Birthday!

I thought we would get to email about the full awesomeness of my birthday but...since email has not worked out so much for us the past two weeks, here is the hand written version.

First I was SO worried I would go into full-on melt down mode being away from y'all, on my birthday, for the first time EVER! To be totally honest...there were a few sketchy moments :)

However, since you are receiving this letter via snail mail, and not hand delivered....I survived!

The ladies at church gave me a super fabulous birthday party, with cookie cake included! It was GREAT!!

Thanks mommy for the Birthday in a Box and ALL the time and creativity that went into making my 22nd Birthday the BEST one SO far!!

(Mom, dad & the sissy's blew up 22 balloons and put her presents - cash, letters, gift cards, etc. in each balloon - she HATES popping balloons, so.....she had to pop each one to get her present out)  :)

The hand and feet prints from Piper and Sayler were the BEST gifts! I HEART them so much!

I know my Father in Heaven lives and I know that his love for me is unconditional. I know that we have a living Prophet on the earth today, that leads and guides us. I know that this is the true church and I know that I will live with my Father in Heaven again.

I am so grateful that grandma found D. L. I am thankful he prayed for an answer and was given the truth he sought, and joined grandma in the church. I am so blessed that they are your parents mom, and that they raised you as a Latter Day Saint. I am eternally grateful that I was raised in the church and that even though it was hard, that you kept going...that you took us, that you made us go even when we didn't want to.
The work is long and hard and when I fall weary in my bed at night, cold and exhausted, I thank my Heavenly Father for having blessed me with this opportunity and pray he gives us even more tomorrow.

I love you all beyond words! I know you worried mom...DON'T my birthday was Awesome!

XOXO,

 Sis Z