Kittens, Memes, and Forgotten Dreams (9/19)

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DISCLAIMER: There are no "forgotten dreams" in this email. That was just for the rhyme.

Hello everybody,

A couple things. Zone conference was really good. It generated a feeling of love in me that I haven't felt consistently since my early teenage years before I moved to St. George. It's a remarkably all-encompassing, warm, energizing feeling of "life is great", "I love all the people I see", and "I love being here doing what I'm doing". It's confidence, hope, and charity. Last time I really felt it, albeit briefly, was at last General Conference.

How could I live without that feeling for so long in my life? How can anyone? (Actually, maybe that counts as a "forgotten dream"! Email title validated.)

I pray that I can always have that feeling of love with me. You should too. (Moroni 7:48)

Don't have much time to email because we went to the temple this morning for Elder Miller's last transfer and I also don't have too much to say.

...in words! But I have a lot of pictures! Get a load of these:

PICS: Me and Elder Miller emailing, a Ghostbusters meme, a meme about the very smelly basement-and-primary-dwelling-place of a guy we're teaching named Justin, my companion's ridiculous thug rap costume for our district's rap song recording (not pictured: my ridiculous thug rap costume for our district's rap song recording), another good meme, the completely original album cover for our district's new band/rap group "Good Times", and about 1/8th of the cats currently living in the home of one guy we're teaching (not pictured: me dying from allergies while overtaken by cuteness).

See ya next week,
I should probably include more actual experiences but I don't feel motivated to write them,
Sorry about that,
Elder Gallagher







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