November 19, 2019

You have a new cousin!!! Henry Lewis Anderson!! Joseph Ross my precious darling amazing wonderful boy!! How was your week? How is everything? How are you feeling? How were the baptisms?did they happen? How is every tiny thing in your life? Our hearts I've been breaking for somewhere and the measles outbreak. The news says there have been 16 deaths. So awful. Is it on your island? The news also says that Last call for a Christmas package? Is there anything anything anything you have thought of that you might want or need? Seth keeps trying to climb in the Box. We have had a strange week. Dad and Spencer left last week for China and so it's been a tiny little family at home. Make a dad and spend are running all over China hanging out in Buddhist temples and seeing ancient relics and eating really strange food. Annie has a driving range for driver's ed she's leaving for in a few minutes. I offered the missionaries to someone this week and I got turned down but at least I got to share my testimony :-). We have had fun putting your package together this week. We went up last night and worked on it with Grandma raspberry. She is so so sweet and so concerned that you have a wonderful Christmas actually so concerned about every single tiny detail of your life. Im begging Mooksta hair man to get a haircut before Lydia flies out on Saturday.... Puhleasee !! We had a very cool experience on Saturday. Annie Seth and I went to the temple and we all had a turn witnessing for baptisms. It was such a sacred Suite family experience. They had to face to face with Elder Gong this week and the new youth program is super awesome. It relies very much on personal revelation. I am just so so grateful that my maker is still making and that the Supreme Creator is still creating and I don't have a finished stamp tattooed on my forehead. If I did I think I would live on Pop Tarts buy a llama and join the circus. But I've also made a goal to develop the kind of Faith where our inadequacies are irrelevant. I hope to become so faithful that the only time I consider my inadequacies sins and shortcomings is to repent and then Revel in the joy of atoning Grace and what God can do with ordinary people like me. I'm challenging myself to never finish a sentence about my inadequacies without including the Savior before the punctuation mark. I love you so very much. I love that worth and behavior are independent.