Happy Birthday Hannah

Hannah - Word cloud - WordItOut



I made a word cloud of the last 250 words that Hannah has posted on Facebook.  The cloud can be seen at the above link, but I will write a poem about Hannah using the dominant words in the cloud.



"Love", "Went", "Good", "Day", "Made", "Teaching", "Thanks", "Time", "Just", "Happy", "Earth", "All", "Today"

What a day

Today today, oh what a day.  The day of Hannah's birth.

Just seventeen years have come and gone since she first came to Earth

Oh happy day, good day indeed, the time has finally come

a celebration made possible, thanks to dad and mum

Seventeen years, well spent I'd say, teaching everyone

to love one another and always do good, a force as bright as the sun

and so now I quote, or paraphrase, the words of good Saint Nick

that night so long ago, I'm sure you know how the saying went.

as the Jolly old man more or less cried in delight

Happy Birthday to Hannah,"and to all a good night"

I just want to say how cool it was to see the biggest word in the cloud is Love.  What an awesome demonstration of how amazing my little sister is.  I love you Hannah!

Dear Future Missionary

Some try to describe the air, the food, the feeling that fills the center of training for missionaries,
they say there's excitement, and chatter, and whispers, as nervous young men begin this new phase,
they say you'll get fat but hard working, as you eat a lot, read a lot, learn a lot.
They say the teachers are the best in the world, (mine is better than yours),
but the saddest moment comes 6 weeks later when you're leaving the once entered doors.

Then some might attempt the even loftier task of describing the emotions that come in the field
they might describe the strangeness, awkwardness, and comical experiences, that everyone has,
they might have learned a language and struggled, maybe they asked for more, when they were already full,
they might tell you how great the joy is of seeing an investigator in church or someone overcome sin.
the indescribable joy that only comes when seeing someone you've taught in the waters of baptism.

Lots of people will try and describe the "best two years" but its impossible to do.
You'll never understand what a missionary feels, until you're a missionary too.