So I have some really big news... again. Before that, I just want to say thank you for the Birthday gifts! Mom, I loved my bday package and you are the greatest person. To all my cute cousins, thanks for all the cute notes. I loved it. I haven't gotten cards and stuff yet, because they accidentally took those to the Narra zone.. So I won't be getting letters and things until next week at Zone Conference.. lame, but what can ya do? haha So thank you, thank you, thank you! I love you all.
Now for the big news... So this week has been crazy in my stewardship (which was kinda rough considering I was the only STL to figure it all out) but lets just say a companionship in my stewardship really DID NOT get along too well.. so needless to say there was an emergency transfer and now I have a co partner who is not my companion, but is my co Sister Training Leader. Thank goodness.. It's way too big of a job to do alone, but guess who my co Sister Training Leader is... SISTER HOLZWORTH!!! Right? haha who would've thought I would've been with her again?! Ahhhh it's so funny cuz after going what.. 10 months without seeing her, now I am going to see her like every other day so that's awesome! :) I'm so happy, you guys have no idea! hahaha so that's the news for this week. I swear I have a new companion or new news every week... haha but hopefully it'll stop at least for 3 weeks until the actual transfer.
This week has been great, crazy, dramatic, busy, but great. It's so awesome to be with a foreigner. It's so weird, but it's awesome! She like get's what i'm saying and can understand things before I have to tell her and it's so cool. It's also neat cuz I getta look at what I was like when I first came out to the mission field. Like of course I was a lot different than her, but in some things quite the same. It's so cool to see how much you grow on a mission. Even when it comes to people. When I first came on my mission I HATED to OYM (open your mouth) and talk to people on the street and things, but now I literally have no fear. It's incredible. It doesn't make any sense to fear the people you are trying to help save. I love training and helping her understand some of the things that took me a long time to figure out.
We had so many incredible experiences and miracles this week. Including our new investigator who is such a seeker of the gospel came to church as well as one of our long time less actives. She even brought her non member father to come to church with her. Wow, the Lord really gives a lot of blessings to those who try their best to do what is right.
I am really trying my very hardest to do everything I can to be a full time missionary. We always say we are, but I really want to be one. Full time, not just here and there or sometimes, but always. With my words, actions, and thoughts. Always in the missionary mode. I was thinking a lot this week on how important it is for us members of the church to really endure to the end. We need to be constantly evaluating ourselves to see where we are in life. And continue to walk in faith on the straight and narrow pathway.
One scripture I was thinking of a lot this week was the scripture in the New Testament. When Jesus tells them to hold to the plow and not look back. How we need to follow him and not wait for the "right time" and not wait for when we are so lost to come back, but now.
As we were riding in a tricycle the other day, our driver kept looking back. I think he thought something was behind him so he continued looking back and then would glance and the road again then look back again and he did this for a good 10 min. Every time he would like back we would swerve and it was so annoying. Then the other day I was writing some goals down for our area. I was trying to look at the area book and board at the same time while I was writing and then when I looked down at the paper my writing was all crooked. As these few examples happened over the week it made me think about our lives. If we are always looking back (or at worldly things) and our eyes aren't fully focused on the Savior, we will be going crooked. We will not be on the straight and narrow path, but we will be swerving and having a hard time. So I guess my point is, we can't look back and assume to go straight. We have to have "an eye single to the glory of God" and do everything we can to keep moving forward, keep going straight, and walk on the straight and narrow path of righteousness. It is straight and it is narrow and if we look back, even a glimpse we will fall and we will get lost.
I know it is so important for us to always look at ourselves and evaluate how we are doing. Not judge others for their imperfections, but look towards ourselves and try to be better. I know we need to endure to the end to receive eternal life. As we help ourselves and help others we will feel the blessings come into our lives and we will feel that happiness the gospel brings to us.
I love every minute of my mission. I'm grateful for what I have learned and for what I still continue learn each and everyday. I pray for all of you everyday and I love you all with my whole heart. Continue living the gospel and help others if they seem to struggle. Read the Book of Mormon, CTR, and be happy while doing it. Thanks for all you do and for the love you give me every Monday haha
Mahal ko kayo,
Sister Barton
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