Rowdy U of U kids and a Green-eyed Redhead

HELLO!

 

Well, Utah is getting hot and my skin is not as beautiful as it was in Louisiana because it is so dry here. It is okay though because I love Temple Square. I am loving it more than I ever have before.

Time has flown by. It is weird that I was serving here last summer. This is the best time of my life. I don't ever want to leave!!!! 

 

Mom, go ahead and apply for a few different colleges in Utah for me but DO NOT apply at University of Utah.  The guys from that college watch us walk home so they know where we live.  Anyway, the other night when everyone was asleep, I was still awake. Our window was open because it's hot in our apartment and I heard someone scream, "Sister Missionaries!!! WAKE UP!!!!" At night time the U of U kids hang outside of our apartment and scream really loud and pound on things. It is quite rude actually.

 

Quick break by the reflection pool then we are back to work!

This has been a pretty good week. Things have gone by pretty fast. We have been taking a lot of tours and Sister Bryuzgina is passing off in English tours tomorrow. She will do great! She is a wonderful missionary. She has a good sense of humor and the guests love it! She also has a very good memory and caught on so quickly with all of the Temple Square facts. Yesterday she actually got a Ukrainian woman to refer. That is hard to do. I have always wanted to train but I am happy I am training at this time in my mission. It is exactly what I need.  We have met so many wonderful people on our tours. It makes me really sad when some of them don't refer because we just love them!

 

The other night during planning, Sister Bryuzgina and I set a goal to teach a lady with red hair and green eyes (it's typical to do things like that at the Square because we run into so many different people).  So the next day we had the 3 o'clock flagpole tour and there came a cute family from Oregon. The mother had red hair and green eyes! They were adorable and they were looking to move to Utah because she likes the clean environment. They were not members and knew nothing about the church besides the fact that we keep the Sabbath Day Holy. They loved that we do that. So we took them around and basically taught the whole Restoration and they had so many wonderful questions. As we spoke to them about Joseph Smith the spirit was so strong. I have never ever on my mission felt the spirit like I felt it during that tour. The spirit testified of the things we both said and Sister Bryuzgina's English was so amazing. We just grew to love everyone in that tour so much. When we asked if they wanted to learn more we could tell the wife wanted to and she was about to say something but looked over at the husband and he just looked straight ahead and said nothing. I was sad but I have a good feeling that they will find the church again one day. I had a restoration pamphlet in my Book of Mormon so we just gave that to them with a Mormon.org card. Hopefully they meet missionaries one day. They live in the same mission and same area Kylie serves in. It would have been so perfect if they had wanted to learn more!

So here is my spiritual thought. I am so tired. I can literally feel the bags beneath my eyes get darker and heavier.  Sometimes I think I might fall over and die.  I forgot how hard Temple Square was.  Sometimes I want to cry and the only thing that gives me strength throughout the week is partaking of the sacrament.  To me, the sacrament is more than repentance for sins and renewing baptismal covenants. It is a reminder that through Christ we can accomplish anything.  When we partake of the sacrament, we are being cleansed; and he will be with us throughout the week to help us get through anything that comes our way. One of my favorite scriptures is in D&C 45:3-5..

3 Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him—

 

4 Saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified;

 5 Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life.

I try to substitute my name in there when I am having a bad day. Jesus Christ is pleading our case before Heavenly Father. He wants us to succeed. We have to believe in Him and have faith in Him and He will be our advocate.  When we take the sacrament we are taking His name upon us and through Him we can get through anything! I read those verses every time I am beat down, exhausted, overwhelmed... and I know that I can do it. This is His work and He wants all of us to succeed. 

Well, lots of love!!!!

Sister Park

 

 

Back at Temple Square!




With my new companion Sister Bryuzgina from Russia

Preveit! That is Hello in Russian! I am back in SLC and I love it! It is so nice to be back here. I am training a new Sister from Russia. Her name is Sister Bryuzgina and she is from Sochi. I love her because she is a body builder and she runs with me every morning. She also supports my healthy eating and does not tempt me to eat unhealthy.  She is so funny!  

 

I try not to think about Louisiana because it hurts my heart that I had to leave those amazing people and my best friend, Sister Maxwell.

