Hey Y'all!

November 1, 2012

Dear Family,

Sorry if I scared you by not sending you an e-mail. I got your package! Thank you so much! Sister Sheffer and I loved all the stickers and toys and treats! And thank you for the post cards and the key chain! I love them!

I don't know if I told you, but I tried alligator a couple weeks ago. It just tastes like chicken. However, mentally it was still a little hard to eat. Alligator? Gross! It really was just like chicken only a little bit more chewy.

Speaking of hymns, there was a baptism for these cute little 9 year old twin boys this week. The elders in my area taught them. The night before the baptism they texted Sister Sheffer and I and asked if I would give a double talk on Baptism and the Holy Ghost. I talk about them all the time. But normally to older people, so I needed to change it so they could understand and so I could keep their attention. (I wanted to blindfold them and assign someone to be their Holy Ghost to lead them around the room, while other people were telling them the wrong way to go and leading them into chairs and such. But I decided that might be going a little over the top for a baptism talk...) I am also used to teaching two and maybe three people at the most. Now I was standing in front of a room of people. It was a little nerve racking. I thought, it's okay. I can just go over my talk during the hymns. Well, we got there and my name was on the program for the pianist. It all worked out though. We sang, Come Follow Me, which is what I based my talk off of. Plus, I played both hands for most of the song! (I told the Elders that I can play the right hand of any song in the hymn book, but there are only a few songs that I can play both hands -especially when it is on the spot. -And I know you are thinking that that song is super easy. And it is. But I never get to practice. Plus, I'm just not great at playing the piano...)

The primary program is in the next couple weeks for my ward and I will think of you. :)
I am learning how to be more on time with Sister Sheffer... Which means that it is time to go. But that just means that you will get another hand written letter this week. :) I love you all!