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| Sister Weygandt and Sister Nielsen |
Hi my loves, this week has been a crazy rollercoaster of
emotions for me for some reason. whoohoo. there have been a lot of awesome
experiences though. We got to teach this lady, Jane, who we met while we did
our "tracting" which finding anyone that isn't a member in Laie
really is a miracle haha. but she really listened to what we taught her about
the Restoration and is having a lesson with us tomorrow! She is such a sweet
lady and i really hope she can feel the spirit when she reads the Book of
Mormon. I can't make someone else feel what I feel, but i know it would really
change her life in a great way so I really have been praying for her! Also the
phillipino family that we have taught a few lessons to is getting baptized on
Saturday!!!! I love them haha I can barely understand anything they say and our
conversations outside of gospel lessons are very very confusing for all. hahah.
anyways. It's been so hard to make time for any more investigators with our
weird schedule and it makes me so sad. i love the 3 hours of study, but i feel
like i'm such a burden to my companion because the last hour is just beginner
missionary study time so idk, it's hard not to be able to use that to hasten
the work. I love the food and the families (especially poly families) stuff
food down me like nothing hahah I am stuffed still when I go to bed at night
hahah.
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| bike life |
So being in the visitors' center was kind of hard this week.
My companion is always telling me things i should do differently or not do, and
after a while of it it's really hard not to get discouraged. I told her to stop
unless i ask her, but now she really doesn't like me and we have no companion
unity... and it doesn't help that we aren't ever alone together the last few
days, so we haven't had the chance to really talk it out. So it's been rough.
When we teach together we don't teach with the spirit and so the last few days
of lessons have been pretty pathetic. I am gonna talk to her today, but it's
been real evidence to me that we really are nothing out here on missions
without God's help. We really are just tools He uses if we humble ourselves. I
have a lot to work on, especially humility this week. A mission is like 1000000
times harder than i thought it would be. I guess we don't change if we aren't out
of our comfort zones though, right? But its been really hard not being able to
just call home or to even be able to vent to anyone. I guess that's God's way
of making us turn to him because he's the only one that's always there and available.
I've had so many answers to prayers just this morning though, so I know
everything is going to be alright. I just really have to allow myself to change
and figure out how to even become basic friends with my companion. We had
exchanges this week and it was good to see how other sisters do things, but the
most important thing i learned was that I need to treat my companion like I'm
going to be with her forever, not just 6 weeks. Because when i think of it
ending in 6 weeks I give up, but if i think of being with her forever then I
have to change in order to make things work. The struggle is real. But God
definitely loves me and has given me tender blessing after tender blessing and
really shows his love in so many ways.
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| temple grounds |
I'm glad you all had a fun week. Everyone loves to see
pictures of you all,,,, especially me. Yall are so cute.
Love you!
Sister Nielsen
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| our dumb chicken |
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