Short but Sweet

Hey Family!!!

I hope everyone is doing well! it was awesome to hear from more of you this week... i could still use some more love:) you can email me!! anytime during the week, and i can read it that day! i wont be able to reply, but i'll read it and enjoy it and love you even more:)

This week has been awesome! but honestly nothing too eventful has happened.. our investigator was confirmed and that was awesome! and we went to a baby shower for another one of our investigators and it was soo fun! she is so cute, and we really want her and her husband to be baptized:) but they are a little slow coming, but coming none the less! Its been really really hot, and everyone keeps telling us to just wait! apparently it gets worse... crap. and apparently it rains everyday in the summer, pours! but only for like an hour and then its scorching hot the rest of the day. (everyone pray that i get transferred to a car area:p)

My companion and I set a goal this week to laugh more, and what a difference that makes! Its crazy how much closer we have gotten to each other just by laughing more, at or with each other:) and i would like to extend the same challenge to all of you! laugh more:) its good for you! oh and watch the mormon message: come what may and love it. Its awesome and talking about laughing just made me think of it. But honestly, guys, its just been a good week.

This email is going be kind of short because today we have a Zone Development Day. AKA Mandatory-Fun Day:) we honestly, truly just get to go hang out with everyone in our zone ALL DAY! it doesnt even end at six (like P-Day normally does). And, get this: we get to wear normal clothes!!!! as a matter of fact, i am wearing jeans as we speak! it feels so weird... :) im pretty excited.. if you couldnt tell!

Wow, this is really short... y'all are going to think i'm an Elder or something! But i really am just loving life, things are going really well and i am learning more and more every day!! The most important thing that i have learned this week and that i want to share with all of you, is that God loves us! and that is the reason for everything:) its the answer to every "why?" question we can think of! and remembering that changes how we treat ourselves and how we treat others. How dare we judge, think harshly about, and criticize someone that God loves so much! and that includes ourselves:) We need to remember that God is loving and compassionate, He is our Father. He is proud of us and everything we are doing, no matter how small! I think of a little baby and how a simple "Dada" is so exciting! Facebook posts, video texts, journal entries... all for a little "dada".. Heavenly Father is the same way. No matter how insignificant we feel we are or how small the things we are doing, Heavenly Father is always saying, "Good job! Look at what you have done, look at all that you have to be proud about." Dont forget that! and dont forget that even if the only thing we learn how to do in this life is how to use the Atonement, that is enough:)

I love you all! and i wish you a wonderful week:) keep being incredible!

Love always, Sister Rowland