When a storm comes, instead of waiting for it to pass, learn to dance in the rain.

HI FAM!!!!

sooo.....kinda sad....we got to the library and I started talking to so many people about the gospel that my time on my session ran out and I'm not allowed another for the day so now I have to use the remaining 8 minutes on an Elder's time that he was done with.

But pretty much, this week was just way super hard, but I grew a ton. I learned that God sent us to earth to have afflictions and trials. There are two kinds of people, the people that have had affliction and the people that will. I'm learning that.

I don't know where I would be in life if I didn't have the opportunity to take the sacrament every week and be filled with the Spirit and have the weight of the world taken off my shoulders. I love Heavenly Father so much and I am so thankful to Him for blessing me with my trials so that I may grow and be happy.

I talked to a girl who said she worked at the MTC. She said the decision is totally made by revelation. She talked about how she didn't think she'd stand a chance getting the job because she wasn't a BYU student and her job experience was a joke. I just have felt the Spirit so strongly telling me that that's what Heavenly Father wants me to do with my life, and I know that He will provide a way for me to be there if I just have the faith that He really wants me to be there. So at least I know step one of where I'll be after the mission!

Life has just been so great. So hard and so great. I am growing so much and it brings me so much joy.

Happy early birthday mommy and linny!!!! I love you!!!!

Mom and dad, I also just wanted to thank you for doing right in raising me. I can't imagine what it's going to be like to have to raise and guide children. I know I put you through soooo much growing up. I know that everything you ever did right in raising me has paid off in me being a strong member of the church and knowing my Heavenly Father. Anything you think you ever did wrong in raising me is made up for by the Atonement and that it is all outweighed by the good things anyway. You can know that your parenting has been successful, that you have raised a happy, heathy individual who knows who she is. I'm so thankful for your sacrifice and I want you to know that I love you and look up to you for your longsuffering, patience, dedication, and love. Thank you :)

Well I love you so.

Your happy daughter,

Your happy daughter,

Kelsie :)