Cannon, Sydney

Friends!! Not much to report, same old same old. Sooo heres a spiritual thought!  Alma 57: 25 reads:  "And it came to pass that there were two hundred, out of my two thousand and sixty, who had fainted because of the loss of blood; nevertheless, according to the goodness of God, and to our great astonishment, and also the joy of our whole army, there was not one soul of them who did perish; yea, and neither was there one soul among them who had not received many wounds."  I really like this because not one of these young warriors were killed, but every single one of them had many wounds. Just because we have many wounds and scars and heartaches does not mean God loves us any less. Nor does it mean He is punishing us. God never promises we will get our desired outcome when we trust Him, only that He will bless us. And sometimes those blessings are hard to find, but they are most assuredly there. The Nephites could have easily blamed God for not keeping them safe and for no...

Lololol just pics mostly. Things have been amazing though!! I'm with sister Mecham now and shes awesome, we just laugh all the time. This is her last transfer tho, kinda sad.  We still teach a bunch, but no one is really progressing towards baptism, which is okay. I'm just glad we are teaching so much.  Also something funny ‐‐ I had 2 elders give me gifts last week......... so that was weird, but hey I got some cool stuff so like, Kinda funny but also like no. Stop. Lol now that I can't date, dudes are all the sudden into me, smh.  THE LORD IS TESTING ME. Jk jk. Guys it's okay ma heart is locked So yeah on that note, we drove to Vernonia today and ITS SO BEAUTIFUL OHMYGOSH IM GONNA LIVE HERE. No pics tho cuz I was drivin lol.  Sorry this is short!! I love you all!!  GOD IS GOOD, you already know Syd

Soooooooo yeah we had transfers yesterday (which is why I'm emailing today) and sis Hair went over the mountain to Bend and it was the worst. There was screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeth. But whatever obviously I'm over it. It was a hard day but also a good one cuz I got to go back to SALEM!!!!!! (technically my first area for like a week lol.) The Vernonia sisters (Johansson & Jorgenson) slept over sunday night. then we left super early monday morning to drop sis hair off in Salem. And then my heart died. So ma girls J&J took me to down town Salem and we got drinks and sat in the grass and just talked, which was really nice. Then we went to some cute shops and got Mediterranean food for lunch. So all was well in the end I guess. You meet some amazing people on the mish. Sis H, and the sister Js will FOREVER have my heart I freaking love them so much ❤❤❤ shout out to my girls.  Anyway, soooo I'm senior comp now in Gales Creek so now I get to DRIVE and I act...

friends!! This week flew on by. psa..this week I was told  I use too many emojis on Facebook so I guess I'll just leave them here hahaha.  On Wednesday we went to the Forest Grove Farmer's Market and LOOK HOW PRETTY THESE FLOWERS ARE. it was SO FUN. Farmers market, then we got some take out food and ate in the backyard while the sun peaked out. I felt normal for a sec, it was refreshing.  I've been inside for a solid 3 months. I am going kinda crazy. I'm soooo fidgety. BUT happy day because we can now be invited into members homes for lessons and dinners. We've already had a couple and it has been blessed.  Random thingz: ☆I tried jackfruit and it was yum ☆Syd can't do eyedrops ☆Its mega rainy here:( sun, wya?  But also like, straight vibin ☆I made an actual meal -- o r a n g e   c h i n k i n  -- from SCRATCH (Dad are you proud?)  ☆We have friendship bracelets with our Bishop  ☆God loves ya, don't forget it  ☆GOD IS GOOD Sending ya...

GUYS I HAD 2 BAPTISMS!!!!!!! my first "official" ones!!!! (Tecnically I've had 4, + 2 ppl on date)  But guys it was sooooo beautiful!!!! Damien and Nyla were the ones baptized, they live in Vegas but flew out to lil ol Forest Grove to be baptized here so family could come. And so we could come!!!!!! Oh my goodness it was indescribable. It was really small cuz of social distancing, so we felt very special that they wanted us there. But it was literally a miracle. Our little quarantine miracle, cuz all of this came out of a short lil message from the bible that turned into the missionary discussions, that turned into baptisms. God is still a God of miracles, and not even a world wide pandemic can stop His work from progressing.  The gospel is so amazing, like when a person gets baptized it's like Christ raising them from spiritual death, which is as much of a miracle as Christ raising someone from physical death. The spirit was so strong. I love this gospel. It feels li...