4/28/14
This week has been crazy! We had a super hard week last week and knew that we were going to need to work super hard. We prayed and made goals and felt really good about the things that we were going to accomplish. Then, Hermana Endicott got the flu on Monday and that lasted till Tuesday! That was so frustrating!!! We couldn’t do anything! I literally sat at home with nothing to do. Before, that would have been wonderful, but on the mission it is the WORST feeling on the face of the Earth! I cleaned, cooked, read the scriptures, and watched all the movies we have and can watch (which aren’t many) and when they were gone I watched them another 5 times! AHHH! We couldn’t understand why this was happening! We had done everything we were supposed to do. I decided that it was something that I had to learn, like every other trial we face. Heavenly Father was blessing us, we just couldn’t see what it was. Then on Wednesday, we were finally able to go out and work again, and every single one of our lessons fired on us! We were struggling, but we decided that we would be diligent and have faith that Heavenly father would bless us. By the end of this week we had more lessons than last week and had received more investigators. It wasn’t the best week, but considering that we lost the first 3 days and literally didn’t have anything until Thursday, it has been a good week. I know Heavenly Father answered our prayers. Sometimes He doesn’t bless us exactly when we want or in the way we are expecting, but He does bless us. He knows what we need better than we know ourselves. I am truly thankful for the blessings I have received from him.
I started crying in the Locutorio (shop, place where she reads email) when I read Joseph’s letter. I am so unbelievably proud of my brother. He is such a good example of hard work and dedication and doing things that we know will be hard. He is such a good example to me and I know this is a blessing from Heavenly Father. Joseph has been called by God to go to Uruguay, just like I have been called by God to go to Spain. It is where he is meant to be. I have a strong testimony of that. I have met and talked to so many people that I know I was supposed to talk to. Whether it was to help them or for them to help me. This is the most sacred and special experience I have ever had and I know it will be the same for Joseph. I have never felt so close to my Heavenly Father. I can’t wait to see the miracles that will happen from Joseph’s mission. He is a miracle in my life and I know he will be a miracle in the lives of the people in Uruguay. They are so blessed to have him! I remember feeling exactly the way he did. I was unsure at first. Fear and doubt start running through your mind. It is only natural, but even before this life we accepted our calls. Eventually the Spirit starts to comfort you and remind you of the decision you made to serve before you came here. Joseph is absolutely right. I couldn’t imagine going anywhere else in the world but Spain. Our Spirits and the Holy Ghost are stronger than the natural man. That fear and doubt just went away and I was ready to go. I am so excited for him. I can’t wait to share our experiences together. I hope this will bring us closer together as brother and sister and children of our Heavenly Father. It has become more real to me that I won’t be seeing him for another two years and it is extremely possible that things won’t be the same when we get back, but I am excited for the future and I know Heavenly Father will bless us.
Thanks for your e-mails and the love and support from everyone! I love you!
Hermana Brumble
Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Week 15 in Gijon!
