Hi Mom!

  How are you doing? Happy Birthday this week Mom!! I was going to send you something for your birthday but I might just wait until Mother's Day! I got your letter about school....you're right I need to get back into school. I talked to my mission president and he is going to let me come home the transfer early. So I could come home at the beginning of July. That isn't final yet but it is in the works. It is a hard decision to make. I don't want to end my mission any earlier than I have to but I think that is how it is going to work best. It has been something that I have been praying long and hard about. It hasn't been an easy decision for me to make. I don't know about the skyping yet for Mother's Day...sorry! I won't be e-mailing next Monday because Sister Tarawhiti and I are going to the temple. Our p-day will be moved to Wednesday so I'll e-mail then. 

  This week has been good! We had a wonderful lesson with a less active that we are teaching. She is blind and Sister Tarawhiti's mom sent her an object lesson called Sensing the Savior. It is an object lesson with music and using all of your senses except sight. We did it with Sue and she loved it. She said that it was one of the most powerful things she ever felt. We had a member of the ward there with us and she testified how she has felt of the Savior's love. She talked about feeling the Savior's love for her. I know that we all felt too! It amazes me how much love the Savior has for us and all that He was willing to do for us. We are so blessed to know Him.
  We had another lesson with a less active this week. We talked about how to look forward with Faith. She told us that she felt guilty for hanging on to things that she shouldn't. The member that we took with us talked about how she feels like that a lot but then she remembers all the stuff that she can do and the things that she is doing right. She talked about praying and reading and how those help her remember the good things that she is doing. It was an amazing lesson!

  We had stake conference this weekend. We were able to go to the Saturday night session and also the Sunday session. Both were fantastic! The people in the stake are wonderful! The Stake President is wonderful! He talked about changing our attitudes from "I can't because I'm a Mormon" to "I won't because I am a Mormon." Saying, "I won't because I am a Mormon" is a statement of who we are. Saying, I can't because I'm a Mormon is more of an excuse. He talked about that Saturday night and on Sunday he talked about how Spiritual gravity can pull us down and make us become more like the natural man. Something that the stake president said, "Submission to God is unnatural for the natural man, but is natural for the saint." I love that because in Mosiah 3:19 it tells us how to become a saint and submit ourselves to God. It was a very uplifting meeting. I love you!! I hope you have a great week!! Enjoy Women's Conference!!

  Love,

    Sister Griffin

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:05 PM, griffincru@juno.com <griffincru@juno.com> wrote:

Hi Missy Callee,

How are you doing?  Have you had a good week?  I love to hear of the miracles you take part in.

I have some exciting news!  We now have dates of the Ogden Temple Open House and Dedication.  .  The Open House will be Aug 1 through Sep 6 and the dedication will be Sep 21.  You will be here just in time for it.  I’m excited!!

This week has been good.  Tuesday, I went over to Mary Broadbent’s to get your school stuff going.  I’m excited about that, too. Miss, pleas know it will be okay for you to get back into school.  I need your PIN # for your AG account and your password.  Lauren will leave out that info before she forwards your e-mail.

Wednesday, I went by myself to the Brigham City Temple in the afternoon because Diane couldn’t go to Bountiful.  Daines and Overdyn’s from the group weren’t going to be there either.  It was a full session.

Thursday, “D” and I went to Zaxby’s for dinner.

Peggy and I went Visiting Teaching four times to catch everybody. I am going to Women’s Conference this week so we went this past week.

Our weather yesterday was rain, rain, rain and more rain all day long.  The grass was soggy, too.  Today is sunny, but supposed to rain later on.

Jennifer and I went shopping for her birthday.  Then we went out to an early dinner to our favorite place.  It was an enjoyable day.

The Methuen Ward is sure good to you.  I’m grateful.  Tell Sister Allen thank you for me for doing things for Easter for you.

I received a letter from your mission office asking to verify e-mail addresses for me, our Bishop, and President Christiansen.  Tell the office they are all correct as they have them.

The Mickelson’s brought their twins to church today.  They are so cute.  The Newman’s spoke today in Sacrament Meeting.  It’s special when we have whole families participate.

I am at the Ewings today.  We are having ribs, baked potatoes, homemade bread, and cake, I think. 

Do you know anything about skyping for Mother’s Day yet?  Let us know as soon as you do.

Elizabeth is going to the prom this coming Saturday.  Her date tried to ask her in a unique way in the commons area of the school on Thursday.  He was using some cast members from the Beauty and the Beast.  Something went wrong with the sound and he was going to try to do it on Friday.  I haven’t heard how it came out.

Ben Lomond is losing three of their seminary teachers.  Mueller is going to be teaching Institute, Bro. Anderson is leaving, too. One other one is leaving, but I can’t remember who.  The kids are all bummed about Bro. Mueller leaving.  He wants to retire in a year – begged to stay one last year at Ben Lomond, but he was told time to move on.

Well, I’ll close for now.  Take care – I love you so-o-o-o much and miss you, too.

                                           Love, Mom