All Good Things (and pics!)

Okay. Time is limited because we switched P-day to tomorrow because we're going to the temple (first time since the MTC, I'm so excited...can't even describe it. But I digress.) but when that happens, you still write home on Monday. Time has gotten the better of us and we're running late, don't have a ton of time to actually write things. Maybe I'll attach pictures or something like a put-together sister missionary.

We have a new ward mission leader and I'm really going to miss our old one. I'm convinced that if I were a sixty-something year old man, I would be Brother Stewart. Hard to explain. But he and I get along. We don't know Brother Savard as well but I'm sure he'll be great! But here's Brother Stewart and his wife...

We've spent more time than usual with people who have mental illnesses the last couple of days and I've been thinking a lot about the resurrection. I'm stoked. It's an amazing thing to look at someone and know that the way they are right now isn't really....them. Even not having seen them any differently, I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for every single one of his children. More and more, I think that maybe the people who seem the most as if God has forgotten them are the people for whom he cares most attentively. That isn't doctrine or anything, that's just Sister Lonas saying things.

I finished  Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmadge  this morning -- wow. I don't want to spoil anything buuuuuuuut it was amazing and all of you should read it.

Yesterday was a day of miracles and I have a stronger testimony than ever that Heavenly Father places us where we need to be according to our efforts to follow His will and follow Christ's example. I don't have time to go into detail now but maybe one day I'll tell y'all about Jean.

I love being a missionary. I love learning more and more how to a representative of Jesus Christ in more than the literal wearing of his name (I still have a lot to work on). I love Chapel Hill and the people in this area, I love Sister Johnston, and more than anything else I love my Savior.

And I love YOU.
Souvenez-vous qui vous êtes

Sister Lonas

It was Sister Torres'birthday, my MTC companion!