4/21/14
Well, we did it. We made it through Semana Santa (Easter)! This week was so hard! The HARDEST but my favorite.:) None of our investigators could meet with us this week.. So this week was full of contacting! We knew it was going to be hard, and I am a FIRM believer in planning! We planned where we were going to contact the certain times we would spend contacting in that area and a goal of how many people we were going to talk to. It is so much better contacting with a plan and a purpose. When you are just wandering around with no clue, contacting is almost impossible. When I just walk around without my purpose as a missionary in mind, doubts are always placed in my head. I look at someone who I know I should talk to and start thinking "they don’t look like they’ll talk to me", or "you don’t know what to say" or " what if they do want to listen? You don’t know very much Spanish"! So I end up not talking to anyone! Having a goal and a purpose makes it so much easier for me. I have also realized that it doesn’t matter if they say no (that has been a hard lesson). I was so terrified of people rejecting me. But I have realized that they have their agency and our purpose as missionaries is to only "invite other to come unto Christ..." We can only invite. It is sad when they say no, because you know how much this gospel will bless them, but Hermana Endicott always says "it’s ok, the gospel is still true" and moves on to invite the next person. I feel so much more confident contacting now! It also helps to know that you’re never alone. I will always have a companion with me to back me up. I spoke with a lot of interesting people on the street. One man was really Catholic, He was really nice and wanted to learn more. He kept telling us we were apostles! Then we met a woman named Mercedes. I contacted her and said "Hola, buenas. Somos missioneras de la Iglesia de los Santos de los Untimos Dias. Tenemos un mensaje acerca de Dios y nuestras familias. Creemos que Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial y..." (Hello. We are missionaries of the Church of Latter Day Saints. We have a message about God and our families. We believe that God is our Heavenly Father and…) She stopped me in mid-sentence and would not stop talking about how we were "Angel face Jovenes (young people)" Over and over she would not stop talking about how we were like angels and looked like angels and how education and religion is what we need to focus on and how education is the most important thing we can do and how we are just young angels. She kept grabbing my arm calling me Guapa (lovely) Angel! it was funny.
Easter was kind of a downer... We didn’t really do anything special. I woke up, got ready, and went to correlation. Church was the same. I played Easter songs in Sacrament Meeting that no one has ever heard before! We talked about the resurrection for about five minutes in the Gospel Principles class and that was it. For the people here in Gijon, Easter isn’t as big of a deal as the day Christ was crucified, which is really sad. I still wanted to do something special, so I made cookies the night before and Hermana Endicott and I watched Together Forever and Our Heavenly Father’s Plan. So it was fun, and I dedicated some of my personal studies this week to Christ and the resurrection. They do make these cool palm leaf things here in Spain for Easter. The God Parents buy them for their God children. They are dried palm leaves that are woven in cool shapes and they put chocolate in them. That’s about it. I think they have bigger celebrations in Madrid, but for Gijon it was just another day. I did have to make Easter dinner (lunch, we don’t have dinner here) I make everything! Hermana Endicott can’t cook. It was really scary at first, but I am really good at cooking. I make chicken fettuccini, fajitas, lasagna, rice. I even make cake and banana bread!
I love that talk! (Elder Scott, “I Have Given You an Example” from conference) That is something that I have definitely learned here. We are teaching a recent convert who is less active. He was baptized and right after went inactive because he had a problem with the Law of Chastity. The other Hermanas were teaching him and would only focus on how he needed to talk to President Florin and how he needed to repent. They weren’t making any progress with him and would always talk about how awful the lessons were. When they left they gave him to us and we decided to make each lesson focused on him feeling loved, by us, the branch and Heavenly Father. The lessons have been getting better little by little. If we focus of our love for Heavenly Father and the love we have for the people we teach, they will feel that love through the Spirit and like Elder Scott says, “They will gain confidence in your love and the love Heavenly Father has for them.”
AHHH I thought Joseph would have his call by now. It seems like mine came so fast! I know how he feels! Having patience for that was so hard! I can’t wait to hear where he goes! I know it is the Philippines!! I can feel it! How is he? Is he really nervous? If he is tell him he shouldn’t be. I am not going to lie, the mission is the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life, but I have changed so much and each day I love it more and more. You are going to be exhausted, but it is worth it! I hope he knows I am here for him if he needs to talk to anyone or if he has questions.
I haven’t gotten any Easter packages yet, I did get the package with the gymnastic shirt in it. If you send them to the mission office I don’t get them until Zone Meeting, which won’t be until the 30th of this month Thanks for packages though, they do make me really happy, especially the ones with pictures. I love seeing you all and hearing about what you are doing. I am really thankful that I have so much support from people back home.
I love you all so much! I was thinking today that the next Mother’s Day will be the week I get home. Time is flying by so fast. I miss you a lot, but at the same time it is really sad. I love being here and I love what I am doing. Being a missionary, wearing this tag, the experiences I have had has changed my life and I will forever look back on this experience with gratitude and love. It is a sacred and special experience that I will never forget. Thank you for supporting me in this decision to serve a mission and encouraging me to serve.
