Sister Winters - February 27, 2012 I'm moving!

Dear best family in the world,

 

Hello from Hualien! Thank you for all of your fantastic emails - I can't tell you how happy they make me. This week has been a little crazy! But it's been great, too. :) So, as you can tell from the subject line, I am leaving the paradise of Hualien and going to... the paradise of Taitung! It's still on the east coast, but it's actually further down south (the farthest area from the mission home). This transfer has a ton of Taiwanese missionaries coming in, so my companion is training again - it's actually her best friend from home! Crazy.

 

So a couple of thoughts about moving. At first, when I found out that I was leaving Hualien, I wondered if it was because I wasn't working my hardest or if Heavenly Father felt like I didn't deserve to be here. I felt kind of ripped off - as my zone leader put it, "you're in the promised land for only six weeks and then you have to leave!" and I wondered if it was my fault. Plus we have so many BAPTISMS for next month! And I felt like I had worked really hard and JUST started to get to know/love my investigators and members and then I found out that I was moving. So I prayed about it. And I realized that my work here is done. I've helped these people come closer to Christ - I've fulfilled my purpose. And I HAVE worked my hardest, and I HAVE kept a positive attitude, so I don't need to feel ripped off, because I know that I'm going where Heavenly Father wants me to go, which is going to be the best place ever for me at this time. Does that make sense?

 

Anyway, here's a little bit about Taitung. We actually have a long and interesting history, so it'll be fun to talk about it a little bit. So when I got my mission call, I was freaked out/reluctant to go to Taiwan for a lot of reasons, which I won't really go into here. It sufficeth me to say that I didn't really want to go. But then I went out to Utah to visit some friends for a little bit, and while I was at my friend Anna's apartment, two guys from her apartment complex came to say hello. Turns out they had both served missions in Taipei, Taiwan! It was such a blessing to be able to talk to them, resolve some of my fears about going, etc. Anyway, when they were talking to me, they said: "I know you're going to be a great missionary. It seems to me like you're a Taitung sister." When I asked them what Taitung was, they both got these blissful expressions and said: "Taitung is the best area in the mission. It's the farthest place away from the mission home, so it means that the mission president really trusts you. And it's not really like a city - it's really rural, and the people are AWESOME there. And you seem like Taitung material." Well, I thought that sounded awesome. Another experience: I was at the MTC and we were teaching some volunteers. One of them had served in the Taipei mission, and she was in Taitung for a YEAR. I told her that I had heard about it, and she said, "I hope you're lucky enough to go! It's the best place in the world." Plus my companion that I have right now had been there for nine months. Basically what I'm trying to say is I already have a history with this place, and I feel lucky to go there! I feel especially blessed to have served both in Hualien and in Taitung - the only other sister I know that's been lucky enough to do that is Sister Wu. Wow!

 

Still, I WILL miss Hualien. Dad, if you DO come out to pick me up, we're going to Taroko Gorge together, okay? I've wanted to go since the MTC and bugged my companion about it every single week (Mom, I'm reminded of your mission journal entry...), but it never happened. I warned her that if I got transferred then I would haunt her for the rest of her life. After I found out that I was moving she promised personally to drive me there after my mission so we could go together, haha.

 

I also will miss the people - I've been so amazed and so grateful for the friendships I've made here, even though I can't speak the language! Lu Jiemei's kids actually moved up their baptismal dates to THIS THURSDAY (YES!), so I got to stay with them with Lu Jiemei as my exchange companion during their baptismal interviews while Wu Jiemei and Hualien's new sister, Mao Jiemei (the Kaiping guy on Mormon.org's daughter!), went out to teach some people. It was a really sweet experience to be able to talk to Lu Jiemei for like an hour about her life and how it's changed since she's had the Gospel. I honestly felt like it was a miracle that we could love each other like that and really care for the other's well being so much when we can't really communicate very well at all. :) But it's true! I guess that can be my miracle of the week - Wu Yi Xuan and Wu Yu Ze's (Lu Jiemei's kids) baptisms, and getting to talk to Lu Jiemei for so long (normally we can't meet with members longer than 5 minutes unless we're having dinner with them).

