Wow...no se que decir! Sometimes I sit down and just start blankly at the screen because I do not know how to describe everything that happened in one week in a short email...this last week we worked really hard to get everything going smoothly and now we are really seeing the benefits. My comp and I have made some really great goals and plans to get the work moving along here. We are going to be holding a Young Women's missionary night where the young women in the ward get to pretend that they are full time missionaries and go tracting in the chapel. Some of the members will play investigators and this will hopefully help the young women realize that they could be missionaries if they want to. Also we are hoping to get some of the young women who are 16 and older to come on team-ups to teach with us. I think that this will be fun and I hope that the girls enjoy them selves and start to realize that they all can serve missions too. The fact that women can now serve at 19 is really making the girls think more about serving which makes me so happy and excited about working with them.
I cannot get my memory card to work so I will not be sending pictures today. Its alright because I actually don't have a ton to show, except for the pictures of my comp and I last night waiting outside of our apartment for our landlord to come. You see what happened was that I may have(okay I did) lose the only key that we had...yeah so it was quite cold but we sat outside and planned for our next day. So. I still lose things. The burning refiner's fire of the mission has not yet burned that out of me, ha ha. I am thankful for my companion that she did not get angry or anything, that was very nice of her. She is a good example of patience for me.
I know that the limits that we choose to put on ourselves are limits that were created by us, not by God. When I left Kaw River after my first time being here I honestly felt quite broken. This is one of the hardest areas of the mission and I really was quite glad that my time here was over. I was able to heal at the Visitors' Center and again feel better. When I first got back to the VC I would just sit in front of the statue of Christ and stare at Him a lot of the time with tears rolling down my face because I knew that He was the one who was helping me recuperate from pretty intense six months in the Kaw River area. When the mission president called me to come back to this place that I felt had broken me I felt this inner peace that really quite surprised me. I am beginning to realize what that inner peace is. It is Him, our Savior Jesus Christ. I don't have to have His statue to feel that peace that I feel looking at Him at the VC. I feel it here. I never thought that I would be able to come back here and love it so much but I really do. I could not do this for myself. This is part of what having a Savior means to me, that I can do things that I NEVER thought would be possible and that I can feel joy while doing them. Jesus Christ, the Son of God lives. I know this for certain.
I love you all and I pray that this next week is the best one yet!
con amor,
Hermana Thorne
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