I love you!
¡Hasta Luego! Hermana Brumble
Well, we did it. We made it through Semana Santa (Easter)! This week was so hard! The HARDEST but my favorite.:) None of our investigators could meet with us this week.. So this week was full of contacting! We knew it was going to be hard, and I am a FIRM believer in planning! We planned where we were going to contact the certain times we would spend contacting in that area and a goal of how many people we were going to talk to. It is so much better contacting with a plan and a purpose. When you are just wandering around with no clue, contacting is almost impossible. When I just walk around without my purpose as a missionary in mind, doubts are always placed in my head. I look at someone who I know I should talk to and start thinking "they don’t look like they’ll talk to me", or "you don’t know what to say" or " what if they do want to listen? You don’t know very much Spanish"! So I end up not talking to anyone! Having a goal and a purpose makes it so much easier for me. I have also realized that it doesn’t matter if they say no (that has been a hard lesson). I was so terrified of people rejecting me. But I have realized that they have their agency and our purpose as missionaries is to only "invite other to come unto Christ..." We can only invite. It is sad when they say no, because you know how much this gospel will bless them, but Hermana Endicott always says "it’s ok, the gospel is still true" and moves on to invite the next person. I feel so much more confident contacting now! It also helps to know that you’re never alone. I will always have a companion with me to back me up. I spoke with a lot of interesting people on the street. One man was really Catholic, He was really nice and wanted to learn more. He kept telling us we were apostles! Then we met a woman named Mercedes. I contacted her and said "Hola, buenas. Somos missioneras de la Iglesia de los Santos de los Untimos Dias. Tenemos un mensaje acerca de Dios y nuestras familias. Creemos que Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial y..." (Hello. We are missionaries of the Church of Latter Day Saints. We have a message about God and our families. We believe that God is our Heavenly Father and…) She stopped me in mid-sentence and would not stop talking about how we were "Angel face Jovenes (young people)" Over and over she would not stop talking about how we were like angels and looked like angels and how education and religion is what we need to focus on and how education is the most important thing we can do and how we are just young angels. She kept grabbing my arm calling me Guapa (lovely) Angel! it was funny.
Easter was kind of a downer... We didn’t really do anything special. I woke up, got ready, and went to correlation. Church was the same. I played Easter songs in Sacrament Meeting that no one has ever heard before! We talked about the resurrection for about five minutes in the Gospel Principles class and that was it. For the people here in Gijon, Easter isn’t as big of a deal as the day Christ was crucified, which is really sad. I still wanted to do something special, so I made cookies the night before and Hermana Endicott and I watched Together Forever and Our Heavenly Father’s Plan. So it was fun, and I dedicated some of my personal studies this week to Christ and the resurrection. They do make these cool palm leaf things here in Spain for Easter. The God Parents buy them for their God children. They are dried palm leaves that are woven in cool shapes and they put chocolate in them. That’s about it. I think they have bigger celebrations in Madrid, but for Gijon it was just another day. I did have to make Easter dinner (lunch, we don’t have dinner here) I make everything! Hermana Endicott can’t cook. It was really scary at first, but I am really good at cooking. I make chicken fettuccini, fajitas, lasagna, rice. I even make cake and banana bread!
I love that talk! (Elder Scott, “I Have Given You an Example” from conference) That is something that I have definitely learned here. We are teaching a recent convert who is less active. He was baptized and right after went inactive because he had a problem with the Law of Chastity. The other Hermanas were teaching him and would only focus on how he needed to talk to President Florin and how he needed to repent. They weren’t making any progress with him and would always talk about how awful the lessons were. When they left they gave him to us and we decided to make each lesson focused on him feeling loved, by us, the branch and Heavenly Father. The lessons have been getting better little by little. If we focus of our love for Heavenly Father and the love we have for the people we teach, they will feel that love through the Spirit and like Elder Scott says, “They will gain confidence in your love and the love Heavenly Father has for them.”
