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Week 38

Alright, another week down, and only one left of this transfer! 
Here are some things that happened this week:
Fall cleaning! We spent basically all of Wednesday deep cleaning the apartment. We spent 4 hours on just the kitchen! I forgot how much I actually like cleaning haha we never really have time for it, so it felt good to not worry about anything else except cleaning. Since Wednesday, we have seen less roaches too!🥳 
This week we have focused a lot on part member families and less active members. They are some of my favorite people to work with because they know of the goodness of the gospel cuz at one time in their life they had it's power, and we are the ones that get to help them taste it again after it has been some time. Lives always change for the better when sacrifices or changes are made for the gospel. Living the gospel is not a "convenient" way of living, but it is the most rewarding way to live and it will make the second coming of Christ a lot more joyful. I want to be caught in the act of doing something good for someone else when Christ comes:) the other night I was laying in bed with an empty mind thinking about what the heck I was doing on a mission. So many thoughts came thru my head and I started thinking how I was enjoying myself much more before the mission. It had been a long day and it wasn't really a "fun day" to be a missionary, and a lot of discouraging thoughts flooded my head. Later in my studies I read alma 29:13,14,16 and I felt like Alma slapped my face😂 he said "God hath called me by a holy calling, to preach the word unto this people... But I do not joy in my own success alone, but my joy is more full because of the success of my brethren... Now when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were, so great is my joy." I won't expound too much, other than I had a pretty brutal realization that nothing about a mission is convenient or about me. I still have discouraging moments and days I don't want to get up, but I always remember who I am doing it for and where true joy is found: serving others!! And if anyone has any advice for me about learning to love the work more fully (specifically finding joy in consecration) it would be much appreciated:) I love hearing other people's thoughts because I still have SO much to learn. 
I hope everyone is doing well! Thank you for all the emails and support, it means everything! Happy end of September!🍁✨🍂 (I am excited for all the thousands of trees here to turn colors🥹)
Here's a pic of what it's like to ✨park on the side of the road✨ in tennessee
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our entire mission!

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