This week flew by, which I guess is a good thing! To jump right into things, we are teaching quite a few people right now, and I can see 3 of them being baptized by the end of this transfer. I've been praying so hard about it, because I have developed such a strong love for them individually and I want them to progress and be baptized soooo badly. It's funny cuz you don't realize how much you love and cherish the gospel until you start teaching it to someone who doesn't know it. I really hope to see a baptism before the transfer ends because I care about these people so much.
Sister Jones and I have been working hard and we have found so many new people to teach! I've definitely changed a lot in a few weeks cuz I get genuinely excited to knock on someone's door, and I stand there hoping that they answer. I won't lie, the first week, I would feel a flood of relief if someone didn't answer their door😅 so I've come a long way!
I also love visiting people that have dogs haha I miss little gizmo a lot. I get so happy when we knock on a door and a dog starts barking! My family sent me a package and in it there was a little stuffed dog😄 thanks mom that was the best:) there were also a bunch of cards in the box from family and some friends and this made my day! I can't express how much I love cards; they always make me smile
Something funny from this week was that we ate the same meal 4 days IN A ROW😂 at 4 different places!
Sunday: meat, mashed potatoes and green beans.
Monday: meat, mashed potatoes and green beans.
Tuesday: meat, mashed potatoes and green beans.
Wednesday: meat and mashed potatoes (no green beans)
No joke. It was all the same hahaha and it was at 3 different members houses, and Wednesday was at a missionary meeting. I thought it was funny hahaha, but I'm hoping we don't have meat, potatoes or beans for a while😂
This is random, but every once in while I have moments where it hits me that I'm actually a missionary. I'll be doing my hair in the mirror and then I'll look at my tag and be like "what the heck, I'm a missionary" haha it's so weird. I had a moment like that on Thursday when our district went out to lunch at firehouse subs and a sweet younger lady paid for all of our food!! She paid for the entire district, and she said that she wasn't a member, but she had family who was, and she respects the sacrifice that missionaries make. In that moment I had another realization of "woah I'm a missionary. People look twice now". Ever since I was a little kid, I have waved at missionaries walking or biking in passing saying "look, its the missionaries!!", and now I'm the one being waved at, and it still doesn't seem real. But I love being a missionary and I'm doing my best to not take this time for granted.
I have grown to love the people here. One thing that I've been learning is to always follow promptings. The holy ghost is real, and promptings are so powerful, even when they are tiny. My companion has had the strangest promptings and I never thought of them as promptings until she announces "I have a prompting to park here instead of over there" or "I feel prompted to text them instead of leave a voicemail" or things like that. She is so wildly in tune with the spirit, and I see how it guides her every action, and I want that!!! I'm still working on it, and she is such a good example to me. I think the biggest thing is just recognizing that it's the spirit. God works in mysterious ways, so act on every good prompting cuz you never know what will come of it, even if it's something small!
Also, the sunsets here are BEAUTIFUL. it's always such a good way to end a day. I put in a picture of a sunset in a Walmart parking lot haha the clouds were so weird, they looked like paint brushes, it was so cool
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