AHHH I thought Joseph would have his call by now. It seems like mine came so fast! I know how he feels! Having patience for that was so hard! I can’t wait to hear where he goes! I know it is the Philippines!! I can feel it! How is he? Is he really nervous? If he is tell him he shouldn’t be. I am not going to lie, the mission is the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life, but I have changed so much and each day I love it more and more. You are going to be exhausted, but it is worth it! I hope he knows I am here for him if he needs to talk to anyone or if he has questions.
I haven’t gotten any Easter packages yet, I did get the package with the gymnastic shirt in it. If you send them to the mission office I don’t get them until Zone Meeting, which won’t be until the 30th of this month Thanks for packages though, they do make me really happy, especially the ones with pictures. I love seeing you all and hearing about what you are doing. I am really thankful that I have so much support from people back home.
I love you all so much! I was thinking today that the next Mother’s Day will be the week I get home. Time is flying by so fast. I miss you a lot, but at the same time it is really sad. I love being here and I love what I am doing. Being a missionary, wearing this tag, the experiences I have had has changed my life and I will forever look back on this experience with gratitude and love. It is a sacred and special experience that I will never forget. Thank you for supporting me in this decision to serve a mission and encouraging me to serve.
I love you!
¡Hasta Luego! Hermana Brumble
Monday, April 14, 2014
Week 14 in Gijon!
4/14/14
This has been a pretty hard week. We don’t have a lot of investigators, so......we’re hitting the pavement hard! I didn´t see a lot of success in door contacting, so I’ve been trying really hard to work on street contacting. You basically stop someone and see how far you get in the first lesson till they stop you. It is really hard and you have to try so many different techniques until you find something that works for you. It’s an art. We also go through the area book and visit old investigators. It was really interesting this week President Florín and Carmelo spoke to us on Friday and wanted to know what the branch could do to help us. They said that they wanted to change and be more involved in missionary work, but I think it was also them asking us to help them change. Hermana Endicott and I have went through the branch list and list of recent converts, we are splitting everyone up between us and the Elders and we are going to visit everyone! Hopefully that will help strengthen the branch and we can help reactivate the families. Hermana Endicott and I are also working more with the Relief Society and going visiting teaching with some of the women. This branch needs so much help. President Florín wants to do an activity in a couple weeks where everyone is going to split up in groups of 4 or 5 and go street contacting with us for 3 hours!!! Ha, ha street contacting is hard, especially when you’re out for 3 hours, no one wants to do that! We are going to talk to him about doing it is pairs and in shifts, and whoever isn’t out will be at the church and the missionaries there will be giving lessons on teaching and effective street contacting. It will be interesting about how it goes and what happens, I’m a little nervous. It is great that they want to help so much though. The people in the North are really different than Madrid and further South.
I really appreciated that story, it really fits with what I have been experiencing this week. There are so many experiences on the mission where you aren’t sure what the outcome will be of a decision, or you know it could either be really bad or really good. Having faith that everything will work out and that Heavenly Father is going to bless me if I put my trust in him has really been something I have struggled with this week. But every time I take that hit or make that decision, he has blessed me and provided me with the things I need to move forward.
I have really been thinking about the atonement this week. There are days and weeks on the mission where you feel like you haven’t done your best and that you could definitely improve. It is such a blessing that we can kneel in prayer, ask for forgiveness and strength to do better and then say, "Today is a new day." It doesn’t matter what happened before because you are a new person or it is a new week and all that matters is that you are going to try to do better. The atonement covers so much and has been such a comfort and a blessing in my life.
We do have an investigator named Kenny that has a fecha! (baptismal date) She is so cute and is from the Dominican Republic. We want her to be baptized on May 3! I hope it works out. She is so kind and loves reading the Book of Mormon. Please keep her in your prayers.
