I'm so excited. I LOVE
Pescara and I've loved my time here and I'm going to be SO sad to leave
my investigators...but I am SO excited. I just feel like my time here is
done. I mean I've been here six months and I have worked A LOT. I could
stay because I love these people so much, but when that call came, I
just knew it was right. I'm way excited to go to the Island! I hear it's
beautiful and there's lots of sheep and they have their own type of
Italian language and I have no idea what to expect, but I'm excited!
Everyone says Sorella Felice is so much fun so I'm excited to party up
Christmas with her!
Saying Goodbye to some great friends in Pescara
So in Pescara there were
four sisters and two elders...well my companion, Sorella Mckenna, also
got her transfer and she is going to Rome! So we are getting blown out!
My good friend Sorella Patterson (we've practically been together our
whole mission) is also going to Rome. So three sisters are leaving
Pescara and two sisters are coming. It's kind of sad because we've made
so great process with our investigators and now they're getting whole
new people. But I'm sure they'll be fine. This weekend has been full of
goodbyes. The ward is so upset to lose three sister missionaries (they
love their sister missionaries here, we are their angels as they call
us...no offense elders). The bishop is especially upset to have less
missionaries because he's so into missionary work.
Saying some more Goodbyes to great friends in Pescara.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU
ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This cute old lady might be making us some
"American" thanksgiving food Wednesday and then Thursday will be
transfers so I'll be traveling all that day. Oh guess what...I have to
take a plane to get to Sardegna. Haha so awesome that I have to take a
plane to get to another area in my mission. And I can only bring one
suitcase...so today I've been sorting all my stuff into things I need
and things I could go without for a few months or who knows how long
(usually the people who go out there are out there for a while because
the plane is expensive). I'm not bothered at all, I really don't need
all the stuff I have.
Okay now I wanted to share
a quick thought for everybody. Sometimes life is hard. It is way hard
and sometimes God gives us things that we don't need or want. My
favorite scripture, that I've really learned on my mission, is Ether
12:27. ...unto
me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that
they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble
themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have
faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. .
I love this scripture
because it explains why we have hard things happen to us. Sometimes we
get a little prideful or we get lazy in our prayers or scripture studies
or we sin or something else. But God wants us to be better than that.
So what does he do? He gives us experience to help us grow and to learn.
God always knows what is best for us and he will always give us what is
best for us, whether we like it or not. But he will never give us
something that is harder than we can handle. We need to have this trust
that God is trying to give us more faith and is trying to make us
stronger so when we have trials--we shouldn't get discouraged but try
our best to be strong and to use this experience to get closer with God.
Sometimes that's hard to do and that's where we need to be humble and
ask God for more help and he will certainly give us that help. "For my
grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves" And if we bear
our burdens with faith and with trust, I know that God will bless us
more than we can imagine and we will become stronger than we were
before. So please don't get discouraged or sad when bad things happen to
us--pray harder, read the scriptures, remember Christ and his grace,
and move forward! When I'm having a hard time, I study
patience...because EVERYTHING will pass with a little time. I love you
all so much! I hope you have a great thanksgiving with lots of food!
Guess
what in exactly a month I get to talk to yall (my companion is from the
south. yall comes out once in a while)! So be excited for that! Wow I
can't believe all that is going on with the family; I am missing a lot.
I'm glad dad is doing better and I hope everything continues to go well.
Ah bridal shower for Chantel. I can't believe I had to miss that. But
oh well.
Love you all!
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