Let's be real, I feel like I'm the boring emailer! I'm like uhhhhhh what did I even do this week that they would find interesting? I honestly just love hearing from you, so I think every single one of your emails are awesome! :) Plus, your week sounded crazy cool!
Isn't the Primary program just the cutest thing ever?! I loved it here too, we had that last week I think. It sounds like the heft of the Primary in Blaine is made up of girls! Here we have mostly boys. It's funny talking to the Primary President, we had lunch with their family yesterday and she said the Primary just likes to sing the loud stomping songs like Book of Mormon stories and follow the prophet! It's true, our program was made up of some good boy shout-singing! P.S. our Primary president kind of reminds me of you! She only has 3 boys though. But yesterday she walked past the entryway and squeaked and got giddy for a second and said "Oooh girl shoes! Those are so cute! It's so nice to see girl shoes here!!" It was so funny. I imagine that's how you were for a good portion of raising the boys.
Those little Lehman babies are ADORABLE! And funny, like what baby doesn't like wearing a coat haha?! The babies here look like their in eskimo parkas and it's only the anfang of Oktober! Anyway, it's good to hear that they are doing well. Do they know that their last name is German? They most definitely have German ancestry. "Lehmann" is an older word notused much anymore, and it means sledgehammer! Thats quite the powerful last name :D
I am also excited to see Nash! He needs to hold a little sign saying "I've been waiting my whole life to meet you!" nah I kid I kid, but crazy to think I haven't met him yet and he is already so big. I don't have baby fever but I totally just want to hold a baby... So I'm excited! I'll pass on cuddling the cat though, I've been scratched by too many evil cats here..!
That would be hard to not see Grandma very often, but I'm glad that you got to spend some time together on Wednesday night. You really are doing a good thing, even if it's hard. I'm so thankful that you support Sara and take care of each other, I think that she would do the same thing for you. That's what its all about! Isn't this so much nicer, being really close with the family rather than being far away or being distant from each other? I love that our family comes together! Family over everything!
I can't believe you were in a tshirt and shorts though haha!
Woohoo go you for cleaning the house and organizing! It really does feel good afterward. A house of order really does have the spirit in it. I mean, it takes all of an hour for me to organize my things and have a fresh new apartment but it's similar! It's super satisfying to have everything I own fit in 3 suitcases. Germans do it right and live very simply and don't have a lot of unnecessary things.
Front row tickets to a Twins game?!?! Free hats and food?! Talk about best double date ever! You two go on lots of fun double dates, I'm glad you take the time to enjoy yourselves! Those were super cute pictures you sent, I want to steal that beanie! :D
You asked me quite a few questions about things going on in between me getting home and going out to school. My brain hasn't really planned that far and is good with anything. As long as we do things and keep busy because I don't know how to handle myself otherwise! Do children act at the Children's theater or is it a theater for children? [We are going to see ELF at the Ordway Theater when she comes home! MOM] I think that would be really fun, I'm up for going to things and just spending time together! I'm not sure I want to work at the temple though. I want to go often, hopefully every week, but I think if I were to work at the temple I'd want to do it in Utah. I don't have a lot of time with you all, and a flexible schedule would be nice. It sounds really nice though, thank you for being willing to check!
Okay, top 3 hymns. I'm assuming probably English. I couldn't pick so you can decide!
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Press Forward, Saints
Savior Redeemer of my Soul
Where Can I Turn for Peace?
Abide with Me; Tis Eventide
My favorite song is Hark, all Ye Nations!
And this song is crazy fun to sing! Do you know it?! Not my favorite but I think its fun.
Master the Tempest is Raging
Maddie did get back to me, and said she is planning on moving as well so she will look for us and would love to be roommates! Woohooo! I'm super stoked. I just responded and told her to message you on Facebook if she finds anything soon. Hey, if I live in a box, I am not homeless! "no matter what, no matter where, its always home if love is there!"
Sorry I forgot a title for my group email again haha! I've written so many of those things... Maybe you could title this one something about Divine Choreography or Gods plan. Idk my brain is so tired today.
Sister Barker approves of the October calendar, that's hilarious. I would please like to take my contributions to October 16th off though :D
That's really beautiful what you wrote, Mom. I mean that what you wrote about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Thank you for taking the time to write your testimony. I'm so thankful for you! You are a wonderful example to me of great faith. You are just able to keep going and trusting and fighting and loving even when it gets hard. I can see that you are humble and willing to lean on the Savior for extra support. He does carry you, and He does it lovingly.
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is something we often misunderstand. I've felt forgiveness before, but I didn't completely understand how that happened. I've prayerfully studied that for months and I've come to know that, yes, there is way more to it that I just can't understand right now! But it will come. I don't understand exactly how Jesus Christ is the Son of God as well as Mary's son, but I believe and know that it had to happen for him to perform the saving event of the world. I can't even begin to imagine how much pain he felt as he suffered every temptation, pain, sin, sorrow sadness you name it, just to know exactly how we feel.
I found a beautiful scripture this week that built my faith. In 2 Corinthians 8:9 it says,
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor,
that ye through his poverty might be rich.
The spirit told me there was something more to it when I read over it, so I read it again. Then again and again and I finally got it. Jesus Christ was rich as to the things of eternity, He inherited everything that God the Father has. But he wanted us to have that chance too, so he came to the Earth and became poor as to things spiritually, he was tempted, he suffered, he even felt abandoned by the Father as he hung on the cross. Through what He did, we have that chance to come to God.
Jesus Christ is there for us, and always there for you to lean on Mom! He loves you will his whole entire heart!
I love you a million chapati and all types of Kenyan food! Love, Sister Ingalls Jr.
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