I am not dying; I just have the hiccups

Iaorana tout le monde! 

I hope you all had a wonderful week because my week was fantastic!

Nothing too crazy this week happened but hopefully I can make an email out of some of this stuff. 

We went on exchanges! I was with Sister Taylor in the land of young single adult wards. I left a ward activity amazed at just how youthful her ward is. (There is a trailer park retirement community in my area, so our days are normally filled with meeting with old people.) 

Sister Winkler had a birthday! We ate carrot cake for breakfast. Living the life out here in sunny California. 

Ua hinaaro vau ia faaite ia outou i te mana'o mo'a iti. (Got to use that toddler-level Tahitian somewhere.)
Anyways! I want to share a small spiritual thought! 

A spiritual thought that I really liked this week was centered around D&C 95:6, the verse that talks about "walking in darkness at noon day." Researchers once were curious if humans could walk in a straight line for long distances without sight. They put blind-folded subjects and placed them in a wheat field. The subjects got to see their starting point and their destination straight ahead, but had to walk blind. Not one subject was able to reach the final destination. At some point, every single person, and every person in all of the replicated and similar studies, began turning at some point, and kept turning until their path resembled a spiral. I loved the idea that without guides, we are truly walking in darkness at noon day. We cannot walk the straight path towards God without the guide of Jesus Christ, the scriptures, the Spirit, and the prophets.


That is all folks! 
Pictures!
1. The ugliest mountains my eyes have ever had the misfortune to see. 
2. Sister Taylor aka our personal shopping cart.
3. Our apartment!
(Video- it is so hot. And so bright.)


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