So... It's been a good week and a
half. Stressful and with some irritations, but good.
Last Tuesday we had a training for
the new missionaries. It's called the first 5 weeks, but for Sister Finke,
since she came in 2 weeks into the transfer, it was the first 3 weeks...
I'm at a point now that my energy levels, coming up on a
year and half, are running really low. I feel like sometimes I barely have
enough energy to motivate myself let alone my companion. So I'm trying to
budget my energy. One thing I've learned on my mission, but that is always a
continual process no matter who you are is patience. I was sitting in the
bedroom the other day by myself trying to calm my mind and be more patient,
and I grabbed the phone and called Sister Preston. I asked, "How do you
become more patient?" I just heard laughter on the other end for a minute.
Sister Preston still gets annoyed with people, but I figured she's been married
and has dealt with President's little quirks. She gave me some suggestions. The
next day I was super annoyed and irritated. I was frustrated with my companion
and then an ATM ate my mission debit card. It was not a good day. I called
Sister Preston again and said, "What do you DO when you are super super
irritated?" She suggested lots of chocolate. Don't worry, I think I just
gained 15 pounds from this past weekend...
But. I'm still here in Southport
with Sister Finke.
Sister Smith got transferred over to
the Newcastle zone. We had a zone meeting yesterday before transfers today and
it may have been the last time I got to see Sister Smith before I go home. It
was a particularly rough day because Sister Smith found out yesterday that her
grandpa passed away Monday. She has a really close relationship with her
grandpa. President let me go and sit with her alone and we talked for a while.
I really love that girl. President always says we'll be friends forever and
it's true. I'm just super sad I might not get to see her again until Christmas.
(She lives in Utah.) We'll try to convince President to let us have a mini-party before I go... but
we'll see.
We're still working on finding
people to teach here. We had a few appointments set up for the last week and
all of them fell through. It's rough sometimes. We just get to know members
really well. We have had beautiful weather for the last 2 weeks. Not so much
today, but for the last 2 weeks. I even got a tan line on my feet from my
shoes! I was going to take a picture, but haven't yet. Need to.
I overcame a fear this last Sunday.
We had a meeting last Wednesday with the Relief Society and we taught about
missionary work. After we did our little thing, one of the sisters did an
activity of asking having pieces of paper that had deeper questions on them and
we were to bear testimony to others about something in relation to that. I got
a piece of paper that said, "Where do you find refuge from the
world?" I went and talked with this member and told her that my refuge is
in music. If I'm stressed, music is my go-to. She asked me what I usually do. I
said I sing, I play the piano, I listen to music. Well, there went 16 months of
hiding the fact I play the piano. She is the Sunday school teacher. She texted
me later last week and asked me if I would play the opening hymn for her Sunday
school class. They usually don't have an opening hymn, but with the lesson she
wanted one. Stress! I haven't played in church since young women's when
everyone laughed at me and I vowed I'd never do it again. But I did! And it went
well! No major mess-ups. So, conquered a little fear. Don't really want to
continue playing in church though.
Well, I think that's all I really
want to share for the week. I'll be back to emailing on Mondays next week. As
far as I know anyway. I don't think there's a bank holiday next week.
Keep emailing me please! There's
only 5 more emailing days left before I'm home! You can do it!!! I have faith!
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