Kissing a Frog

Sister O kissed a frog in hopes that he would be a prince charming... I just held him and looked cute. He's a big ole fellow.

 

Tuesday we went to go and visit Maggie. No fun quotes, but we always are able to learn from her. Later that evening, we went to go and visit the Ellis'. Sis Ellis said, "Make sure your testimony is not built on circumstances." How true that is!! When we got home, Sis O started making a GF cheesecake for me :) It had a GF ginger snap crust. SO.DELICIOUS!!!

Wednesday. I left my teens. They're gone. Bye bye!! Really I don't feel any different. It's just a weird number. Sis O got me an awesome taco necklace. (If you don't know about the awko-taco...it's just an awkward moment.) That night, we had dinner at the Fike's. They made it pretty special :) I enjoyed all the birthday wishes and cards. THANK YOU Darla for the CD!! I am loving it!! Thanks family for the gift. It sat there all day...begging me to open in. Eh...everything was begging me to open it. So I opened 2. :) haha. We went to mutual and bishop had to tell everyone that it was my birthday. So I was sung to again. Overall...my birthday was great. Thanks again to everyone.

 

 Happy Birthday to me!  I am not a morning person...

Thursday we had a really great planning day. The best we've been able to do. On our way to dinner, There were 2 stray dogs. Sis O, being the saint she is, wanted to find the owner. They didn't answer. SO in a plight to keep them safe, we went tracting in order to find someone to hold on to them and call the owners. One of the most awkward door approaches I'm sure you can imagine. Late in the evening we went to go and visit Penny's family. They are the cutest! She was on the phone and so we got to chat with the rest of the family. They are so kind. We just love them.

Friday we had Zone meeting. After that we had exchanges. SOOO Sister Andersen came to my area. We went and played bingo with our friends. I got to learn a lot from her. She game me this quote and it says, "He wants [us] to learn to walk and therefore hake away His hand; and if only the will to walk really there He is pleased even with [our] stumbles." God is so pleased with even our smallest efforts. All we need to do is try our best. He will guide us in the right direction.

On Saturday, when Sis O was back, we went to Cottage Gardens. We got to see Sherri Fish, the one who got a blessing, and she gave us some good advice: "You determine your own future capabilities " and "If you don't diffuse...you loose." You must be able to disperse anger and frustration...you can't just bottle it up. On our way home, we saw the big ole bullfrog. He was almost dead. Sis O is just so awesome at wanting to save animals. She's got a love and gift for that.

Sunday, I spoke in church on missionary work. President Pingree also spoke...along with Bishop. The last 2 hours we had Diana Hoelsher come and speak about member missionary work. Members job is to provide the social conversion, while missionaries job is to provide the spiritual conversion. It got many members excited to help and making their families better geared to inviting. Missionaries get transferred...members stay. You can always keep trying. So...go get 'em :)

Well...that's about it.

Thanks for all the prayers and birthday wishes!!

God bless from Texas.

--Sister Carling