tell me HOW YOU ARE LIGHTING THE WORLD THIS YEAR?!!
(and if you don't know what I'm talking about do me a solid and visit mormon.org:))
this week I said goodbye to my dear hermana nielsen awww. I'll miss tango-ing at 6:30 AM, our cute little sticky notes of love, and constantly breaking into song together.
BUT. My new companion is Hermana Robles! She's so adorable and is from california and is INCREDIBLE at drawing people. So insane. She and I came out almost exactly 1 year apart from each other. I love her because she's so patient with me having to repark 14 times to get the car straightened out :)))
ELDER BEDNAR CAME TO OUR VERY OWN MISSION!
It was amazing. The entire time it was a Q&A based on some talks he had sent us a few weeks before. He would allow a question, then usually ask a follow up question, then provide insights or tell the person to read in the Book of Mormon for their answer. His insights were SO powerful. He taught me a lot about what kind of missionary I want to be.
ALSO! He and OUR VERY OWN President Whitney are first cousins!
At one point Elder Bednar made the same joke President Whitney always makes about how women do 9 things perfectly then stress about the 1 mediocre thing, then men will do 9 things terribly but 1 average thing and they celebrate the one average thing and Elder Bednar demonstrated celebrating and I KID YOU NOT Elder Bednar pounded his chest and went, "YAH!!" and it was so unexpected I just about fell off the green plush pew ahahaha.
Elder Bednar told us a story about how one summer day when they were like 10, he and President Whitney had found some old boxing gloves and because they are boys of course they put them on and started boxing in the living room. I guess President Whitney (who is the sweetest most subdued man you will ever meet no joke) hit Elder Bednar a little too hard and he fell back and shattered the front window. They were freaking out but President Whitney's dad came in and said, "Well, I guess we'll need to replace the window." and that was that. I pray daily for that level of patience hahaha.
i love you! I love Texas! I love the Lord!!
love ya'll,
Hna Anna Wolford
3232 N Locust St, Apt 1114
Denton, Texas 76207
Texas Fort Worth Mission
1331 Airport Fwy Ste 305
Euless, TX 76040-4150
