A Hard Week

HEllo family!

I was inspired and comforted by your words and thoughts. Thank you so much for being the most awesome parents (and sisters) ever! One of the things I miss the most is being able to ask advice and receive council from my parents on a daily basis. I better get a cell phone really fast when I get home, cause I´m going to be making good use of you two! Oh, and of course I would love to share some stories in seminary- I´ll probably still have jetlag anyways, so the hour won´t bother me at all!

It is so great to hear that the pregnancy is going well. I was just wondering today how everything was going, and it was great to get an update- thanks! I would love to see a pic some day of the growing belly :)

It has been a great week. Zr. Stapleton has been my little angel to help keep me going as I seem to be hitting a bit of a mid-mission crisis. It is going much better- some very special personal study sessions have made a big difference, and I feel energized and ready to begin another week.

We had a hard week in the ward this week. We heard that a sister in the ward, who is good friends with our investigator Joanne, was in a car accident on Wednesday night, and is still in a coma with severe damage to the brain. The coma is still too deep to really know if she will live, or what the damage really is. It is so sad. It happened because of the slippery roads- apparently the country has run out of salt, so they haven´t been able to treat the roads in the last week or so. She is only about 28 and has 3 small kids under the age of 8. Her husband is not a member, but her family is, and is showing incredible faith through the situation. She has 3 married siblings in the ward, and they have been so strong through the whole thing. It has been neat to see the ward pulling together to fast and pray for her. The church is so beautiful in the way it allows us to care for each other when needs arise. We are ready to help the family- who we are very close to- but the members keep beating us to it, which is really great. It has made me think of how fragile life is. I think of how important it is to live a life without regret. As grim as it seems, we never know when we will be called back to our Heavenly Father. Luckily, with the Gospel, we know we will be ready if we live accordingly.

I love you all and am so grateful for all that you write. Your words are a special part of my week. Ik hou van jullie!!

Liefs,
Zuster Cherie Gulliver
P.S. If you want to send me a butterfinger with that acne med, that would be AMAZING!!! Thanks again for sending that :)