I got your Package today!!

I got your package today!! Thank you so much for the Seahawks socks and my drivers license and everything else. Part of our area is Dugway and it's an army base so I need my drivers license to get on base. 

My first week in the field has been hard but good! The first day was really hard. I didn't want to be here. But everyday got a little better and a little better and now I'm really growing to like it here. I'm serving in the Tooele South Stake, and we cover all 11 wards in this stake. 

So far everything up here is good. adjusting to the sleep and work schedule is really hard but I'm getting there. This week I've really been focusing on humbling myself before the Lord and asking what He wants me to do for Him. My whole mission so far has been a very humbling experience and I know it will continue to be. 

Also, Sister Romero doesn't have a US drivers license so I am the driving companion. 

The people here are really great, we've been to A LOT of correlation meetings this week and all the Ward mission leaders are so friendly and welcoming. It makes me excited to get to work! Members feed us dinner every night and I can confirm any suspicions that Utah is indeed the land of cheesy potatoes and jello. I haven't gained any weight yet so hopefully it stays that way. Haha. I'm getting use to being in a small town again. Tooele, like Rexburg, is literally in the middle of no where. Except Rexburg has more stores. 

We are living in the basement of a member's home and it's very spacious. But it is FREEZING here is Utah and I know it's just going to get colder once we start getting snow. Aha. We live very close to the mountains though and they are beautiful, I'm very grateful for that. Most of the work we do here is visiting and trying to work with less active members. It is very different from the work I had hoped to do and thought I would be doing, and A LOT harder, but it is the Lord's work non the less and He has called me to do it and for that I feel blessed and honored that He trusts me so much. I'm excited to get to work! It was very frustrating in the beginning cause all I wanted to do was work but I didn't know anything about the area or anyone so I felt pretty helpless, but I'm learning fast! 

Also, can you please send me my long kind of purplish red coat from Land's End? It's the big winter one we bought for me when I went to Rexburg that is longer than most coats. I will need that. Also, my Seahawks blanket, some chamomile tea, sore throat drops, and some more Proactiv moisturizer? I would have asked sooner but I had to wait till today to email you. 

This week I have really be trying to focus on humbling myself before God, and asking what He wants me to do, seeking His counsel. Ever since being out here I've asked myself every day, if I had to go home now, could I do that knowing I had given it my all? It's very important to me to never waste a day on the mission because I know I will only get to put my name tag on for so many days. Time might not be flying by now but I know it will soon. Some scriptures for you this week: Jacob 4:10, Alma 37:37, Alma 5:7, Matthew 26:39, Moroni 9:6, Ether 12:4& Job 1:21-22. I ask myself the questions in these scriptures and think about, what would have happened if Christ and Job didn't submit to the will of the Father? 

Jacob 4:10

Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.

Alma 37:37

Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.

Alma 5:7

Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them.

Matthew 26:39

And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Moroni 9:6 

And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God.

Ether 12:4

Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.

Job 1:21-22

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

²² In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.