A post from Rachel's Mission Mom (Sister Winn)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

....and dang I'M HOT!

September 29th, and it was time for another sisters' breakfast at the mission home. Some of our sisters couldn't come, but those of us who were there had a wonderful time! We welcomed our two newest missionaries, Sister Greenwood from Texas and Sister Mousseau from Pennsylvania. We chatted and giggled, took a ton of pictures and ate a delicious breakfast. What a joy it is to serve together! In this picture we have sisters Morris, Greenwood, Blackwelder, Fairbanks, Ahern, Tagawa, Drew, Callaghan, Hernandez, Schwarz, Mousseau, Bates, Stoner, Foukimoana, Miller, Anderson, Zazueta, Thalman and Arce.

Sister Morris' mother was kind enough to make us some mission shirts, just for the sisters in the Utah, Salt Lake City Mission. At our sister's breakfast in July, we talked about self-confidence and how we can work hard to maintain the proper self-esteem. One of the sisters brought up a talk that she had heard in the MTC, about how to make sure you think well of yourself, and then act accordingly. It was suggested that the first thing every morning you should look in your bathroom mirror and say, "Dang, I'm hot!", just so that you don't spend your whole day wandering around comparing yourself to other women who are thinner or taller or shorter or more beautiful or younger or have wonderful naturally curly hair. Sister Morris decided that we needed something to remind us to do that. So she designed the shirts and her mother made them for us. On the front, they say,

I am full of joy.

I am firm in my faith.

I am united in purpose.

On the back, the shirts say:

I AM A

Utah Salt Lake City

SISTER!

Our humility required us to put the last phrase on the INSIDE bottom hem of the shirts.