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Here I am again, at the computer wondering how I am going to fit in all that I want to say into this little email. SO much has happened!!!!!!! Last week was a bit rough, I was really in need of a change and so I prayed that we would have one and WE DID! I am now training a bran new missionary fresh from the MTC! Her name is Hermana Jorgensen and she is absolutely wonderful! When I was at the transfer bus on Thursday morning the mission President's wife, Sister Keyes, came over to me and asked me if I had met my new companion yet. I told her that yes I had(at this moment I was saying hello to all of the missionaries that we at the transfer bus and my new companion was not right next to me) and Sister Keyes asked me if I knew that she already knew me before she got to the mission. I was completely shocked and I told her that no I did not know. She then told me about how Hermana Jorgensen knew me because she read my blog before the mission!!! Literally right when she got her mission call last August she went on the computer and looked up our mission and my blog popped up and she read all of it. She also told me that she wondered if I would be the one to train her right before I went home...crazy right?! My dear friend Nikki made me a blog and updates it with these emails that I send home and also the pictures so when President showed her my picture he was quite shocked when she told him that she already knew me a bit. The Lord knows what He is doing, does He not? I feel so humbled by this experience because that Lord knows me so well. Hermana Jorgensen is the BEST. We are already great friends and absolutely LOVE getting to train her. It is crazy to see so many things in her that I have experienced myself and to look back and think how far I have come. I love that I can relate to her when she feels inadequate with her Spanish. I can tell her that I knew WAY less than she knew when I first got here because unlike her I did not get to go the the MTC for Spanish. She thinks that I speak perfect Spanish but she is quite a bit mistaken because I have a TON of room for improvement and I know that she will be doing even better than me at the end of her mission if she works diligently at it. Training is the BEST!
I keep trying to tell Hermana Jorgensen that Spanish and the things of the mission will come to her as she works. Line upon line, precept on precept. I cannot even believe that I am saying this. I feel so different than I did before I was a missionary and training helps me realize this more than anything else. Honestly talking about this makes me feel emotional because the understanding that I have gained that good things take time is so valuable in my life. I know that if I work hard at something that day by day it will improve and that I will look back some time later and see the progress that I have made. This is hard living in a world full of instant gratification, but it is what we learn in the scriptures and the word of God will NOT fail us. You know those days when you feel like you just can't do it anymore? When you are just too tired, too worn out, and stretched too thin? Yeah I know those days very well myself, and then I reach Sunday. Oh blessed Sunday. If we are keeping the Sabbath day holy then Sunday is the re-charger of our spiritual, emotional, and physical batteries. We just need to make it to Sunday and then those feelings of being "too" anything will be dissolved in the Atonement of our loving brother, Jesus Christ. This is an eternal truth, and I know it because although on Sundays we do not get more rest(in fact for me this day tends to be the most stressful and hectic) and we do not spend more time studying our scriptures or being with family as missionaries, we too get to partake of the Sacrament. For those few minutes during Sacrament meeting when I get to take Christ's name upon me a new, I feel whole again and I know within me that there is not anything that the Savior and I won't be able to handle the coming week. I cannot sufficiently stress the importance of not missing church. You need it. I need it and when I go with faith that I will feel renewed, then I am renewed and the world is a much happy place for this missionary. Keep the Sabbath day Holy, in this there is safety, in this there is peace.
Sometimes when I write letters home there are tears running down my cheeks and today is one of those days. I bet the people around me wonder what in the world is going on with me. It's okay, I have been a missionary long enough that people staring at me has become the norm. What will I do when people no longer stare at me like that?! Ha, ha :D I pray that you all have the best week yet. Go hug the person that is nearest to you RIGHT NOW! ha ha, sorry that sounded forceful and also I just laughed out loud to myself because I was picturing some of you getting up from the computer to hug your bosses at work. HA HA! Do it! Maybe they need it...
Remember your worth my friends!!!!
I love you!!!
Hermana Thorne
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