"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."

-True to the Faith

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak in sacrament for Mother's Day. Haha you know that is just cruel make a missionary talk about family and mothers...it made me a little homesick! But I had a lot of things stick out to me this week. Happiness is the key one! I love that quote because I always looked at other Sister Missionaries and I was like man you are so happy! I want to be that happy and so I would try to find that happiness in my life before my mission. Now that I am in their place I am so happy. Why am I so happy?

1-The spirit!! As I follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost I am lead to where I am suppose to go and I experience incredible things!! I see miracles every single day!! No joke! I promise that if you do the same you will see miracles as well! They are all around us! we just have to have our right eyes on. Our worldly eyes will block things like that out!!

2-I am including God is every aspect of my life! Ok I was one of those people who was careful about what I prayed about. I thought some things were silly to pray about and so I avoided that! Now I pray for everything!! Haha I have been really tired and one morning the alarm went off and I could not get myself to get out of bed! I seriously just layed there and prayed for the strength and desire to get up until I had that strength and desire. I prayed for like 5 minutes! My prayers were answered though! 

3-Obedience! Before my mission everyone I mean EVERYONE and there cat tell you that you have to be obedient! Well I am joining the ranks! Obedience is key! As I am obedient miracles come! I have learned that rules are not the lock on the door but the key to the door. Took me 19 years to figure that out but I got it! Haha I know my parents are wishing I would have figured that out before I moved out! Haha all well better late then never I always say eh? (Thats off a movie I know it I just don't know which one! Whoever can identity that movie gets extra prayers from me!) 

4-I CHOOSE!!! In 2 Nephi 10:23 it talks about choosing what you do! Often when people are forced into things they are not happy about it! We have a Tri- Mission Conference in Lansing on Friday and we talked a lot about how we choose to handle everyday missionary trials! The other day we were door knocking and I HATE door knocking and we knocked on this door and they informed us that no one else was home on the whole block...that did not put me in a very good mood! I was over door knocking! We went to a new area and I was like ok I have a bad attitude! I told Sister Roberts I was changing my attittude and that the next door a lady was going to answer and she was going to talk to us and invite us in! That exactly happened! I am not even kidding! It was a miracle! No one wanted to talk to us at all that whole day and we go in and set a return appointment!!! Attitude is key!!

5-How can you not be happy when you are a Sister Missionary!! Being a missionary is one of the best things in the world! Sister Roberts and I are not perfect and sometimes our imperfections open up doors! So we were 20 minutes late to a lesson...I know shame on us! To make it worse I forgot the phone as we were walking. Haha I hate carrying the phone around with us! Haha who am I? I always had my phone at home...oh yeah I can't text Skyler anymore thats why;) So we show up and we were meeting with an Investigator, Less Active, and a Member! (coolest thing ever) and they were giving us a hard time and so Josh (Member) offers to say the opening prayer!! HE PRAYED FOR OUR FORGIVENESS! What better thing than for others to help you in the repentance process right? So we were like ok how can we make this up to you?? They all wanted cookies, each of them different kinds...NEVER TRUST A RECIPE ON A FLOUR BAG!! So when we delivered the cookies a couple days later they weren't very good but they thought it was funny! We  wrote the scripture Ether 12:27 and put that he shows sisters that they have weaknesses and he gives sisters weakenss so that they may be humble haha  and at the end when it say he will make weak things strong we put that he would make late things early! It was funny and we had an opportunity to contact them again which is important! 

As I thought about that, we can go to God with any of our weaknesses and like we switched the words at the end, you can do the same with any words! God is there to help us with EVERYTHING!!

Those are just a few reasons why I am so happy! It is amazing what putting a name tag on does for a person! I love it!!!

I got to talk to my family yesterday!! That was the best! Family is so important! "Family time is sacred time and it should be respected and protected" Never take your family for granted! They are always there for us and we need to treat them better than we treat anyone else!! 

FUN FACT: We have a tornado watch today! Haha I don't know what is happening! These things don't usually happen in Michigan! Don't worry though I am safe! I know what to do in the event of a tornado! That is when you jump in the bath tub and put the matress over you!! Don't worry I got this!! 

I love you all and appreciate all your love and support! I know I say that a lot but I truly mean it! I can feel all your prayers! I am strengthened everyday! I can't imagine serving without the prayers and the spirit! It would be an epic fail! So thanks for making it an epic success! you are all incredible!! 

BE HAPPY!! And have a fabulous week!!