Dear Family,
I hope that you have had a great week! It was so good to hear from all of you in your emails! I'm glad that Daddy's thing went well and Grandma is recovering well from her surgery! I have been wondering about both! Thanks for letting me be part of Daddy's special night! I can't wait to watch it on video. This week has been good! A week of a lot of walking and a lot of knocking on doors! We have met a lot of great people and hopefully some of them will continue to have a desire to learn more. We are working hard though and doing our best!
In Kennewick I had a big inside joke with the branch because the english ward would always feed us speghetti. The hilarious thing that I have found about this is that people always tell you why they made speghetti. I'm not a big speghetti fan so it became like a curse and it was hilarious. Well here everyone makes roast (we have had speghetti twice). We have had roast 6 times in 3 weeks. It is unreal but still hilarious. Last night we laughed so hard over it we were basically crying.
We have also encountered a lot of dogs lately..not on leashes. You can imagine that this experience is a bit disturbing for me.
We had stake conference this weekend. Our stake president taught a really cool analogy. There is a grove of trees in the Washington Cascade Mountains called "The Grove of the Patriarch." In it there are trees that have existed for thousands of years. He posed the question what is the difference between these trees that continue to grow and thrive after thousands of years and trees that die. He said that he found three things: 1. They were planted in a goodly land. 2. They have an unlimited supply of water. 3. They took time to become what they were meant to become.
The stake president explained that likewise we have been planted in a goodly land. We have the living water of Jesus Christ in unlimited supply and lastly we recognize that some things just take time! We have to be patient and have hope. We must look to the future and trust in Heavenly Father's promises. In Romans 4:18, 20 and 21 we read: "Who against hope believed in hope. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able to perform." We CAN fulfill our purpose in this life. We cannot hesitate or draw back. Today is the day to become what Heavenly Father needs us to become. To trust in the prompting of the spirit and go forward with faith that our Heavenly Father gives us all experiences for our good. Some things just take time! But we like these trees have hope that we will grow and thrive. We will become what we were meant to become as we drink of the living water!
Sorry this is kind of short! Please know that I love you all so much! I consider myself the luckiest girl in the world to have the family and friends that I have! Thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart!
Love,
Hermana Jones
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