Dear family,

Hey, how are y’all doing? 🙂 This week has been good. We didn’t get hit by any tornados, but about 6 of them touched down in Arlington. President was inspired when he took the sisters out of there. 🙂 Apparently there were about a dozen in total, but none of them came in our area. As far as I know, everyone that is serving in the areas where they touched down are okay. It was weird hearing the tornado alarm though. You don’t hear those in Utah.

Okay so this week…

Monday: We got heart attacked by the elders that live in our apartment complex. It was stinkin’ cute. Our elders are so sweet. We spend a lot of time with them, because we give them rides, and they give us rides, if we are going to the same place at the same time. They are good boys.

Tuesday: I found out that my first convert, Antonio, passed away a little while ago. It was really sad and hard. I was looking forward to being able to go visit him when I come back to visit the mission after I come home, but now I don’t get to. 🙁 But it’s okay, I know that he is in a good place. 🙂 Also, it rained a lot! And I stepped in a huge puddle that was like 6 inches deep, and I almost drowned. Jk, jk, that was dramatic. But it was really deep. Also, we had a baptism!!! H. got baptized, and everything went well. I will attach a photo of all of us together. 🙂

Wednesday: We set a marriage date with two of our investigators (A. and L.) for the 5th of May!!! Woo!!! So they will be getting married, and then after they can get baptized. And L. has opened up to us a lot. Before he used to to not like the missionaries, but he loves us now. And he has read the Book of Mormon and knows that it is true! They are so cool.

Thursday: We had a crazy day. So H. was supposed to get the gift of the Holy Ghost on Sunday, but we went to visit them on Thursday, and J. (her son), had gotten a call from his work that he needed to be in Boston on Monday, and they were driving there. So…they had to leave that night. So we had to do a bunch of calling and get permission, to try to get it so she could get the gift of the Holy Ghost not in sacrament meeting on Sunday. It was crazy stressful, but it happened. She got the gift of the Holy Ghost, and everything is all good. 🙂 We also can write to her now, because she is our recent convert, and is not living in our mission.

Saturday: We got to eat at Texas Roadhouse! It was Elder K.’s birthday, so we got money from our dinner and decided to eat there. He was so embarrased because we had them sing for him. 🙂 Ha ha! But at least we didn’t make him sit on the saddle. I think he would have been VERY angry with us.

Sunday: We went Easter caroling. It was Sister Valdez’s idea, because she never got to go real caroling at Christmas time, so she really wanted to go. It was fun.

MOM: That is such a cool lesson. It really is true. I was reading in the Book of Mormon the other day, and I read a verse in Mosiah, chapter 2, verses 23 and 24. It says basically that same thing.

“And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him. And secondly, he doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore of what have ye to boast?”

Basically, now matter what we do, we still owe him for everything. But we can give back to him by helping others, and being obedient to the commmandments. I am so grateful for the gospel. 🙂

P.S. To answer your P.S., we have 72 hour kits in our apartment, and they also have papers that we are supposed to keep with us that tell us what to do, in case of a tornado or other emergency. They are very organized in the way they handle things like that. 🙂 Don’t you worry none. 🙂

EMMY: I’m doing good. Man, that is crazy Amanda L. is going to be having a baby. 🙂 And you are turning 18! But that sounds like a lot of stuff you have to do. I will defintely keep you in my prayers. 🙂

P.S. Are you trying to trunk me out?! Ha ha. It won’t work. I’m not trunky like at all. 🙂

DAD: There were some tornados that were close ish, but none of them hit where I am at all. Man, Uncle Scott is crazy. 🙂 Ha. I would maybe consider running a marathon, if my hips weren’t bad. And if I trained for it for a really long time. 🙂 I’m glad grandmother and granddad are doing good.

Well, I better go now. I love you all!

Love, Kelsey

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