PRAISES

Wellp. This week I found myself coming upon many moments and situations when I was grateful for the lessons that the one and only Paula Hart taught me. MOM: you are one amazing woman. Seriously. Throughout my life I can look back and accredit many of the attributes I have, or learned to have, to you. You taught me to be respectful, to be confident in myself - with talents, words, actions, and LOOKS- to be polite and to have proper etiquette, and SOO many other things. i found this week that there are mothers who tell their daughters that the only way to look "okay" is to wear LOTS of makeup and to tan and to make sure that you only eat xyz to stay below that ultra ridiculous weight... THANK YOU for not doing that to me. Thank you for teaching me that I am perfect the way I am and for being an example of that to me. Unfortunately my companion was not so lucky and I cannot comprehend. Thank you for giving me SOOOOOOO MUCH SELF CONFIDENCE! sometimes it may be too much but hey-better to have a little more than none at all! ;) So thanks mom. Thanks for being the BEST MOM EVER!!("Ill call you BM for short";)) haha - hilarious! So here is the scoop of the week. sorry last weeks letter was short- we had district Pday at this huge LAs property in my area with a river and the largest cypress tree in florida and she also has the awapuhi plant that paul mitchell uses in their awapuhi line...rad right? its all natural from right here in ORFLO. so the district played games and roasted mallows and had a jolly ole time! While i was perusing the surroundings and checckiing out the fish in the river E. Duffy and E. Weston came over to see what I was doing and they leaned forward as if they were going to try to push me and me being silly me, moved my foot down the shore to avoid getting "too close" to the elders...wellp florida is all sand so that lil step resulting in my FALLING into the GROSS river! EWE! I tried to grab the tree-but there was no luck. I was in the sludgey water... I tried to get out and eventually was offered a hand from E Duffy and was literally soaked head to toe. it was ridiculous.. the worst is that i didnt even get pushed... i just literally fell... gah. Side note. being fully immersed in water for the first time in 5 months...pretty bizarre feeling. OOO then on saturday we got to volunteer for this Families in Transition service project where we guided these homeless families through different booths to obtain and sign up for different free services to help them out. It was sooo cool- but it also made me think of Dora and her family. While there all the missionaries were apparently talking to my comp about me - asking what it was like to be my cmop, how funny it would be, how crazy i am, etc etc. Literally everyone said that they were talking about me.... gah. thats just silly. why. oh well. Then on sunday we were asked to bear our testimonies(all 4 missionaries) in sacrament meeting, it was ultra great because we all testified of sort of different things but it all tied together - especially mine and E Ashbys because he quoted me. then last speaker tied most of our testimonies in and quopted them. after the meetring our ward mission leader, bro Bates, said i was the sacrament MVP. Ha! it was hilarious! I love having the opportunity to bear my testimony to members! It is just soo cool! (says the girl who never bore her testimony in her own ward save maybe two times) its the best! oh other side note: I have found that i have a couple of secret lovers... dont worry everyone it is nothing serious. One of them held my hand and told me they loved me and the other held my hand and kissed me... not to fear im still obedient because they were only birds... yes yes they were cockatoos named baby and cassie...yep. chris brown aughta write a song that instead of saying ladies love me says birdies love me - cause birds be lovin me. oh random but the mission wants all christmas packages sent by dec 10 so they get here no later than the 17th. so heads up on that. welp i love you all dont forget to be thankful! watch this. http://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2009-11-39-in-the-spirit-of-thanksgiving?category=topics/gratitude its good. do work i love you loads like seriously loads. t-1month till skype time;) cray love you zoë