3/17/13

Hiya!!

No we didn't celebrate it! they don't celebrate it here haha weird!! but yes i got your card!! thank you so much!! :) haven't got the camera yet but we are going to the temple on saturday for a music concert with some people from choir who offered to take us so hopefully it will be there. I can't wait to go to the temple grounds! even if i can't do a session it is still nice to be there. Also my comp has a camera so we are using my sd card to get pictures. the pics of nathan are so good. i am so glad that he got to play!! he looks like such a little stud!!! Karli looks so good as well! her and her blonde hair haha. hope she had a good birthday!!

My companions name is sister Karyan and she is from armenia!! she has only been out for 4 months and her english is really really good!! she is teaching me some armenian and it is hard haha. she is a great missionary and i am excited to serve with her. I am supposed to be backup training her but she is backup training me. I am grateful because i never had a backup trainer haha so she is really helping me. this transfer is a short transfer so it's only 5 weeks. we are already having a good time together. i really have been so blessed with such wonderful companions!! but the thing is i can make them all good no matter what because it's all about what you look for. so if i look for fault i would find it but if i look for the good then that is what i will get!! no one is perfect and so we should focus on the good and not the bad!!

I got a letter from my recent convert robin and he went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead for the first time. He was baptized for some of his family so that is amazing. it's such a wonderful thing. it's such a great feeling when you know they made it to the temple because ultimately that is the goal.

We are teaching this wonderful family! it is a single mom with 4 kids and they are amazing!! I look up to them all for how much respect they have for one another and for the love that you can feel in their home!! the do something together as a family every saturday and it is just so great. I am so glad that we found them and already i feel that we have become such great friends!! she cooked us a delicious meal and then sister karyan cooked some armenian food for them on sat. hahah oh yeah sis karyan loves to cook so i once again have someone to cook for me haha. i am so lazy!! lol. but i am loving it and so grateful for these amazing opportunities and experience that you would not be able to have anyhwere else!! serving a mission is such a privilege and i am so glad that i made the decision to come. the love that i feel for these people and especially this family are unexplainable(don't know if that's a word haha).. but i love it!

 you are so great and please stay close to the Lord in all that you do! you are all amazing!! love you so much!

love syd

Thoughts for the week!

We can't direct the wind......but we CAN ADJUST the sails! Pres Monson

And I know that I have gave this to you before but it is one of my favorites.

"Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day" (Alma 37: 37).