 

Contacting stories - well, I saw an African American man from California who speaks flawless Chinese last week. THAT is definitely an anomaly. His name was Dr. Willis, and he's actually here in Taiwan to help with this world religion that he's a part of. I'm ashamed to admit that I really can't remember what religion it was - I had never heard of it before. He agreed to meet with us, but he cautioned us that if we met with him and shared what we believed, he would also share what HE believed for part of the visit as well. I was up for it, but my companion wasn't too sure... So we'll see what happens with that. :) We also got to go up to Taipei this week (twice, plus going to Taitung, plus I've needed to buy some tickets for others, which is why the bill on my Visa is randomly so high, Mom. Sorry about that! But I'm getting reimbursed by everyone this week, so don't worry) for a trainee meeting! I'm a new missionary for my first 12 weeks, so I'm a "trainee." So at this meeting, I got to see all of my MTC friends! It was so great to see them. We all swapped stories about everything - crazy people we've met, crazy traffic incidents, crazy dogs chasing us (in my case), etc. A personal favorite of mine was from Sister Christensen - as usual, she talked about fashion. :) She was saying that her skirts aren't very bike-friendly, so she needed to get some new ones. Well a member volunteered to get her one for her that was "so fashionable." Turns out that it was this awful purple velour with weird sparkles on it. Poor Sister Christensen had to fake being happy about it - AND when she didn't wear it to church last Sunday, the member was like, "Why aren't you wearing that adorable skirt that I bought you?" So she had to wear it yesterday. :) I'm smiling just thinking about it!

 

It was awesome to find out that everyone at the meeting was going through a lot of the things that I was going through as a new missionary. It was also good to find out that my language skills aren't that bad for a new missionary! But then I was punished for comparing myself to others - Sister Mao has been with us the past couple of days, and it's been super-depressing at times to see how easily she's able to do things (like chatting with the members) that are practically impossible for me to do at times (since my language capabilities are about 99% church-related). I really needed to pray and remind myself that even though it SEEMS like it would be way easier/more productive if I had gone to an English-speaking country instead of Taiwan, this is where I'm supposed to be. And I've gotten confirmations of that over and over again - Heavenly Father's so good to me. :)

 

Well, that's about it for this week! I'm loving life, loving being a missionary, and I'm excited to be loving this new area that I'll be going to today. I'll be sure to tell you all about it next week (we'll see if I email around the same time - sorry in advance if I don't!)! I love you all - you're in my prayers.

 

Love,

Sister Winters

 

PS - My new companion is a sister from Hurricaine, Utah - her name is Sister Rosander. She's a vocal performance major at SUU, and we've been on exchanges together - she's super-great, and I'm really excited to work with her.

PPS - In case you didn't see the new church news (I'm almost positive you did), we found out who are new mission president is! His name is President Day, and he and his wife are from the SOUTH (Tennessee and Mississippi, respectively)! YES!

Sister Winters - February 20, 2012 "Where did you buy your shoes?"

Dear family,

 

Hello hello hello from Hualian! It's been an amazing meek of wiracles - I mean an amazing week of miracles. The best one yet, actually! So awesome. This week is the last week of my first transfer (I have 11), so I'm hoping to "go out with a bang" (even though I have a lot more time before I actually "go out" :)). First things first, I got a whole slew of letters this past week - you'd better believe I was one of the happiest people on the planet! Letters from the family, Grandma, Grandpa, Keith (sorry Anna, he won!), a random elder from the MTC who wants me to contact his friend in Taiwan, an MTC friend, Dallin's sister Tiffany (thanks, Tiff!), Sister Bortchard, and the entire Peachtree Corners Ward. Thank you thank you thank you for the letters! I woke up early this morning (and I mean EARLY) so that I could read them - I felt like a little kid on Christmas. :) And for those of you who have emailed me and are feeling left out, I love the emails that I get on Mondays. Thank you for thinking of me and for praying for me! Today I have a little more time (hopefully) to write/start writing you back. The only problem is that I've currently misplaced my handy dandy little 3x5 card with all of your addresses on it. I'll update you all next week if I can't find it still after spring cleaning today.

