The Epistle of Karlee

Y'know how Facebook asks if you want to see memories from one year go or five years ago etc? well, as of Thursday, all my 'one years ago's will include a missionary name tag. Can you believe it? You'd think a year would be more noticeable, but I'm still chatty and loud and scatter brained and quirky(don't think 12 years could take some of that outta me), but I read this talk and it was very fitting to the week: "Several years ago I met one of our sons in the mission field in a distant part of the world. He had been there for a year. His first question was this: "Dad, what can I do to grow spiritually? I have tried so hard to grow spiritually and I just haven't made any progress." That was his perception: to me it was otherwise. I could hardly believe the growth that he had gained in just one year. He "knew it not" for it had come as growth, not as a startling experience." Pretty cool huh? yes, I know.  Our week was full of i...

Hey friends! Pretty simple week for us here in Goldendale, WA. Just a few highlights to share: We got a factory tour of TLC with Kirstin on Monday and finally found out what this company is and how modular homes even work, it was very cool, now I want one lol, and we know almost everyone there so that was fun:) We had to wear hard hats and safety goggles during the tour cause they're building houses around us, which called for a picture  HAPPY BIRTHDAY shout out to Carson! 💥📣🎉🎊🎆He's officially a teenager.. sorry mom :/ good luck We decided to walk on Thursday, cause it was really nice outside and there were people everywhere and we wanted to talk to them, so we dropped the car and set off on foot. On our way down the street, Sister Glover saw someone sitting at a picnic table across the street, so we turned around to cross so we could talk with her. It was definitely part of the reason we needed to walk that day. She had just gotten out of jail and was waiting for ...

What is up?? (spent 5 minutes trying to come up with a pun about something being up or down, but I've got nothing good, so we'll move on) Big list of excitement to share: Sister Glover and I are stickin together! Kaya got her temple recommend so we're going to the temple!!! On Thursday, we went to go by Aaron's house to see if he had read much(or any) of The Book of Mormon we gave his dad. When we pulled up, no one was home, well there were no cars there, but we decided to have faith and prayed that we would talk to someone and would know what to say, and when we got out of the car we discovered that.... someone had pulled up while our eyes were closed! So we went and it was Aaron! He hadn't been able to find the one we gave his dad and then asked for a copy of The Book of Mormon so that he could read it(which was exciting in itself) WE talked to him for a good amount of time and I coasted on that mini answer to a prayer for the rest of the day. I love seei...

Helloooo outside world!! (real quick) my emails have been spazzing a little lately so if you didn't get one or both of my emails from the last two weeks and still want them, lemme know, I gotchu so, this week. Well,  We had Zone Conference on Tuesday!!!! Elder Klebingat from the Area Seventy Presidency came and it was so powerful. He is, as Sister Jackman says, "very German" in that he's straightforward and no nonsense most of the time. But I loved it. He is unapologetic about his bluntness and strict in his high standards. I don't even know what to share with you. I filled up 9 pages of notes in my notebook with pure golden insights and inspiration.  also, HOLY... miracles. A little bit before I got here, the sisters were told about a girl named Kirstin with whom quite of few of the members of the ward work. We had gone by a couple of times with no luck in meeting her until the Saturday before this last one. She was super nice and we got to know her a lit...