I rode a horse

 (Sister Cummings)

Hey y'all! Sorry I missed last week! Pday was crazy and we had to cut it short because we had to drive to go have dinner as a district with the new mission president and his family. So I didn't have time to write an email. But, honestly, I'm not complaining because dinner with President was a blast!

These last two weeks have been honestly kind of insane! We got transfer calls last week and my freakin AMAZING companion Sister Woodbury got transferred and is now an STL (Sister Training Leader). Which is awesome because I know she's going to do amazing. I trained her well. But that's not the only thing that changed during transfer calls! The new Mission President is now sending sisters to the Northern Territory! Y'all don't understand but that's amazing because it's been an area for only elders for the past couple years and us sisters have been having mega FOMO (fear of missing out). So we're all so excited!

To tell you about this last week though, I'll explain my email title:

The other day, my new companion, Sister Yochim, and I were out contacting and came across this cutie little playground so we decided to take a 5 minute break and check it out. While doing so, I got on this little metal horsey thing that rocked back and forth. I think I might have been a little too big for it because I absolutely fell off of it but as I fell, my foot got mega stuck and Sister Yochim LITERALLY had to pick me up completely to get me unstuck. And we were in public! It was embarrassing! But yeah, I rode a horse.

One more thing that happened this week is that we have a friend that's on date for baptism! It's such an amazing experience seeing people make the choice to further their conversion and relationship with God. It's top freakin notch!

Okayy now for the spiritual stuff:

I loved the responses I got to my question about where the line is between being humble and being too hard on yourself and I want to share with y'all a basic summary of what I learned from y'all!

Humility is only found through Jesus Christ. It's found through trusting in His grace and understanding your own imperfect nature. It's joyful and sprouts happiness. It involves recognizing the gifts you've been given by the Lord and by continuously attributing them to the right Source. Humility is a product of faith in your Savior and is one of the integral ingredients involved in partaking of the Savior's Atonement. Humility is real and attainable but only through Jesus Christ.

On the other hand, being too hard on yourself is the opposite of humility because it is denying Christ. When you're too hard on yourself and you beat yourself up, you are denying yourself the ability to practice Christ's grace and atonement and try again with patience and love.

So, be nice to yourself and turn to Christ always!!!

Amen? AMEN

I love y'all! I've been learning so much from y'all! And Jesus loves y'all!

- Sister Cummings

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