oh i love your faces.

WOW. i love your faces. i just love them. they are so brilliant. beautiful. beaming. and bright. I am grateful that I had such a wonderful amount of time to see them. It may have only been 30 minutes BUT it felt like hours. THAT WAS EASILY THE BEST W.O.W EVER! HANDS DOWN. CANT COMPETE WITH THAT. Seriously. there is no competition. I LOVED THAT. sorry i BAWLED like a babe. i guess it was necessary. i tried to hold back those hart tears. BUT alas. they won. But hey thanks to the nelson drive for "dont be a wuss" i was able to hold them off for awhile. cool. yes those are the things i think of when i think of family. harts - lots o tears. Nelsons - no fears. its just the way it is. no offense to anyone. both are necessary. it just means that MY FAMILY has the best of both worlds. #bragging #notchristlike #sorry...seriously

Okay so this week was a whirlwind of adventure and BUSYNESS and BUSINESS. we had to get erry thang cleared for the miraculous baptism. seriously Margarita Castaner has the MOST AMAZING CONVERSION STORY EVER. i wouldnt be surprised if she was name dropped in conference one day. she was so prepared and has gone through so many hurdles to get this. #quebendecion

also sis BATES is just awesome and her children are adorable. (see photos. LUCY BATES is so cute. she has some pretty scandalous photos for a 2 yr old i must say;) also the SNyders are the best. Seriously. I am so grateful to have been able to meet so many wonderful people down here. they are seriously the best and I love to serve and serve with them. What a wonderful thing. One thing that i have learned is that If you are willing to immerse yourself in the gospel and the church - with all that that entails, even if its lame, overwhelming, long, boring, or even with people you dont like - you can be blessed and guaranteed with success. It may not be in the way you imagined it, but success none the less. i am so grateful to have been able to see that in the lives of the amazing members here in Florida and in Longwood especially. AND in the life of Margarita. She truly understands the fact that if it is what God wants her to do and she knows it is right, NO MATTER what trial she has to endure she knows in the end it will bless her and the generations to come. it can be the same for all of us. Trials will come. IT WILL get hard. We knew that when we signed up for this life. The thing that gets us through is knowing that our FATHER, who loves us MORE than we can comprehend, has a BRILLIANT plan for us and these trials and events and hardships in life are to help us grow and become the people that HE knows we can be.

Brother bates(guy with the beard in the baptism photo, mom has it) gave us this story about how this man was told to push this boulder with all his might. so he did. he exerted all his strength to move it. But it wouldn't budge. he tried so hard and used all his energy to move this rock. but it didn't move. another man came to him saying he should stop trying. that it would never move and wasn't worth the effort. The man continued to push the rock and then in disbelief he began to heed the counsel of the other man and believe the rock would never move. He questioned his master asking why he would have him do so much if the master knew he could never accomplish such a task. The master looked at the man and told him that he never asked him to move the rock. only to push it. sometimes we feel that we have to MOVE our hardships in life when in reality all we must do is press forward trusting in God knowing that it is his will not ours. That story is obvi written better than i can say it but thats the gist.

OOOH. since i finished the new T i started the BOM and have been reading about nephi. SO great! he is seriously the bomb! especially in ch 7. its great!

wellp. i love it out here.

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i love you all!

xoxo ZOZO zoë