Email 11/22/2011 - from MTC

Hello family!
How is everyone! How is your week going? Mama, thank you SO much for the package!!! I am so sorry I asked for so much, but I really do appreciate it so much! The coat is perfect! I don't think i will need the shirts or sweater, this coat is great! Thank you! And thank you ahead of time for the Thanksgiving package! You are SO GREAT!!!! I loved hearing about the beef you were able to get! IT is amazing the ways God blesses us! I love the blog idea! It'd be great if we could do it that way! I just want you and the family all to know that I am SO grateful for all of you. I am so blessed to have the loving supportive family that I do! As for the Christmas package, you really don't have to send me anything, but... : ) if you do, it might be smart just to send it here to the MTC before I leave. The mission home is underwater in Thailand, and I hear it is really expensive to send things there.
I'm really sad that I don't get to spend Thanksgiving with you, but I think that Thanksgiving in the MTc will be the next best thing! We get to do a humanitarian project most of the day! So that is going to be awesome, plus we have a devotional with one of the 12!!!! It is gonna be so great!
Our phii thays left for thailand last wednesday, so sis farnsworth and I are hopeful that that means we will get to go on time. We are supposed to get flight plans at the end of this week, so we will see!!!
This week I have been thinking a lot about the Refiner's Fire they always talk about in the scriptures. IT is amazing to me that God loves us enough to make that effort to refine us and make us better. How incredible that when we sin against Him, he still loves us enough to turn that into an opportunity to become stronger and better. Not just when we sin but when we have trials too! I know that God is refining me even now, to be a better missionary! TO be the missionary He needs me to be, and I am so grateful that He loves me that much! Thank you for your weekly thoughts! They are SO great! I am going to make a book of them!!!!
Ok, out of time! Love you SOOO much! Have a great thanksgiving! I will be thinking of you! Love you all!
rag khuun! Jess