Are you having fun?

Our sweet ballerina Alexa sent us a wonderful drawing a few weeks ago and a great question!  "Are you having fun?  I know you are.  But, are you?  Color in a box...yes/no." 

Dear Alexa,  YES!  We are having Fun!  Not like at Lagoon sort of Fun...but more like when Lincoln learned to walk and you all smiled type Fun.  Not like going Trick or Treating type fun...more like Family Home Evening treats type of Fun.  (Grandpa likes driving on the bumpy cobblestone roads...so maybe it is a bit like the fun of Lagoon on those days!)

Remember the day your Momma was in the hospital when Lincoln was born?  We all wanted to clean the house to make it extra sparkly for her smile because she would soon be home?!  She had already done most of the work, so it was just your own bedrooms that needed a tiny bit of help.  Well, actually alot, after all the playing and making tents and stuff! At first, it looked like alot of work, but once we got up the courage and started... it turned out to be fun!  I think missions are kinda like that.  We know that if Heavenly Father's children have clean lives then that will make Him very Happy when He comes again.

Cleaning a room and cleaning our lives takes alot of work and some courage!  But, you probably remember that once we decided to pick up everything green, then everything yellow, then everything red, the time went by soooo fast.   Plus, doing it together meant we could tell stories, pretend we were stocking store shelves, and laugh.  The room was quickly clean and it was fun, but mostly made us happy because we did what we knew we should to help. I remember your smile after all of your work.We were happy because we knew how happy your momma would be too!  When people read the scriptures then they want to work on one thing at a time as well.  Maybe they will get married or maybe they will stop smoking, or maybe they will be kinder to their brothers and sisters or maybe learn to pray or maybe we can be more thankful...and soon our lives are clean and we are happy.  That is the Fun part of our mission...when we get to see people's spirits smile. You can see it in their eyes. That kind of sparkle doesn't happen without being clean inside.

I missed watching your swimming lessons this summer, and I missed making our smiley pancakes, and I missed your Ballet recital and our coloring times.  But, we will be back and do all of those fun things!  Right now, we live in a place where they don't even know about Ballet recitals, or smiley pancakes.  It is fun to learn about their ideas and to tell them about Jesus and about Heavenly Father's plan. They ask all kinds of questions about why we are here on the earth, where we came from, and what happens after we die.  And it really really makes us happy to see them smile when they learn the truth.   Sometimes people are so happy that they get tears in their eyes when they find out that Families can be Families forever and ever.   Happiness is the kind of Fun that keeps going!

Another fun thing here is to watch the children.  They make their own kites, and they like to roll tires around, (they don't have bikes, but sometimes they find old bike tires and they use a stick to roll them around) and they love to color when someone brings paper and crayons, and they love coming to Primary.  They get so excited when I take their photos because they love to see what they look like and they giggle. How fun is that? I think you would like it here. You already know that Grandpa always makes life fun!  Plus, sometimes we make Pizza!!!

We love you so so so so so much!  Thank you for your drawing of some of the beautiful planet creations.  It's awesome that Heavenly Father made Everything and all of the colors...just because He loves us. Your drawing is hanging up in our apartment so we can see it everyday. And for us...that is really FUN too!

Ok, so are you having a fun and happy day?  I know you are...but are you?  Leave a Comment...YES OR NO!