Marissa to mom - week 8

Mom!

It's so good to hear from you. It sounds like you are doing well. I hope you celebrated dad's birthday! I wish I got to say happy birthday to him:/ I can't believe summer is almost over! So I just figured this out today, but this August will be the first time since preschool that I'm not going to school!!! It's crazy that a bunch of students will move here to USU campus to start school and I won't be. I never thought of it until now!

It's fun being in YSA because we here a lot about dating and stuff.  With this one guy we met, we asked him to do the 21 day Book of Mormon challenge (something to help investigators to read) he said yes but I have to get rid of a distraction first. He told us that he's tried to break up with his non member girl friend 6 times but is a chicken. We told him that if this is holding him back, then he needs to drop her and God will bless him with a new friend, we role played it with him and he told us he will probably text us during the break up for support.  He sure did. And we reminded him why he is doing this and that it will help him strengthen his testimony of God.

Another kid named Levi, told us he kissed this girl named Sarah, who we go on splits with. He then said today that they haven't talked in a couple days and that he is so confused on where she's at. Like really... We are missionaries and people ask us this stuff. We just told him to be up front with her and say look we had a great time a few days ago what happened now.  We thought it was so funny because we are missionaries but we have all these people talk about their love life. Haha I could share many other stories but I don't have much time.

I love you and miss you! And keep doing what you are doing and keep reading and praying everyday! Pray every morning and night because it really helps you start your day off right. I love you mom!

Sister Lowe