Welp we thought we had transfers
are predicted and we were so confident we were right..NOPE. There are 2 new
hermanas coming in on Wed..We figured the two next oldest hermanas were
training them because I had already trained and Hermana H is the youngest
sooo we were pretty confident we had figured out where everyone was going...
NOPE...Phone went off at 11 last
night...Pres H called and asked BOTH OF US TO TRAIN! Usually you only have to train once! It's hard and you have to do a lot by yourself because greenies
don't know Spanish. ON top of that I might be moving..but
i wont know till later today...I really didn't see this coming!!!
So on the mission we have this
weird lingo of mission "family tree"..If you train someone you are
their "mother"/ they're your "daughter".. So we got off the
phone with Pres and Hermana H says "YOU'RE PREGNANT AND YOU'RE GOING TO
BE A GRANDMA"...my trainee is training so that is kind of the exciting
part...she's training over all the other Spanish sisters that have been out
longer than her...She's really nervous.
The next 12 weeks might be a lil
rough..especially if I have to move. I'm going to be on my knees alot. Send good letters this transfer haha and chocolate.
On a happy note I know it will be
fine. It's like the conference talk yesterday with the guy who was really down
and overwhelmed and then Pres Monson stepped in the elevator and told him
"it's better to look up"..."Look up, Step up, Cheer up"
That might be the theme this transfer.
This week was great though
we had so many good things happen! Conference was amazing and made me a
pretty happy camper:) Priesthood session was my favorite..YEP we went to
priesthood session and we were pretty dang proud of ourselves! We really
wanted to go because it seems like they always get way good talks but we aren't
aloud to go if we don't have an investigator so all week we were determined to
get one of ours there..and we did it! Which was a miracle because all
transfer getting investigators to church has been like nailing jello to a
tree. We were the only girls in the whole stake center and stuck out like
sore thumbs in bright pink...and all the guys kept giving us weird looks and
asking why we were there. Our Spanish members explained that we had "La
sacerdocia" (The Priesthood) so it was okay. (only funny if you understand Spanish). They
talked a lot about missionary work. They mentioned AZ twice! I loved one of the
talks where they talked about how you knew your mission president, his wife,
companions, converts and investigators before this life and you were called
before this life. I think that is so cool. and true. I love missionary work and I
love my mission..it's been a pretty good one. It was during this talk that I got a feeling that I need to be okay with whatever happened this transfer that
is was meant to be...but I didn't think anything of it until now..
We had a sweet activity this week
with one of the English Tempe stakes. Our whole zone went and did a mock MTC
for the Youth and we recreated the MTC each of us were in charge of one room
and one topic. For example one room was about tracting, one about OYMing, one
about what Pday is like, we were in charge of language showing what it's like
to learn a language... there was like 12 rooms I think...when they got there
they all got name tags and a companion. It was supposed to be like one day in
the MTC and every 5 minutes they moved rooms. We were in charge of Spanish and
we tackled about the Spanish culture, gift of tongues and taught them how to
invite someone to be baptized in Spanish. It was really fun. We had to do it 8
times and every time as I bore my testimony I felt like I fell more in
love with my mission. It just made me realize how much I really have
loved my mission and how blessed I've been. When I think back on my mission I
can barely remember any of the bad times...I know I've had them. I know I've had
days where we get antied a billion times and everything goes wrong and all I
want to do is go home and sleep haha but when I think
about my mission I am so happy. I'm so thankful I've had this experience and
been able to see peoples lives really change as they understand and apply the
gospel and that I've actually been able to make a difference in peoples
lives. I've learned so much and changed SO much and my testimony is so
much stronger. I love these people more than I ever though was possible. The
thought that I could get moved out of my area is making me sick. I've been in
this ward so long it is like my little family.
Well I don't know if I'm
going or staying..so I guess you will find out next week..
I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU
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