Mom- THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for making my birthday so good. I don't know how you did it, but you somehow made my birthday the best ever and your like a million miles away. You are the best. The calling of "bishop's wife" was made for you. I can't wait to meet everyone you and Dad get to work with. They sound awesome. Boise sounded like it was a party! I love you, Mom! Thanks again for everything you do for me!! Emily- I'm happy to hear you got your "mashies" on your birthday. I was also happy to hear that I missed out on the car ride home from Boise. I don't even want to imagine the agony Mom and Dad went through. I love you, Em! Keep being so cute. Dad- You are either going to be completely bald or all gray before I get home. Haha, your life is so crazy right now! I miss getting to go on little vacations for those dental meetings. Getting "souvenirs" while shopping in Salt Lake was one of my favorite things ever. I love you, Dad! You're awesome!! :)
Quotes of the week:
1.) "Sister Reddish, we would like to extend a leadership calling to you. We want you to be a sister training leader in Wadsworth." -President Brown I'm not quite sure what to think right now, but there have been countless prayers these last 48 hours that consist of "you sure?" and "please help my fear of President Brown decrease so I don't poop my pants every time I have a meeting with him." Wadsworth is near Akron and I guess I'm going to be over two zones with my new companion, Sister Anderson. This is going to be an adventure, my friends. An awesome, scary adventure.
2.) "Happy Birthday to you. CA-BOING! Happy birthday to you! CA-BOING! Happy late birthday dear, Sister Reddish! CA-BOING! Happy birthday to you! CA-BOING!" -Darrell Let me just try and describe this whole event. So, it was a dark, cold night on November 14th in Bluffton, Ohio. We had set an appointment up with Darrell that morning, and usually he is already sitting on his front porch ready for us to slam him with doctrine. Not this time. Darrell was no where to be seen. We rang his doorbell, and the door started to open really slowly. Like uncomfortably slow. Then his chubby little face pops out and yells "Open the screen door, Sister Reddish!" I did as a said, and he bounced out with a small pumpkin pie with 20 lit candles in it. He then proceeded to sing happy birthday to me (with an occasional "ca-boing") not once, not twice, but THREE times, folks. It was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. I am never going to forget that awkward man. I love Darrell.
3.) "I don't need you to teach me anything--I already know way more than you!" -Victor (potential investigator) Victor is a Russian guy who lives like 10 houses down from ours. After he said this semi-insulting thing to us, I simply asked how is faith has strengthened him and his family. He then said "I don't know what you are saying to me. I don't know Englsih very good." We decided to use this language barrier to our benefit, and somehow we got him to agree to a return appointment. Not quite sure if he knew what he was agreeing to, but two sister missionaries are going to be at his home on Thursday evening. He'll probably be baptized by the end of November if Sister Green and her new companion continue to use the language barrier to their benefit. Just sayin'.
4.) "I hope your parents realize what gems they get to live with when you two get home!" -Barbara. Barbara is an 89 year old lady with SUPER bad dementia, so every time we go over to visit her she says the same 4 things. These include: the story about how they got their "kitty cat", how pretty Sister Green and I am, how her daughter keeps telling her how bad her dementia is getting, and how lucky our families are to have us. She goes through these 4 things at least 3 times every time we visit. The second and the fourth one I could listen to for days; however, the first and third one got pretty old after the ninth time of hearing them. BUT the moral of the story is: I'm a gem, each of you are very lucky to have the opportunity to live with me, and you should be very excited when I grace you with my presence November 2017. 😉
5.) "Because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so." -Elder Holland We talked about being thankful for things in district meeting yesterday. Someone said that cliche quote about how "what if you woke up tomorrow with only the things that you thanked God for the night before?" That got me thinking about the most important things in my life. Jesus Christ's Atonement is number one. Without him, nothing would even matter. We wouldn't be able to live forever as a family, hard times would be infinitely worse, I wouldn't be a missionary, ect. I know He died for us, and I know He lives again. I love Him.
Well, I hope each of you have a great week. I love all of you so, so much. Thanks for everything you do for me. I am so blessed.
Love,
Sister Reddish
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