April 14, 2014

Well family!!! 

I miss all of you so much and love hearing from you!! You all have such great testimonies and I am so proud to call you my family!! Wow!!  It sounded like you had such an amazing week!!  Carlee I miss One Tree Hill as well! Did you know that it was filmed here! I am pretty sure North Carolina is the most beautiful place I have ever been to! The city is amazing and everything is beginning to bloom! It truly makes it so great to wake up each morning to beautiful colors and birds everywhere!! Oh and here in Chapel Hill everyone is out running and riding bikes!! It makes me a bit jealous but then we get to go out and jump on the buses and walk around and talk to all of them so I really love it!! There are lots of people to teach and to be honest I don’t think I have ever been so busy!! Every morning we wake up and have a day planned and it goes nothing like what we plan but we are always running everywhere and time just seems to fly!! Everyone always says Chapel Hill is just crazy and it is so true!! But I love it!! As for cooking... lately we have been in a lot more member homes! The members really seem to be opening up to us, which has been a blessing, but I have learned to cook!! We have a store called Aldis that has super cheap food and I make spaghetti and eggs and oatmeal and cooked vegetables and all that jazz!! I have gotten a lot better! One of the members gave me a hot pad because Sister Wilde told her how I burnt my fingers on my oatmeal bowl that morning and spilt it all over the apartment so I am getting there!! haha  These next weeks are going to be great but crazy!! We have Easter this week and I am so excited! I have been reading Jesus the Christ and it really explains Christ life so well!! I have learned so much! I would recommend it to all of you if you want to study the last week of the Saviors life!! Also the Ensign has a really great depiction of it as well!! Other than that we have our temple trip the next week and Gladys Knight comes that weekend!! I might be a bit worn out but I am too excited!! This is truly going to be amazing!! They are taking the pews out of our church building so that more people can fit!! They said in California they had 150 people baptized after she came!! It is really going to be a miracle!!! As for Easter what color are y'all wearing I want to match!!! Sister Wilde and I are going to match with our ward mission leaders wife.  She is like our mom out here and I love her so much!! She is from England and has two sons out serving and one is with Christiaan hahah small world!  They are the best and she calls people twits and says the rubbish can and all that stuff!!  Anyways I hope you all have the best week and know how much I love you!! Please don’t give up on your missionary work! I know that it can be discouraging but just remember how important our family is to you and remember that if we don’t share what blessing the Gospel is to us then they may never have it! Oh and something else that helps-- on average people hear about the gospel 7 times so just be happy if you are one of the 7!!! Cami! I look up to how brave you are with Samantha! I wish that I had had the courage with some of my friends back at home!! I love you all and hope you have the best Easter!!

Love Always,

Cass