Well hope everyone had a good thanksgiving!
This week was pretty good. Nothing to different about it. But always super good for the holiday season to reflect back on things you are grateful for. I was trying to think three things this past year I am especially grateful for.
I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission (and to be out here twice) and I am so grateful for the priesthood and prayers! Did you guys ever consider the fact that I was sent home because I was bleeding too much in my trachea and lungs that when they did the biopsy they couldn't even get a sample. But out of all the time that I spent at home, even though I still had surgery on my thyroid, they still didn't have a reason for why that bleeding was happening. It just magically stopped! Miracle? I think yes!
I am grateful for my family! I love alll of you guys so much and talk about how much you mean to me all the time. Life would just be so pointless if I didn't have the relationships that I did (friends included). Thanks for eveything you do!
And I am just ever so grateful for this gospel. There are so many blessings that come from the restoration of the gospel and what we have here on the earth today. I am grateful for the knowledge I have of the Plan of Salvation, which so many people are lacking. I can't even begin to express how grateful I am for the wonderful blessings that we have.
Thanksgiving day we ended up playing football in the morning with a couple of different zones in the mish, and our president and his wife provided doughnuts and hot chocolate! We had a couple other dinners throughout the day and was pretty basic. It was all good except no one had any mashed potatoes (what is this world coming to?). Jk, the food was all really good.
A lot of people went out of town this week though! This location has people from everywhere and especailly with all the different colleges so many people were gone. The city actually felt a little more dead. Hope fully things will pick up some more this week though.
One of my favorite things though this week was when I called a lady in the ward to confirm that we would be having dinner with her. I reached her voice mail on two different phones, but each had the same message "Hi, this is _____ from the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. Leave me a..." That just super pumped me up haha. I love to see how members can participate in missionary work and even through a voice mail. I asked her about it when we met with her and she said that she does get people to ask her questions because of it. Anyways, hope that you all are still looking for ways to do missionary work in your individual ways! Love you all.
Sister Beames
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