 

Aunt Bev, thank you for your response to my last email! I was a little worried it was kind of lousy, but I'm glad that my small description of missionary work made sense. There were some really funny contacting moments this week (as usual) that I wanted to share. First, I was riding my bike on the street and started talking to someone at a stop light. They weren't interested and left, but I noticed out of the corner of my eye that there was this husband and wife on a scooter that had pulled over from the main road and were inching toward me. I turned around and faced them with a big smile on my face, thinking that they were people whom the Lord had prepared and put in my path to preach the Gospel to. Well, the lady said something I didn't understand, so I asked her to repeat it. She gestured toward my feet and spoke again, but still nothing was making sense. Finally, the third time I got it - "where did you buy your shoes?" I was so confused, and looked at her again with a face that said I-have-no-idea-why-youre-asking-me-this-right-now. Then she said, "Your feet are so big! But you were able to find shoes that were big enough! WHERE DID YOU BUY YOUR SHOES?" Then she pointed to her feet, which, bless her heart, were as big as mine. I tried to explain that I had gotten them in America, that I was new here. She was extremely disappointed, to say the least, and then they pulled away. So much for prepared people. :) Also, it seems like I'm making my mark here in Hualian. I came out of the church building onto the street to start talking to people. I knocked on the window of the first car I saw. Well, this lady rolled down her window and said, "I've already talked to the missionaries, you don't have to talk to me! I have Wei Jiemei's number!" I said, "What?" Then the lady pulled out a tract (a pamphlet that we give out to like everyone we see) from her glove compartment and said, "Wei Jiemei gave me this, so you don't need to talk to me." I said, "I'M Wei Jiemei!" And then she looked at me again closely and said, "What? Oh, you are! Well, you already gave me this. So you don't need to talk to me again. I'll call you if I have time." Then she pulled away. So that lady didn't seem too excited about the gospel, but hey, if I'm already getting "repeats" after 5 weeks here, then the odds are that I'll find the people that I need to find while I'm here! Last one: There was this family that we saw while we were contacting. The dad walked really fast ahead of his wife and daughter, so biked ahead to go up and talk to him. My companion went for the daughter and wife. The dad told me that he was busy, but that I should go talk to his family, which I took as an awesome sign. My companion was still talking to them when I got to her, which was an even better sign. Well I got there and the daughter has a big smile on her face and says, "I believe in Jesus too!" Then she hands me a pamphlet with a bunch of flames on the cover. The title was in Chinese, but I was pretty sure what it meant, and I looked up to my companion, who confirmed my thoughts. "She's a Jehovah's Witness." Well, the situation was just so funny that it was hard for me not to laugh. We were both trying to kindly tell the other that our religion could bring them closer to God, bring them more happiness, etc. We even traded pamphlets at the end before we left that we encouraged the other person to read, but I don't think any of us were convinced that the other person was right. It was so weird to be on the other end of having missionaries talk to you, too - we clearly weren't interested but she pressed on anyway (something we have to do every day). Kudos to her!

 

In case you all haven't noticed, I've been kind of spastic in my emails. It's often just "word vomit" - I share whatever I think would be funny or interesting without any real pattern or anything. It'll still probably be like that a lot from now on, but I want to include three concrete parts in every email so you can at least know what to expect (sort of): contacting/proselyting stories, a spiritual thought, and miracle(s) of the week. I've already done my contacting stories, I'll save the spiritual thought for the end, so here's my miracle of the week! Actually, I see miracles every day, so I kind of have to narrow it down. I'll share a couple of them today. We had zone conference this past week, which was great. We talked about loving and finding people, and how to be better at that. I realized that I needed to rely on the Spirit a lot more when I contact, but I honestly didn't know how to do that very well (and I still don't). My companion invited me to try and set goals to actually TEACH people on the street when I talk to them - normally I'll chat, teach a gospel truth, and then get there phone number and hope that I'll see them again. My companion, however, encouraged me to actually teach them a lesson (where we actually say an opening and closing prayer, teach a principle, extend a commitment) on the street. AND rely on the Spirit to do it. No big deal. Well, I prayed. A lot. I always pray a lot, but I prayed specifically for this. And guess what happened? A miracle. I was talking to this lady on the street and I saw this girl on her bike out of the corner of my eye. I kept talking to the lady but there was a feeling that was like, "she's not interested. Talk to the girl." So I quickly ended the conversation, got on my bike, and raced to catch up to the girl. Well, I talked to her, started fumbling about prayer, and then actually ended up teaching her right then and there on the street! It was a miracle. The Lord gives specific answers to specific prayers! Another example of this principle: well on Saturday we were having a "chapel tour hour," where we invited members to bring their friends and we'd give them a tour of the chapel so they could feel the Spirit, maybe teach them a lesson, and have them set up with us. Well, Saturday came, and nobody showed up. So we prayed. We prayed that we'd find someone who happened to have nothing to do on a Saturday who could come to the chapel so we could give a tour. And guess what? After about 20 minutes of trying, Sister Wu found a girl who really had nothing to do and was perfectly willing to come on a tour of the chapel. And she loved it. And she's meeting with us later this week. Hooray for miracles!

