Subject: LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! 🙂
Dear Loved Ones,
So, this weeks email probably won’t be as great (you know, because usually my emails are really good. entertaining. funny. spiritual. uplifting. etc.) but I usually make an outline, and I haven’t had time to do that, so you’re gonna get whatever comes out of my fingertips. 🙂
First of all, everyone, you can send me emails. 🙂 I can print them off and read them later and respond. 🙂 I love you all.
Second, You know when you send a really funny text, and the person who responds doesn’t even acknowledge that it was funny. It’s the worst. (Brighton, you know what I mean. “. . .” ) Well… I’m funny. 🙂 Joke. But all I’m saying, is you can respond. 🙂 My email is sarah.meservy@myldsmail.net 🙂
Cara Ray, You get points for writing the most and the longest letters. 🙂 Thank you SO MUCH. You have no idea how much it means to me. Michael Bishop gets second place. 🙂 I love you both. No worries though, I love everyone else as well. 🙂 Even one letter makes me REALLY happy. 🙂 I just wanted to give some acknowledgement to those going the extra mile. 🙂
Also, My companion is Hilarious. We were at dinner with a family last night and the whole time she was acting like my mother. Telling me to eat more peas. Wash my hands. Etc etc. It was funny. I love eating with families that have little kids. . . and making the kids laugh. One of my favorite girls in the ward is eight years old, and her name is McKenzie. 🙂 Last night when we had dinner with her family and shared a message, I told them about when dad would make us go around and say what made us happy that day before we would say prayers. Then I told them how me and Lyss would try to get dad to do it when we were older… and then how I would do it with my friends in provo. 🙂 We proceded to go around the circle and ask each family member what made them happy that day. 🙂 They loved it. I loved it. . . . Thanks, Dad!
This week has been INCREDIBLE. We started teaching a man whose wife was converted when she was 20, but has been less active for 30 years or more. She has recently become very active again, and her husband decided to take the lessons. Well… on Wednesday, he accepted the invitation to be baptized! 🙂 I cannot even tell you how happy I am. On sunday we went over to read scriptures with him and he showd us that on his calender, on the days we come over, he has written “Missionary Angels.” He came to church and said that he thinks he has really been missing out not coming with his wife. He loves his wife so much and wants to be with her forever, more than anything. He has a lot of health problems, and doesn’t know how much longer he will make it, but he is so sweet and wonderful. I LOVE HIM.
After our visit on Sunday he said he wanted to call us The Moroni Girls. . . But his wife explained that Moroni is a man… and he was very confused. He thought the angel moroni was a woman. 🙂 Moroni’s Sisters is what he was calling us as we left. He is on date to be baptized on May 18th. We have a ways to go and a lot to teach him, but I love him.
There are a few potentials on the horizon as well, we pray for them and hope things will go well. But let me tell you, having just one person progressing towards baptism MAKES EVERYTHING WORTH IT. Ever door knocked. Every rejection. Everything. 🙂 I love it. I love to love all people no matter what, but it is wondeful to see people come closer to Christ, and realize what a blessing that can be.
In a talk by President Uchdorf called “The Love of God” he explains that in order to be a true disciple of Christ, we must Love God, and Love everyone else. 🙂
He says, “If we truly learn to love our Heavenly Father and our fellowman with all our heart, soul, and mind- all else will fall into place. The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service. . . . Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. Love is the way of the disciple.”
I promise that the church is true. 🙂 I’m so grateful for it. 🙂 Don’t forget to LOVE EVERYONE, as the Savior would.
I love you.
Love,
Sister Meservy