August already?!🌵 8/3/20

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 Hi everyone!

I hope you all have had the BEST week! It has been so great here. Hot and weirdly humid but it actually doesn't feel too bad. Oddly enough the 119 in the afternoon feels better than when it's 90 degrees and 60% humidity in the morning for our run. But it's already AUGUST (which is really crazy, I hit my year mark this month...!) so it will start cooling down in the next month-ish. End of September is when it started dropping below 100. 
This week was pretty fun! We went and checked out a super cool monument in Yuma from the Mormon Battalion! I found my 3rd great grandpa's name, William Holmes Walker, and learned a ton from a local member! There was actually another monument so they told us we could follow them and they would drive to it. Turns out it's on the OTHER side of the border wall where they are building it. So, we went on the other side of the wall this week! It was crazy Mexico was just across the Colorado river which isn't too wide. But hey, makes for a great story! The first monument site was kind of dirty though so my district did a service project and went and cleaned all the plaques and picked up trash. 






Other than that we had interviews with President Goaslind this week, did more service for members, taught quite a few more lessons that normal (we doubled them this week!) and got into a lot of activities with the organizations in our ward. This week we are doing watercolor with the Young Women and did show and tell with the Primary last week. 
This week really has just been so good.(: I studied the BYU devotional "Our Identity and Our Destiny" by Tad Callister. If you haven't read it, DO IT! It is just beautiful. The one thought I'll share refers to our identity. He says too often we place roadblocks to our eternal destiny when we don't accurately understand our identity. We are not just simply God's creations. God and Jesus Christ created the worlds and all on it, but we are the literal offspring of God. We are His spirit children. A painting is the creation of a painter, a building is the creation of the architect. But that is it. The painting cannot become a painter, nor can a building become an architect. When we only distinguish ourselves as God's creation we fail to remember that as we are His children, we also have the potential to become like Him as we exercise faith in Jesus Christ, repent, make and keep covenants, listen to the whispering and guidance of the Holy Ghost, and endure to the end. 
I love you all SO much!! 
Sister Callister 
The sunset picture is the monument across the border. You can see the river and then the land on the other side is Mexico!

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