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YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAY STERLING, CONGRATS ON YOUR MISSION CALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MADRID, SPAIN!!!!! What, that's awesome!!!!!!!! (Mom please forward this to Sterling or Aunt Margo so she can forward the following information.) One of the most amazing spiritual giants I know is serving in that mission!!! Look for a Hermana Chrisy Grover! She's maybe a little shorter than I am and has really long, awesome brown hair. she was one of my friends at BYU! AHHHHH SPAIN!!!!! take loads of pictures for me (: THAT IS SO AWESOME!!! I'm sure you've already become fluent in spanish from high school and since opening your call, but if you haven't already, use those 5 months to learn the language! Mitch can help you (:

WHAT LEXIE IS ENGAGED???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I can't even remember what else your email said. HOLY COW WHAT I'M HONESTLY HAVING A SMALL HEART ATTACK. She's the 3rd of my friends to get engaged in 4 months. SEND ME PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sent her an email (through tyler cause I thought I already had hers but I left it at my apartment) BUT I'M STILL FREAKING OUT. tell her to wait until march (: but actually. WHAT SHE'S GETTING MARRIED. SHE'S MY LITTLE SISTER. I think she owes Kirsten a chocolate when we made bets in young womens. and me! wooo! and caitlin!! hahah #missionaries

Okay so this week was actually so incredible. Satake san (our 88 year old) IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she set the date-- March 16th. That is going to be the best birthday of my ENTIRE EXISTENCE. This woman!!!!! and she'll be spiritually reborn!!! that's going to be the best day ever!!!!!! So on saturday we had a joint lesson with the branch president and another member (also an older lady I can't understand very well) and it was pretty crowded.  haha but kaicho insisted that we bring her so that they could pick us up in the car.

either way, we were following up and eating mikans and talking about baptism and then her friend, also named satake san, comes in and joins us. YES. so after building some relationship and listening to the 3 older women talk about their poor hearing and their knee pains and wishing them well,  I whip out my simple 30 second statements on Jesus Christ that I've been polishing as I've been focusing on the life of the Savior and I shared them. BAM THE SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG. And Pipers shimai shared her heartfelt on Christ and we talked about how only through Jesus Christ we can have live in a state of never-ending happiness with God and our families again after we die and it was so awesome and then Kaicho offered to give both of our Satake sans priesthood blessings to help them recover from their ailments and after our Satake san's blessing the other Satake san had tears streaming down her face and after some nudging from our Satake san she also received a priesthood blessing. AND SHE WAS SO GRATEFUL AND WE INVITED HER TO CHURCH but she didn't end up coming, but we'Re going to visit her this week!!!! wooooooooo!!

it was a great lesson.

also, on Friday we had Elder Whiting of the quorum of the 70 visit Kobe and we had a mission conference and he was amazing and powerful and the spirit was so strong and I'm so pumped for General Conference next month and he's so inspired. Also, kaicho gave me the opportunity, along with 9 other missionaries, to have interviews with him which was way awesome! The interview was pretty simple, but even for that short period of time I felt the spirit so strongly. He loves sister missionaries. Also when we closed he prayed for me and literally asked for every blessing to be bestowed upon me. I can't even describe to you how that feels. At the very end he asked me for advice to the MTC missionaries as he will be speaking to them soon and after I answered he high-fived me. It was the best high five I have ever received in my whole life.

i have to go but this week I had gross stuff and natto which is also gross. hahha

 i love you all!!!

 you're always in my prayers <3

meg