August 10: Letter to Sandra

Happy Birthday dear!

 

I love you!

 

I hope you have a great day!

 

You are the greatest!

 

Thanks for the cute picts.  Tell Gma and Gpa Murphy they look good!  and tell g-pa he has some good fish!  Sounds like a lot of fun!

Wow, another week!  I am so grateful to serve in this amazing mission!  I've been thinking of the song from the Sound of Music: The song she sings about her wicked miserable past and that because she has been so blessed, she feels she must have done something good.  Well, vot.  I feel so blessed!  Heavenly Father always blesses us - He is so merciful and I am so thankful!  And, now here we are, in Kiev, serving at the temle and talking to everyone about it.  Yesterday, I saw again the work of the Lord at work.  He has a plan!  So, Sister Nekrasova and I loved our two weeks to prepare for this together!  And, now we see how the Lord called us here for a time such as this!  (Well, more Sister Nekrasova, I'm just here to support her!)  Yesterday we went to visit a suburb of Kiev with many inactives that Sister Nekrasova still remembers.  We called up many of them and searched out a few more and even had a member come on a lesson with us!  She is doing a great job!  Today we are even going to take some of her past friends to the temple!  She is being very couragous!  She was of course really afraid, but she is just too excited and doesn't want to miss the opportunity especially with the amazing blessing of the temple!  Yesterday, we also saw how the Lord led an inactive member to us as we all boarded the same marshytka.  We talked to her for about 30 minutes about the blesing of the temple and how she just had to bring her family!  She even promised to go to church on Sunday!

 

What a blessing!  We are not working in our area, but Heavenly Father is still helping us feel involved and effective and to see the amazing fruits of this work! 

 

I love it!

 

Well, we have a lot to do!  I hope you have a great day!  I know this is the Lord's work!  I especially know that the temple is His home!  And I want all to go and see it!

 

Hmm,

 

well, some other things I wanted to mention:

 

Oh, I got your b-day package.  I made the oatmeal for my companions, and we chowed down!  Thanks a lot!  The vitamins have helped a little bit!  Cool!

 

What else? 

 

Thanks a lot!!  You are the best!  And I love how genrous you are being!

 

So, the  other day, we met a man who was really funny.  We gave him a temple invite and he wanted to know about the architecture.  He was an architect.  He asked us if it was Stalinistic design.  I didn't know.  He asked us who was on top?  Was it Lenin?  HAHA!

 

No, we explained to him, who Moroni was.  It was fun!
 

There was another lady who was really funny and wanted all of our invitations to give away!

 

Okay, got to go!

 

Love!