Oh my goodness! I have been sooooo crazy busy these last ten days! That is because my Best Friend Brittni came out from Wyoming. It was a whirlwind adventure! Saturday we hung out and then went to church on Sunday. She was bombarded with missonaries. Then we had linger longer and took it easy that night. We showed up early to FHE so the misisonaries could teach her! Then we went out for dinner with Nova and her date...we came home and watched a movie. It was an amazing night. Enough said!
Then Tuesday we went for sushi with the Sister's B and N. Sadly, Sister B got transferred up to Beloit, Wi. I know she is going where the Lord needs her. But, because she was leaving the next day, I backed Brittni into tracting but she and Sister N talked, while sister B and I knocked doors! In the end It was an amazing experience for both parties! I even got to talk to Sister N's BFF from home and made a new friend! That evening we went home and the next set of missionaries in Brittni's mormon tour came over to play cranium!
Thursday I drove Brittni up to valpo and got to say goodbye to a bunch of my professors. They seemed happy to see me and told me how "hot" i looked. I think they were happy to see me looking like I was going to succeed! It was good to see that confidence and joy on their face! I also got to go share my testimony with the Valpo missionaries at an appointment! It was an amazing appointment with a very affectionate jumpy puppy, that the missionaries had to fight to keep off me! I found out that one of them lives in ID and will be there around the same time I come out to visit! I saw Charity for the second time in a missionary's eyes as he watched me bear my testimony...its a humbling and comforting feeling to feel the spirit and love of God
in another person! He and Elder H, who went home that day, will hopefully be able to hang out with me in June! :) Elder Barker, my first Elder...he confirmed me...went home that day too! It was a very hard week, in that sense, because as much as I never saw either of them...it was nice having them close by just in case! And sister B I had been teaching with multiple times a week.
Friday I had the opportunity to go to the temple and do Baptisms for the dead! I arrived twenty-five minutes early and the sun was setting on a field next to the temple. There were trees and grasses and a pond. It was teaming with life. There were red-winged black birds, chickadees, frogs, bugs, and even deer. I was drawn to it, so with my heels sinking in mud, I went hiking. I walked through and it was so calming and spirtually moving. I asked God how I could relate this amazing sight to us. And He answered :The grasses and flowers all look dead from the top of the earth. And the plants themselves are. Their stems and flowers and
dried and shriveled. But under the surface is a different story. If the plant rooted early in summer, they will be strong enough to survive the winter. Next summer they will come back stronger than ever before. Our purpose is very similar to these plants. We come into this world to enrich its beauty, diversity, and support the other life around us. We need to have a family and to plant strong roots, so that when trials come we can weather the storm. We will always have trials and difficult times. Times where we feel as if we are dead to the world. But if we have roots firmly planted in the Gospel, we will grow back more beautiful after each and every winter. Finally, when we do leave this world, if our roots are strong enough, when Christ comes again, we will once more flourish brighter and better than ever 
before. My spiritually building 3 weeks seems to have not only been to help me prepare for Brittni coming, but also for the talk that I was assigned in church for this upcoming sunday! There were tons of students from BYU and BYUI on Sunday and so I asked Craig to give me a talk before I move out west...to mormon-land! And as asked for, I recieved my first talk!
While it doesn't seem like a busy week, it went by so fast and feels as though I'm running to catch up to my life. Throughout this whirlwind, the spirit was ever present. I got to see several miracles this week and I am so grateful for a heavenly father who loves me and answers prayers. I know that I need to have a constant prayer in my heart and the Holy Ghost will guide , protect, and comfort me.
I have a feeling that much of the time is going to pass like this. I am so happy here but I'm leaving! I am scared and nervous but most of all excited to be moving out west.
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