 

Our new mission president, President Poulsen, is AMAZING! I am pretty sure he has conversations with the Holy Ghost. He is so nice and seems like he knows all of us very well.
 

It was nice to have a break when I was outbound. I will say this.. outbound was hard but Temple Square is SO HARD! It forces you to get out of your comfort zone and it is physically and mentally draining! I love it so much though! It is definitely for me because I love to be moving around all the time.

 

Sister Bryuzgina is the only Russian speaking sister on the square so we do all the Russian tours.  There are a lot of Russian tours so we run around like crazy and I lost 3 pounds because of it.  It kind of reminds me of how busy I was last summer with Mandarin tours. Today just as we started grocery shopping, we got a call from the West Gate and they asked if we could take a Russian tour. We sped back to the square and took a lovely couple around. I was so proud of Sister Bryuzgina for being so willing to leave P-Day to take the tour. She is a wonderful missionary and Temple Square is so lucky to have her as the only Russian speaker. She is very diligent and is always ready for whatever comes up! The couple was agnostic but they really wanted a Book of Mormon and they really enjoyed the tour.

The other night we took a lovely couple from St. Petersburg, Florida on a tour. Their names were Annie and Clement. They stopped here on their way back home and they absolutely loved it and wanted to know more. Sister Bryuzgina and I were walking around the South Visitors Center near the temple model and I had a strong impression to talk to Annie. They adored Sister Bryuzgina and especially loved how funny she was! We asked them if they would like a tour and they were so excited that we asked! They said yes right away! So we took them around and got to know them. We talked about the temple and they actually thought that it was so wonderful. We ended at the Christus and the spirit was so strong. We bore our testimonies and asked them if they were interested in learning more.  They said yes! They wanted a Book of Mormon and local missionaries to come and visit them. We are going to call them this week and begin teaching them.

There is a Russian lady who has been coming to the Square everyday since Thursday. Her name is Hope. We first met her at the Christus and she did not want to talk to us but Sister Bryuzgina can get anyone to talk to her so we were able to. Ever since then we have talked to her everyday and last Saturday we set up an appointment to teach her today.  We taught her the Restoration and she understands it and says it makes sense to her but she still is strong in her beliefs. She has been reading the Book of Mormon since Thursday though and is loving it! We committed her to praying about it and she said yes. She doesn't want us to call her and she doesn't want local missionaries yet either. She is anti-social and said if the church is true then she will find it in Canada where she lives. She flies back home tomorrow so sadly we won't meet with her again but we planted a seed; and I know she will find the church in Canada.

Last night we took two Ukrainian women around. They currently live in NYC and are both members of the church. One of them was a recent covert and one of them was a returned missionary. We were at the Christus and the returned missionary talked to me while the recent convert talked to Sister Bryuzgina.  The RM told me a lot of things that I needed to hear. She said it's hard to train a Russian sister and gave me a lot of advice that I really took to heart. I love Sister B so much but it is hard to teach someone who struggles with English to take tours.  We do have so much fun and she is so easy to love! I think I was definitely supposed to be training right now!

 

Friday was a good day because one of my recent converts, Joel that I met on a tour back in September, came to Temple Square and I got to talk to him for a minute! While I was gone he received his priesthood, baptized his friend, got his patriarchal blessing, and does baptisms for the dead. He is amazing.  It just makes me so happy!
 

I can't write anymore.  Most of our p-day was spent working so now we will try to get some errands done. 

 

Until next week!

 

Sister Park

 

A little souvenir from Louisiana

 

"No true endings... only everlasting beginnings."

Yesterday and Saturday I said some final goodbyes to a few of my favorite people.

This first picture is my beautiful neighbor, Yolanda.  
She doesn't want me to leave so I took her this rose yesterday. :(

 

Then there was my very last Sunday with my sweet primary class.

 

 

Our investigator, Sharika.  She had just cut and curled my hair

for me right before this picture was taken.

 

 

This next picture is of Barbara Lee.  She lets us do our laundry at her

house and she makes us breakfast every Monday morning.

 

 

I don't know why I took the picture of this snake but we see a lot of these. 

This was outside the nursing home we visited one day.

 

 

Well, good morning and happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful ladies in my life!

