I'm Going to be a Trainer!
HELLO!!! okay so im pretty sure that every week I think its the best week
of my life. by sunday I just fall in love with my mission all over again. OKAY
BIG NEWS, transfers are this week! and im staying here! BUT MY COMPANION IS
LEAVING ME! im going to train. its crazy! I have been here for i think 5 seconds
and im trusted to train someone new. i really cant believe it. but i have been
thinking a lot about it and im actually really excited. i have learned so much
from my trainer and i feel like she really has prepared me well. but theres so
much anticipation and i just cant even believe how fast time has gone. but this
week i really have been trying to prepare for my new companion. we read this
talk on being a consecrated missionary that really changed my view on things. it
said truly we have to give everything up and give it to the Lord, and "put it on
the altar of sacrifice". there should not be anything left to give at the end of
the day because we gave it all, every single day. there was a quote from Parley
P. Pratt that i really like that said, "I have all of eternity to enjoy myself".
and that's so true! We are here to serve the Lord and only that.
This week we were really smart. and by that i mean really dumb.
we found out we were tracting in the wrong area!! hahaha we were trying to save
miles so we went to the neighborhood right next to ours. we have been going
there for weeks! and we have found so many awesome people to teach in there. and
then we ran into this lady and she was like oh yeah the elders come by
sometimes! and we were like.. WHO IS IN OUR AREA? then it clicked. so we
got to call our zone leaders and tell them this great news. but it has really
been working out well! they got a return appointment with two of them! it makes
me so happy that it is working out.
what else happened this week. OH. we had an investigator come to church!
he's 92. and the most hilarious man. he pretends he is blind when he wants to
be. like when we ask him to read something. We were in sunday school
and sis jones was holding the scriptures or something in front of him to show
him where we were and he was like IM BLIND IN ONE EYE AND CANT SEE OUT OF THE
OTHER! and then like a minute later he taps her and goes.. you are very pretty
sister jones. and she goes I THOUGHT YOU WERE BLIND! and then he laughed
foreeeever. and the assistants were asking him what we teach when we come
over and he was like ummm nothing. and they were like so what do you talk
about! he told the assistants that when we come over we only talk about
ourselves! IT WAS RUDE and they laughed at us for hours and got too much
enjoyment out of that answer. its whatever. (we taught him the restoration and
plan of salvation...PROMISE) it was a fun sunday.
Some of our investigators are really progressing! its so exciting. one of
them asked US if we had a spare copy of a book of Mormon. we have never been so
happy. its exciting seeing this area really growing and i cant wait to see whats
in store for next transfer.
so something i was reading this morning was in Matthew. chapter 8 i think?
i cant remember exactly. but it was about a man who's servant was really sick in
bed and he asked Christ to heal him. and Christ said yes, i will come heal him.
but the man said that he didn't feel worthy enough for Christ to come into his
home, and he asked if Christ could just heal him by his words. the scripture
said the Christ MARVELED at his faith. i thought that was the coolest thing i
have ever read! i imagined what it must have taken to have Christ marvel. and
then after that it goes into the story of the disciples on the boat and they
were scared when the weather started getting bad. and they ask Christ for help
and he asked them why they had so little faith? and then he calmed the tempests
and the DISCIPLES marveled. it was so interesting how at first Christ was taken
aback by that ONE man's faith, and his disciples didn't have as much at the
time. the question i wrote next to it was, what would Christ think of my faith?
so that's what I've been thinking about today and it really gave me a new
perspective on faith.
ONE LAST STORY.
The assistants worked SO hard not to tell us anything about transfers.
but they are bad liars and I wanted to take advantage of that. so we were trying
to figure out where we were going and stuff and so we finally got a call from
president saying that im staying and training and sis jones is leaving. and I
was like I bet you she is going to be a sister leader trainer (girl equivalent
of zone leader) and so at dinner that night I planned something great. hahaha so
elder Searle was like did you guys get a call? and I was like yeah! SISTER JONES
IS A SISTER LEADER TRAINER! (even though I didn't know) and he was like YEAH HOW
DO YOU FEEL! and totally admitted it and gave it away. then like 5 min later we
were like we didn't know and it was so funny cause I totally got it out of
him and it was the proudest moment of my life and they were on exchanges at the
time so later he told his comp and he could NOT stop laughing and it was just so
great so they are like we are totally getting you back. so they told president
what happened and they planned not to call sis jones and tell her about her new
call cause they knew she would freak out and she did and she would just
sit in anticipation and I thought she was going to die! and then yesterday
president finally called and told her and it was so funny they were like GOTCHA!
but I just sat there and laughed cause it didn't affect me at all and I was the
one that played them in the first place. so they got innocent sis jones back and
its just so funny to me. anyway that's my story I really love my area and my
district has the funniest people ever and every day is just the best day of my
life .LOVE YOU
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