 

As far as how my investigators are doing - they're doing pretty darn great. We think that we'll have about five or six baptisms on March 31 (happy birthday, Dad and Rachel!), which we're SUPER excited about (and that's when Lu Jiemei's kids will be baptized, Mom. Along with her nieces and probably her sister as well - she's such a good missionary!). It's most likely that I'll stay here in Hualian next transfer because I'm new and I've only been here for one, but there's still the possibility that I could leave. I really really really hope that I can stay! And not just for the baptisms, although that'd be great. :) There was one baptism that we had scheduled for this week that won't happen - bummer. She didn't come to church on Sunday, and she needs to go three times before she can be baptized (she's only been twice). BUT, this leads me to my spiritual thought for the week. In 2 Nephi 2:2 it says that the Lord will consecrate our afflictions for our gain. Let's just say that I've thought about that promise a few times already thus far on the mission. :) Well, yesterday we were pretty disappointed that Lin Jiemei didn't come to church and that she can't be baptized on Saturday, so we went over to her house to talk to her about it. Turns out she wasn't there. Bummer again! But guess what? Her husband was, and we were able to talk to him about his feelings about us, the Church, how his wife's changed since she met with us, etc. It was awesome! He's really noticed some obvious changes in her, and although he personally wasn't very interested at the get-go, he's interested now, and he told us that he really wants to come to church sometime soon. The Lord DOES consecrate our afflictions for our gain! It's true!

 

So just so you all know, I know that this message that I share with people every day is true. I love it, and there are so many times every day where I'm just so happy because of it! I haven't been out here for very long, but I've seen the Gospel change lives - I know that it's the path that God wants us to follow. I love you all, and I'm praying for you! Thanks for your continued love and support.

 

Love,

Sister Winters

Sister Winters - February 12, 2012 The ins and outs of missionary work

Hello hello hello from Taiwan! Happy Valentine's week, everyone. I'm sending as much love as I can from the opposite side of the world through this email! This week's been great - we had our first baptismal service this week! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! It was so awesome; I couldn't stop smiling. I played violin with my companion (she sang) and performed "Come Thou Fount" - I think everyone loved it, especially Lu Jiemei (the person who got baptized), which was great.

 

Okay! I've only got about fifteen minutes to write this, so I've got to be fast. So the audience of this email list is a mix of people of different faiths and different religious beliefs - I love that, and I have to apologize to some members of that audience. Most of the emails have been focused more on a Mormon audience, so this week's email is going to explain a lot of the terms that I use weekly and talk a little bit about what it is I acutally do as a missionary. Mormons - the stuff I'll talk about is unique to Taiwan in a lot of respects, so hopefully you'll be interested too. :)

 

- I serve with a district, or six missionaries who cover a couple different areas. In this case it's Hualian and Jian, two different townships of the same city (hualian). I actually see the elders (the guy missionaries) pretty much every day, since we teach our lessons at the chapel most of the time.

- Lessons - what is it that we actually teach? The gospel of Jesus Christ - faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. Our purpose is to help people come unto Christ by helping them receive the gospel, which includes all of these elements. This is why I'm always talking about baptism - we can have faith on our own, and we can repent on our own, but we cannot be baptized on our own. We need baptism by someone holding the proper priesthood authority of God in order to make it back to God's presence after this life, which is our goal. So, this is why my companion and I commit people to be baptized on a certain date the FIRST time we meet with them. It's a little scary, but I know that baptism really is so important! However, a lot of people lose interest and fall away, even if they commit to be baptized. So missionary work is all about committing everyone and helping as much as you can to help the investigators keep their commitments (pray, read the scriptures, go to church, keep the commandmens) to help them reach their baptism goals.

- Investigators - who are they? "Investigators" is the word for people who are interested in the Church, so the people that we teach. We have a lot of investigators, which is great. But like I mentioned earlier, they all progress at different levels. I pray for my investigators every day so that I can know how to best help them come unto Christ.

