Dear Family and Friends,
This week went by fast! We got to weed houses, paint, teach, meet a lot of new people, learn who those in our branch were, play ultimate frisbee with tons of mosquitos out, etc. I am willing to bet that I have the Alaska flag in mosquito bites on my foot! Those things finally showed up on me yesterday. I also have found out what my favorite burger is- seeing as I have never really loved hamburger before---BUFFALO burger! We went to Loose Moose with a member on Tuesday and that's where they serve a lot of Alaskan meats from Delta.
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| Sister Hart and I eating a Buffalo Burger!!! |
It rained early in the day of solstice- it looked just like a San Francisco winter, but cleared up later in the day. We woke up at midnight just so we could get a picture to show how light it was- everyone was excited to have the midnight run and solstice baseball game they have had for over 100 years at that time. It's bigger than 4th of July up here I bet.
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| This is at 9 pm, although we stayed up until later |
We had a couple of lessons with (the woman whose daughter went on a mission) before she heads to Europe for a few weeks. Something she continued to say throughout the whole lesson on Tuesday is that Everything can be fulfilled "...IN HIS TIME" She gave us some Red Salmon to bring home to cook from her husband's catch last week- which sounded like major defensive fishing. They have to tie themselves off to stay safe because the river they were on was dangerous, but everyone goes to fish there- can't remember where exactly- it was amazing fish though!! Our next lesson we talked a lot about the Sabbath day, and she shared things which she had studied for it, and later on in the lesson, she had a question about the Book of Mormon, and was trying to figure it out. We knew little bits of what it was, but we aren't perfect teachers, and we were all trying to figure it out. I had seen the answer to the question somewhere before, and each of us were searching, finally when we were all searching, I felt strongly that she didn't need to know all those details right away, even didn't have to have us find it to tell it to her, but that she could know that Heavenly Father knew he had to help us understand the need for a Restoration and that that evidence is found in the Book of Mormon. The smile came back to her face after we talked about that and you can just feel the enthusiasm from her as she has now begun reading it from the beginning. Yes, she has questions, but all can't be learned at once, as we all come to find in our daily lives. The Faith to seek after knowledge will be there as we seek it diligently. She s doing that so constantly, and I have been so blessed to teach her and to be able to tell her daughter about that over email while she is in Ireland.
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| The Red Salmon--it was so delicious! |
We spent most of our Saturday out in North Pole visiting a few different people and didn't even make it to some people we were wanting to because all of our appointments went through! Good news!!! We got to clear a lady's yard who isn't able and shouldn't be doing it herself- she talked us to death all afternoon while we were there but she is so sweet. She came to the lesson we had with Joe, our investigator afterward and bore her testimony to him. She is a convert of a few years, and has a powerful drive and testimony to not go back to her old life- lives in a humble place out in the backwoods of town and is content to live a simple life, even without the support of her family. (a young man) came to church yesterday, and it was neat to see the progression he is making a little at a time too, and that even in the two people we bring to his lessons each time to see them getting excited.
We had a Sisters Training over PVC Friday night to Saturday morning. It was neat to be able to see them and we had a testimony meeting on Saturday morning and even though we couldn't get internet connection to see them that morning, it was great to hear their testimonies, because we don't get to hear them very often.
The Worldwide Training yesterday was so neat to be a part of! Our room was full of people from the branch and we have been trying so many different finding activities lately for the work up here that it only pumped us up even more to go out and serve and the branch is excited too! I loved hearing the testimonies and personal stories the missionary department had to give, for President Monson and what he said to close the meeting even as he is now in a difficult time of his life.
Well, Hope this all makes a little bit of sense! Love you lots!!! We are having a blast teaching these people! They are so amazing!
Congrats Jim and Vanessa!! Ezra is so adorable!!!
Love,
Sister Wuehler
Scriptures:
Doctrine and Covenants 6:4-7 (Christlike attributes, notice the pattern),1 Nephi 4:6 (Perfect Faith), Jacob 2:17 (We are rich with the Gospel, sharing it helps others to receive that too), Alma 34, 3 Nephi 1:1-8 (Sounds like Alaska in the summer time)
ism: "When you feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. When you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. When you teach a man to teach a man to fish, you feed generations."
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a small room with a mosquito" -An old African proverb- or a fairbanks proverb..."You are all like mosquitos, but you are God's army of mosquitos- and you are going to swarm the evils of this world and suck it dry." -- Relief Society President
"The first step in forgiving someone is not hating their guts!" -A sister in our relief society
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