Well. This has been an emotional week for sure. We found
another person to teach on Thursday, a 10 year-old girl named Presley. I'm
excited to be able to teach her. The day after was perhaps one of the best days
of my mission. A couple we are teaching, Jill and Jesse, called during lunch
and told us they wanted to bring us dinner. They told us that they love us and
not just because we are teaching them. My heart just melted. I love them so
much, and I really hope they will eventually decide to get baptized. They are
so close! That same day, several other members in the area were just super nice
and offered to bring us dinner. We had several great lesson that day, and Elder
Leavitt and I just got along super well. We had some good laughs. The title is
something I said that day to Elder Leavitt. I have a bad habit of trying to
talk while I'm yawning, and it comes out something like:
aaaughmehermanermaaahhh. Elder Leavitt did a similar thing that day. It was
funny. So that day was just awesome.
And then life played a cruel joke the next day, and Elder
Leavitt got emergency transferred. It was really sad. He's been here almost 9
months, and he had so many friends here, and he wasn't able to say goodbye
because we're quarantined and he had to leave in like 3 hours. He was able to
call a few people, but other than that all we could do is film a video of us
singing a song, and post it on the ward Facebook pages. Elder Leavitt went to
Idaho Falls to be an Assistant to the President, and Elder Trezise, who used to
be an Assistant, is my companion now. He is super smart and creative, and is
just an all around great missionary! He likes running (in fact we ran 4 miles
today!) and reading fantasy as well, so hopefully we will get along great. I'm
excited to work with him!
I'm pretty stressed right now, because I don't feel like I
am ready to lead out this area, but I'm taking days one at a time, and I think
it will be alright. A scripture in Ether 12 gives me comfort:
27 And if men come 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 may feel Inadequate now, but I no that this will be a time
to make we weaknesses strengths through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
I love you all. You guys are awesome. An interesting potato
fact: Marie Antoinette reportedly wore potato blossoms in her hair and Louis
XVI wore them in his buttonhole to try to get French farmers and people hyped
about potatoes. That's more potato devotion than I have stomach for. Lol Just
kidding.
Pictures:
1. Elder Trezise (pronounced like precise with a T) and I
2-4. Pictures documenting our time in the apartment spending
hours calling and texting people.
5. In the process of making some delicious chicken tortilla
soup. Shout out to sister Barnhill in Sugar City for the delicious recipe!
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