August 19th

So this last week was just very difficult.  It is awful because missions just make you like emotional monsters!  Seriously one week I am fine and then the next I am just bawling.  It is embarrassing. 

Anyway!

Missions also do this really funny thing and somehow you recognize like EVERYONE you ever see.  Seriously I see someone and I am like hmm.  I think I know you.

It is crazy!  I guess we were just friends in the pre-earth life.

Sorry this is so scatter brained.  P-Days are really stressful. . .

I can't think of everything I need to say!

oh!

So on Saturday night at 9:15 at night, we got a text from our mission President, President Alba.  And he said that he wanted me and two others sisters to sing Joseph Smith's First Prayer at Stake Conference... the next morning!

So we made the 2 hour drive to the stake center in Ukiah on the scariest road ever (I don't know what it is about Northern Cali, but these roads are just out of control) and we totally winged this three part A Capella rendition in the middle of his talk- just like he wanted.

I have never shaken so much in my entire life.  Seriously every single muscle I had was convulsing.  It was to the point where I wasn't sure if I was nervous or going into epileptic shock.

But I am alive to tell the tale!

So that is good news!

Other than that, this week has been very humbling.  I have learned that the best way to get through hard times is to forget yourself and go to work.  Even if you think you cannot keep going, you just have to keep going.

and somehow, you get through it(:

So that is my invitation to ya'll.  Look for the Lord's hand pushing you through those hard times.

And pray for him to help you.

Because I know He will.  And I can promise you that He will.

Love,

Sister Bryant