Christie, I bet you were so excited about your first mother's day! It was so good to see the fam on Skype yesterday! Everyone looks great. Kendall, you are so pretty! Mothers Day was wonderful! I was able to give my last talk in the New Iberia Branch. I spoke on how a Mother's influence can affect generations.  I also said that the way in which mothers handle trials can help their kids handle their own trials in the future.  I talked about how strong Grandma Wellman was while Grandpa was serving in the Viet Nam war and how her example helped you (mom) be strong when you went through your own trials. Then I talked about the 2000 stripling warriors and how because of the teachings and counsels of their mothers they were able to win the battle against the Laminates. (Alma 56:47-48) It made me miss my family so much! 

So we got some awesome news! We have two investigators who are getting baptized.  First there is Shilay.  She is Miss Pat's friend who came to the Gladys Knight concert with us and had immediate interest in the church.  Well, she has decided to be baptized on June 1st.  I'm so sad that I am missing it but so happy for Shilay.  Another one of our investigators, Rebecca, has also decided to get baptized.  She doesn't  have a date finalized yet but she will know soon! 

 

I am excited to get back to the mountains. Anytime I see a picture of Utah my heart gets all warm because its my mission and I LOVE IT! I am going to miss Louisiana so much though. Opelousas and New Iberia are such big parts of me now and I will always love them. I can't wait to take the fam back so we can see all the wonderful sights and eat some Cajun food. AHHHH! I am going to cry when I leave on Wednesday. Tomorrow we are going to Baton Rouge and I'll stay the night in the mission home. Then on Wednesday we fly back to Salt Lake City.  Back to my starting point just in time for busy season!  I really hope I have another Asian companion.  I just want to be busy with Mandarin tours all the time!  They are the best!

 

I have been really sad about leaving Louisiana because I hate endings and I hate goodbyes. It always seems like when life is just wonderful something comes and ends it really fast! We have been seeing lots of miracles and Sister Maxfield and I are such good friends and now... I have to go! But I have tried to stay focused on what President Uchtdorf said in his last General Conference talk. 

 

"In light of what we know about our eternal destiny, is it any wonder that whenever we face the bitter endings of life, they seem unacceptable to us?  Why is this?  Because we are made of the stuff of eternity.... there are no true endings, only everlasting beginnings."

 

That talk was exactly what I needed.  Endings are not such a bad thing when we consider that Heavenly Father has something better in store for us.  Me leaving Louisiana will be hard but it is the start of something wonderful that's about to happen.  I have always looked at different parts of my life as chapters.  I am about to start another chapter and this one will last until December!

 

Next time I email will be from Temple Square!

 

Talk to you next week!

Sister Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gladys Knight Concert!

Hey Y'all! How is everyone? This morning I could not even focus because I was way too excited to find out where Kendall was serving  her mission! SOUTH DAKOTA RAPID CITY MISSION! That sounds so cool!  There is a beautiful Native America girl from South Dakota named Sister Pipe who is serving at Temple Square.  She goes home in September so maybe you will get to meet her! 

I have an investigator who lives in that mission. She is in Louisiana temporarily but she is getting ready to go back to North Dakota. Her name is Tammy. She has been here taking care of her grandkids for awhile. Anyway, I have all of her information so I can continue teaching her from Temple Square.  For some reason, She LOVES me so she will LOVE you. She thinks every sister missionary is named Sister Park so it won't be hard for her to remember your name.  I cried when I read your call because I love this woman and I have been praying that Heavenly Father would
find the perfect person in North Dakota to work with her.

I am so proud of you, Baby Diddo! You are going to love it! You will need to wear like 20 scarves and wrap up in an electric blanket every night!  I am excited to see the fam in August then when they bring you to the MTC! You will get to see me in the busy season. 

On Tuesday we went to the Gladys Knight devotional/testimony/concert! It was incredible. We went with Miss Pat, Shilay, and Derion! We had a blast! Gladys and her husband had incredible and bold testimonies. Gladys even talked about her grandson who is serving his mission in Little Rock, Arkansas with Rulon.  She is so happy that Heavenly Father kept all of the missionaries safe from the tornado. I was like "AMEN." My cousin is over there! Everyone was saying AMEN after everything she and her husband said. It was either "Amen" or "Praise Jesus." It was a treat!

