Happy Birthday 'merica! My companion has so been looking
forward to the 4th for the past couple of weeks. She is planning on making a BBQ-style
lunch that day. So, it’s pretty hot in SLC? In the DR, it is also a little
warm; seems to get hotter every day. Good thing I like the heat.
I read Your Wonderful
Journey Home by President Uchtdorf. He starts off talking about the journey
of his family from East to West Germany. They all had to split up to safely
cross the border. He says life is a collection of individual border stories.
We've all journeyed from a pre-mortal sphere; this life is a journey as a whole
and comprised of many different journeys. He invites us all to evaluate our
lives- if we utilize the opportunities we're given we can develop into the
people we can become. "There will always be things to complain about-
things that don't seem to go quite right. You can spend your days feeling sad,
alone, misunderstood, or unwanted. But that isn't the journey you had hoped
for, and it's not the journey Heavenly Father sent you to take. With this in
mind, I invite you to walk confidently and joyfully. Yes the road has
bumps and detours and even some hazards. But don't focus on them. Look for the
happiness your Father in Heaven has prepared for you in every step of your
journey. Happiness is the destination, but it's also the path."
The photo is of Isha's baptism. She is eighteen and has been
receiving lessons from the Elders since January and finally decided she was
ready. Her mom is Evangelica and really strong in her church and wasn't on
board with the baptism but always was very kind to us. I love Isha and love visiting
her. She is so darling and like a friend to me.
That is the D.L. in the DR. Hugs and Kisses xoxo
Hermana Christensen
""It is not our part to master all the tides of
the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are
set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after
may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
- Gandalf in Lord of the Rings
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