I am so excited for Joseph!!! I think he is going to the Philippines! Keep me updated and tell him I love him, and ¡BUENOS SUERTE! (good luck) It is so exciting and scary, but let him know that he will be so blessed and that no matter where he goes people are always praying for him and Heavenly Father takes care of all his missionaries. I have felt so comforted knowing that I have so many people praying for me and my success back home. It gives me so much strength. Tell him he looks SUPER GUAPO (handsome) in his tux!
I love you guys and can’t wait to hear from you again! Also, Mother’s day is coming soon and I will be able to Skype you guys. I will let you know the exact plans when they let us know! I love you! You are all in my prayers!
¡Les Quiero mucho! (I love you so much)
Hermana Brumble
Ps. We are going to the aquarium today! I will send pictures next week!
This has been a pretty hard week. We don’t have a lot of investigators, so......we’re hitting the pavement hard! I didn´t see a lot of success in door contacting, so I’ve been trying really hard to work on street contacting. You basically stop someone and see how far you get in the first lesson till they stop you. It is really hard and you have to try so many different techniques until you find something that works for you. It’s an art. We also go through the area book and visit old investigators. It was really interesting this week President Florín and Carmelo spoke to us on Friday and wanted to know what the branch could do to help us. They said that they wanted to change and be more involved in missionary work, but I think it was also them asking us to help them change. Hermana Endicott and I have went through the branch list and list of recent converts, we are splitting everyone up between us and the Elders and we are going to visit everyone! Hopefully that will help strengthen the branch and we can help reactivate the families. Hermana Endicott and I are also working more with the Relief Society and going visiting teaching with some of the women. This branch needs so much help. President Florín wants to do an activity in a couple weeks where everyone is going to split up in groups of 4 or 5 and go street contacting with us for 3 hours!!! Ha, ha street contacting is hard, especially when you’re out for 3 hours, no one wants to do that! We are going to talk to him about doing it is pairs and in shifts, and whoever isn’t out will be at the church and the missionaries there will be giving lessons on teaching and effective street contacting. It will be interesting about how it goes and what happens, I’m a little nervous. It is great that they want to help so much though. The people in the North are really different than Madrid and further South.
I really appreciated that story, it really fits with what I have been experiencing this week. There are so many experiences on the mission where you aren’t sure what the outcome will be of a decision, or you know it could either be really bad or really good. Having faith that everything will work out and that Heavenly Father is going to bless me if I put my trust in him has really been something I have struggled with this week. But every time I take that hit or make that decision, he has blessed me and provided me with the things I need to move forward.
I have really been thinking about the atonement this week. There are days and weeks on the mission where you feel like you haven’t done your best and that you could definitely improve. It is such a blessing that we can kneel in prayer, ask for forgiveness and strength to do better and then say, "Today is a new day." It doesn’t matter what happened before because you are a new person or it is a new week and all that matters is that you are going to try to do better. The atonement covers so much and has been such a comfort and a blessing in my life.
We do have an investigator named Kenny that has a fecha! (baptismal date) She is so cute and is from the Dominican Republic. We want her to be baptized on May 3! I hope it works out. She is so kind and loves reading the Book of Mormon. Please keep her in your prayers.
I am so excited for Joseph!!! I think he is going to the Philippines! Keep me updated and tell him I love him, and ¡BUENOS SUERTE! (good luck) It is so exciting and scary, but let him know that he will be so blessed and that no matter where he goes people are always praying for him and Heavenly Father takes care of all his missionaries. I have felt so comforted knowing that I have so many people praying for me and my success back home. It gives me so much strength. Tell him he looks SUPER GUAPO (handsome) in his tux!
I love you guys and can’t wait to hear from you again! Also, Mother’s day is coming soon and I will be able to Skype you guys. I will let you know the exact plans when they let us know! I love you! You are all in my prayers!
¡Les Quiero mucho! (I love you so much)
Hermana Brumble
Ps. We are going to the aquarium today! I will send pictures next week!
