missionary letters: 1.14.18

What a great week. And next will be great too. I have so many things to be thankful for. I’m blessed to have so many people in my life that love me and I love them! Everyone who I send his letter to is important to me for some reason and I have special memories and thoughts of you! One of the things I like most is keeping in touch with people who have touched my life and I have been friends with. This week was my birthday and it was so nice to get so many notes, messages and texts. I feel blessed! I was spoiled!

Next week is Ray’s 50th bday and I can hardly wait to share his surprise! Next week! I will (sigh) keep it a secret! Ha!

This year the youth theme is D &C 19:23

23 Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me.

I love it! I love that whatever is going on in our lives and usually it is a little crazy.. whatever it may be, the Savior can give us peace. Even when we think it may not be that big of a deal, if it is a “deal” to us, if we pray about it, have faith, we can have peace. That doesn’t mean that the problem will be taken away, but we can have peace and comfort in our lives. As we listen to his words, we can have that comfort and peace.

Sometimes I can’t sleep at night. I’m always able to go to sleep, but sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I’m awake for a couple of hours. When this happens, I listen to conference talks and the Mormon channel. It used to make me feel bad that it pulled me to sleep, but then I had this thought and I believe it to be true, that these things lulled me to sleep because they calmed my soul, brought me peace so I could sleep. The Mormon channel has soooo many great things to listen to! My favorite is stories from general conference! Try it sometime! Another favorite they took off and I had to go search for it, it was History of the hymns. There is an episode on there about the song, “Where can I turn for peace?” It is so good.

Here is he link if you can look up those things. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-hymns-the-evolution-of-lds-hymns/id320655835?mt=2&i=1000061680055

That is for iTunes, but I’m pretty sure you could google it, too.