Me, Miss Pat, Shilay, and Derion before the concert

We actually got a new investigator out of that whole experience. Shilay is Miss Pat's friend who offered to drive all of us to Baton Rouge so we could see the show.  Shilay loved it! Now we have an appointment to
teach her the lessons tonight because she was so interested. We also get to teach  Jamal tonight. One of the Louisiana Baton Rouge mission goals is to work in the African-American community and boy are we achieving that goal!  They are some of the most spiritual people I have ever met.

I am just stressed because so many amazing things are happening and now I have to leave. I know I have work to do in Utah though. I love it there a lot and I am excited to get back to healthy eating. Stanley gave me a Cajun cookbook.  I am so excited about it.  I can't wait to make everyone Gumbo. It is my fave. And red beans and rice. Oh and Pralines. But they pronounce them as Praw-line. I love it!   

Summertime is coming and I have just a week and a half here in Louisiana. I am so sad to leave because this is basically my home! I have been here for awhile and I just love it! I bore my testimony in church yesterday and I had to hold back the tears. I love New Iberia.  I am so grateful for this wonderful experience.  I will miss all of these people so much.










Last night we went over to the Davis family's house and watched the CES Devotional given by Elder Ballard. I loved it! There was a small part where he talked about being still. When I think about being still I think of accepting the Lord's will. That is a hard thing to do sometimes whether we realize it or not. This is something I have learned a lot on my mission. Things are not going to work out the way we think they should. Sometimes good things have to fall apart so that better things can come together. I have been sad about leaving New Iberia because I love the people so much but I know that Heavenly Father has other plans for me and things I need to accomplish over in Utah.  

Sometimes I get discouraged with the people we teach because I just know that the gospel will make them so happy and yet they don't always keep commitments; but that's when I just need to be still. Yesterday was a very wonderful Sunday because I have had a lot of questions and the answer I received several times throughout the day was "Be still and know that I am God"- Psalms 46:10.
 

I love everyone so much! I am excited to see y'all in August! I can't believe I wont be able to hang out with my little sis til 2016. That's such a long time.  Three Christmases away from each other. Sadness but happiness all at the same time! Have a wonderful week.

Sister Park

Bearing Burdens with Ease

Hey Y'all! Greetings from New Iberia! Today is a lovely day with gray skies. I heard that Rulon had a tornado!  I'm glad he's safe.  

GUESS WHAT! I WAS KNOCKED OVER BY A ST. BERNARD! I am not exaggerating when I say I WAS SOAKED FROM SLOBBER. Then it smacked me in the face with its paw. It kept sitting on my lap. I wish I had a picture. Next time I go to that family's house I am sending you a picture with it on my lap.

One of the best parts of the week was that Sister Harvey, a lady in our branch with three daughters, asked Sister Maxfield and I to come over and have a make-over party with her girls.  We had fun and the girls loved how they turned out.

Me, Sister Maxfield, and the Harvey girls

I have had such an amazing and incredible week. On Tuesday we had zone conference and it was awesome except the assistants made me do a role play with President Wall. That was so intimidating! He is President Wall!  After zone conference I went on exchanges with Sister Faulk in Opelousas.  I wanted to be able to see everyone but only got to see a few people. That was an incredible exchange. The spirit was so strong and we had so much fun. Sister Faulk taught me so much when we were serving together. I definitely gained a testimony of my missionary purpose while serving with Sister Faulk. 
While in Opelousas I was able to attend a memorial service for Brother Prescott as his ashes were spread.  It was a beautiful service and good closure for his family.

Here is some exciting news from this past week! We got two new investigators on Friday. The first guy's name is Jamal. We went into an area referred to as "the projects" in search of a less active member named Jaworski Welcome.  But when we got there we found that he no longer lived there.  But a man named Jamal and his family live in the house Jaworski used to live in.  They are an amazing family!  Jamal's girlfriend didn't participate but I think she will eventually.  On Friday we taught them the Restoration and Jamal loved it! He said he could really relate to Joseph Smith because he goes from church to church trying to find the right one and that is what Jamal had been doing before we found him.  It was obvious that Heavenly Father has been preparing this man to receive the gospel.  We are going back this week and will be taking a recent convert named Rico with us.  Rico and Jamal will be best friends.  We just know it!  The other new investigator we have is Miss Caretta! She is Rico's mother-in-law. We also taught her the Restoration and it made complete sense to her.  She already wants to join the church but is afraid she will struggle with the Word of Wisdom.  I am confident she can do it though. She is so excited for us to go back on Friday! We will be teaching the Plan of Salvation and eating fried chicken and pizza.  Miss Caretta said "It's going to be a party!"

