Mother, be happy!!!!!
This week was good. Last week in this area... WOOPS!! How did that slip?! Well, I guess I'll just tell you...I'M GETTING TRANSFERED! I'm going to be in the Dessert Bloom branch in the Warm Springs zone. Which happens to be very far away. Where the mission office is. From what I understand it's more in Henderson, on the edge of Las Vegas. The Airport and Vegas BLVD (the strip) are going to be in my area. Of course we can't go on the strip, but those are the boundaries. I'm excited because everyone says it's a lot different there. Sister Veazey just came from there so it's kind of funny how we just switched places for our 1st and 2nd areas. And guess who's going to be my companion? An old friend from the MTC - Hermana Webb! That's super exciting. I get two ginger comps in a row, too. Jaja! Oh, and Sister Veazey's from North Dakota, and so her canadian-ish accent kicks in every once in a while and sometimes it rubs off on me. So I might come home sounding like a Mexican/Canadian. Don't tell Hope! ;)
I've been feeling like I'm leaving since this transfer started. And all of a sudden we've been teaching all of these people that are so ready. We have 4 with a baptismal date - one on Saturday, and 3 on the 14th, and then we have 5 more that are soft set. I feel like this is Heavenly Father telling me that I've worked hard here, these are the fruits of my labors, and now He has need of me elsewhere. It's cool, though, because I said earlier in the transfer that IF I'm getting transfered, i'd prefer it be far away. And earlier in my mission when I was on an exchange closer to the area where I'll be serving, I made a comment that I wanted to serve in a place like that. It's different... everything's more open and bigger. I don't know how to explain it, but it's different. It just feels weird, almost like I'm going on my mission all over again, because I spent a good chunk of my mission here in the East.
We got 20 LTMs this week. Good end to the transfer. We're about to go eat with Sister Veazey's parents. They were in the area and she got permission to eat with them. So that's cool. I don't think I personally would want to do that, though. For one, it would be distracting, and for two, it would take away from the whole experience and make the reunion (in less than a year) a little less dramatic and meaningful. I dunno. That's just me.
I haven't sent you anything, because I wanted to wait until the end of the transfer so that you'd have pictures of all my peeps and such that I'm saying good bye to. I'm going to try to send the pictures and a letter tonight. My last night in the East - er, I mean Spanish zone.
I love you all! Stay strong and find things to be grateful for everyday. I told Hope about an article in the August ensign that talks about how teachers in the church should teach and what kind of questions they should ask. It's the same as how missionaries teach. The kind of questions she mentioned are big No Nos according to Preach My Gospel.
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