Week 23

Dude so we have no hot water again and going into the shower is probably the hardest part of my day becasue it is so cold.. I literally am on the verge of tears when the cold water touches me. Also, it is starting to get cold again so that means bringing out the tights again and it was the most depressing day when me and sister mckay realized we were back to tights. so sad.

This week we had All Ireland and Elder Bednar skyped into it and we had a Q and A with him. it was super cool. Then at the end of the conference since our mission president is leaving next week we all got to say goodbye to him. we all got to go up to him one by one and give him and sister Donaldson a hug goodbye and it was very sad. actually a ton of people were crying. it was an amazing conference that we had though. the spirit that was felt there was so strong.

We had a dinner appointment with the sweetest lady named Marlene and she is from Brazil and oh my goodness. she doesn't have a lot but she made us so much food because she is so kind! i love her so much! she invited us back to teach us how to make some of the food she made for us. i am so excited to go back and to get to know her better!

Me and Sister Mckay taught the young womens on Sunday in church and they are so fun! i love getting to know the youth in the ward! and they were just asking a ton of questions. we brought them cookies and it was just so fun! Then one of the girls came up to us after and was asking us questions about serving a mission. it was so exciting to answer her questions and to give her some advice on it.

This morning we taught a man named Gerrard and he is amazing. He had a really hard past but once he turned to God he changed his life around. We taught him the restoration and he has such a desire to know if these things are true. I cant wait to teach him again!

this work that i am doing is so amazing. i cant imagine myself anywhere else and i am so grateful that i have this amazing opportunity to be here and to share this gospel, that has brought me so much happiness, to other people here in Ireland. Even though it freakin sucks sometimes the good parts outweigh those hard times. I LOVE THIS WORK! Heavenly Father is so great and it must have been so scary for him to send us here to earth because he knew that a ton of us wouldn't return to him again. BUT he sent us here because He loves us.

Peace!