 

We have really focused on teaching the Restoration lately and I am just loving it! My testimony of Joseph Smith's purpose and role in restoring the gospel to the earth just keeps growing. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that Joseph Smith was called of God to restore Jesus Christ's church to the earth.  If we pray to know these things, the Holy Ghost will let us know they are true.  Lately I have been trying to pray daily to know whether the Book of Mormon is true and whether or not Joseph Smith was a true prophet. Even though I already know these things it is so amazing to get a confirmation from the Holy Ghost again and again.  It only strengthens my testimony and has helped me become a better teacher and bear stronger testimony of the restoration.  

 

President Wall is so inspired.  At Zone Conference last week he spoke a lot on Elder Bednar's General Conference talk about the load. He talked to us about our individual loads and how a load consists of happy times and difficult times.  Everyone has a load.  What is important is that our load is helping us to draw nearer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  Elder Bednar reminds us that our "loads" must be sufficient enough for us to grow.  When we have it easy with no bumps in the road and put focus on things that are nice but not important, we tend to forget about the things that matter most.

 

The Savior is there to lighten our loads and ease our burdens.  Like Elder Bednar said, He doesn't always take our burdens away immediately.  Sometimes they are there to help us grow.  But He will strengthen us so that we are able to "bear up our burdens with ease."

I am sad because I only have two more weeks serving in this wonderful state! I have grown to love Louisiana so much. I know I am going to cry A LOT when I have to leave. Southern people are the best. Everyone is so nice here. I do miss Utah though. Last night we were watching that Thomas S. Monson biography "On the Lord's Errand" and it really made me miss Salt Lake City. I miss all the beautiful things I saw everyday. I miss the cute neighborhoods and the temple! Everyone always has such a big place in their heart for wherever they served their mission. Utah is definitely my second home and I am excited to get back and see what the Lord has in store for me over there. I just feel so blessed to be able to serve in the two BEST places in the whole world. Cajun Land and Mormon Land. I love my mission so much!! 

Sister Park

 

 

Happy Easter

How is life back home? It was so weird to have my first Easter away from home. It was my first Easter without an Easter basket! It was ok though because some of the members were so nice and loaded us up with Easter gifts! They are way too kind to us. They gave us Subway gift cards, Visa gift cards, and lots of treats. I almost cried because I couldn't believe how much they did for us.




Me and Kelani, one of the young women in our branch in New Iberia

Jeremy, you will be proud of me. I painted a ceiling and I also learned how to lay tile. I know all the technical stuff. We helped a couple in our branch paint their house and then after that we went and helped another guy lay some tile. I am pretty sure I can start my own business after my mission. I was thinking about all of the stuff I have learned to do since I have been out and I might as well be certified in gardening, tile laying, painting, cooking, landscaping, housekeeping.... in addition, I am a good secretary, teacher, counselor, psychologist, lawn mower, motivational speaker, personal assistant, professional organizer, housekeeper, CNA, addiction recovery therapist, occupational therapist, and librarian. I have got it all. I can't believe how much I am learning from my mission. I also am learning how to work with different personality types. I am pretty sure that my mission saved my future marriage. I can't imagine growing up without this mission!

On Saturday morning our branch had an Easter breakfast followed by an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Sister Maxfield, Sister Thompson, and I hid all of the eggs. We were seriously overflowing with Easter eggs.  There were so many that eventually we just started chucking them out on the field. It was fun to see all of the kids go crazy and run after all of those eggs. It made me miss the twins and all of the crazy cousins. One of the boys reminded me of Clayton and Carson when they were little because he kept doing these tricks and weird crawls when he was hunting for the eggs like he was Spiderman or something. It was so cute!

