August 29, 2011

sounds excellent! i love the part that you were saying that the little ones 
are so cute, i am sure they are. WOW, that is a lot of new little kids in 
the fam. can't wait to see them at the reunion. way to represent the blum
 family at the wedding. i hope they know that i would have loved to be there
to support them. just turned out that god wanted me more on this side of the
world. i guess they will be together forever, and hopefully i do a good job 
and make it to heaven as well. then we can just be next door neighbors for 
the rest of forever! hopefully that will make up for the fact that i wasn't 
there. is it possible to have more than two next door neighbors? i have a
lot of friends that i want to be next door neighbors with!





we learned a big lesson in faith this last week. we were setting our 
trimester baptismal goals (the ammount of baptisms you wish to achieve for
the next four months) and sister clendon and i decided to be safe and set a 
rather low number. we thought they were rather good until the zone leaders 
found out. basically they told us that we needed more faith. they urged us 
to repent, and gave us a number that we were to pray about. the number was 
higher than both of us ever expected. we have both been reading 1 nephi in
our studies, pretty much this whole week has been dedicated to building 
faith. i especially like the verse where nephi tells his brothers that God
 performed all of these amazing miracles so why the heck was it impossible 
for him to be commanded to build a ship?! Sister Clendon and I have decided 
that we need to repent from being like laman and lemuel and we are 
stretching ourselves. We are excited to see how this next trimester works 
out. my bet is that the miracles will not cease, as long as we have faith
and keep working our tails off. in reality, god has really been blessing us
(we had two baptisms yesterday and we acheived our goals!!!!) and we are off 
to a great start on achieving next trimester as well :). we are working 
hard, we are praying and we will continue. next trimester is looking NICE, 
and full of miracles, more to come next week. love you, keep up the good 
work and can't wait to hear about everything else exciting that is going on. 




great job with the neighbors, i am sure you are making God, the neighbors,
 the ward and some missionaries somewhere very happy! way to fulfill your 
missionary responsibilities. if you have access to the book "teachings of
the prophet spencer w. kimball" (i believe it was a lesson manual for sunday
school or something...) there is an awesome chapter about missionary work. 
you should definitely read it!

 

once again, i love you!



love sister blum