The
mini van is gone. Tear drop. They just came by one night and took it
away from us. :( How I am going to miss that good ole party bus.
BUT...what did they give us instead? A brand. new. car. Like...it had a
few miles on it. It's REALLY nice and I'm scared to touch it let alone
drive it. Just pray for me. Thanks. It's really nice and people ooh and
awe when we drive by. We're kind of a big deal.
So I wrote everything down that I was going to write about and I
forgot the piece of paper....so this may be very vague. Sorry bout that
one..
It is getting HOT here. It's not as bad as I thought it
would be, but I mean...yeah...it's pretty hot and humid. Only three more
months of it though right? Ha.
Aut! Sister Lima emailed me and told me about how an amazing
missionary you were and how everyone talked about how amazing you were!
That's right...that's my sista!
Okay...South Carolina? Mom and
Dad...I can't believe how busy ya'll are! I thought your lives would be
so boring after your youngest child left.. Guess I was wrong.. But
don't burn yourselves out.. Remember that you're old. HA! K.
sorry...that was a funny joke. Not really. Cough. Moving on.
Mom! That's amazing that you're trying to be a better missionary!
We need more people in the world like that. And don't even worry...it's
all I've been doing for the past five months and I make boo boos all the
time! Just keep trying and you will be blessed. :)
We have a new mission president..We'll meet him
tomorrow. I'm excited for a new adventure!
Sister
Meiners and I have finally come to an agreement. So my favorite thing
is tracting right. (I know...I'm weird...I just think tracting is really
funny...) and Sister Meiners's least favorite thing is tracting...so we
have come up with the fancy method of something called jog tracting. So
before dinner, we just kind of ran up the street and hit as many houses
as we can before dinner! Jog tracting! It's da beeeesssttt..
Funny story while tracting...so we knock on the door and no
answer...all the sudden...the EMPTY car behind us starts!!! I screamed
so loud and threw my scriptures it scared me so bad! The engine was
revving and everything with no one in it. People think they are soooo
funny. Just pull a little prank on the mormon missionaries why don't ya.
So I am kind of a spaz still, but I am actually learning a lot and
my testimony has grown so much. I can't even describe my feelings for
the gospel. It is EVERYTHING! and I love it with everything I got and
with everything I am. I like this quote President Sagers sent out in his
very last email to us...
"We are the Church of Jesus Christ. This is the truth. He is our great
eternal head. Why would we believe, why would we think that it would be
easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him. In turn, how
could we possibly bear any moving, lasting testimony of the Atonement if
we have never known or felt anything of such an experience? As
missionaries we are proud to say that we are Disciples of Christ and we
are, but mark my word; that means that you must be prepared to
walk something of the path He walked, to feel something, something a
little of the pain He felt. To at least occasionally, sometime during
your mission, shed one of the tears or sorrow that He shed.
Presidents, if the missionaries can come to love and appreciate it, the
atonement will carry them, perhaps even more important than it
will carry their investigators. You let them know when they struggle,
when they are rejected, when they are spit upon and and cast
out, and made a hiss and a byword, they are standing shoulder to
shoulder with the best life that this world has ever known, the only
pure and perfect missionary that ever lived. They have every
reason to stand tall and to be grateful that the Savior and Redeemer of
the world knows all about their sorrows and their afflictions
and that for a moment or two in their lives they will understand what He
went through for them. The only way to salvation is through Gethsemane. The only victory is the victory of the summit of Calvary. Welcome to the journey of the Disciples of Christ."
Elder
Holland, New MIss. Pres. Seminar June 2007
I think it not only
pertains to full time missionaries but ALL of us. I am grateful for my
Savior's sacrifice for us. I love Him so much. Let us all remember this!
Let us never forget! The atonement will carry us. I know that is true.
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