Feeling Blessed

Dad thanks so much for your email! It really touched my heart and made me cry. It sounds like you have some amazing missionaries in your mission. The stories you shared really helped to motivate me to work harder and love bigger.

Sometimes I just can't comprehend how blessed our family is. It just baffles me how much I personally have been blessed from this Gospel and the knowledge that I have.  Whenever I think of my blessings I can't help but be brought to my knees in prayer of gratitude. We are all so blessed for this opportunity to serve Heavenly Father and give our whole attention to his work. The amazing experiences and people we will get to meet during this time will bless our lives forever.

I have pondered a lot about the story you told me concerning your mission and not wanting that to be the only highlight time you got to serve the Lord full time. I reflect on the joy that I feel on my mission and I never want it to stop. I hope as opportunities to serve the Lord continue to come that I will always be willing and able to accept. I never want my mission to stop, even though some days are really hard, haha. The personal growth I have had is incomprehensible. I can't imagine my life without this experience. I hope Amanda as well will get the special opportunity to serve a mission :) or maybe she will get married...... who knows.

Lid and Whit have sent me emails and they sound like they are just loving life!! I am so happy that they are getting married and doing good things with their lives :) I will be forever grateful to Lid and Whit for the special time I got to spend with them growing up. They were amazing examples to me.

I am doing really good in TN, there are some really challenging factors that are happening in our area right now with leadership in the ward and the Spanish group. My mission is really hard because there are hardly any Spanish people left to be taught in our area that haven't already been taught the missionary lessons. But we have sooooo many anxious English people waiting to hear the gospel and how could we deny them the opportunity to learn. So our schedules are being filled with mostly English appointments after the fair. It is hard to define who you are as a missionary when you have been called by a Prophet to speak Spanish and to grow the Spanish branches and wards in the south, but you are in an area where there are not many Spanish people. Sister K and I have to rely on the spirit every day to tell us who to teach and visit.

Anyways, transfers are coming up and I am not sure what is going to happen.

I love you family and I hope you have a great week!

Love,

Hna. Ayre