The beginning of this week was fairly boring. I wasn't quite
as recovered from having 3 ear infections as I thought. I got really tired
really easily so every couple of hours I would have to sit down for a bit. It
was especially bad on Tuesday when we did service at the restore. They always
have us move a lot of heavy furniture and equipment so I got really worn out.
But I'm better now!
On Friday we had a tornado warning. It was terrifyingly fun.
The sky turned green. It was POURING. We got soaked running from the car to our
apartment. Our mission leaders recommended that we shouldn't leave the
apartment for the rest of the night, so we sewed some dresses. The next morning
everything froze and there was ice everywhere and a skiff of snow. It made the
Coloradan in me happy. It was a tender mercy.
The next day was interviews and all my mission president and
his wife talked to me about was that I was going home in 9 weeks and my plans
for going home. I thought i was ready to go home until they started asking for
the details of my plan and I couldn't answer. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Even though I'm
panicking a little (a lot) there's also a sense of peace. The Lord's going to
help me figure things out and they will happen exactly the way they need to.
After interviews we helped with a youth service project. It
was really fun and I was able to build relationships with some of the young
women in our ward. We packaged 40,000 meals to go to 3rd world countries. It
was really neat to talk to the youth and share a little of my testimony of
service. Doing service has changed my mission. For the first 6 months we didn’t
do very much but now we do scheduled service almost every day. Service softens
hearts in ways that other things can't.
God is good!
Sister Slade
Pictures!
1. Johana's daughter sat on my lap and before I could take
her off (because it's against the rules to have children sit on you lap) sister
Jelderks took a picture
2. At service with the youth
3-4. This cat really liked our shoulders
5-7. Sister Jelderk's phone has a fun camera filter so
during phone audits we had too much fun
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