STAY TOGETHER!

We were supposed to go on exchanges with the 2 Sister Training Leaders that are over the sisters in our area. The exchange was scheduled for Friday night through Saturday morning. All day Friday Sis E and I felt like we shouldn't be going on this exchange. I honestly felt sick to my stomach about it. We finally called the STL's (sister training leaders) on the way to meet them and asked if the spirit had told them they needed to go on this exchange. The Sister we were speaking to paused and said "ummmmm, well why?" When we told them we both felt that this exchange was not an event that we should take part in, they asked us to meet them at the church. The STL's told us that they too had awaken that morning not feeling "good or right" about the exchange but, had chalked it up to "nothing" and decided to go forward with it. We all knelt and prayed and the four of us together felt confirmation from the spirit that we should not go. Nothing happened to any of us, we are all safe and healthy....as I write this to you today I say without a shadow of a doubt I am certain that would not have been the case had we ignored the promptings and did our "duty" rather than follow the spirit saying unto us "Sisters, stay together, stay home and no harm nor danger shall come to you."

Listen! Put down the phone, turn off the television, tune into your Father in Heaven and LISTEN! He speaks to us, even when we have asked no questions....there is the voice, the guidance, the spirit that is with us, that has the power to lead and direct us. Never have I been so certain that the course of our lives were destine to change had we not heeded to the prompting we were given.

#thestruggleisreal

(yes as a missionary I can still hash tag!)

~Our toilet seat broke (Eggie)

~Humongous fire is 2 miles from our home & we are preparing to be evacuated

~Went caving almost broke my ankle!

~Pretty sure we almost ended up in a well in the basement (flash back to "it puts the lotion on its skin!") <---- different extremely freaky/scary story, maybe next time :)

I love the pictures of my sissys, seriously mom tell dad he HAS to fix Cookies hair in the morning! Mick you are SO beautiful and your letters make me laugh out loud, I can't wait till we get to have sister days again! Granny (not her real Granny, that's a nickname for Scout her sister) you make my heart happy, Sis E and I love getting all your letters and pictures, they make me shig! :)

Kiss Pippee and Say-Say and tell them big Sis loves them!

Mommy and daddy I could not do this without the love and support and food and money and cards and toys and letters and emails and cookies and pictures and snacks and poems and treats and stories and all the other 1000 things you send me every day....you are THE BEST!

XOXO

Sis Z