Power of Prayer

Hi everyone! Sorry I've slacked again! This is from Kaylyn from December 9th!

Hello Family and Friends!

What a week! My goodness I have learned so much! Before I get into all that I want to thank everyone for the love, support and for the PRAYERS! I can literally feel them all the way on the Island! I don't know what I would do without you all. Thank you so much!

First I want to share a few funny experiences.. This week I have began to realize that I HAVE to laugh at al the funny things that happen throughout the day if I want to stay sane and happy. So here it goes.

1. My milk froze! We went shopping last week and I got some milk, right? You all know how much I LOVE my milk. I put it in the fridge thinking everything was good. The next day I went to go use my milk and BOOM! It was FROZEN like a popsicle! Great. Now what am I supposed to drink? It took about a day and a half to thaw out and now the milk is gone but dang it was crazy pulling frozen milk out of the fridge!

2. The amazing people that pretend they are NOT inside their homes when we knock on their door but we KNOW they are inside their home. Yes. People actually do this. We will knock on a door and dogs will go crazy and we will literally hear people telling their dogs to be quiet but they will never come to the door. Yes. People actually do this. It is great! Even better is when we will see them look our their windows and then they never come to the door. Again. People actually do this. It's so wonderful! Like really. Our favorite thing to do when this happens is to wait for a really really long time at their door. We like to make it awkward. It's great! Oh, and NO MATTER WHAT, we ALWAYS knock on the door twice. Just in case. :)

3. The ward choir. I am a part of the ward choir. We sang at the ward Christmas party on Saturday and we will be doing some fancy musical numbers for the Christmas sacrament. It's great fun. The choir director is a convert. A black convert. A black convert who is my age. Yes. It is so great. I love her so much and am so grateful she puts up with my terrible singing and poor dance moves. She is really into gospel music and really tries to get all the white people into it. Does it work? We try. We try really hard. We sang Joy to the World at the Christmas party. We swayed and all. It was great ya'll.

Alright. That is enough funny. You all probably don't think that was funny but I thought they were all funny. Got to find the joy in life, right?

Now for the good stuff.

Something else that I have learned this week is about the power of prayer. The first five days of my mission were incredible hard. Harder than I thought they were going to be. But, I learned something really important from them. I learned that prayer is real and that it is powerful. I don't know why it took me so long to realize that I could pray for help to endure those first five days but it didn't really occur to me. Rookie move I guess?

On Monday of last week I was reminded that I can pray to our loving Heavenly Father whenever I need Him. I remembered that He is just waiting to help me. And I remembered that I have to just ask for help. How grateful I am for Him and His love. I would not have made it another week without the comfort He gave me. As soon as I turned my struggles over to Him in prayer, they started to be washed away. He helped change my perspective and my attitude towards my struggles. As soon as I asked, He was there to help and pull me through. How grateful I am for that! That alone helped me in so many ways. So many ways.

I know that Heavenly Father loves each of us. I know that He wants to help us. And I know that we can do anything if we will rely on Him. He has giving us the ability to pray and He wants us to pray to Him frequently. I know it, I know it, I know it. I love you all so very much and am so grateful for the love, support and all the prayers. Always remember that God loves you! I love you all and will talk to you soon.

Until Next Time,

Sister Crawford