July 14-21

 The Death of Spiderman

Using voice to text today to write the email today because my thumbs are on strike for email writing and so now I will use one of the few good things that has come from technology so it can assist me in being lazy today. And now I'm rambling so let us begin the email


☀️ Myllon got baptized!! Let's goooooo so excited for him in this step he's taken and so incredibly impressed at the progress that he's made. We started teaching Myllon my second week in Bracknell and by my fifth week he was asking to be baptized. It is now my 13th week in Bracknell and he was truly ready. We're so excited for him. I gave the talk on the holy ghost and stumbled my way through it, but the spirit was so strong šŸ™ 

☀️Massive spiders in the font on Saturday that I had to return to their Maker. I felt terrible, but I also had tried spraying them with so many chemicals at first to kill them, but I might've created the first mutant spider. By killing it, I have stopped the origin of a new spiderman... 

☀️ Sister Shanmugam laughed at me as I tried ginger candy for the first time… it was terrible. I'm glad she's amused 

☀️ We met this man named Paul who was one of the coolest people I've ever met. He is so in tune with the spirit and we had an amazing conversation with him on the high street. He came to Myllon's baptism, and he cried because the spirit was so strong. Stay tuned for Paul updates 

☀️ I finally won a game of Rummy at our ward activity on Friday evening. I have been here for too long to have never won a game but now I have evolved. Charles Darwin is not ready for my progression.

☀️ Got to make brownies for the young woman's fundraiser while fasting from chocolate for a friend… My moto, ‘pray that you will not be tempted above that which ye can bear’ ✌️šŸ„¹

☀️ Rain, rain, rain and you guessed it more rain... All the rain that has been withheld these past 2 months, all came out of the sky over the span of 4 days. It rained so much, and so heavily all the time, but the sky was still somehow blue?! One side was blue, one side was gray  How?? I do not know...

☀️ One Word… TEMPLE!!!

The temple has so quickly become my favorite place on earth. I LOVE the temple! We got to go on Thursday and it was such an incredible experience. I never realize how much I need the temple until I'm there. Our whole mission got to go and it was so special. I studied before we went about the endowment and tried to go into it with the mindset that the endowment is not just the presentation but it is what we take away from the temple and the things that we learn while we're there. Through this I have truly learned that God knows each of us by name and knows exactly what we need and when we need it. I am so grateful for the time I get to spend in the House of the Lord and I encourage everyone to make time to go to the temple if they can. It will always be worth it!

Hope in the Lord! 
Love you all and have a fantastic week! 

Stay crunchy,
  Sister Russell 

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