Hi Family! I love you! I miss you!
Hope you had a good thanksgiving. Congrats Clark on your Eagle Scout Award! That's awesome! James, let me know as soon as you get your acceptance letter from BYU! And where are my mad libs? I could use a good laugh. :-) Sorry, I don't mean to be demanding. My companion just has a different sense of humor than I do. She laughed at me today at lunch as I was contemplating a curly fry. It looked like a roller coaster and I was visualizing riding it. For some reason, this surprised her. Thanks mom for sending the bedding. I don't think I’ll need anything else. I love the jokes, by the way. They're amazing. :-)
Hi friends and family! Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving!
Before I tell about mine, I'd like to sincerely thank everybody who's been praying for my health and safety because it's working. Out of the 10 in our district there are only 4 who have not had to visit the hospital for one reason or another. I'm the only sister who hasn't. I actually went to the “real world” to the hospital this week because my companion broke some bones in her hand. That was actually an interesting experience in the waiting room. I discovered the hardest thing in the world: trying to read Isaiah while Sponge Bob Square Pants is on TV. After Sponge Bob, they turned the BYU vsUtah Fresno
So we had pretty much the most amazing week for speakers ever. Tuesday one of the apostles came, Dallin H. Oaks. Thursday for Thanksgiving we had Elder Holland. Both spoke with their wives. Elder Oaks was laughing during his wife’s talk. She was saying she wished she could slip in our suitcases and come with us on our missions. Then she laughed and said "I really do! He won't let me!" and pointed to her husband. I've never seen Elder Oaks smile that big or laugh that hard. Elder Oaks emphasized in his talk to remember who you are and why you're here. I am a daughter of God here to save souls. I should not expect to be thanked. That's not why I’m here.
He also said that your best is something only you and the Lord can know. Find it and do it. ElderHolland
“Come to the edge.
No, I’ll fall.
Come to the edge.
No, I’ll fall.
Come to the edge.
So I came to the edge.
He pushed me
and I flew.”
Elder Holland said his mission meant so much to him because it was hard. It's not easy but that's what helps us grow so much. He said "Life is a process of harnessing our natural strength." We have all been given great spiritual gifts and talents. We need to discover these and develop them.
I especially liked at the end of his talk, he said very powerfully, "I am not devoting my life to a fairy tale!" This is real. The power to perform saving ordinances is again on the earth and we need to let people know about it! This is not just a dream that a few million people have. This is real. This is REAL! There is hope.
I wrote my first poem in Spanish this week for my Sunday talk which I did not give. Sorry, all you native speakers, it won't be grammatically correct but here it is:
Que es caridad a ti?
En escrituras you leí
que caridad es el amor
que Jesucristo tiene por
todo la gente sin manando gracias
solo les ama mas y mas.
Todos son mismo en su mente
Eso clase de amor es muy importante
tiene amor por los negros y blancos
los libres están el mismo que esclavos
Jesucristo quiere a todas personas
para compartir todas las cosas.
Debemos seguire este ejemplo
en nuestras vidas, días de todo
invite todas personas a venir a Cristo
hasta nuestras vidas están terminado
That was fun.
I'd like to testify that we are all children of God. He is our loving Heavenly Father and everything that happens in our lives is ultimately for our good. Good times and bad times teach us how to be happy. When you're not comparing yourself with anyone else, you can see better that this is true. Your experience on this earth is designed for your own personal growth. God will not compare. Like I mentioned before, only you and God know what your best is. It won't matter what you have accomplished next to someone else. As long as you have done YOUR personal best to keep His commandments, you're good.
John 1:12 says that if we receive Christ, we will have "power to become the sons of God". If you don't think you have what it takes to be a child of God, read that scripture and think about it a little. With God all things are possible. Remember who you are. Remember who everyone else is. Every person is special and loved individually and unconditionally by our Father in Heaven.
I saw a poster that had a C.S. Lewis quote on it that was "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." That put things in perspective a little. I am not simply a human being. I am a child of God just away from home for a little while to prepare for going back. We've been told here that we won't be the same person when we return from our missions. We'll be better. When we return to our Heavenly Father we will not be the same spirits. We'll be more like Him because we've had this earthly experience. If I wanted to be exactly like my dad with a medical degree, he could just hand me a degree but it wouldn't mean anything. I’d have a degree but I wouldn't be qualified to be a doctor. I'd have to go to school for many years, learn how to live on my own and handle my own finances and deal with different teachers, etc and have all those experiences of medical school in order to be a doctor just like him. That's why we needed to come to this earth in order to be like our Heavenly Father. We need the experience and education.
I don't remember if I said what I was grateful for last week but if not, I’m grateful for my mission call. I'm so privileged to be here! I'm grateful for the knowledge that God loves me. That gives me hope.
I'm grateful for my family especially and my friends. I think I have the best support system in the world!
I am grateful for all the things that I don't have time to write right now. I'm down to 30 seconds on the computer.
I love you all! Keep smiling! Keep being grateful! Therein lies happiness!
