SO... I experienced my first earthquake this week! It was terrifying but the damage is minimal thank heavens! Sister Roberts and I were sitting at our table waiting for our fired rice to get done cooking when all the sudden everything started to shake!! The table was moving like crazy! I fell off my chair and in our panicked condition we started running around falling to the ground not sure what to do!!!! I remember from my young years that at some kind of natural disaster you jump in the bath tub and put a matress over top of you!! So I imediately grabbed my matress and drug it to the tub and pulled it over me! I was feeling very strong!! Sister Roberts just ran around in circles screaming!!! When all was said and done we only had part of our roof cave in by our front room! 

JUST KIDDING!!!

But there really was an earthquake! A 4.2 20 minutes of us! Haha we were sitting at our kitchen table and we both panicked haha and thought about packing our bags! Hahaha we were not sure what to do!! Haha we seriously were like should we stand in a field?? Haha but that is about all!! Haha Goood did come out of it! Our neighbor came and knocked on our door and we talked about it! He was keeping us updated on the news! He calls himself Earthquake headquarters! It is pretty comical!! We actually met up with him later that day and we ended up giving him a book of mormon and he has started reading it!! Sometimes people need an earthquake to bring them to their senses!! 

We got a referal the other day and this man asked if we could take his friend a book of mormon. SO we walked over to the Flea Market and found Chris! Chris took the Book of Mormon and then asked me  how long I had been a member. After I told her I had been a member my whole life she asked me a question no one had ever asked me before. She said, "Do you plan on staying a member?" I was able to answer her question with a confident Yes! She then asked me why! 

I plan to stay in this church because it has brought me so much happiness and without the gospel I would not be the person I am today! Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ is not just a religion! It is a way of life! It is what I have built my foundation on and if I will continue to set my foundation on Christ I will be successful because with God I can do hard things!! And with this gospel I  have felt so much JOY!! 

2 Nephi 2:25 "MEN ARE THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE JOY!"

That is what this life is all about and we can find that joy by following Christ and allowing him to help us in our life! I have felt so much joy since I have been on my mission! It is weird because I have no time for myself! By the worlds views I should be miserable right? WRONG!! The more I look to help others and the more opportunities I get to life those around me the happier I am! We are on spiritual highs often! I LOVE IT!!!

"Your happiness can be contagious. As others observe you, they may desire to know the source of your joy. Then they can also experience the happiness that comes through living the gospel of Jesus Christ."

One of the best ways you can be a missionary is to be happy! We live in a world of unhappiness and when you are happy others want to know how you can be happy!! It truly is contagious!!  SO be hapy! If you aren't happy look to Christ because he can make you happy and you can feel that joy! I promise you that!! 

After Chris talked with us for a while she looked at me and said you look really happy! I am really happy!! I hope you all know that! This Gospel brings so much happiness I am like exploding with happiness over here in Michigan!!! 

Haha I was in Wal-mart today and Breakaway by KElly Clarkson came on and I love that song so I am just singing it while we shop haha and I didn't realize how loud I was singing and this man walks past and he was like Sing Louder! haha it made my day!! I love Church music but I love being able to sing other things too! Haha our music collection is a little limited! Haha BUt yeah! Haha 

I hope you are all having a fabulous week! BE HAPPY!!! God wants us to be happy and he has provided a way for us to be happy!! 

I LOVE YOU ALL!!