- Contacting. So when I'm not teaching, what is it that I'm doing, exactly? Contacting! I'm talking to everyone I can about the Gospel, and hoping that I can teach some people and commit them to be baptized, right on the street if necessary. All missions and all missionaries do contacting differently - in Taiwan, the most effective way is normally when you're on the street going some place. We'll pull over to the side of the road if we se someone walking and tlak to them, or we'll knock on car windows at stoplights, ask them to pull over, and then talk to them. We always teach them something, and then always invite them to do something (whether it's pray every day or even just giving us their phone number). There are always funny experiences with contacting; this past week's best one was probably when we were on the train to Taitung (we had a companion exchange, where we went to a different place to see how different people do missionary work). I was trying to teach the girl across the aisle about the gospel, but whenever I would try and say something to her, her boyfriend who was sitting next to her would choose that exact moment to be extremely affectionate with her. It was, as the Chinese would say, very "ganga" (awkward).

 

Spiritual thought - I forgot my scripture reference, but I want to say that it's Alma 8:5 where an angel tells Alma (a prophet) that he has "great cause to rejoice." The people here often say "xinku ni," which basically means "it stinks to be you." But you know what? I'm so incredibly happy every day - even when bad things happen! And I know that that honestly wouldn't be possible if I didn't know with all of my heart that this message is true. God lives. Jesus is His Son, and is Our Savior. I know that this is true, and I love telling people about it!

 

Alright, that's it for now. I love you all,

Sister Winters

Sister Winters - February 5, 2012 Sleeeeeeeep in Heeeeaaaavenly Peeeeeeee-eeeace!

Dear family and friends,

 

Good morning to me and good evening to you! It's been a wonderful week for me; I hope it's been the same for all of you. :) Thank you for all of the fantastic emails that you sent me! They were great. And THANK YOU FOR THE PACKAGE AND LETTERS!!!!!!!!! They came last Friday, and I felt like I was the happiest person in the world at that moment. :) Please tell Sister Claunch that the chocolate covered potato chips were the BEST - I had completely forgotten that those existed, and how delicious they were. I also got the letters sent from the first week as well as Sarah's letter and pictures. I think they send the mail down here once every two weeks, so it's kind of hit and miss. But anyway, I can't open any letters until P-day, so you'd better believe that I got up at 5 Am this morning and read them. :) Thank you! Please keep sending them occasionally if you want - they're wonderful.

 

To all of my music friends at BYU, have fun at UMEA this week (or I hope you had fun if you already went)! And if you go to the St. George temple while you're there and see a Sister Warnock or a Sister Chase, tell them Sister Winters says hi. :) I think I'm feeling a little guilty about how little time I'm devoting to violin here - I had a dream that I made it into the concerto competition but my companion scheduled a teaching appointment at the same time as the performance so I couldn't go. Plus I was feeling super-underprepared with my practicing, hahaha.

 

So, today has had some more fun contacting moments. I stepped it up from the garbage truck and contacted a cement truck this time! I actually had to climb up so I could talk to him through the window - it was pretty much the most fun thing ever. :) I also saw this band in the back of a truck playing music, and I was so excited that I shouted, "Jiayou!" or "Yeah, keep going!" Well, my companion turned around and asked me if I was talking to the band when I said that. I replied in the affirmative - turns out that the people playing music were playing for a FUNERAL PROCESSION. I couldn't stop laughing! So Mom, to answer your question about music here - it's good, I like Chinese music, but sometimes I can't tell what mood it's trying to convey. :) Actually, they often play American music. Right now they're playing dirty rap music and I'm trying really hard just to concentrate on this email - woof.

