Wednesday, June 19, 2013

June 17th, 2013



Dear Daddy, HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!! i love you so much dad. you have been a wonderful dad, and always taught us with so much patience and love, but never afraid to tell us when we need to improve. thank you for your letter, i am so grateful for you dad. you are one of my best friends, in a lot of ways i am like mom, which rocks, but in a lot of ways, my personality has reflected you. Thank you for your love and support, and example. you and mom are the best parents in the world for me. Heavenly father couldnt have done a better job in picking parents for me.
Rach, love the pics! They are so cute. maddie reminds me of me when i was little. 
Destin, you saw Kevin!!!!??? yay, i love him! I dont know him, but it doesnt matter, i have prayed for him so much, i feel like i know him. Please tell him i wish him well and will be writing him another letter soon. 
Mark is married! tell him congrats. kid is like a brother to me. cant wait to meet his wife! 

This week has been good, but really exhausting. we visited the sisters in ttio, cusco on wednesday, actaully i went to ttio with caicedo and her comp came to our sector to work. It was soooo cool to be where i started and work, and be able to show caicedo who is opening the sector, who i trained a year ago in puerto, around and introduce her to members. i learned a lot.
Then friday night i got food poisoning and was throwing up in the morning on saturday, but we had our flights booked for puerto maldonado to do a surprise visist saturday at noon. so, we went. i was sick and exhausted, but there was too much to do, and it wasnt like i could miss the flight! it was awesome, you always learn so much with different people. and in the morning before our flight back to cusco, we went to church in puerto and keila and julio were there, and raquel and members that i love. I was the witness for their weddings and so that makes me their madrina is what they told me yesterday!!! they all came to the airport to see us off, it was a great experience. Its hard to keep seeing these people and having to say goodbye over and over again, its equally as hard everytime.
Well, thats it for now. Life is good. Something i was thinking about, we need to BE where we are, be happy where we are and be grateful where we are, but always work to be in a better place spiritually, physically, and emotionally, ect. o sea, live with the decisions we make and not regret, but learn from them. thats my thought for this week.
Love you tons family, i hope you are all doing well, see you soon!!!
Hermana Swartz