I cannot even remember what happened this week! It's all been wiped away
from talking to the family last night! Everyone talks about how it's so
hard to talk to your family and it just makes you want to go home. For
me, well. Talking to them was just so great and fun! It felt so normal.
The hard part is that I know I won't be able to do it again until
Christmas and I had so much more to say and wanted to hear. Well, it's
over now. Back to mission life.
So onto missionary stuff and things: It is official. We (Sister
Wood and I) are staying in Wells together for another transfer. Everyone
is pretty shocked. That is 6 months and a third of our mission
together. It's a great thing that we love each other and this area :)
The ward is pretty happy about it as wells.
Most of this week we spent doing service--house cleaning, yard help, and moving--or we were in Elko. Tuesday we had a Zone Training and we hit up Walmart afterwards. Then on Friday
we had a member of the Seventy tour our mission. It was Elder Teh who
spoke in General Conference. He was super nice and it was great to have
hime. However, my mind was a bit preoccupied the whole time because I
kknew that afterwards I was finally getting my staples removed!
I GOT MY STAPLES REMOVED! It was a happy day...the
next day. The day of, I had scabby dandruff and was bleeding again. Also
they ripped out chunks of hair with every staple. I whimpered like a
puppy. They told Sister Wood she could do one when I got them in. The
looser ones didn't hurt so bad, so I let her pull out the last one. She
was excited. I got to keep all my staples and the staple remover! Now my
head it doing great. I can't even find it anymore without Sister Wood.
So I'm put back together and fully functioning!
Here's us at Zone Training. Sister Wood told me she
would come stand by me. This is me actually yelling at her because she
betrayed me to fend for myself.
Then another fun moment: We were eating at the Bates house and
Lanny leans over and says "Do you wanna shoot a Blowdart?" I think over
the rules... It's not a firearms and we have fifteen more minutes for
dinner. So I say back "I think that is necessary" and we shot blowdarts
at the wall and tried to hit the orange dot on the tape he put up. I
think that is one of my favorite parts of being a missionary is people
having you in their homes and random things ensuing.
Well, great. Now it looks like all we do is mess around. I swear we
do spiritual things as well. Most the time we aren't messing around,
but you have to find fun along the way. And we do.
Spiritual moment: One
of the things we talked about with Elder Teh is why we were on missions.
A lot of missionaries stood up and told both heart wrenching stories of
disbelief turning into something miraculous and good, stories of love
for the Savior, stories of overcoming so much opposition. Every time
Elder Teh would say, "Yes, your story sounds familiar". Then he pulled
the story in the Book of Mormon of Alma the younger and he said that
when it boils down to it, our stories are all the same. The doctrines
found in the church have touched our lives and we want others to have
what we do. And that is the truth.
He showed us What Alma the younger had to say to his
son and I think it is so beautiful because it shows the juxtaposition
of the state we are in without a savior from our sins and guilt to our
life with the savior and being cleansed. But also, it shows that to
everything bad in the world there is an equal and greater force of good.
No matter how bad the world can get, there is light; there is hope.
Yes, there is darkness, but do not dwell there because there is also
light. There is a joy that comes from living a life of goodness and
giving and faith beyond measure and beyond explanation. I'm glad for the
chance I've had to have faith in my life and I'm grateful for the
opportunity to share that with others.
"Yea,
I say unto you, my son, that there could be nothing so exquisite and so
bitter as were my pains. Yea, and again I say unto you, my son, that on
the other hand, there can be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my
joy." -Alma 36:21
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