Tuesday, November 15
Yesterday, i was thankful for my preacher, Brother David Kittrell. I love him to pieces! He does such a good job. He does his best to encourage the church and does what he feels needs to be done. He came to toney at just the right time too! I never really knew who he was, considering he used to go to Smryna and i dont think ive ever even been there..because they have the same regular as us and also because its so far away too. but i started seeing him around places, like Williams Cove the week the Hilary got the HG. And then he came visiting to toney one night, and i just didnt think anything about it. but come to find out, he made Toney home. shortly after is when Papa (Uncle Charles Underwood) had his heart attack and started going downhill really fast. Everybody just assumed that he was going to be fine, because nobody could actually imagine losing him. thats how i was, atleast. But while Papa was really sick and couldn't lead the services, he had asked Brother David to lead the services until he could get better. But Papa passed.. and the elders decided that Brother David should just continue to lead the services. So he did just that for a while, not calling himself the preacher, just leading the services. but eventually, he became our preacher and i'm so glad of that(: i also am so thankful for his speech issues. i guess i really shouldnt call them "issues" because its definitely things that he could help lol, such has saying suBtle, yo and yo-self instead of you and yourself, "that'd be AIGHT too", and many more. he has also come to adopt many phrases too.. such as "i aint jumpin no benches, but that be aight.", "whats happnin?" and "aint that wonderful" and he's even adopted Thumper's motto for the end of our services "If you cant say something nice then dont say nothing at all" but all of his little speech.. differences.. make my life so much brighter because its always a fun thing to make fun of! so yesterday, i was thankful for my preacher-friend(:

November 16
Today, I am thankful for this past summer. Especially of course for the night that i recieved the Holyghost, but my second favorite night of the entire summer would have to be the night that Kamran recieved the Holyghost. it was just two nights after i recieved it.. and i had no idea that the Lord was even dealing with him. but looking back at the pictures of the night i recieved it.. you can see it ALL OVER his face! I can remember the night after i recieved the Holyghost, when he started the alter.. i was praying for my brother when somebody told me that Kamran was about to make it! it was almost just too much for my brain to even comprehend! but he didnt make it that night, but the next night when he did it was just so sweet! it was seriously like i had recieved it all over again.. and it was only two nights after i had! it was the sweetest thing ever.. i didnt even know what to do with myself! i cried and laughed and cried and laughed for the rest of the entire service! and that had to have been atleast 30 minutes before i left the church.. and then when i left the church and got out to my car.. as i was driving i was still just crying and laughing and crying and laughing!  and now if i see him testifying or anything, i always think back to that night and it just makes me so happy(: also, the night after that, another one of my little cousins Connor Hindman recieved the Holyghost.. then exactly a week to the day after i did, my best friend/cousin Lindz did too!! and then there was more.. some related to me and some not. but it was hands-down the BEST summer of my entire life! so today, i am so very thankful for the summer of hope!