HOWDY YALLL!!! This week felt like a fever dream lol! First off the transfer tea... * DRUMROLL* I moved to St. Roberts, MO to be a Sister Training Leader w/ Sister Tayco!! Quite hilarious since this is my 1st time in a family ward! Leaving the ysa was literally one of the hardest parts of my mission so far, many tears were shed. But I'm SOOO EXCITED to be with the people of St. Rob! And Sister Tayco is for real the sweetest ever!
Here's my week in a nutshell:
- GOODBYES ARE THE WORST! said bye to the ysa and they made me cry real hard!
- BEST LAST DAY IN YSA EVER!!! guyssssss we got to go to the temple to do baptisms with Wes (the new convert that just got baptized) it made me so happy!! AHH WORDS CAN LITERALLY NOT EVEN DISCRIBE HOW AMAZING IT WAS!!!! The spirit was so strong, we all felt so much peace!
- IM A GRANDMA NOW!!! I got to watch Sister Ritchie meet her child (trainee) for the 1st time, it was so bittersweet! Imma miss her like crazy but they are going to do soo many amazing things!
- PACKING... I refuse to tell yall how much my suitcases weigh. I'm both impressed that I could fit it all and embarrassed that they weigh quite a bit more than me!
- IM ON BASE! Part of my area is in Fort Leonard Wood which is an army base! FYI... YOU NEED A VALID DRIVERS LICENSE TO GET PASSES TO GO ON A MILITARY BASE... PHEW.. BULLET DODGED! For Sundays we have sacrament meeting and then teach the lessons by ourselves to all the soldiers. It's sooo trippy but wayy cool. We have sooo many people at sacrament meeting and very few of them are members. And get this, they have so many soldiers that want to take the lessons and since they have a super limited amount of time before they get deployed, we have to split up and teach the lessons by ourselves! I was sooo scared! But it was actually soo fun! They are so humble , the spirit is so strong on that base! They all just get yelled at all day and so to see them when they get to come to church and feel the spirit! It's AMAZING!! We literally pass around a clipboard and they mark if they want to be baptized or not.
- we went over to the cutest blind lady's house that we're teaching! It made me realize how much I have and the things I take for granted. She can't read the Book of Mormon but she just holds it open on her lap during the lesson and just hugs it. I was holding back tears the whole lesson because of the amount of faith she has. She would squeeze our hands and give us hugs and it was sooo cute!
- we went out and did a "mini mission" with one of the members, it was so fun! It was so cool to watch her start to get more and more excited to knock the next door!
♡ spiritual sauce ♡
From the man the myth the legend ... Elder Holland! I've been using this a lot to motivate me to share the gospel more! And this talk applies to EVERYONE!! whether you're a missionary or not!
“Then Peter, why are you here? Why are we back on this same shore, by these same nets, having this same conversation? Wasn’t it obvious then and isn’t it obvious now that if I want fish, I can get fish? What I need, Peter, are disciples—and I need them forever. I need someone to feed my sheep and save my lambs. I need someone to preach my gospel and defend my faith. I need someone who loves me, truly, truly loves me, and loves what our Father in Heaven has commissioned me to do. Ours is not a feeble message. It is not a fleeting task. It is not hapless; it is not hopeless; it is not to be consigned to the ash heap of history. It is the work of Almighty God, and it is to change the world. So, Peter, for the second and presumably the last time, I am asking you to leave all this and to go teach and testify, labor and serve loyally until the day in which they will do to you exactly what they did to me.” - the first great commandment
Your invitation for this week is to listen to this talk and to right down what the spirit is telling you to start or stop doing and then to ACT!!!
LOVE YOU ALL SOOO MUCH!!! HAVE A FANTABULOUS WEEK!!!
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