Troy. Remember him? (Recent convert) He's been struggling lately, so we met with him, and he CEASES to amaze me with his RIDICULOUS analogies (i.e. his life compared to a floating chair.), but his last one was actually amazing.
Sewing.
You see the stitches on the top, but you can't see the ones underneath.
Simple.
The stitches on top are like faith, you can't see it ALL, but you have faith that the stich is going to hold your fabric together, no questions. Stitches on bottom like blessings, you don't always know what you will be blessed with until AFTER the trial of your faith.
Isn't it amazing that in Liberty Jail, easily the LOWEST part of Joseph Smith's life, so hard we could ask ourselves WHY did he have to suffer it?--we begin to see the bottom stitches, and realize the AMAZING revelations that came from it!! The hard things we go through- we are truly BLESSED from!
Ok, so enough preachin, lets get down to some "stitchy" situations. (O.M.GGGGGG. yeah that one came out of nowhere. I'm so proud of my pathetic pun attempts)
First of all, I have faith that we WILL find an apartment and not become homeless........................................#blessingsyettocome
Second, I have faith that without our fearless leader/Ward Mission Leader who is about to be consumed into a Football season that our entire ward mission will not fall apart...........#blessingsyettocome
Third, I have faith that I will not develop some sort of disease after last nights dinner. #blessings............hopefullycoming
SIDENOTE:
Fast Sunday yesterday. Easily the best/worst day of the mission. Best because serious MIRACLES occur. Worst- your energy level comes somewhere close to -74%
ULTRA SIDENOTE:
Sister Engebretsen is terrified of fish. LIke gets nauseous thinking about having to eat it. So yeah I take the bullet like A LOT, like on thursday when we had SALMON that was so fishy.....my blessings of enjoying fish are like.......................run dry.
--dryheave-swallow-mashup-rest-to-look-like-you-ate-it--
Anyway, Sister ______ is INFAMOUS for making..................."Oh i forgot you were coming........All i have left is frozen fish and a can of corn...PERFECT. we'll put it all in a dish with a little water and cook it on high in the oven....TOTES delish."
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So she is feeding us on FAST Sunday.
So Sister E calls to find out time..."any requests?" Oh Spaghetti! (in her mind she THINKS this is a safe option...........#rookiemistake
"PERFECT! I have like LOADS of frozen spaghetti I made 2 weeks ago I've been dying to get rid of! See you at 5!"
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"Dear Heavenly Father please bless that we live through the night....."
So we show up, ready to attack frozen spaghetti, 1,000 prayers offered that we will be ok and that it will taste like manna from heaven.
Smells......decent (frozen garlic bread, whatev we'll take it.)
Sister ________ offering the prayer now.....
"And please bless that we will be safe from any parasites that are found in the meat..."
one more time for good measure, I REPEAT:
"Please bless that we will be safe from any parasites found in the meat..."
lost it.
.....QUE sifting through sauce taking out pieces of meat, praying that if we DO get a parasite we will at least lose weight from it, then sifting through sauce again.........
Lastly, I had another dream, but this time I was swimming through a giant Cafe Rio salad, and it was joyous. NOT that I am craving that right this second or anything as I sit here in this public library surrounded by people who think that the Telestial Kingdom of Chipotle is the highest level of Mexican Food. #sofooled
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
Love, Sister Murrayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
SHOUTOUTS:
MOM! packages, AMAZE!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Grace: the postcards keep coming??? THANK YOU
CROOKS!!!!: GREAT HARVEST GRANOLA!??????????????????? WHERE.HAVE.I.BEEN. LITERALLY LIKE FRUIT OF THE GODS I AM SO SO SO OBSESSED WITH IT THANK YOUUUUUUU and for all of your sweet birthday notes THANK YOU
Smashley; I am running out of adjectives to describe you. MAKING.MY.LIFE.!!!!
SUMSIONS!!! AH so excited for Ben!!!! I ESPECIALLY love the prestamped envelope to him!! Sending him something toDAY hopefully he gets it in time!!!
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