Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Charissa's mission 20080708

Charissa Black wrote:
7/8/2008 5:44 PM

... This week has been another wonderful week at the mtc. I cant believe i leave 2 weeks from yesterday, i'm so excited!! 4th of july was fun, we had a fireside where we played patriotic songs on chimes and then we went and watched the fireworks from the mtc. last tuesday j richard clarke emeritus 70 spoke to us and it was way amazing!

... i really appreciate the letter from everyone. it was so characteristic of you all!! please keep them coming like that!! ...

so i dont remember if i told everyone, but i'm seriously thinking that i would love going to nursing school. i've heard like a billion awesome things about being a nurse and think it would be super sweet to be able to save a person's body, mind, and soul

I'm so happy to hear from all of you individually! I am so proud of my family!!!

Dad: thanks for the interesting book reviews. i'm glad you're feeling popular the speaker last sunday was just released as the mission president in recife brazil and i thought of you. he was saying that the work is just going wonderfully. a few weeks ago when sister beck spoke at rs she said similar things about how awesome brazil is (1 million members there now) and that it is just exploding. i dont remmeber if i told you that. anyway, you're awesome! and thanks for the new word! ...

mom: i'm so glad you're feeling happy!!!! i hope you're listening to lots of music on sundays w/o me i like 'super sorella' any sweet stories from the house tour? i hope you took some pictures of the house in it's immaculate cleanliness. ps that reminds me, i would totally love family pictures still

ari: i'm so proud of you!! you are going to be a super awesome Cougar. i'm going to tell everyone and their neighbors about you!! any job news/girlscamp/youth conference/etc. news?? thanks dad and ari for jacki's address i actually got jackis response to dad's response quicker than i could check my email, but it really meant a lot for me to be able to write her my testimony and see how she's doing. i'm glad you found the camera. any sweet artistic projects coming from you? i love you a ton and hpe you're having a great summer getting ready for byu. what did you finally figure out for your schedule?

katie: i'm so glad you wrote to me. i love you a ton and am glad you're enjoying the perfume i'm glad you enjoyed efy. i imagine its sorta like the mtc. but the mtc is definitely way awesomer i'm so proud of you[r ACT score] !! you can totally go anywhere you want!! and i'm so glad your social life is going well, getting that school church bridge closing is so great!!

william i am so proud of you too!!! i really hope you are just feeling special. i bragged about our whole family as i was reading this leter.

rose, thanks for the email, i 'm so grateful you're happy. yay solo!! you go girl. and apparently your haircut is adorable. i want to see it!

jon, i seriously love you. i'm so glad to hear you're having fun even though you're not doing the reading club have you or anyone else in the family been reading stuf fthis summer? is everyone excited for harry potter ???

lydia: yay!! i love you too! i'm so happy you're tlkaing!! i cant type fast but i love you a ton. everyone hug her for me!!!

ps, i'm singing a cappella w/ my companion and sister christine lewis from st. louis this sunday in RS, i'm super happy, which is appropriate because we're singing 'there is sunshine in my soul today'. rs here rocks, because it's w/ all the sisters here (~100) and i know maybe 50% of them pretty well. i love night times here becasue the last hour before we go to bed everyone is getting ready and i get to meet these amazing sisters who have all done amazing things. i feel totally like i belong, and realize more and more how fabulous sister missionaries are!!

love you all!!
charissa

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