Another area another move!‏

Dear Family and Friends!

      This week I embarked on my sixth mission area! It has been crazy!! Whenever anyone asks me what area's I've served in I just want to respond... "It's quite a list is it okay if I just tell you the Stakes I've served in... That is much shorter!" Not only that but since I'm in a new area I've stopped telling everyone how long I have been on my mission. They all think that I've been out 'just about a year' It scares me to much when they know how long I've been out and then they just want to ask me about what I'm going to do when I get home or they tell me I'm on the downhill slide!! AHHH!!

      But this week was good! It was filled with a lot of new faces and a lot of new names... Most of which I don't remember! But, as hard as it is to leave old area's and come to new area's I just felt like it was time. I felt like I had done what the Lord wanted me to in the Jackson Creek ward and now it was time for me to move on. So here I am and I know that I am going to love it! My new companion is a blast! She is from Northern Idaho in a really really small town and she has 14 sisters and 2 brothers!!! She is also the youngest so many of her nieces and nephews are as old as she is or they are older... That is a crazy thought to me!!

       I recently started reading the Book of Mormon again and I was in the chapter of the vision of the tree of life. And as I was reading something that struck me was the Laman and Lemuel their father called them over to the tree and they refused... They didn't even commence on the path they headed right on over to the great and spacious building. I just thought about how so many people see the love of God they see the joy it may bring to others, but they refuse to even start the journey to get to the tree. Laman and Lemuel didn't even try.. They just gave up right from the get go!

       I think that there are a lot of people who see us as members of the chruch and see the happiness it brings us. But, they don't want to commence on the path it would take to receiving that happiness for themselves. There are so many people who are scared of the path for whatever reason. Maybe they see the obstacles that the path presents and they just don't even want to try. But, whatever the reason they see that love of God but refuse to fully partake of it. That just makes me so sad! I wish we could help people understand the help and that God provides for us. We have His word to hold onto that will bring us right to Him and to His love!! All He asks is that we hold on, and then when we have partaken of that love He asks that we stay strong to Him and Endure to the End...

      Those thoughts were a bit more jumbled than I intended them to be. But, I was just thinking about this a lot this week and thinking about how it pertains to those that I meet everyday. You see people at different stages of this process of coming unto Christ and receiving Him!

       I love you all so much and hope that you have a wonderful week! this week was crazy... But, maybe I will have more to report on next week!

Love,

Sister Bice