Departing Temple Trip {February 20, 2015}

Dear Brother and Sister Gale,

Attached is a picture of your missionary from our departing missionary temple trip. We have truly enjoyed serving with her.  Her testimony of the gospel has been evident in every aspect of her service.   We will miss her.

Thank you for supporting and loving your missionary.  We appreciate her service and dedication in the Idaho Pocatello Mission.

With love and appreciation,

President and Sister Brinkerhoff

Hogs, Kids, and Chicks {February 16, 2015}

Dear Chandlerites and whoever else read this,

 

Hey! So….I’m going to just get right into my photos.

We went to someone’s farm and saw a bunch of happy animals. LOTS OF PIGS.

​….some adorable little calves….pretty little guy.s…

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And geese and curly feathers,

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and scary chickens,

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and I drew myself as a student of hogworts for Sister King…I know. I’m a professional artist. 

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So today is my last P-day. That’s weird. But we’re going to have an AWESOME WEEK. I would tell you more, but I guess I’ll probably be emailing next week in the mission home? I don’t know. But I have to save some cool stuff…

 

My scripture I’d like to share is 1 Nephi 19:18…but I’m going to change it a little to have my name in it because that’s fun….

 

 

And I, Sister Gale, have written these things unto my people, that perhaps I might persuade them that they would remember the Lord their Redeemer.

 

I guess that’s the entire point of writing these emails. I mean yeah the stories are good to tell and all but really I’d like you all to just come closer to Christ. That’s my purpose as a missionary anyways.

 

Well, I don’t have much else to say this week! See you soon!!!

 

Love,

Sister Gale

Good Mornin’! (TobyMac!) {Feb 9, 2015}

Hullo Wurld! 

 

Hhhhow are you?! I’m doing fine and dandy here in Arizona…I mean Idaho….There has been a CRAZY heat wave. Highs in the 50s. What the. We’re using AC in the car. 

 

Photos:

 

Chemical burn from whitening strips…ew

another one of the photo things my parents asked for…

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Me with a bone at the Teton Dam sight…ew

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annndd an envelope from Sister King….I would show you the drawings she sent but my camera died.

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This week we had Korean food (it was good. Not like Takamatsu back home, but for Driggs, Idaho? Not bad!)

 

We lost two investigators due to parents not wanting us to teach them anymore, but we gained one back due to parents wanting to come back to church! Wow!

 

I’m happy and doing well. My thought this week is more of a reminder to myself than anything…

You see. I know that my time is ticking, I know I will be home soon, but that doesn’t really matter. There’s a reason I have these last few weeks left on my mission. There’s someone I need to talk to for a life to be changed. Maybe I just need it. Maybe I’m the one that needs the last weeks. Or maybe someone needs me. I don’t know. All I know is I can’t slow down or give up just because I’m nearly there. 

 

Have a great week everyone! I love you!

 

Love,

Sister Gale

Hey Hey Heyyyyyyy {Feb 2, 2015}

Dear Mouse-Pads and Keyboards,

 

How’s it going? Good? Gooooood. 

 

This week was good n stuff. We had interviews with our Mission President. That’s always cool. He reinvited my companion and I to commit to meeting the Standard of Excellence before I go home, which means at least two baptisms. We know we can do it. It’s just going to be way hard. But that’s okay. Missionary work is not suppose to be easy. 

 

But really. These last few weeks are going to be a roller coaster. We had dinner with this RM girl and she said that she was pretty much bi-polar the last few weeks and the a couple weeks after getting home she got way depressed. Yayyyyy. Exciting! Can’t wait! (That’s sarcasm if you couldn’t tell)

 

Here’s a couple of photos….

Cow with the Tetons in the back again. The sun was hitting the Tetons all cool, but it didn’t capture it liked I hoped it would in the photo. Oh well.

​And a selfie, because I haven’t done that in a while. Long while. I think. I’m not sure. Don’t really remember what I write each week.

 

But my thought this week I wanted to do something about moving forward. Kind of for me, but also for everyone else. I don’t really have a scripture for this but I’m reminded of something one of my young women leaders said about the iron rod. She said she liked to envision it being a vertical rod instead of horizontal. Having it vertical reminds you that you have to keep moving up otherwise you will start to slip down. If you are not progressing then you are regressing. This is something I need to keep in mind for my last few weeks, but also just in life in general. After my mission I can’t just stop. I have to keep moving forward. My mission has been one of the best, most spiritual times of my life up to this point, but it can’t be the best, most spiritual part of my entire life. There are things to come that are going to be even more. 

 

I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Gale