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Good morning! I hope y'all are doing so well. Miss you. I've felt so much love this week, and in honor of Valentine's day, I wanted to tell you about it. :)

First, I've felt a lot of love and support from my ward.

Poor Sister Kershaw got so sick Wednesday. She slept all day. I felt so bad for her. But so many people were worried about her and took care of us. So nice. Sister Flippo brought her saltine crackers and jello and was like our mom. We also played Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza with two different families this week which was so fun. All kinds of love. :D Also, we hung out with the young women. They were throwing a surprise birthday party, and, as the tallest one there, I hung up all kinds of streamers and banners. AND, I competed in a pancake eating competition on Saturday. I needed to eat 19 pancakes to beat the record, and I definitely didn't. I died--so full. But, the family we were doing it with were so nice, even when I failed. 

Second, so much love from the people we're teaching and visiting. I played the violin in church on Sunday, and two of my friends who haven't been to church forever CAME. I felt so loved that they wanted to hear me play the violin and so happy for them that they came to church.

Third, I felt so much love from my Heavenly Father. Nancy, my friend we've been teaching for a couple weeks, said something really profound when we met with her yesterday. She said, "I don't have any doubts, but I have a lot of questions." I've felt that recently. I've believed in and prayed to Heavenly Father my whole life, and I think of Him as my loving, merciful, best friend, Father. Then lately, I've been studying the Old Testament a lot. And there are so many hardcore things that He does that don't fit into my schema for Him, and I don't understand. Anyway, I've been studying the nature of God and trying to get to know Him more. And over and over I have felt so hard that God loves me. Talking about God, the prophet Nephi said, "I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things" (1 Nephi 11:17). Heavenly Father is very aware of me, and even though I don't understand all that He does, I know that He loves me.

I love y'all heaps! Heavenly Father loves you too. Never forget. Have an incredible Valentine's Day!

Love,

Sister Liberty Johnson








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