 

Okay, so I have another service experience to share. If I ever get in a terrible car accident on the mission and have to be hospitalized, I want to go to the hospital where we do service. The reason being it seems like they have a party every single week! We went a couple of weeks ago and it was a New Year's celebration - this past week it was a birthday party. Well we sang a couple of hymns which was fun and then talked to them - it was great. They really like karaoke there - it was playing the whole two hours we were there. There was this one guy that I LOVED that would always go up and sing. The first one he did was "Silent Night," which was a little interesting. I think my favorite part about it was that he would slide into the notes of "Peee-eeeaaaacccceee" and he was really LOUD. Then he'd finish, get a half-hearted round of applause, say "Thank you!" and then sing another one. :) The movie background for the karaoke was really weird, too - they had a bunch of boats and stuff for Silent Night and then when I looked up later there were a couple of kangaroos fighting and stuff. Of course, the song might have been about fighting kangaroos, but I personally doubt it. There was also this one guy whose name was Joe who kept saying "you're beautiful - I love you." My companion laughed and said: "I think it's funny that that's all the English that he knows," but I corrected her and said that he actually knew a lot more; he was just choosing to say those words because he meant it... Not likely. :)

 

My looks continue to be a shock to all of Taiwan, though. A car actually stopped on the road as he was passing by to get a better look. I tried to convince myself that it was because of my stunning good looks - it almost worked until I caught sight of my sopping wet reflection in the window of another car. :) Oh, and I've decided my eyes are too big for this country - I got bug number two stuck in there last week, and I've only been here for three weeks! A church member told me it was because my eyes were a different color and the bugs think that my green eyes are actually trees - I've definitely never heard that one before! I'm actually surprised I haven't swallowed any bugs yet, considering how most of my time on my bike is divided between singing and talking to people... I guess it just goes to show you that there always room for improvement!

 

I don't know if I've told you all this yet, but we give free English class every Wednesday - I teach the advanced class, which is super-fun because it means I can speak English at my normal breathless speed and call it "good practice." :) This past week we played some word games, including the spelling game (shout-out to Jerusalem people who played that!), Hig Pig (a little too complex for them), and "secret" (I think that's what it's called? Again, another Jerusalem bus ride game :)). I always have a lot of interesting people who come, but I think this past week was an all-time record. We have this lady who usually comes named "Su," who asks a TON of questions and is really long-winded. :) Well this week she read the English comics and came back with a whole load o' questions about some of the words, including "Oogah Boogah!" Apparently someone was doing magic and said that phrase - she asked if she said "Oogah Boogah!" in the States if people would naturally know what she was talking about - it was hard not to laugh. Anyway, we also had a newcomer - the Elders' investigator - whose name is Chen. Well, I think he takes down big-time criminals for his job. Like, corrupt government officials and stuff. He has like 5 different names (including an Arabic one in case he's ever sent to the Middle East), probably for different identities that he has for his job. Actually his name isn't even Chen - I don't want to put his real one in this email in case some underground thug sees it and uses it to come find me. Or, even worse, if Chen finds out and then comes after me. Actually, he's really, really nice - I talked about the Spirit and feeling God's love for the spiritual thought afterwards and he had a lot of great insights.

 

Okay, I'm saving the best news for last in this one. There have been so many MIRACLES this week! There's this investigator we've had who's been coming to church a few times. She's had a baptism date, but we commit them to be baptized on the first visit normally, so that doesn't really mean anything sometimes. Well, she REALLY wants to be baptized on her date (the 25th) and get ready for that! I was SO SO SO happy. Even greater miracle - there's this family we've been teaching whose baptismal dates are for this Saturday. The only thing is that they're a little reluctant to get baptized, since they feel like they haven't gotten a "definite" answer (they have, just haven't learned to recognize it), they're nervous, etc. So we were planning last week for this week, and I asked my companion if we should plan on them getting baptized. She said no because of their attitude about baptism. Well, we were meeting with the mom's niece last week and the whole family (the Lu family) came too. We committed the niece to be baptized, and then asked the Lu family about their baptism date. Well, Sister Lu asked about her baptism interview and wants to have it this week!!!!!! So if everything goes well with the interview tonight, I'll be having my first baptism this Saturday. :) I'm so happy, and I really can't wait! I'll be playing violin for the service. :) The family won't be baptized together - the kids want to be baptized March 31 with their cousin - but I think that the mom will be setting an awesome example for the rest of her family.

 

Okay, that's it for this week. I'm really happy - I feel so blessed to be here. I was riding my bike to a less-active member's house last week and we were riding past rice fields and mountains and I could see the stars and the moon for the first time since being here and I just thought, "Wow, God must love me a LOT to send me here!" It's so true. Remember that I'm praying for you all, and have a great week.

 

Love,

Sister Winters

 

Aunt Bev - I loved your letter! Thank you for your spiritual thought. I'll try and apply that even more in my missionary service. Thank you!