Ohana means Family

March 19, 2014

Good aye,

Oh my gosh I totes had this long email written for you and it just

deleted it all !! So mad. Haha. So I guess I'll try and collect my

thoughts again. Mom that is awesome. I would love to be out in the

cabins in the cold snow. I totally would die to go camping right now.

That's the first thing I want to do when I get home is go camping 

I totally miss four wheeling and camping but not as much as I miss Utah but not

as much as I miss my family but not as much as I miss my mommy. :) I

miss her very much. It's kinda like all I

have learned. I'm still way horrible at lessons and things like that.

It's tuff being good and teaching others. All I have is a testimony.

This past week has been pretty fun. Went on 2 exchanges. So I was in

charge because they came to Eugene. And I just decided to have fun and

laugh.

So me and Elder S, who is a nerdier version of me, talked

about Age of Empires for seriously 4 hours. No lie. It's was so fun

tho. He's kinda goofy. But it was fun. Finally fun on my mission.

Everyone is always so serious and stressed out and I'm like woah

brother calm down this is supposed to be fun. Hehehe :) I love you

mom.

What a beautiful week it has been. It hasn't rained in about a week

and a half here in Eugene. It's been so sunny and warm and all the

flowers bloomed. Everything is so extremely beautiful. All the birds

are chirping and cawing. You can hear the many dogs barkin in the

distance. The days are lasting longer. The sunrises are getting

gorgeous. Opportunities for service are arising. This is a beautiful

time of year here. And I think about its relation with General

Conference. And this is exactly how our spiritual renewing is during

the conference months. I feel like a little kid waiting on Christmas.

Such excitement. Such joy. We have made arrangements with a less

active family to go over Sunday morning and make a breakfast casserole

for them and watch it with them. So excited ! We are also working on

getting our investigators to go. Hopefully it'll all work out and

someone will be inclined to get baptized. Our ward hasn't had a

baptism in 8 months. We're really putting in some work.

I had to give a talk yesterday. Our congregation was about the size of

the attendance of turtle races in Canada. So I was privileged to speak

as a youth speaker. Ha.  Out here on a mission

it's more of just testimony and experiences. My talk was on 3 Nephi

12:14-16. And condensing it down to just 5 minutes was hard. And my

thoughts were all over the place. At least I knew Sis A liked

it, she told me when we walked into Relief Society to give them our dinner

calendar. Ha! Old people in this ward are awesome. Always so willing

to help us out. Our investigators are slowly moving along. It's hard

because you have to explain every little detail. We were reading where

Nephi chops of the head of Laban with B. and he was freakin out

sayin it was murder in the name of God, until we told him the Laban

was a wicked king. Ha everything here is questioned. As it should be.

But in all honesty it is through the Book of Mormon we gain a testimony

of the entire church. Anywho it's been a decent week. The trick is to

have fun and laugh a lot. Makes the work easier.

Now as for my family, I miss y'all. Especially my brothers,  my

sister,  my mom, and dad. Ha. Totally miss y'all. I imagined all of

you sitting in the audience while I was giving my talk. Cried a little

bit while sharing my testimony because I could see my mommy crying and

my brothers makin silly faces, my dad with a grin on his face givin me

a thumbs up. And my sister sayin good job BeeDee at the end. Ah I

would do anything to see y'all right now. I'm so glad that we have the

opportunity to be an eternal family. And to hang out in the Celestial

Kingdom with all of us together, with our families. I hope all is

well. My words are short, and not so good but with you I leave Alma

7:26-27. Mostly verse 27 but I wanna sound cool so we will throw in 26

as well. Read it I dare you hehehe :) it's on page 226. I love you

Megan, I love you mommy, I love you daddy, I love you Ryley, I love

you Connor, I love you grandpa Workman, I love you grandma Workman, I

love you grandma Carol, and I love the rest of my family out there..

OHANA.:) kisses 😘

GRIZZ 👻

Alma 7:26-27  “And now my beloved brethren, I have spoken these words unto you according to the Spirit which testifieth in me; and my soul doth exceedingly rejoice, because of the exceeding diligence and heed which ye have given unto my word.

And now, may the peace of God rest upon you, and upon your houses and lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and all that you possess, your women and your children, according to your faith and good works, from this time forth and forever. And thus I have spoken. Amen.”