Here's what's on the agendaaaa:
MONDAY: start of transfer 5! marks my 6th month serving(:
WEDNESDAY: going to transfers! RIP steadmanson..Sister steadman is getting
transferred :( which means........I'M taking over the area! after only being
here for 6 weeks! I barely know my way around...i just bought a GPS so we're all
good(; getting a new companion. ***Please pray she is nice***
THURSDAY: my birthday........turning 20!..gross
yeah pretty crazy stuff. haha, I'm just shocked I'm taking over the area!
It's pretty intimidating..but i can totally do it(: It's been really cool
because either during or right after I get done praying I get random thoughts
flashing into my head, that give me comfort. D&C 6:36 was one of them, and I
randomly found this talk on the gospel library app "Now is a time for faith, not
fear" I read that, it was so good and exactly what I needed to read(: Heavenly
Father definitely answers all my prayers/fasts. It's really neat to see that! He
likes to remind me that I can totally do it!
K back to my.....6th MONTH MARK! ahhhh so crazy. It's flyin byy!
I decided to be cute and write myself a letter to open on my 6th month
mark. (I wrote it back in October to myself to remind myself of why I'm serving
and what type of missionary I wanted to be) So I get to open and read that
tomorrow, and then after I read it, I'm going to write myself another one! to
open on my 9th month mark(:
and you're not gonna believe what happened this week.
I'VE CHANGED SO MUCH! i didn't even realized how much I've changed.
here's what went down:
we were at district meeting and a sister missionary leans over to me and
sister steadman and tells us a really inappropriate joke.
and K keep in mind old me would have laughed my little head off..
but new me...it made me so MAD. I was like are you serious right now?? why
would you say that? we're missionaries! c'mon....
I kept that all to myself and just pretended to not understand the joke,
and didn't even laugh at all!
I was like whoa......that's so not like me! but yeah so crazy huh? because
all I did in my pre-mish life was make funny dumb inappropriate jokes. 24/7
literally, i like lived for those type of jokes.
YUP. not anymore. they're not funny.
pretty crazy right?
We've seen a lot of miracles this past week(:
we were FINALLY able to get in and see some potential investigators and
teach the restoration to them!
Sister Lew a really super less active member CAME TO CHURCH!! this sunday!
She brought her mom too, who is super against the church and they both came! We
were so happy. We were walking down the hall, and I saw her about to go in the
chapel with her walker (she broke her FEMUR!) and i legitimately raaaaan to her
and gave her a hug(: because h.o.n.e.s.t.l.y. she was LAST person I thought
would come to church. We invited her to come multiple times and tried to stress
it again this week when we met with her and she was kind of iffy about it, but
she totally came(:
and OKAY coolest thing ever. A real life spiritual discernment moment
happened.
So at the beginning of this transfer we went to a sports morning at church
and a random less active member showed up (sister steadman had never really met
her before) and we were playing LAX together, and randomly IDK why (SPIRIT) but
we asked her if she knew anyone that would want to quit smoking because we teach
a really cool easy program that helps people to quit smoking. And she answers
that no not really I don't know anyone. So we're like oh okay, and continued to
play. Here's the COOL part
K so like a whole MONTH later we had dinner with this same less active
member (last night) and towards the end she brings up that she wanted to know
more about the quit smoking program because SHE HERSELF was struggling with it.
like what??! so crazy. We had no idea that she was smoking. And it felt really
random to ask her that question forever ago, but it was totally relevant and
definitely lead by the spirit!
THE CHURCH IS TRUUUUUE.
I love moments like these that help us to see that Heavenly Father truely
knows His children and will guide us to help them if we follow the promptings of
the spirit.
Me and sister steadman went running everyday last week. It was
h.e.a.v.e.n.l.y and MUCH needed<3
I miss running and swimming....but I will do it when i get back!
So have any of you heard of MacKenzie Tolk?? I'm obsessed with her music(:
she's amazing. Go youtube some of her music. Especially
"beautiful savior" and "how can I keep from singing?"
lyrics that stood out to me from how can i keep from singing:
"I life my eyes the cloud grows thin. I see the blue above it, and day by
day this pathway smooths, since first i learned to love it. The peace that
Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing. All things are mine
since I am His. How can I keep from singing?"
It's so good. (:
Missions are hard...but day by day the pathway smooths since I learned to
love it!! Remember that all my future missionary friends (:
I was reading in Mosiah 5 this morning. such a good chapter. It talked
about taking upon ourselves the name of Christ through baptism. And i was
thinking about that, and as missionaries....we LITERALLY get to take Christ's
name upon ourselves. I wear HIS name on my chest everyday.
"JESUS CHRIST" right in the middle center of my name tag.
And I am so proud to do so.
love you(:
sistermanson
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