Greetings from the Source of March Madness – March 23, 2015

Hello my gorgeous family!! 

Ready for March Madness?! Because the madness part is coming from here. We actually try to coordinate our tracting time around when UL and UK games are because no one will let us talk to them during a game. Thus, the inevitable has happened. Basketball is more important than Jesus. I'm just glad that I'm not serving in Lexington. They burn couches there and run around naked. Poor Sister Ward. 

Honestly, this week went by so fa-

Oh my gosh, Dad sent me an e-mail!! Wait real quick while I read it...

Ok, back to where I was. Thanks for the beautiful feet comment, Dad. I always knew they were,even though they're a bit smelly sometimes. ;) I can't believe you found your letters! That's so cool! I can't wait to read them. :) Way to go on personal study! You're awesome! Also, Dirty Diana looks gorgeous. They grow up so fast. Nice selfie. ;)

Congratulations, Josh, on giving an awesome talk! Way to be, bro.  

So, highlights of the week! We had interviews on Tuesday with President and Sister Brough. Honestly, they are so inspired and awesome. They changed my week. So, I've been upset about rude people. You can tell from my last e-mail. So, I talked Sister Brough about it and we had a great talk. Basically, I can't control how other people feel, but I can control how I feel. So, Sister Brough told me to walk away from those bad times and say to myself, "I choose not to be offended at this time." and leave it at that. I have been doing it all week and by golly-gee-whiz, it works! Sister Brough also recommended that I wear a band around my wrist to snap every time I have a negative thought. I have yet to find one...because I lack the hair to have a lot, but I'll find one! 

President Brough is the best President in the world. I don't care what anyone else says. He's the best and you'll see why in a moment. We had a great discussion on how to be happy all the time especially out here in the field. He told me that I control my happiness and I can decide to be happy. But, every once in a while you need to go to Dairy Queen. Then he said, "When the going gets tough, the Brough gets going and so does the Brough missionaries. Now, go rip some Satanic lips off!" 

He's the best. 

Sometimes, I feel that Sister Bush doesn't like me...hopefully I can fix that. 

We had no success with investigators last week even though we had a ton of people that we talked to. But, Heavenly Father is blessing us so much as we continue to work diligently. We found a family, and three other new investigators. Hopefully, at least one of them is prepared and ready to receive the gospel. 

We have almost as many less-actives as we do members in the Branch and we are desperately looking for all of them. Basically, our schedule consists of finding the lambs and rescuing the lost sheep. 

The weather has been sunny and great. We've been walking around and biking. 

It's going to rain this week a lot, which usually doesn't make me upset, but this week we might have to stop driving. So, our area is ENORMOUS! It takes us about a forty-five minute drive to get to the opposite end of our area. That has just sucked away our miles so much. We were given 1,100 miles for the month, but we are now down to 136. So, we will be biking everywhere. Including to Goshen which would probably take about an hour and a half to bike to. There is no way we are biking to Prospect though. Luckily, our investigators don't live there. 

Best work-out of my life! 

So...nothing else to report on. I'm happy and working. I'm choosing to be happy.  

I love you all and miss you terribly!! Keep up the good work and keep having fun! 

I LOVE YOU! 

Raye :)