May 7, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

Wow, it sure sounds like you have had a busy week. I am so excited
that Summer and Sadie did so well! I am not sure if I realized that
they were doing a dance competition, but I am so excited that they got first place! That is so awesome!

Just a couple of questions. How is life in regards to the car
situation? Everything going alright? I sure hope so.

I also may or may not have laughed out loud when you told me about Holly´s phone snapping in half. I am sure that she is not very happy, and it may not be funny to her, but I enjoyed the story.

Because transfers will be this week, I think it will be best if we can
talk right at four. That puts it at seven my time.We aren´t sure if we
are going to be having a change. But if we do, traveling can start as
early as nine, so we want to be prepared. I am so excited to talk to
you!!!! And I am praying praying that a conference skype works out!!!

GOOD NEWS!!! The Buenos Aires Temple is going to be rededicated on September 9th!!! I think that means that I get to go! If the rumors are true that it. I AM SO EXCITED! I have been praying for about 4 months that it would be rededicated before I went home! I almost jumped out of my seat when they announced it during church yesterday!!!

Thank you everyone for the pictures that you have sent me! It helps me feel that I am not so far away that I have no idea what is going on anymore! I can´t believe how grown up everyone is starting to look! And its cause you are all actually growing up. How weird is that? We´re getting old. Summer is a teenager. Kami is older than 20 (okay, okay, I know, by a couple of months, but still). Zac will be graduating a year from now, and Holly turns 16 this year. Totally crazy!!!

Will you tell Jayden and Shelley thank you so much for the email?! I will be writing a response, and sending it to them snail mail style
next Pday. It was so much fun to get so much information.

Also, a couple of people have mentioned that the blog hasn´t been
updated, but that more than that, it seems to have disappeared? Has
something changed on that front? I will take responsablility (sp?) for Kami´s blog while she is gone on the mission. I promise, I am sure that this is a giant pain, and the least I can do is take care of that giant pain while Kami is gone, since she is helping with the giant pain right now. I am just not sure who is in charge of the blog or anything, hence me writing it in the big email.

Well, in terms of actual work, there wasn´t much of it this week. Hna Bingham got sick, so we spent quite a bit of time in the apartment. The plus of all that is, I was able to clean a lot. I always like that. Our apartment is cute  and tiny, but there is ALWAYS a large amount of dust. I am not sure why. So I cleaned. I also got some personal things organized. That was nice.

I also got some study things worked out. *Some advice for future
missionaries* Start a study journal now. It has been one of the
hardest things for me on the mission, and I am not sure why! But it
tells you so many times in PMG that we should be writing things down in a study journal, so I tried to come up with some ways to motivate myself to do that. And I found one! Chapter 6 in PMG is about Christlike Attributes (and I recommend it, it is great!), and so I went through and picked a conference talk that had to do with each attribute, and I am going to restudy each attribute, all the scriptures listed, and the talk. And I made a page for each attribute in my study journal, so everything is ready so go. I started a couple of days ago, and right now I am studying about faith. It has been really good! And I have actually been writing in the study journal! I am hoping this trend continues, as I feel like it has been affective, and I am learning more. It is also helping me ponder, and I have never been a good ponderer....

Lets see...Other things you might be interested to know. I almost fell out of a bus yesterday. Bumpy roads do not help the clumsy inclined. Hna Bingham has started calling me Hna Hyena (sp?) because she thinks my laugh is hilarious. Some of the ward members have caught on, and its really funny.

I am trying to improve my attitude, and I think that that is helping
my current situation. I have noticed a difference, and I that is
great! I am also trying to remember, that while I enjoy having control of everything, I simply don´t have control of every everything. So I am controlling the things that I can (aka my actions) and (trying) to let everything else go.

I wish I had more exciting things to tell you, but hopefully next week I will!!! I sure love you and I am excited to talk to you in a couple of days!!!

Dad and Summer, please travel safe!!!

I love you!!!

Corinne