He is risen :)

Easter was so good! Happy Easter to all! And I keep forgetting to tell you that yes, with the sites starting up again, my preparation day is now Tuesday.

So the highlights of this week:

-President let us watch the conference sessions we missed when working at the sites. As Sister Fetuli and I watched the second half of Saturday afternoon, a direct answer came to my prayer that I had been hoping to receive during conference. It wasn't even hidden. He just came out and said exactly my question. It was so great! I laughed when he said it, because it was so apparently an answer. The Lord is so good :)

- I finished the New Testament by Easter, which has been my goal since the beginning of the year. I am so glad I got to read it! It wasn't my first time, but it had certainly been way too long ago and I loved it. When I finished I felt grateful for all the sacrifice and work that hundreds have made so that we still have the bible today.  And I felt even more grateful for the atonement and resurrection. It was a great Easter.

- The most humbling experience of the week came when I took a wonderful family through the Peter Whitmer Farm. They were the parents and brother and Sisters of the sister missionary who was killed in a car accident in the bordering mission last august. They were coming out to meet those she taught and it would have been when she was coming home. I didn't know this when I first started the tour and then at one point in the tour {at the statue of the restoration of the Melchezidek priesthood} I found myself telling a personal experience that I had never shared on tour before, and don't plan to again. I kept thinking, 'Why on earth am I telling this?' But after the story, they told me who they were and why they were there. I think I got to take them on tour for me much more than for them. They bore powerful testimonies that the Lord knows what he is doing and that their daughter was needed. My appreciation for eternal families, the resurrection and the importance of priesthood deepened. 

- I was more sick this week than I have been my whole mission, which is really a blessing, and not saying much because I was only sick two days and it means the Lord has blessed me with such good health my whole mission. One day I had a migraine and it was the weakest migraine I've ever had even though I was unable to take medicine for the first few hours. No throwing up, dizziness, and I could see enough to drive to where we needed to go as well as think enough to teach. I know that wasn't coincidence. The other time I got the stomach flu and instead of it lasting at least a day like it normally does, I just threw up a few times during the night and was fine in the morning so I could go out and work! miracles in even the small things.

I know the lord cares about the details of our life. Hope you are all happy!
love,
Sister A