Letter from Mom
March 29, 2015
Hi Darling!
We are on Spring Break so no
school or work this week. We started it off with Callie's Baptism.
It was wonderful. Callie was missing you, but she was SO EXCITED!
When I asked her what it was about baptism that made her so excited, she said,
"To feel clean, and to feel the gospel." When I thought about
how the gospel IS Jesus Christ, I realized how perfect yet simple her answer
was. Isn't that what we all want? To feel clean, and to feel the
love, teachings, and atonement of Jesus Christ?
Dallin gave a talk on
baptism. He did such a great job. He wrote the whole thing himself
and said he wanted you to be a part of it so he told about Amanda and how she
wrote to us saying how you changed her life, and how her baptism was the best
day of her life, and how she can never thank you enough for what you have given
her and her family!
After the baptism, we all went to
Golden Corral (Callie's choice). We took Josh with us, (he took you sky
diving) he has become rather close to our family. He was a witness for
Callie's baptism.
Guess what?? Grandpa and Grandma
Condie put in mission papers! They have a strong feeling they will be
called to Tonga. They were told missionaries are needed there. So we have
three farewells to attend this summer...all in St. George.
Hey Baby, will you PLEASE send
good pictures? I mean, the meat looked yummy and everything but I want to
see YOU! Whatever you want to take pictures of, have your companion take
them so that YOU are in the pictures!
I'm so glad you have a great ward
mission leader and helpful members there. I hope and pray that you find
those souls who are hungry for your message. We invited the missionaries
over to teach Callie lesson 5 like you suggested, but they had to cancel last
minute.
Callie bore her testimony for the
first time today in sacrament meeting. It was sweet. By-the-way, I
need to bear my testimony to you more often. I bore testimony at Callie's
baptism and told each of the kids that I don't ever want them to be in doubt as
to what their mother believes, so I want to testify to you as well, that I know
that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of us all. I am weak by
myself, but with His help, I am strong. I know this is His church. I know
if we follow His example we will obtain true lasting joy! That is what He wants
for all of us, and He sacrificed all that we might have it. Because of
that, we too are expected to sacrifice everything. Even our own will.
I love Him, and want more than anything to please Him!
I am so pleased that you are
sacrificing everything else in your life right now to serve Him. I KNOW
you are where He wants you to be...Serving your fellowman, dedicating every
waking hour to help build the kingdom. I hope you will dedicate your
whole life to building the kingdom, which is His church.
I love you SO MUCH!!! I can't
even express my love for you!
Mom
Jaden letter March 30
This week was good. We did some
service on Saturday in the rain! So I got kinda wet. There was this retaining
wall of allan bricks that we took apart and put them on pallets. We took them
down because last year they fell over because of the snow. It snows and than
melts and freezes and snows and melts and freezes so very slowly, the bricks
were being pushed away.
This was next door to our WMLs house
and the guy is from japan and he’s a chef. He’s competed on Iron Chef America
and won. He was on a show like Iron Chef in Alberta so after we help him he
feeds us this feast! He cooks us these burgers that were so good, probably one
of the best ones that I've had. His wife works with a lot of Mormons and goes
to SLC frequently, and he does not know a lot about religion. So hopefully down
the road we can pick them as investigators. His name is Hayato. He’s a cool guy
and he was very very grateful for our help.
We had our house inspected last week.
It was a follow-up inspection because we failed last time. We got a 6, but it
was not our fault because the last missionaries did not keep the place clean.
So we had the follow up inspection and we got an 8.5! That was really
nice!
We also had to get our oil changed so
went to do that.
This is a really slow area. But we
have like 11 potential investigators, so this week I want to knock on their
doors and either pick them up or keep them as potentials for the next missionaries
that come in.
Transfers are next week which is good
because there is a good chance that I will be able to serve around some
missionaries that I served around before in Trail.
Last week we were able to teach some
lessons to members and that went really good and its good practice for the both
of us.
Some cool things that happened… there
is a less active family-part member family in our ward. The husband is the
member. He has a brother that is serving a mission,. His dad died over a year
ago and he has taken his own path from there. When we first knocked on his door
he said that he does not like to be harassed and does not like to have people
knocking on his door all the time "that just brings us further away from
the church" he says. His wife is not a member and she just had a baby, so
our ward jumped onto this opportunity and they have been bringing her dinners
and she has accepted visiting teachers and she is not even a member! So that is
really cool. This is what is going to bring them to and back to church I
think.
Callie I saw your baptism pictures!
That’s awesome! You’re all grown up. It’s crazy!
Now that you are baptized you have
the gift of the Holy Ghost. Having the gift of the Holy Ghost is one of the
best gifts you can ever get! The Holy Ghost will be your constant guide and He
will help you chose the right and keep you safe. The Holy Ghost does not speak
in loud and tremulous voices, but He speaks in still, small, and quiet voices.
Make sure that you are always are listening and that you are always choosing
the right.
