February 16 2015

Hey family! 

This week has been great.  

We've had A LOT of snow! 

Picture to follow ;)

Wednesday, we ate dinner with the Frost's. We were teaching the 

Plan of Salvation with cut outs.  The cut outs were laying on the 

floor..and Gabe who is like 3, started driving his car across it. Sister 

Frost grabs Gabe and says "This isn't a track for your cars. It's the 

Plan of Salvation" I lost it...it hit my funny bone so hard! 

Thursday..we got to go to the Temple this week!  It was fabulous.

Afterwards, we went over to the Visitor Center, and guess who 

we saw?  Coach Niumatalolo, from Meet the Mormons was there. 

Guess who he struck up a conversation with?  YEP. Me!

It was awesome. We shook hands...no big deal. No big deal.

This week it's been snowing like mad. 

We've been doing a lot of service! #sweepingoffcars 

We've seen so many miracles this week!

But I'm running out of time..soooo I can't think! haha. 

I love you all!

<3/Sister Brinkerhoff

MOM's NOTE:  Ok so on Friday, John had surgery on his foot and 

Cas knew about it and was planning on fasting with Wyatt and I on 

that day.  I did not want her to worry all weekend knowing she would 

because she would have no way of knowing how things went until 

Tuesday when she was able to email.  So I chose to call the mission 

office and ask if it was ok for them to get her the message that he 

was home and settled and all was well.  Elder Smith told me how 

kind I was to think of her and that he would call her immediately. 

I mentioned it in my email to make sure she had indeed received 

the call and this is her reply:  She won't mind me sharing. It made 

me laugh, she ALWAYS makes me laugh.

Elder Smith did call me! It was 3:30. We were walking around, 

finding people. I actually just had a sweet spanish street contact. 

But then Elder Smith called me. 

Convo..

ES: Your mom called..

*my heart then proceeds to drop to my butt*

Me: ...My mom called?

ES: Yeah...whats going on at home?

Me: Uuuh...well my dad is in surgery today..

ES: No he's not..

Me: What?

ES: Your mom called to say that your dad is at home resting. 

The surgery went great. 

Me: Oh...not funny Elder Smith! You scared me! haha.

ES: You scared me! I thought I called the wrong person! haha. 

You owe yourself a salad...go eat!

Me: Oh I'm going to! 

Then I turn around, BOOM, Subway! I'm sure you can guess 

what happened next. (: