Tab turns twenty-one!

When Tab left on his mission he was 19 years old. Since he's been out he turned twenty and I knew that I would never see him at that age. My saving grace was knowing that when he turned twenty-one I would get to see him again. His birthday is this Friday. I have refrained from doing a countdown but i will say.......it's getting close. Really close.

Hi Mom! Hi Dad!

I'm almost out of time today but I did have something I wrote to dad so I'll copy and paste it. Sounds like you have a lot of things going on lately. That's good. I like staying busy. ​

"Speaking of pioneers, I have been doing a lot of family history work lately. I go slowly and we don't have much time to do it, but I've made many additions thus far to Mom's side of the family tree. I really enjoy it.​ I've been hit with the Spirit of Elijah! I'm sure Grandma and Grandpa would be happy to hear that. Much of the work on Mom's side wouldn't be all that hard to do if I could get in contact with Grandma Sharon. I'm limited in the resources I can use.

Did Colby go to EFY? That would surprise me. How are Ryan and Sam doing? I know that EFY is a pretty big deal here in New Jersey - the ward will pay to send the youth to go because it will really help them with their preparation to serve missions. That's nice for the missionaries because all we have to do is convince them to set aside time and go!

The work has been pretty good lately. Week after week we do pretty well at finding new investigators. The difficult part of things here is getting them to progress quickly. However, this weekend we had an experience where I felt that my faith was strengthened and my expectations for miracles were raised.

We are teaching a less-active/part-member family called the Tifts. The mother is a member and the children are not. They are awesome and super nice to us. We just recently started teaching them. We had invited them to church but they were shaky about it and for the last two weeks they hadn't come. They told us they'd come when they felt ready. On Saturday night, we started teaching a young Haitian woman named Wilaine and we invited her to church and she said she'd come. However, she didn't have a ride. So, that night in our planning we said a prayer and quite quickly the thought came into my head to ask Sister Tift to bring Wilaine to church. Though I doubted that it would work, we still went for it. I couldn't think of a better way to get a less active member and our investigators to church! We sat there stumped for ~10 minutes because we had no idea how to ask Sister Tift so we prayed again and the idea came. Sister Tift responded saying that she'd be able to drop her off, but that she wouldn't be able to stay. Still, that was very generous so we took her up on the offer and we gave thanks and we went to bed. The next morning, we waited for Sister Tift to drop off Wilaine and wouldn't you know it, they all came to join us. Sister Tift, her daughters, Wilaine and her son got out of the car together and joined us for sacrament meeting. Miracle! That helped me to realize ways I can raise my expectations and see more miracles... one of the ways is to give people a responsibility!

That reminded me of President Monson's address titled "See Others as They May Become". You should read that one again.

That's just one thing from this week. If I had time I would write more. But hopefully that answers your question a little bit. Igor should be getting baptized here in the next two weeks! So that's good."

I did get your package this week with the goodies in it. Thank you for sending that! Sometimes I eat those for breakfast haha.

That's exciting about Isaac. Let me know how he does in his tryouts!

 LOve you too. ​

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Tab's new hat!

 Tab and his trigger!