Hello family!
Have no fear: I shall not be pinched today because I am wearing my lovely green skirt! Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Hope you find some gold at the end of a rainbow and get some four leaf clovers and stuff. What else can one do to celebrate this holiday...? Maybe I'll ask around :)
This week was amazing! Hermana Ram and I are recieving tons of revelation for Gainesville and we're working really hard to get the members involved in the work. This area is super cool and I am LOVING it! We've been able to come in contact with some less actives that are developing desires to come back to church and we're excited for all of our investigators we're teaching! One of them is a 9 year old named R. We were teaching him the Plan of Salvation the other day and when we asked him what he understood about the part we had just gone over, he basically re-taught us the entire first half! He's a smart kid and he's a goof, so it's fun teaching him. His Mom is less active but hopefully she'll be returning to activity because she recently got a new job that will let her have sundays off! Yay!
I also went on my first exchange as Sister Training Leader! We went alllllll the way to Justin, Texas which is in a newlly formed stake and it was way cool! I was with a really cool sister and we learned a lot. We had lots of little miracles that day, including a less active who's non-member son needed some help, and when we were there her Hispanic mother was also there and I was able to talk to her in Spanish! It was pretty cool. Man, having a second language is such a cool blessing.
We're also preparing to have interviews with President Ames this week. He sends everyone a letter every week and it is really cool to see how inspired he is. He's so cool!
It sounds like everyone's week was a blast! Glad the Hearst Castle trip was successful, and I'm excited to go visit! Happy almost anniversary tomorrow! I'm glad Mom and Dad could go celebrate in the city, it sounds like it was awesome. And I loved the pictures! :)
To answer your question, Mom, something that I wish I would have done before I went on a mission as a young woman (and I know that they completely re-vamped the youth program this past year, so they might already be doing this) but I wish I studied Preach My Gospel more, especially the Lessons. I had always had a testimony of the gospel, but once I read through the lessons in my Mission Prep class, it suddenly not only made sense to me spiritually, but also intellectually. And I wish I was more involved in the Less Active work in our ward with the young women. I always felt uncomfortable going over to say "Hi" to the girls that I had never met before as an activity, but it's such a great preparation for the mission because that is a part of what we do. AND it doesn't have to be uncomfortable/weird, I always made it to be a bigger deal than it actually is (I think that's what all teenagers do with everything...) but any feelings of discomfort or "oh that's weird" in those types of things can be solved with charity: if we love the Savior, we will go outside of our comfort zone and feed his sheep.
Something that I've thought of frequently while I've been on my mission that gives me energy and drive is something the Spirit taught me in the MTC: "Why am I here if I'm not willing to go outside my comfort zone?"
And I look forward to seeing Dad's talk from Sunday, it sounds like a great one!
I love you all so much! Have an AWESOME week this week :)
Love,
Hermana Sangre
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