5/27

Hey, I hope everything is going well.

 

So this week was really hard. I'm not tryna complain or make you feel sorry for me. I feel like I am learning a lot. It is really hard to stay positive, but that is about the only thing that we can do. I know that I am in St. Omer right now for a reason. I just hope I can do a good job. I hope that God is proud of us, because all we can do is try our best.

So this week for the first time really ever I really noticed that I LOVE the Book of Mormon. I love the stories and the advice. Its so crazy how everytime I read it I learn more. Its not that I notice different things, its just that I understand more and more. I am going through different things in my own life and the words on the page help me with that. I teach the youth in the branch. The new program that the church has is really really good and has been helping me a lot.  I wish that I would have had that as a youth. And I also wish that I would have honestly studied the scriptures everyday as a youth. I hope Bradley and Andrew do personal scripture study.

So there is a new missionary in our district from Bakersfield.

So french holidays are like way different. Our Labor Day was May 1st. Its called "fête de travaille" that means party of work. pretty oxymoronic. All the holidays are "fêtes" or parties. Yesterday was fête des mères. On holidays it is pretty hard because people just want to chill. We did a lot of porting but not a lot of doors were answered, but people were in the house (we could see them in the windows).

I hope Bradley has fun at the encampment. The one I went to at Medicine Lake when I was thirteen is like one of my best memories. They're so fun. I really miss scout camps. and school.

Speaking of school, have you found anything out? Have you looked at what I would have to do? Would it be cheap to go to a school in Utah? Like UVU or USU or maybe even BYU or U of U? or Chico State? or what? I feel like I could want to go to SVU and see if I like it, but it could just be a waste. Can you check that out?

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm super glad that I am here in St. Omer. I feel like this town is making me the missionary that God wants me to be.

Dyou have any advice for what i should do next year?

half way done!!