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writing weeklies is rough sometimes but you only get ten more from me || Wasilla, AK

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Hello hello fam+friends. It’s been another crazy busy week of Sister Melton and I running around Wasilla trying to squeeze everything in before the sun sets and then stumbling around lost in the dark looking for addresses in a place that doesn’t believe in putting numbers on their houses ๐Ÿ™ƒ Luckily, Winter Solstice is this week so we will finally start to see the sun a little bit more up in the Great White North ☀️ Let me just tell you, as scary as pinkwash training is, the Lord provides. We have seen blessings on blessings and miracles on miracles - it’s so amazing. Missionary work is hard, don’t get me wrong, but it’s worth it. Missionary work is how God shows His love to His children. All the door slams and the unkept commitments don’t even make a dent in how amazing it feels to help someone feel the Spirit or to share the Book of Mormon with them or to see them dressed in white ready to make covenants with their loving Heavenly Father. It’s. So. Good.

Fun stuff: the Settler’s Bay elders came to dinner with us on Friday (long story) at a family’s house in Wasilla where they always eat ribs when the missionaries come over. The standing record for “most ribs eaten in one sitting” at their house was fourteen. Elder Litchford ate sixteen like a champ then had room for dessert after ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

Only one new sister missionary came out this transfer and she is getting trained over in Lazy Mountain - lucky ducky. On Thursday morning we headed over there with the Colony Sister to decorate their little red barn (#tbt) before she and Sister Lake came back from Anchorage. We covered their desks with confetti and sticky notes and strung streamers and balloons up the stairs. I still have no idea how we managed to smash a trio of sister missionaries in that thing last December but...it was a good time. 

The Young Women’s President invited us to come and speak with the youth on Tuesday night about missions & missionary work and have an open floor discussion with them. It was awesome. They asked questions like, “what’s the worst thing you’ve had to eat” or “can we watch your call video” or “why are you on Facebook now” or “what is the coldest temperature you’ve been in” and things like that. We wrapped it all up with the missionary pep talk of the year about how THE LORD QUALIFIES the called and that your DESIRES qualify you for the work (read Doctrine & Covenants 4 to join the party). Missions are the hardest, bestest, funnest, weirdest adventure ever. 
You won’t regret serving a mission.
Just do it. 

Spiritual stuff: Sister Melton and I have set a goal to read the entire Book of Mormon together by the end of this transfer (which ends at the end of January) and this week we have been studying in Mosiah. Here’s some good stuff for your Monday: Mosiah 27:25 reads, “and the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters; And thus they become new creatures; and unless they do this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.” AMEN AMEN AMEN. Earlier in Mosiah we learn that “the natural man is an enemy to God”. We all have struggles and challenges, that’s just a part of being human. It’s part of His Plan. God knew that we would mess up. But He still [and always] loves us, and that’s why He gave us a Savior, His Only Begotten Son. It’s because of love. Jesus Christ came to their Earth as a perfect example for us and He atoned for each and every one of us - all of our sins, sorrows, everything. He knows. And He knows because He felt it all. Because of love. Now, the ball is in our hands and it’s up to us to “be born again”. It’s up to us to choose God and to choose good. Choosing God doesn’t immediately make your life rainbows and unicorns though, sometimes it’s even the opposite. But when we choose God and rely on Him, the blessings overflow. We read repeatedly in the scriptures that when we keep the commandments, we prosper in the land. Change your heart, change your life. 

Merriest Christmas. 
Loves and hugs.
XO Sister Dunlop


PS part of being a missionary and running around with your head chopped off means you’re really bad at pictures for your weekly #newyearsresolution #sorrymamalaura๐Ÿ’•

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