- It's snowing right now! Crazy huh. People from STG kept telling me that it gets 10x colder than Utah here, but I think it's about the same as Log-town.
- Dad's handwritten letters are the BEST! Thanks pops! And thanks mom for yours this week :)
- Dad was asking about food I've eaten that's good (southern stuff) and I really haven't eaten much southern stuff. It's an army town here in clarksville so just a bunch of different cultures. We went to Cracker Barrel with a part member family the other day though and it was sooo good. So good. And Cheddars is super delicious too!
- Dad also asked what P-days are like: We clean from 630-7, eat and get ready from 7-8, study from 8-10, and then usually we go to the library to email around 10, then to walmart, then we go to the church and play basketball (yes, I play basketball now and I'm Sister Liebel's prodigy) or volleyball, or instead of doing that we do other fun things around town! Today was the best pday ever. I'll tell ya about it. Then after all that we eat dinner and go out at 6 to appointments and proselyte! P-days are holy days. Also, whoever said you wear street clothes on P-day was lying to you because you definitely don't. Unless you're playing games or something in the church or going hiking or something.
- Whenever I say "Hi I'm Sister Boren!" People think I say "boring" and they thing they are the first people to ever think that. It's hilarious, it really is. Even the children say it! Even the children!
- "Our Search for Happiness" by Elder Ballard. It's a book and it's amazing. Read it!
- Dad, did you ever do role plays? We do them everyday, all the time.
- If yall see a cute simple watch that works, I would really love if you sent it my way! All of my watches are dumb.
- I hope all of my outdoors stuff is safe and sound :) I told Joe yall could go rock climbing with my stuff if you'd like! But just to put it back if ya could. Take pictures too!
- Have you seen the new Mormon Messages on mormonchannel.org? I love them and we teach with them sometimes.
- We are getting mini iPads in January! Cool huh! I think it replaces our area book and planner.
I don't have much time! But I do have to share a HUGE miracle!!!
On Saturday we brought Brother Moss with us to an appointment at Mat and Tabatha's house. Bro Moss is super intelligent about church history and doctrine, but also a spiritual giant. Him and Mat got along really well right off the bat. Tabatha really opened up, Matt was able to tell us his REAL concern (he stopped coming to church when he was 18 and looked into a bunch of anti online and didn't have a desire any more) and Brother Moss has heard and seen most of the anti stuff and knows a ton about it so he was able to really help resolve his concerns with us. We talked a lot about how the BOM is evidence that Joseph Smith was a prophet and he saw what he said he saw, and that all of the latter-day revelations are of God and that this church is Christ's restored church on the earth again today. It can all be answered if he just reads the book! Bro Moss went into depth about how all of it matches up. Bro Moss was once very very very less active. And now he's a church history genius. When we was less active, he knew that Joseph Smith couldn't write the book with only having a 3rd grade education level so he looked into a bunch of other conspiracy theories, but all of them could be proven wrong. And then, he just asked God, "which is what I should have done in the first place." I can't even describe how good this lesson was the spirit was so strong and just testifying to them like crazy! THE BOM IS EVIDENCE OF ALL OF IT! I love the gospel. Man. THEN, the best part, Matt said he was going to come to church. AND we set a date for Tabatha for the 14th of December! THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Tabatha was just glowing! So happy that he is showing desire to know truth and do the Alma 32:27 challenge (that's what I like to call it haha). She wants it so bad for her family! AND she wasn't intimidated by a date! That is HUGE! The spirit was working so strongly in that room it was nuts. I love it! We love them so much. Annnnnd! They came to church! Woooooooo! And THEN we went back last night to see how he liked it and if he recognized the spirit there and what not. He said, "I think I'll be coming back to church" with a big grin on his face and Sister Gibson and I just couldn't keep it in. We were so happy. I don't think I've ever been so happy. You just develop this huge christlike love for people and when they come to know of the truthfulness of the gospel, it is simply amazing.
Also I was in the Primary Program. Weird huh!
I LOVE YOU GUYS! The church is true!
Love,
Sister Boren
PS- One month till Christmas. Weird.
I didn't have time to talk about P-day but it was the best P-day ever. I begged everyone to go hiking to a place where it was as terrainious (is that a word?) as it gets in these parts of TN and we DID!!! It was the best day ever. I loved my life.
We found a tree swing and it was awesome.
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