Update

Hello my wonderful family!!!!
How are you all doing? I hope that you are well.
Thank you dad for sending my emails to Grandma Marie. Hi Grandma and
Grandpa Chord!!! I hope that you are doing well and I am so excited
that I get to send my emails to you two as well! Love you both!
Hi Heather! Thank you so much for emailing me! It was so great to be
able to hear how you are doing. I am excited for you to be working in
the nursery. It was my favorite calling when I was in the family ward.
The little children are so wonderful! So you are coming to Arizona?
Where will you be coming to? I forgot where John's kids live again.
Can you remind me? Sorry. :) I'm so glad that Morgan is doing well and
that she is making good choices for herself. Let her know that I miss
her and hope that she will write me sometime. She can email me and I
can email her back since she is family or she can write me and my
parents have the information. Tell Vanessa that I love her too and I
hope that she is doing well and making good choices. She is amazing!
So Chris and Maressa, I was just wondering, have you been able to keep
my Facebook updated so people know how to contact me? Also, I can't
remember who I gave my information to for my blog but a few of my
friends said that it is how they want to stay updated with me. So
whoever I left it to, could you please put my emails up on there? I
would really appreciate it. And update my address for where I am.
Thank you Mandy for writing me early so that I could get a letter from
you. If you ever have time at work, you could write me a real letter
and it only takes a few days to get to me. My companion gets emails
and letters from her family every week. It is crazy but they are
amazing people. I can already tell. I can't wait to be able to meet
them when they come to visit later on. And I would love to have
pictures of our family to show to people and then pictures of my
friends. I talk about Robbie, Kenny, Jacob, and some others but any
pictures that you can get to me would be great. I am planning on
sending you a letter that you can read in church so be prepared to get
that soon and see if you can read it in church for everyone. I miss
our ward but I love my wards here. Everyone is so amazing and they are
so sweet. They have welcomed me in with open arms. And keep working on
those mission papers. I can't wait to hear where you are going! It
will be so awesome to be able to write each other each week and tell
each other about our experiences. I can't wait!!!!
And mom and dad, I am so excited that you got to go to Florida. It
must have been nice there. The weather has been colder this last week
but it is starting to warm up. It was 85 a few times last week so I am
starting to develop a tan on my arms. I already have a tan from my
watch since I wear it everyday. It looks cool. But I am going to wait
to take a picture when it is more prominent. Also, did dad ever get
that other memory card for my camera? I haven't filled up this one yet
but it would be nice to have the other one if I do fill it up and need
another memory card to put in my camera. So who did you run into from
Primerica other than Peggy? Did anyone stop to talk to you? That must
have been a blast from the past.
I have seen my testimony grow so much while I have been out here and I
have seen the impact that I have on my investigators. We have a recent
convert, Luis, who hasn't come to church since he was baptized in
December. He has had so many trials put upon him and I don't think
that he was fully prepared for that part. I think he thought that life
would be easier after he was baptized and so he wasn't prepared for
all of the hardships that came upon him. But we met with him last
night and gave him the analogy of breaking both of his ankles and not
being able to move. He would need people to come and pick him up and
help him to get better. It is the same with developing faith and
becoming stronger in the gospel. He needs to meet with us, he needs to
come to church, read his scriptures, pray as much as he can for help,
and allow us to help him on this journey.  I shared with him my
testimony of the things that I told him to do and I told him that we
are never going to give up on him because he is precious to us and to
his Heavenly Father. I think he finally got it and he wants to meet
with us 2 times this week and he is going to come to church on Sunday.
I was so glad that I pushed him and that my companion shared with him
her testimony as well. He needed to be pushed and to see that it isn't
all about him. He needs this. It was so amazing to see his countenance
change.
We have two baptisms this Saturday. Mat for our Singles ward
and Neil for the family ward. We are so excited to see them be
baptized and to make these commitments to the Lord.
So mom, you can probably look for larges because I have lost a little
bit of weight and my clothes are fitting better. So those would be the
best. And Sister Johnson is very excited to meet you and to talk with
you. She is such an amazing woman and I am so happy that I have met
her. And Sister Swallow is 22 and a half. Her birthday is August 4th.
Could you get me Tanisha, Felicia, and Eileen's addresses so I can
write them? I miss talking with them and want to be able to support
them in what they are doing. That would be great!
Well I love you all so much and I can't wait to hear from you all
soon! Have an amazing week and be looking for opportunities to serve
and also be looking for the blessings that the Lord has given you in
your life!
Love you!
Sister Chord