Sister Brownell outside the visitor center.

Sister Javed and Sister Brownell testing out the fixed wagon wheel they fixed for a lady.

Danielle sent us this little poem that she received from her Mission President.  Also, some pictures she sent to show her smiling personality.

SO PRONE TO MISJUDGE

August 26, 2012

A woman was waiting at an airport one night

There were several long hours to wait for her flight.

She hunted for reading in the airport gift shop

Bought a big bag of cookies, found a place she could drop.

She was engrossed in her book but she happened to see

A man sat beside her as bold as could be

And grabbed up a cookie from the bag in between

She tried to ignore and not make a scene

She munched at her cookies and glanced at the clock

As the masculine cookie thief diminished her stock

She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by

Thinking, if I wasn’t a lady I’d blacken his eye

With each cookie she took he took one or two

With only one left she watched what he’d do

With a grin on his face and a nice nervous laugh

He took the last cookie and broke it in half

He offered her half, as he munched on the other

She snatched it from him and murmured O’brother

This guy has some nerve and he’s also quite rude

He never showed even polite gratitude

She had never known when she’d been quite so galled

She smiled with relief when her flight it was called

She gathered her stuff and marched to the gate

With not even a glance at the thieving ingrate

She boarded the plane and sank in her seat

And sought out her book which was almost complete

As she reached in her bag she gasped with surprise

Her bag of cookies was in front of her eyes

If mine are right here she moaned in despair

The others were his and he was trying to share

Too late to apologize she realized with grief

That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.

Isn't that a wonderful poem :) We all need to make sure we are not judging or being rude no matter where we are! I just love that.

I know that this work is so important. There are a lot of changes that have happened here in the Mission with the new crop of people coming in. I know that we are guided by the Lord in all things we do! I was reading about The brother of Jared in Ether this week. I LOVE HIM! so much faith! One thing I liked is how the Lord guides him to what he needs to do. There is one verse that the Lord asks "What will ye that I should do" (Ether 2:23) I thought about how it is true the Lord guides us, but he also wants us to make sure we go to him with what we want. We need to go to him with desires or solutions and he will help guide us. Once we think what we believe is right or true if we ask in Faith if it is right he will testify to us what is true! The borther of Jared goes back and tells the Lord what he would like to have him do, touch the rocks. The Lord did so because the Faith he had. It is just a beautiful story!