Hey Hey! This week was great. The weeks just keep going by faster and faster. Me and sister peach get along great. She is such a good friend! She has so much pride for her "country" of Texas and it's halarious😂. We have transfers this next week and we are both hoping we don't get transferred. The work is bumpin in this area, we had some really good lesson with students on campus this week.
Well turns out I am blind haha. After not being able to see very well while driving and getting way to much flack from my comp and the elders i finally got my eyes checked. They were shocked I didn't already have glasses. So despite my best efforts for avoding it my entire life.. I got glasses this week..... Haha. It is now safe to drive on the streets again.
Sunday we had family home evening with the YSA. When I first got here it was so dysfunctional. Now the YSA has become so much more unified and it's awesome. We had a honey roast. Where we go around and roast one person at a time with compliments. Then after we all were goofing around on the piano and started singing "I need thee every hour". But as we were all singing the spirit was so strong we all were just super unified and all Such good friends. Such a neat spiritual experience.
I really love the people we are teaching right now on campus. All are so different and come from such different back grounds yet the gospel helps them all.
I just want to tell you about one cool lesson we had this week with our investigator Taylor N:
So me and sister peach have been studying the old testament together. Its a daunting tast haha. But we just felt like we needed to know the bible better and felt like we need to study it. Because people here love there bible. Well we met up with Taylor Neas Saturday night! Super elect. She was our miracle person who came right up to our booth on campus.
This was our 3rd lesson with her. So we met up with her and our member Liahona on campus for a lesson. First she told us she loved church and cant wait to come again. While she was at church she was proactive in talking to people and asking questions. Really smary girl that will help the ward.Then we had a lesson on the priesthood authority and prophets. She was so engaged. She showed up with highlighters and sticky notes and was tkaing as many notes as she cpuld. All her questions were exactly what we had studying in the Old testiment about the priesthood. Our studies were so inspired we would have never know any of that stuff if we hadn't been studying it so intently. So she loved it. The priesthood and prophets just clicked for her and she said "wow I can't believe I haven't known this my whole life" "I can't believe there is a living prophet on the earth today".
She loved it and it was probably one of my best lessons so far on my mission. She is also a good friend now too.
So after that we walked back from campus in the dark to our apartment. Crossing over the train tracts getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. I was just thinking how blessed I am to be a mission. Its never something i had pictured for my life, but now i cant picture my life without it. As cheesy as it sounds I have never been happier. Even in Podunk town Terre haute. I'm so happy and so grateful. God is so good. I love the people god has put into my life.
I thought as we were walking back this is true happiness. This is what's important in life. The gospel bring us so much meaning to life. I realized I have never been happier than I am right now on my mission. It doesn't mean everything perfect here but I just now have a greater understanding of life and the plan god has. God is SO good. I have a greater understanding that we need to just continue to do our best and everything will be okay. In his way and in his time it will all work out. God will support us. We just need to learn the virtue of patience and love and sacrifice.
Gems💎💎 - got a free shirt on campus.
-bro petes (our ward mission leader) bought us McDonald for breakfast and it was great.
- Us and the elders helped some members move for 4 1/2 hours this week. It was a good time moving huge couches up step pioneer type stairs. In the moment I thought I was going to get squished or die from all the dog hair I was ehauling coming off the couch but I didn't. I wish I had a video of us and the elders. It was like the show friends. Pivot!!!!! ah when we were emptying the basement there were so many spiders. Not just any old spiders They are called sprickets. They a cricket and spider combined. Ehhh. Not a fan.
-had hoosier chili multiple times this week. People in Indiana love there chili. They eat noodles in the chili, chili over pasta noodles. Any thing u can think of chili probably goes over it. I have come to have a love for chili.
- Had stake confrence. Stake President said at the pulpit "any menu with bacon on it is a good menu."
#gospeltruths
- We were so broke this week. And had like no food. Lol. After we ate plain tortillas for 5 night in a row and realized everything we owned was rotten in our kitchen. God sent us a miracle and sister peach got a package of 60 granola bars and my mom send me a package of brownies!
As Michael Scott once said, "I know exactly what I'm doing, but in a much more real since I had no idea what I was doing." Haha I don't know why I kept thinking about that this week but I did. The more I talk to people in the YSA they talk about how they are afraid to do something because they are afraid to fail. Afraid to accept a calling, afraid to leave Indiana and get a new job, afraid of pursuing a certain career. We can't be afraid to fail becasue that's how we learn. Like Michael scott. You have to start somewhere but as long as you keep trying your best even if you fail along the way god will help and you will succeed. We need to not be afraid of failure. Failures how we learn. How we grow. Elder Lynn G Robbins said , "Success,” has been said, “isn’t the absence of failure, but growing from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm.”
"Repentance is God’s ever-accessible gift that allows and enables us to go from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm. Repentance isn’t His backup plan in the event we might fail. Repentance is His plan, knowing that we will. This is the gospel of repentance and becoming"