WOW, it has been a while, and I am so sorry for that! It has been really crazy around here, and I mean it this time! I hope all of you had an awesome thanksgiving and got to enjoy some time with your family.
This post is just going to be an update post I guess, a lot has happened. On the 18th I flew back to Alaska! For those of you who don't know, I was raised in Alaska and lived here until just before my freshman year of high school. After my Senior year, my parents made their escape back to Alaska.
They love it here, and so far I have really enjoyed being back home. It has been awesome to be with them again, but its going fast! I only have two more weeks left here, and then I will be heading down to Utah to wait out the rest of my time until I report to the MTC. I will not be with my family for my 19th birthday or Christmas because we wanted to make sure I wouldn't get stuck in Alaska due to weather, and that's kind of a bummer. But at the same time, it is a small price to pay on my journey to spreading the gospel in Pennsylvania. This is what I must do.
Alaska is....AMAZING. It is so pretty and SO COLD!!! Port Graham, the village they live in, never gets snow and when they do it melts quickly. I had told my mom I hoped it would be different just this one time so I could have a white holiday season and LO AND BEHOLD ITS SNOWY.
This is the view from my house, and I don't know if it can be beat. It is so beautiful and I am sure its even more gorgeous in the summer.
One of the greatest blessing I have received from coming back home in the environment I live in to prepare for my mission. Port Graham is very small, and very much excluded from the hustle and bustle of life. It is calm, quiet, and so serine. Because it is just so peaceful I have been able to listen to the spirit more and have had lots of time to read my scriptures and prepare to teach the gospel.
I think that sometimes a get away is exactly what everyone needs now and again. You probably don't need to fly to remote Alaska to find a peaceful place, but we all need that peace. Life can get so busy, and for a lack of better words, LOUD. I challenge each of you to just unplug once in a while. Turn off your phone, turn off the tv, and just go somewhere peaceful and listen for the spirit. He too often gets smothered by the static of the outside world, and that's a shame.
President Faust puts it a lot better than I do, watch this awesome video!
Today I am thankful for the spirit. I couldn't be half the missionary I hope to be without him!
Here are some more pictures of my frozen home :)
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