. (Rae, is this a better email? I love tips on how to share these experiences better.) Missionary life is great! It is so hard to stay within this email time this week. I love hearing from you all. Hope your Mothers days were wonderful.

 

xoxo

Sister B