Easter Sunday was wonderful! After church we went to one of our former potential investigators (<--- yeah, don't ask) son's home and ate an Easter lunch! It was us two Mormon girls with a whole bunch of Italian Catholics! They had a crawfish boil. Those are fun. I personally do not care for crawfish but I like the whole experience. I was holding one of them before they killed and boiled it and I could not believe we were about to eat it. They are mud bugs. They literally live in the mud. CRAZY! It was fun though and everything else was delicious. We had meatballs, fudge, crawfish, and banana pudding. It was such a good day. They live in our neighborhood and told us that there has been an alligator problem in our neighborhood. There is an alligator that has been eating people's pets! We go running there every morning!


Me and Sister Maxfield with some of the kids on Easter

Remember sweet old Stanley?  I've talked about him a few times.  Last night we went to his house to eat pizza and he told us that he is considering serving a mission! He just came back to church a couple of months ago after being inactive for over 40 years! The gospel is changing his life and he is so happy! We are excited for him because he has been very lonely since his wife passed away in October. We just love this man so so so much and want him to be happy! 

 

I am sure everyone has seen this short two minute video called "Because of Him".  If you haven't seen it, watch it and share it.  I love this video!  Here is the link:  http://easter.mormon.org/?cid=HPTU041514694

 

 Family, please read Moroni Chapter 7 this week.  It teaches us about Faith, Hope, and Charity.  After all that the Savior has done for us, how can we not have Charity?  In verses 45-47, it says:

 

45 "And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

 

 46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail—

 

 47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him."

 

Keep reading the Book of Mormon.  It will bless your life! 

 

Love Y'all! 

Sister Park

Never too late

Hi!  To answer your question Mom, the tornado did hit New Iberia but just barely. A family from our branch lost their shed.  First the roof ripped off then it was destroyed completely.  We were driving through that storm!  The hail was unreal but we had appointments and couldn't miss them. 

I can't believe that I only have four more weeks here in the south! I know I am going to cry when I have to leave but I am also excited to get back to Temple Square. I missed out on five months already. There will be lots of new faces, that's for sure! Summer is coming so bring on my beautiful Asian guests that I have missed so much! 

Today will be busy because we have been asked to do several acts of service.  First we have to go to the hospital and take a lady her pillow because the hospital one hurts her neck. Then this morning, one of our investigators texted us and asked us to clean her bedroom for her.  We are happy to clean it for her-- that's missionary work! 

Remember sweet old Stanley?  Well he is about 85 years old and just getting a patriarchal blessing for the first time.  He didn't want to get one at first because he is so old that he just figured 'what is the point?  He thought Heavenly Father wouldn't have much to say since he has already lived most of his life.  But one thing we reminded him of and something we should all remember is that Patriarchal blessings are eternal.  They are not just for this earth life.  They are literally given to us by God.  He sees our entire life.  Not just our earth life.


I am so excited for Easter on Sunday because it is such a happy holiday! On Saturday the branch is having an Easter breakfast/ Easter egg hunt. I can't wait to see all the cute little kids so excited about finding eggs and all of the little girls' Easter dresses on Sunday!
I love that we have a holiday that focuses on the Resurrection. When I think of Easter two words comes to mind- Gratitude and Hope. The atonement can bring hope into our lives and that is what Easter is all about. 

 

One of my favorite scriptures is John 16:33:  "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."  That scripture always gives me so much hope! 

 

The resurrection reminds us that this life is not the end. If we just live the gospel and follow in the footsteps of our Savior we can be with our families and with him for eternity! I can't think of anything better than that! It makes me want to do everything I can in this life to get there one day! 

 

That is why I love Easter so much! Of course I love the flowers, pastel colors, and the dresses but most of all I just love the way I feel when I remember what he accomplished for all of us.

 

I love you all and I hope you have a great Easter! Eat lots of Reese's eggs for me! Those are my most favorite!

 

Thanks Aunt Tonya for the beautiful letter and the money! I am going to treat myself to a nice lunch today!  

 

Thanks Sterling for the letter and the beautiful dress.  You are so good to me! 

 

Thank you Merrill family for the sweet letters.  I love you guys! 

Sister Park