Happy Thanksgiving! Week 5

Definitely my favorite post yet!

Title "Happy Thanksgiving!!"

"    Well since it is almost Thanksgiving I will talk about that....in a sec. First I need to tell you Cheryl is getting baptized on Wednesday!!!! She has been taking the lessons from a lot of people including Sister Lillywhite! ( some of you know who she is.) I am so excited I am able to server where Sister Lillywhite and Sister Wilkinson did! That is so cool! So yes Cheryl's baptism came completely by surprise. We had a prompting to go visit her on Friday so we did and we ended up reading the baptismal interview questions with her. She looked at us and said "Is that all I need to know?" Yes! So we set a date and here we are! We are so excited! Cheryl has basically been a mormon her whole life. She lives and breathes service. She will be a relief society president one day. She is incredible and I wish you all could meet her! Family maybe i will take you down to see her one day. She would love that! I will send pictures soon. It is just a pain to pring them and send them. So mom and dad you will have to scan them and post them on here for me!

      Ok, I got the sweetest package this week and I was very close to crying. Thank you for the nice notes you sent me! And I wish I had time to write down everything that I was grateful for. I started thinking about everything that I was grateful for this week and one has stuck in my head every single day. Mom I don't know if you should read this. You WILL cry. So here you go this is what I have been thinking about this holiday season.

       First I want to say that I am so grateful for my Savior. While being out here I have really been able to strengthen my relationship with him. I wasn't sure how until I got out here. I have realized that a lot of it is really appreciating what He did for me and making the sacrament a sacred time to think about what he did and why he did it. And reading the Book of Mormon has been a huge part of it. We tell people every day that it will bring them closer to their Savior but I didn't really understand that. I had been reading it my whole life and didn't really notice a difference at all. Now that I have an hour every day to learn and really study it for myself I have come to really understand that it most defintiely does make you closer to the Savior. I can feel him and his love EVERY time I read it. It is incredible (Oh and little side note get reading your scriptures people! The end is coming and you need to be prepared! Don't take that book for granted!)! Anyway I just wanted to start with that so you wouldn't think I forgot about Him.

     Now I am grateful for my mom. This week has really made me appreciate all that she has done for me and my siblings. Wow! I wonder where she learned how to be such an incredible mother and wife. There is a family out here who has six kids (one boy) and they have homemade meals every night. I totally thought about my mom and how she is always making us yummy homemade dinners and I dawned on my how many people don't have that. How sad is that!? I am also grateful for the fun family nights we were able to have! We are teaching a family how to hold FHE and it makes me miss our little lessons with pictures and the one about the boy who stole this really cool fire truck and then felt bad when he was playing with it so he confessed and repented. Haha! Oh the memories! My mom definitely made growing up a fun and loving experience. In preach my gospel it talks about how the home is the best place to learn, teach, and apply gospel principles. My mom's home was that place 100%. She taught us about the gospel and in a way that we could understand and learn to love it. It wasn't a chore. Now she has two kids on missions, and fully supports what they do. We receive cute packages with yummy treats (which by the way mom. I AM going to get fat if you keep sending those :)). When she asked me what I wanted for Christmas I realized that she should not be asking me that. She is already paying for my mission (ok my dad is helping too) and sending us things. Mom this year for Christmas I really don't want anything. I am so grateful to you and for all that you have done for our family. I pray for you every night and I love you! I hope things are going well for the family (Dang it! I am going to cry! I need to stop. I will finish up....). It has not gone unnoticed and I am so grateful that Heavenly Father sent me to you. I could not ask for a better mother. 

     This Thanksgiving I am grateful for my mom.Ok you can stop crying now mom I am done. :) I hope this all makes sense. I have just been typing what has come to my mind. I love and miss you all (especially my family) and I will talk to you guys soon! Don't forget me!

Sister Skeeter"