Oh my goodness. You can tell I'm struggling today because I have maybe 10-15 minutes left (again) and I still haven't written this letter to you. I guess I'm still learning to manage my email time.
Thank you for always supporting me! First and foremost. After Heavenly Father and our Savior, it's your support that gets me up and through the day. Especially on the hard days, which happen more often than you might think.
Since it's November, I've started keeping track of things I'm thankful for; at least one a day, but some days I'm just really grateful for a lot of things. So far, here's November (let's translate these to English first):
1-The Hintze family: we had FHE last week at their house with Frances, and it was SO GOOD. We didn't ask her to be baptized, but maybe we should have. She's definitely getting there though. We'll help her clean her house this week so she can go to church hopefully.
2-MAIL!!!!!!!!!! Need I say more?
3-Kit Kats, smiles, hope, and an extra hour of sleep (This was meeting Sunday)
4- Amazing friends and family and love me and are great examples (and who write me! ;) )
5- kind people who pay our bill when we go out to eat. This has happened more than once, and I have decided I am definitely paying it forward when I get home.
6- my memory, when it works, and extra time to study and think. We had a couple of sick days this week where my comp had the flu, so I got a lot more time to study this week.
7- members are the best! They really are way better missionaries than we are, and when we can teach with the members the investigators are so much more excited and willing to listen.
8- converts. Some of the best people I've met out here have been converts, and even if you've been born into the church, you can always become more converted to it. So you can still become an awesome convert too.
9- food drives. We helped at the Methodist church building with scouting for food on saturday, and we made a lot of friends there. It was a good thing for our image as missionaries and church members to be there for all of that. We also had people ask if we could visit them, even though they weren't LDS. Why sure... we'd love to! ;)
ALSO I'm grateful for meeting Sis. Fillmore!!! She was good for my soul the other night. We ate dinner at her house and I saw her beadwork and said to myself "Oh I'm saved." I've been struggling a bit with wanting to talk to someone who understands Native stuff, but my comp is whiter than white (from Washington) and tries but doesn't get it. Sis. Fillmore is Lakota and dances fancy and it was SO. GOOD for me. We'll probably make a dinner appointment later where we can make bread eat good food. It made me happy when I really needed it.
10- Splits. We tried them out for the first time yesterday, and it was just what was needed.
Heavenly Father is so good. He knows everything that His children need and when they need it, and He is so good at giving them what they need. It's like that scripture about how as parents we know how to give our children good gifts, and Heavenly Father knows even better what all His children need. We're also reading the Book of Mormon as a mission in 6 weeks and marking every time God or Jesus Christ is referred to. Literally every page has my yellow crayon markings on it. No wonder it's such an inspired book and such a good missionary tool.
Well, I'm out of time, even though I have tons more to say. We ARE getting iPads next month (says the office), so that'll be a new adventure. We're also trying to get 3 new investigators this week and up the number of lessons we're teaching, so if you could pray for that, that'd be great.
I love you all! Remember to thank the Lord in all things, and He will bless you with more.
Striving for obedience and success in Kuna,
Hermana Tiana Cole
P.S. Please add Alissa to the forwarding list. She's on the CC here so I made sure she got this week's email. :)
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