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Week 13 in Gijon
April 7th 2014
I am great! This week has been so busy and a little stressful, but it has really been probably one of my favorite weeks on the mission. I was so worried, but I really put my faith and trust in the Lord and knew everything would be alright. The first day was probably the hardest. I was so overwhelmed, because I was trying to do EVERYTHING! We can’t do everything by ourselves. Once I took a step back, prioritized, and relieved myself from some unnecessary responsibility, I was just fine. This week I have really felt the power of the atonement in my life. It covers so much and strengthens us when we are weak.
I am great! This week has been so busy and a little stressful, but it has really been probably one of my favorite weeks on the mission. I was so worried, but I really put my faith and trust in the Lord and knew everything would be alright. The first day was probably the hardest. I was so overwhelmed, because I was trying to do EVERYTHING! We can’t do everything by ourselves. Once I took a step back, prioritized, and relieved myself from some unnecessary responsibility, I was just fine. This week I have really felt the power of the atonement in my life. It covers so much and strengthens us when we are weak.
Hermana Endicott is such a huge tender mercy. She is so understanding and wonderful. She is from Huntsville Utah. She is the oldest in her family and has two younger brothers. One is 17 and just got called to Peru on his mission, and the other is 11. She went to BYU Idaho and majored in literature. She has been out on the mission for 11 months now, so it is very possible Gijón could be her last area, depending on how much longer I stay here. They lived in Boston and Puerto Rico for a little bit because her dad was in charge of Scouting things there. Also, she looks, acts, talks, exactly like Mallory!! It’s is funny, with Hermana Zitting she was exactly like me, and now I have Mallory! Maybe I’ll get a Sammie... She is a beast of a missionary though. I have really learned so much from her already. With Hermana Zitting I think I learned the basics, kind of like the lower law with Moses and the Children of Israel. Heavenly Father knew what I could handle. And now that I have a little more experience, I am ready for the higher law which is what I am learning with Hermana Endicott. She has changed the way I look at missionary work and has helped my be more BOLD! We had 7 new investigators this week!!!! I really was worried about staying in Gijón because it is such a hard area, but things are changing and I am so excited! There was something President Jackson said that I really took comfort in, he said that he only sends the special missionaries to the North and the fact that I was trained there really meant something. He said that when he made transfer calls he and Hermana Jackson really felt good about me and Hermana Endicott being together. I know Heavenly Father is preparing me and all of us to be something more. We each have so much potential. I am excited to see what the Lord has in store for us.
Conference was amazing! We watched conference through satellite transmission at the church in Gijón. We watch the Saturday morning session live, so I watched it Saturday night, then Sunday morning we watched the women’s conference, then we watched the Saturday afternoon session, then the Sunday Morning session live. We didn’t get to watch the Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the talks. We watched all the sessions in English (huge blessing!) except the woman’s conference, so thank you for taking the time to send me the talks, I didn’t understand a lot. Spanish on TV is hard to understand, even some of the members who speak English came in with us to watch conference because they don’t really understand Spanish on TV. I am excited to read the Sunday afternoon when we get the Liahona. It was so interesting watching conference. I loved everything, and I agree I think the most talked about subject was Christ-like love and standing up for what you believe in. I think standing up for our standards and the church is becoming increasingly more important and even a little more difficult. It is so important. I like what Elder Holland said about defending ourselves with compassion and courtesy, but defending ourselves. I think some people think that defending ourselves means you have to be harsh or unkind, but I think you have a bigger effect on someone when you have compassion. I like President Uchtdorf’s talk about being grateful in our circumstances and Elder Bednar’s talk about how our load helps us move forward. I also liked the talk given about pornography, it was so bold and straightforward! I like the comment she made about how the three things we need in the home are Family Home Evening, Prayer, and Scripture Study. I am so thankful that I grew up in a home where those things were present. I also liked what President Monson said about Christ-like love starting in the home. There where so many things that were addressed that I have been praying about, attributes that I want to obtain, and comfort that I needed. I think it is so cool how Heavenly Father speaks to each of us through Living Prophets.
