Thanksgiving,
2013
Hi
everyone, this is Sister Peart’s mom. Right now I get the exciting opportunity
to live vicariously through my daughter and serve a foreign mission. I thought
I’d take some time today and write a Thanksgiving letter vicariously for her. I’m
pretty sure this is what she would say:
You know
how you don’t appreciate the things you have until you no longer have them?
Here are some things I REALLY appreciate and look forward to having again:
- Being
able to call or email my mom and hear her melodious voice and receive her
glorious wisdom and counsel. (Or talk to my dad, siblings, friends, and other
family members.) Her cooking would be good right about now, too.
- Having
both hot and cold running water in my house. Having both a washing machine and
dryer. Having a bathtub with a shower head and curtain. Having a reliable sewer
system so I can flush everything down the toilet.
- Having
weekly trash pickup at my house.
- Having
mirrors in my apartment.
- Being
able to drive a car. Being able to use the internet whenever I want. Facebook!
There
are also things I appreciate and am thankful for wherever I go:
- Knowing
that Jesus Christ loves me, and you, and he wants all of us to return to Him.
- I can be
forgiven of my sins.
- I can
have the Holy Spirit wherever I am and I’m thankful for his promptings.
- There
are good people, kind people, happy people, helpful people everywhere I go.
- I have a
healthy body that can withstand hours and hours of walking. It can also
(eventually) withstand another country’s cooking and different cuisine.
- I’m
thankful to have inherited my mom’s “smarts” so I can quickly learn a foreign
language, my mom’s “great personality” so I can make friends any and everywhere
I go, her pale skin and beauty that gets me noticed everywhere I go. But I do
wish I had not inherited her “athleticism” (or lack thereof).
- I’m
thankful for good friends and family members who write me letters often and for
those of you who don’t, you have no excuse! Email them to my mom and she will
make sure I get them!
I am so
thankful to have the gospel in my life. I am honored to be a representative of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am quickly coming to love
the people in Brazil and I’m so thankful for all they teach me. I also want to
let you, my friends and family, know that I am in the right place at the right
time. I miss you all but this is where I need to be. I’ll have so many stories
to tell when I get back! I love you,
Sister Peart
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