TTFN
H. Evans
Hope you had a good thanksgiving. Congrats Clark on your Eagle Scout Award! That's awesome! James, let me know as soon as you get your acceptance letter from BYU! And where are my mad libs? I could use a good laugh. :-) Sorry, I don't mean to be demanding. My companion just has a different sense of humor than I do. She laughed at me today at lunch as I was contemplating a curly fry. It looked like a roller coaster and I was visualizing riding it. For some reason, this surprised her. Thanks mom for sending the bedding. I don't think I’ll need anything else. I love the jokes, by the way. They're amazing. :-)
Hi friends and family! Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving!
Before I tell about mine, I'd like to sincerely thank everybody who's been praying for my health and safety because it's working. Out of the 10 in our district there are only 4 who have not had to visit the hospital for one reason or another. I'm the only sister who hasn't. I actually went to the “real world” to the hospital this week because my companion broke some bones in her hand. That was actually an interesting experience in the waiting room. I discovered the hardest thing in the world: trying to read Isaiah while Sponge Bob Square Pants is on TV. After Sponge Bob, they turned the BYU vs
So we had pretty much the most amazing week for speakers ever. Tuesday one of the apostles came, Dallin H. Oaks. Thursday for Thanksgiving we had Elder Holland. Both spoke with their wives. Elder Oaks was laughing during his wife’s talk. She was saying she wished she could slip in our suitcases and come with us on our missions. Then she laughed and said "I really do! He won't let me!" and pointed to her husband. I've never seen Elder Oaks smile that big or laugh that hard. Elder Oaks emphasized in his talk to remember who you are and why you're here. I am a daughter of God here to save souls. I should not expect to be thanked. That's not why I’m here.
He also said that your best is something only you and the Lord can know. Find it and do it. Elder
“Come to the edge.
No, I’ll fall.
Come to the edge.
No, I’ll fall.
Come to the edge.
So I came to the edge.
He pushed me
and I flew.”
Elder Holland said his mission meant so much to him because it was hard. It's not easy but that's what helps us grow so much. He said "Life is a process of harnessing our natural strength." We have all been given great spiritual gifts and talents. We need to discover these and develop them.
I especially liked at the end of his talk, he said very powerfully, "I am not devoting my life to a fairy tale!" This is real. The power to perform saving ordinances is again on the earth and we need to let people know about it! This is not just a dream that a few million people have. This is real. This is REAL! There is hope.
I wrote my first poem in Spanish this week for my Sunday talk which I did not give. Sorry, all you native speakers, it won't be grammatically correct but here it is:
Que es caridad a ti?
En escrituras you leí
que caridad es el amor
que Jesucristo tiene por
todo la gente sin manando gracias
solo les ama mas y mas.
Todos son mismo en su mente
Eso clase de amor es muy importante
tiene amor por los negros y blancos
los libres están el mismo que esclavos
Jesucristo quiere a todas personas
para compartir todas las cosas.
Debemos seguire este ejemplo
en nuestras vidas, días de todo
invite todas personas a venir a Cristo
hasta nuestras vidas están terminado
That was fun.
I'd like to testify that we are all children of God. He is our loving Heavenly Father and everything that happens in our lives is ultimately for our good. Good times and bad times teach us how to be happy. When you're not comparing yourself with anyone else, you can see better that this is true. Your experience on this earth is designed for your own personal growth. God will not compare. Like I mentioned before, only you and God know what your best is. It won't matter what you have accomplished next to someone else. As long as you have done YOUR personal best to keep His commandments, you're good.
John 1:12 says that if we receive Christ, we will have "power to become the sons of God". If you don't think you have what it takes to be a child of God, read that scripture and think about it a little. With God all things are possible. Remember who you are. Remember who everyone else is. Every person is special and loved individually and unconditionally by our Father in Heaven.
I saw a poster that had a C.S. Lewis quote on it that was "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." That put things in perspective a little. I am not simply a human being. I am a child of God just away from home for a little while to prepare for going back. We've been told here that we won't be the same person when we return from our missions. We'll be better. When we return to our Heavenly Father we will not be the same spirits. We'll be more like Him because we've had this earthly experience. If I wanted to be exactly like my dad with a medical degree, he could just hand me a degree but it wouldn't mean anything. I’d have a degree but I wouldn't be qualified to be a doctor. I'd have to go to school for many years, learn how to live on my own and handle my own finances and deal with different teachers, etc and have all those experiences of medical school in order to be a doctor just like him. That's why we needed to come to this earth in order to be like our Heavenly Father. We need the experience and education.
I don't remember if I said what I was grateful for last week but if not, I’m grateful for my mission call. I'm so privileged to be here! I'm grateful for the knowledge that God loves me. That gives me hope.
I'm grateful for my family especially and my friends. I think I have the best support system in the world!
I am grateful for all the things that I don't have time to write right now. I'm down to 30 seconds on the computer.
I love you all! Keep smiling! Keep being grateful! Therein lies happiness!
TTFN
H. Evans
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