October 31, 2017

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

This week was pretty crazy, we went to Halifax for our exchanges with the STLTs haha(sister training leader trainers)  and then on Saturday we had our branch Halloween party hahah not the biggest success but it is something we can look back and laugh at now. Basically every one that said they were going to come started to cancel throughout the day and the whole day we were just joking about how sister Goodwin (a lady in the ward) would still come and low and behold when 5:30 rolled around who was the one person to pull up in the parking lot hahah sister Goodwin in her hobo costume,  we were dying laughing haha. The lee Wens ended up staying too, I love that family, they are so awesome, and then just as we decided we should start packing up a less active walked through the door so we kept the party rolling haha.

some sad news, millie dropped us:( she said that the book of Mormon tells her to seek knowledge and so she is going to seek knowledge in the Baptist church... I know right hahah not exactly what you expect someone to take from the book of Mormon. Some very very happy news though is the 3 recent converts in Amherst got to go to the temple on Saturday! They all had an amazing time they said. they went to a Chinese buffet after though and apparently the food was now the best and they were all in the bathrooms after haha .

We gave a training in district meeting about using God's time in the best way. We talked about how we can be doing good things but if we don't have the real intent behind it then we are not going to profit anything from it, to show this made these cupcakes and gave them to everyone but after one bite they found out that the good looking cupcakes weren't good at all. we packed those cupcakes with so much nasty stuff haha it was a good time.

this week I was reading this talk about happiness and I can't remember what it's called but it's by elder Holland. I loved this one line in it that went something like. "happiness is like a butterfly. the more we chase after it the more it will elude us. but when we turn our focus towards other things it will come and land softly on our shoulder" in the talk it tells us what those "other things" are that we should turn our attention to that will guide us down a pathway of happiness.

Before I go shout out to mikey to proposing to my best friend and for doing it in the sweetest way possible!!!!!!! I am so so excited for you rylee and mikey!! everyone is getting engaged! michelle, isabelle, rylee!! I know you are next shay;) I am just waiting for that email!

haha I love you each so much! have fun trick or trerating! we are on house arrest after five but we get to hand out candy so we are going to tape Mormon cards to all of the chocolate bars:)

love sister wood

oh wait temple work is so important so go and find names and do their work for them and if you don't know how to find names then find someone that can teach you:) it is all of our responsibility so don't just shrug it off and leave it all up to someone else to do!