IT'S GOING WAY TOO FAST!!

ANOTHER WEEK WAY TOO FAST

Shout outs: BRADEN TAFT! I LOVE YOU! Mom your letter was so wonderful and I totally cried when you talked about Sophie I am so proud of her. Grandma and grandpa, dad I really loved talking to you thank you for all you do for me! My auntie Jessie, My auntie Lizzie the two most beautiful girls on the planet whom I miss oh so much

We were on lockdown for two days. (just from the old city) so no worries nothing happened to us at all. We didn’t even know what was going on. We just knew that we couldn’t go really leave the center but we didn’t even think of it because of all of the studying we had to do.

Piurum! So this holiday is like Halloween! On Sunday we found out about a dance party in town so we all dressed up crazy and got in our vans. We arrived at a big gym thing with about 5 people hardly dressed up doing folk dances. We weren’t sure if it was right. So we ran in and joined them…all 70 of us. Haha it was a little overwhelming but we had an amazing time. We all tried joining in and more people showed up. I really enjoyed learning other cultures dances.

So I just walked out of my final that, a week previous in the class we took the midterm, only to find 80 students beginning to study for our next final in 4 hours…wow and ask me if our teacher makes any sense….no. one bullet on our study guide says “concept of the middle east” wow can you say broad! Oh yeah and the final we took yesterday…our teacher told us he was drunk when he was writing it. When we were correcting it…all ABCD were yelled out. Then he gave us a puzzled look like he didn’t even know what the correct answer was…this is when you know something is wrong…

à you know something is wrong when you are given a final and all 82 students in the class begin to laugh because they have no idea what the answers are.

It is finished! Ah wow I can’t believe I made it through, this week was quite intense. It is Friday and we got a lock down again. The Palestinians were throwing stones and some form of grenade at the Jews at the western wall as they were preparing for the Sabbath. Israeli police released tear gas at the western wall and I think in a mosque as well. At dinner there were fires in the street right at our gate. So we couldn’t go outside but we got some pictures.

Sabbath random thoughts …

Todays whole blog was deleted so I am just throwing down my random thoughts.

This is not just the land where Christ lived and died. This is where he was risen. This is not only the place where he was it is a place where he IS.

I am in a temple prep class and I love it so so so much! Please go to the temple as often as you can! It is truly a blessing to go there. Don’t make it a burden.

Christ is very forgiving, he will forgive us as many times as we come to him in repentance. But how willing are we to forgive others? Doubt is satan’s power, don’t let him fool you!

Mom! We talked about "the one" today in relief society! We need to see what people are and treat them as what they can be. I think it is C.S. lewis said that we would fall to the ground and worship those around us if we were able to see their potential….something like that. Im sure Emily would know. Mom I think that this line of" Lord I would follow thee" could add a lot to your missing piece talk. It says “in the quiet heart is hidden sorrow that the eye cant see” love that!

This is really random and I am sorry I am really upset that my good thoughtful doc was deleted. But I love you all and I am very safe and miss you all!

Once again this experience is the most amazing thing ever! This week was intense…we are starting the New Testament I AM SO EXCITED!