July 22nd 2013

Hey family!

It's weird how the week after transfers is "shorter" but it always feels like such a long week! With the picture of all 4 of us I don't know if you can see it, but the Hollywood sign is behind us. It stills throws me every now and then that i'm in Hollywood, but it's great:) Sis. Howell and I went hiking with Johanna and Cynthia(baptized June 8).

Tonight we have a family night with a member and her family. (she's the other member). It's kind of scary to think that the members are trusting you with their family, but it also makes me feel like I'm doing something right because they haven't suggested it till this transfer. Also, coming up with FHE ideas is a lot harder than we thought.

Wednesday was a little rough because we ended the day teaching the restoration to a single mom who we just love, and the first day we met her she invited us to her sons b-day party later that weekend. You think teaching the restoration would be awesome, but for some reason it just wasn't right and we didn't feel super good about it and was worrying the whole night if we had hurt our relationship with her. Anyway, lessons like those just taught us how much we can always be working on the way we teach. You think it would be a lot easier to teach something you've grown up in, but it was good for us because sometimes you need to have experiences like that to help show you how you can improve. The hardest thing about experiences like that is I would hate to have other people suffer because of what I have to learn in order to grow, but I just have to have faith and remind myself that Heavenly Father is somehow going to take care of them.

We did service this weekend cleaning out a closest for a member. so much stuff but it was fun:) I wore my jeans for the first time since the mtc, that was a little scary....

Yesterday in RS Hermana Garcia was teaching and she was looking around for someone to hand a quote to read. She turned to me and smiled and gave it to me, and told me I could practice, and then the bishop's wife said, yes you learn by practicing or something like that. It was so funny because I knew the minute she looked at me and smiled. I just love them so much, because they are all so patient and loving with me.

I hope you are all enjoying Utah and the heat! At the end of the summer I'll send you a pictures of my tan line from me shoes:)

Love,

Hermana Ford