July 20, 2009

From: Corrine Christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 10:31 AM

HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!!!

I SURVIVED PAGAENT! wanna guess how many people we had come through the joseph smith farm during those ten days we consider pagaent? any guesses? okay... i'll just tell you---- (cue the drumroll) 20, 830!!! and that is just at one of the sites! crazy huh?!?! i dont think we get that much throughout the rest of the year... palmyra definitely explodes during pagaent. some of
the businesses around even have signs that said "welcome l-d-s!" :) gotta love new york. anyways, despite the swarms of people, i got a lot of time to study- a tender mercy from the lord i am positive. i was able to read one of the books suggested for missionaries called "our search for happiness" by elder m. russell ballard, one of the authorites of the church. i would like to share a quote with you from that book. i was able to be at the hill cumorah visitors center for the
first 5 days of pagaent and testify of our savior in front of a statue called the christus. needless to say, my thoughts were turned to christ and all that he has done for me, and for each of us. truly, he should be not only our savior but our best friend.... back to elder ballard. he says :"the best thing about living a christ-centered life is how it makes you feel. it's hard to have a negative attitude about things if and when your life is focused on the prince of peace. there will still be problems. everyone has them. BUT faith in the lord jesus christ is a power to be reckoned with in the universe and in individual lives." WOW! A POWER TO BE RECKONED WITH!!! jeepers... thats a bold statement and yet, how true it is! i think it was helen keller who said something along the lines of "when you turn to the sun, the shadows fall behind you"... i love thinking of the sun, as the son- the son of god, our savior and redeemer jesus christ. ive seen it in my life, ive
seen it in the lives of people i get to teach out here in new york. i leave you these things with my love!

sister christison

ps. how the heck is it already july 20th? anyone got
a answer to that?!?!