Happy Halloween to you all!
This week has been great. Now that I'm an official adultish person, I had the chance to vote. Luckily mom sent me my ballot in the mail. We discovered a hot chocolate stand that had a variety of flavors. The one I got was english toffee and cinnamon. Soooooo good. In celebration of Halloween, I put up a little spider on the door. It was a party napkin, but it did the job, haha. For halloween to surprise the twins, I decided to rush and make a super quick halloween costume, so I took a straw, a piece of paper, and cut eye and mouth holes out of it. Once I did I got board and started doodling, and one mustache, one set of eyebrows, and one monocle later I realized I had accidentally made myself into the Pringles mascot. Haha, my family seemed to enjoy it. We also were able to celebrate Halloween after the day when we went to the store today and bought half off halloween candy. It is WAY more sugar then I need in my life right now, but when something's cheap it so much harder to resist! We have also been getting a lot of smoke. Below are some pictures of a sunrise we had. The dark gray mass in the background over the buildings that look kind of like a mountain was a giant plume of smoke stretching over the horizon going farther then we could see. Luckily we aren't in danger. We can sometimes smell smoke outside and we can see it on the horizon some days, but we are safe.
On my mission I have truly found a love for the scriptures. While reading any other book, there is always an end. As humans, I feel like we don't like endings. They just don't feel right, for something to end, but it seems that scriptures simply never have an end. No matter how many times I read the Bible or Book of Mormon, there is always something new to learn, a new story to tell, a new word that sticks out. Even when you finish what was writing, you want to start over, because you know there will be more. I have really discovered this through daily study of immersing myself in the scriptures every day. Everyday I learn something new, and I am touched in such a powerful way. I feel I have heard these stories a million times before and that I've read these words so often, yet there is always more. It is truly a book without an end.
I am grateful everyday to have a chance to serve at such a time as this!!!
