All we need is Love, Right?

Hello Everyone! 
Greetings from why-are-there-5-billion-geese-flying-around-all-the-time-Colorado!  
Another week come and gone... I can't believe how fast time has gone... guess what! HAPPY 9 MONTH BIRTHDAY TO ME! Sis Openshaw and I both hit our halfway mark this week and so we celebrated! With more desserts... oh goody... just what I need... not. haha. 

It's been a week!  Happy Valentine's day!  Probably the worst day for a heart locked missionary. haha.  Everyone all in love and stuff and I'm like... hey... so... the Gospel? haha.  But shout out to Mckenna Drew sending me a cat care package from her mission in Canada, she gets me.  :) 

So I'm just trying to plug along with the work... sometimes it's hard to see results. But just like when you are trying to push a car that won't start (obviously speaking from experience) you have to push and then let the car rock back towards ya... so some weeks here I feel the car is rocking back and it's frustrating for my little perfectionist self, but I know this week I'll keep pushing and hopefully see some good things happen this transfer.  

My spiritual thought comes from Enos.  I love that book in the Book of Mormon.  He tells it how it is.  Words he uses in the chapter are: wrestle, struggle, labor, pray unceasingly, and diligently seek. I feel like I've had those "Enos Experiences" and it may be time for another.  I need to up my faith and rely on the Lord because I know I can't do this by myself.  Missions are hard. Life is hard. There come times when we see that we have so much to do and don't even know where to begin! (Haden and cleaning his bathroom haha –kiddin Haden)  but I know that putting our trust in the Lord and REALLY praying with our whole souls can help us have the strength and the knowledge to accomplish the things that He wants us to.  

So if any of you are feeling overwhelmed and tired and exhausted and just at about your wits end with anything, I'm right there with you.  My invitation for all of us is to REALLY pray this week and have an "Enos Experience" is which the Lord can say to us "Go to, thy faith hath made thee whole"... 

I love my Savior.  I know He does make me whole and I don't want to think of the mess I would be without Him in my life. I love being a missionary, even when I don't like it.  I love the Gospel and I'm grateful that I can change and become better!  

I love you all and miss you so much... hey... we are halfway done folks!  See ya in no time!  But til then I'm excited to thrust in the sickle with ALL my might. :) 

Onward Christian Soldiers!

From me to you, Kinzie Lou

pics: happy 9 month b day... 

thanks for the v day present mom... choco covered strawberries! It was like I was at home with you!