I HAVE A GREAT LIFE!!!! 7/13/2015

I just wanna let all of you know that I am so grateful for my life. For all of the wonderful opportunities that I have been given. The good times and the bad, I am grateful for them all!! I have the most wonderful family and amazing friends! I don't know what I did to deserve the life I have been given:)  I want to say thanks to all of you who who have been so supportive and who have helped me learn and grow and find the joy that we are all searching for in this life:) and I am so grateful to be here on a mission to help others find this everlasting joy as well! LIFE IS AWESOME:)

Nothing crazy happened this week but it was a good week:) On Monday we went to the museum and yall know how much I love museums! So that was sooo awesome:) 

I really don't have too much to say other than I love being a missionary and I love being apart of this wonderful gospel. Also I love all of you:) I hope you all have such a great week! 

- Hermana Ihrke -

“The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time.

I encourage you to look around you. Notice the people you care about. Notice the fragrance of the flowers and the song of the birds. Notice and give thanks for the blue of the sky, the color of the leaves, and the white of the clouds. Enjoy every sight, every smell, every taste, every sound.

Be grateful. Every day is a new canvas—a new opportunity. Our beloved President Gordon B. Hinckley has said: “My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life, we ‘accentuate the positive.’ I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort” 

BEING GRATEFUL = BEING HAPPY 

Love you guys:)

​This is the happy person statue!!! I love being happy:)

​HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE

Partying it up on the party bus!!! haha #matchers

​I was trying to make my eyes roll to the back of my head to look like a mummy,,, it didn't work!

​Haha In the room of mummys.. just trying to blend in;)

​Muuakk

We like to act out the exhibits,,,, We might do pageant of the masters next year nbd

Haha My district is awesome!

Sorry with the duck face idk why I'm doing it so much... lol 

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 7/6/2015

Well Happy 4th Everyone!

This week was an awesome week!

We were able to be a part of an amazing baptism! Ismael has been waiting to be baptized for about 4 years now. he has completely changed his whole life around and is fully aligning himself with the Savior! So proud of him and his determination and faith:) He is amazing and our Heavenly Father has big things planned for him:) 

I'm so happy that Heavenly Father has given me these wonderful oprotunities to watch other grow and come closer to our Savior Jesus Christ:) It has blessed me in my life more than I have words to explain:) 

I love you all sooo much! I hope you all have an amaizing week and I can't wait to hear from you next week! love yall!

-Hermana Ihrke

 "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go ... and bear with patience thine affictions, and I will give unto you success." -alma 26:27 

When you get down or sad, remember that the Lord is here with us to comfort us and through him we can be happy and find joy in the journey:)

Haha there will be more pictures to come next week:) but this guy is way too aweosme!

Ismael and his sweet family!!

Haha Love you girl!