Hello!

What a week. I always feel like I never get to say and express to you all the things that I want... but so is life right?

So to start things off I want to give a shout out to my awesome sister on her almost birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON THURSDAY KENA! She is now legal and that freaks me out a little bit. But here is a little sister advice, always follow the spirit. Now you are able to do more things the state is showing trust in you and expects you to live up to that trust. Just like that your Heavenly Father has so much trust in you. He knows you and loves you. He gives you that trust becuase He knows that you can handle it and He wants you to be able to learn and grow. He knows that the only way to do that is to give you space and a chance to fly with a promise that He will always be there to catch you when you fall. Interesting that I say when not if, but I do this with a purpose. We are all going to fall, were human that is what we do, that is how we learn and grow. But the important thing that we learn from Elder Uchtdorf is what we do after we fall. Do we say sitting or do we stand up? We need to stand up, dust our selves off, and keep going. Saran will try to tell us that we cannot get up from this one or that others will never look at us the same. He tries to use fear to keep us down. Lucky for us our Father in Heaven knows that and he has given us a great tool to fight back with and that is Faith and Forgiveness. Man aren't we spoiled!

For every problem he has already given us a solution. But a lot of the time we act like the little children we are and ask for another solution... one that we want. (Any parents out there know ex actually what I mean). But I know from experance that we CAN ALWAYS GET BACK UP! And I love that!!!!!!

This week I studied a talk called "The Fourth Missionary" By Lawerence E Crobridge. This talk is AMAZING! Not only for missionaries but for everyone! (But if you do have a missionary print this out and sent it to them because I know that it will help them! They will love you forever!) As I was reading I realized that the "Why" behind part of my service was selfish and wrong. I wasn't just doing it for my Father in Heaven but I wanted recognisition too. Yes this is natural but it brought me more anguish then I need or want. I started looking at different parts of my life and past life. I looked at the Why. Why do I excersize? Is it because I recognise and understand that my body is a special gift from God and I want to take the best care of it I can? Or is it because Im worried about what others think of me and the way I look? Im sorry to say but for me it was more then not, the latter reason. This brought me spiritual and mental stress that I dont need and dont want. After realizing this I decided to make a change. I was going to only focus on my Father in Heaven. I want to do EVERYTHING for Him because that is where true success and happiness come. Do I still have my moments of weakness? Yes of course I do but I am able to recorrect my thought faster and in doing so I am able to repent and change. I decided to Change the "WHY" and it has made all the diffence! 

So this week we visited Vikki! She has been sick so I was not able to visit her as much as usual. We were worried that we would come to a mental mess like she sometimes becomes when she is left alone for to long. But as we visited her on Sat she was still trucking along and moving forward!!! Guess what this means???? This means that she is really changing!!! AHHHHH I love it!!! She is so great and has a greed to talk the actual missionary dicussions!!! (before we would share messages and couldn't really get a lesson in.) But now she wants to hear and learn and CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!! Missionary work is the best!!!

Family I love you and know that God is with you. I pray for you everyday. I thank you for your prayers and want you to know that I can feel them. If anyone wants to show true love they will write me this week ;) I love you all and I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true!

Love your daughter and friend,

Sister Kate Draney

P.s. Sorry ken that shout out turned into gospel. No I tell everyone about you and your Jimmer skills! Haha EVERY LDS family out here knows who he is because they are all BYU obsesed! I love you and hope you have a great birthday! You have a present coming in the mail!