My schedule changed. We had daylight savings last week and every time we have Conference the mission schedule changes. So instead of waking up at7:00am I wake up at 7:30am and instead of getting home at 9:30pm and going to bed at 11:00pm, we get home at 10:00pm and go to bed at 11:30pm. So everything was pushed back a half an hour because people tend to stay up later during the summer. So that was fun and interesting. I feel a lot more awake in the mornings so that has been a huge blessing!
Well I love you all! I hope you have a great week! I think and pray about you all the time. I´m glad Mal and Rob had a good birthday. It makes me sad sometimes that I can’t do more on those special days. But I pray for them and think about them. I am so excited for Joseph!!! Is he nervous? How does he feel? I remember the feelings I felt. What a life altering experience this has been. I don’t regret anything I have done or have chosen to do. This has changed me in so many ways, ways I probably haven´t even realized yet. This is going to be the greatest experience for Joseph if he stays obedient and learns to be meek and teachable. I am so excited to share these wonderful things with him someday. There are so many people in the world that he is going to come in contact with and bless. HOW AMAZING!
Love Hermana Brumble
Conference was amazing! We watched conference through satellite transmission at the church in Gijón. We watch the Saturday morning session live, so I watched it Saturday night, then Sunday morning we watched the women’s conference, then we watched the Saturday afternoon session, then the Sunday Morning session live. We didn’t get to watch the Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the talks. We watched all the sessions in English (huge blessing!) except the woman’s conference, so thank you for taking the time to send me the talks, I didn’t understand a lot. Spanish on TV is hard to understand, even some of the members who speak English came in with us to watch conference because they don’t really understand Spanish on TV. I am excited to read the Sunday afternoon when we get the Liahona. It was so interesting watching conference. I loved everything, and I agree I think the most talked about subject was Christ-like love and standing up for what you believe in. I think standing up for our standards and the church is becoming increasingly more important and even a little more difficult. It is so important. I like what Elder Holland said about defending ourselves with compassion and courtesy, but defending ourselves. I think some people think that defending ourselves means you have to be harsh or unkind, but I think you have a bigger effect on someone when you have compassion. I like President Uchtdorf’s talk about being grateful in our circumstances and Elder Bednar’s talk about how our load helps us move forward. I also liked the talk given about pornography, it was so bold and straightforward! I like the comment she made about how the three things we need in the home are Family Home Evening, Prayer, and Scripture Study. I am so thankful that I grew up in a home where those things were present. I also liked what President Monson said about Christ-like love starting in the home. There where so many things that were addressed that I have been praying about, attributes that I want to obtain, and comfort that I needed. I think it is so cool how Heavenly Father speaks to each of us through Living Prophets.
My schedule changed. We had daylight savings last week and every time we have Conference the mission schedule changes. So instead of waking up at7:00am I wake up at 7:30am and instead of getting home at 9:30pm and going to bed at 11:00pm, we get home at 10:00pm and go to bed at 11:30pm. So everything was pushed back a half an hour because people tend to stay up later during the summer. So that was fun and interesting. I feel a lot more awake in the mornings so that has been a huge blessing!
Well I love you all! I hope you have a great week! I think and pray about you all the time. I´m glad Mal and Rob had a good birthday. It makes me sad sometimes that I can’t do more on those special days. But I pray for them and think about them. I am so excited for Joseph!!! Is he nervous? How does he feel? I remember the feelings I felt. What a life altering experience this has been. I don’t regret anything I have done or have chosen to do. This has changed me in so many ways, ways I probably haven´t even realized yet. This is going to be the greatest experience for Joseph if he stays obedient and learns to be meek and teachable. I am so excited to share these wonderful things with him someday. There are so many people in the world that he is going to come in contact with and bless. HOW AMAZING!
Love Hermana Brumble
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