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Week 70

What. A. Week. Saying goodbye to everyone in Cookeville was brutal. Especially isabel😭 On Monday Isabel went on a hike with us and it was so fun!! And beautiful. Tuesday I said good bye to Sam Hancock who I have grown to love so much, and bishop who I will miss a TON. On Wednesday at transfers I felt like I was missing something big the whole time and I had a constant pit in my stomach that took 2 days to go away. I think it was just from stress and extreme fomo. This has probably been the worst I have dealt with change my entire mission. When I got to my new apartment (which is old and tiny and there are 4 sisters living there) I started unpacking and got SO overwhelmed. It was a weird wave of anxiety that I have never felt before. It kinda just took over all my senses to the point where I just stood there for like 5 minutes with my hands on my head staring at opened stuffed suitcases with negative thoughts swarming my head. In that moment I felt so far away from God and it was scary! The only thing I could think of to do was to kneel in the middle of the mess and pray. So I did. I knelt down, said a prayer asking to take the anxiety away so I could unpack. That night I unpacked all my stuff and i fell asleep quickly (which doesn't ever happen on the first night in a new area) and the next day I knew that was all God. I'm doing a lot better now but the motivation didn't flood back right after I said the prayer, it is still coming back slowly. It's a process!! But I'm learning a lot from it. I couldn't do it without God tho.
Another cool thing that happened this week: I was walking in downtown Abingdon next to this little outdoor restaurant and there was a napkin being blown down the sidewalk. I had the thought to chase it and pick it up (which I later realized that was the spirit) so I did. I looked like a fool, but I stomped on it and took it into the restaurant to throw it away. Fast forward 2ish hours, we were walking down the creeper Trail (which is an outdoor walking path downtown) and this lady passes us and says "oh hey!! I saw yall earlier at the restaurant! I saw you pick up that napkin off the sidewalk and I thought that was so kind of you!" (but imagine it said in a southern accent haha). Note to self: you are always being watched, so do good deeds, follow the spirit, serve others, and never seek anything in return! She was so cool and it brightened my day:)
⚠️PRAYER ALERT⚠️We have a really cool friend named Ann and she has a lot of potential. She has a testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, and her son literally bashes her, but she defends the church!! Like what?? So please pray for her progression because for some reason she has plateaued with her progression. So all the prayers would be SO impactful.🙏🙏Even if it's just one this week.
Side note: Virginia is BEAUTIFUL!!!! The green rolling hills are unreal and it is a lot more open. I'm not being suffocated by trees and it is easier to see out because there are more fields and hills. I love it!!
Oh oh oh and I got to rev a corvett!!! It was a stick and pretty loud hehe it was epic. 

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