Sister
Nowlon is being transferred!!! We don't know where exactly yet though.
But the great thing is though that instead of flying out tomorrow she is leaving on monday so that she can be here for robbie's baptism on Saturday! haha I dont even remember if i've mentioned robbie yet but yes he is getting baptised on Saturday!
My new trainer is going to be sister fernandez. She's from toronto and
she actually came out with sister nowlon. I was pretty shocked, I
thought sister nowlon and I would be staying together but I am excited
to meet and work with sister fernandez:) and I'm super happy that I'll
be staying in st.john's. It will be fun to be in a trio for a few days
too!
We had dinner with camryn pierson this week, it's still
so funny to me that we both grew up in claresholm haha! also we had a
little scare with bed bugs hahaha. So we were visiting a new member/
less active courtney( she used drugs in the past so mind has been a
little affected by that). She used our phone to call her stepmother
while we were there and then after we shared a little message with her.
our phone kept buzzing the entire time but we ignored it. As soon as we
walked out of the house we looked at our phone and there were a ton of
texts and missed calls and voicemails from her step mom sister hollet
saying get out of the house!! she has bed bugs!! bag your clothes!!! go
have showers right now! hahah we were freaking out, it was so funny
though we were just so paranoid the drive to our apartment after was
horrible haha we kept itching and hitting ourselves. But so far we
haven't seen any bed bugs haha so I think we are good. After we had
showers the elders texted us and were like oh and just a heads up don't
go over to courtney's she has bed bugs hahaha we were so mad at them.
So
something cool that elder weston said at that new missionary conference
last week is "we have 2 years (or 18 months) to serve the Lord and the
rest of our lives to look back on it". I missed everyone probably the
most this past week than I have at any other time on my mission.
Everybody out here just has so many struggles and it's really hard
knowing that I can't help them all. The only thing that I can think of
that I can relate it to is the parable of the ten virgins and I have
this extra oil and I just want to give it to everyone, I see them
struggle and I just want them to know that this gospel is true. I want
them to be keeping commitments that I know will make them happy. And
it's so sad to see all these people who are lost and they just won't
give the atonement of Jesus Christ a chance. That has been what was hard
for me this week... but also it has been the thing that's given me new
motivation. In our bible study that I taught at the university last
night we were studying in matthew 26, where Christ submits His will to
God's when He is in the garden of Gethsemane. in verse 39 (i think) it
says that he fell on his face and prayed, He asks if there's another
way, if there's an easier path, but in the end He accepts God's will and
we can learn so much from His example. Choosing to serve a mission is
definitely where i relate the most to Christ at this time, leaving
everything and everyone behind was not an easy choice, especially
because it wasn't mandatory... but in a way it was to me because I knew
and I know that this is what I am meant to be doing right now. I know
that there are so many other examples of times where we have to submit
our will to God's will. It's not easy, but we will be blessed:)
Sometimes it's scary but something that sister stoker (my STL) shared
with me this past week while we were on exchanges, has helped me with
some of my fears. She said that in her last interview with president
Pratt she told him how she has been on her mission for so long now but
that she still has a fear of talking to everyone, and she felt bad
because she knew that she can't have both fear and faith. But president
pratt explained to her that it's ok to still have fear but what matters
is what we choose to act on. Will we act on our fear? Or will we act on
our faith? Because we can't act on both. We either have to submit our
will or choose to do our own will, but no matter how inadequate we may
feel, we will always be more successful doing what God calls us to do.
I love you! Enjoy the last few weeks of summer:)
sister wood
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