This week has been an interesting one. It has been full of awesome moments and also sickness! Sister Egbert has been bed ridden for a couple of days since being here and with all sorts of symptoms… hopefully I don't catch it too!
We finally got Sister Egbert to the doctor yesterday and it seems that she started out with influenza, developed a sinus infection because if it, and somewhere before or in between had strep...No wonder she's been miserable!! Luckily she doesn't have an ear infection.
About mission life, I have to say it has been a bit tough lately because my new trainer, Sister Egbert, has been so sick. It is not as hard as it maybe should be because somehow I feel peace, plus I am a pretty patient person. She is always sorry that I am cooped up in our apartment while she is living in bed or in the bathroom, but I don't mind. I am her companion!! I am here to be with her, to love her, and to support her! I wouldn't rather be anywhere else. Of course I feel funky and zombie like sometimes, and I do wish we could be out doing the work, but her well being comes first. My philosophy is, why wish you were somewhere else or that things were different if you can't do anything about it? Why delay happiness, when you can choose to make the most of each situation as they come? Do everything in your power, and give the rest to God!
On another note, the work has been good. We often have enough lessons and contacting that we don't have a lot of time for tracting or streeting type of work (although we would like to do those more often). Our members are amazing, so loving and helpful! We receive a good amount of referrals and support from them! We haven't had any baptisms or been able to get anyone on date in my area since my being here, but we have many who are on the edge! The problem right now is not being able to do the work with Sister Egbert unwell. Plus, so many of the people we work with have asked us to stop meeting with them for the holidays (until like Jan 8th ish) or have just stopped communicating with us and disappeared. So that's a little sad. I would be on top of that going door to door visiting them and trying to catch them, but all we've been able to do lately is message and call because of illness. So that's sad. It is amazing how precious and vital each moment is as a missionary. Back home, if people didn't get back to me for a few days, it was no biggy, I even had a tendency to do that. I wasn't a good texter heheh. In the mission field though, if people don't answer for even a day, it feels like an eternity! I am getting better at messaging, emailing, and communications in general for sure heheh.
I seriously LOVE being a missionary with my whole soul! It blows me away that I can love and care for so many strangers as deeply as I do, as well have so many powerful and spiritual moments. It is funny how typing this all out is helping me see that it hasn't quite been smooth sailing and perfect, yet it feels perfectly wonderful and fulfilling. Missionary life is a bit different than I imagined but is full of such joy!
This week we had Zone Conference, and let me tell ya, it was AMAZING. Here are some things I got out of it and thoughts I had:
Allow Christ to be the blindfold that opens your eyes. Put your life in His hands, rely fully on Him, trust Him! Allow Christ to be the blindfold that blocks out the lies and traps of the world as well as the irrational limitations we set on ourselves. Allow Him to help you to reach your full potential. If we put our trust in Him, He will show us that we can do more than we ever thought possible. Rather than trying to have confidence in ourselves, have confidence in God! We are so flawed, so weak, having confidence in ourselves won't get us very far. He has all power and all wisdom, why not entrust all of your confidence in such a perfect Being? We are aiming for celestial, eternal goals, we can't get there by our own mortal means!
God's Chiseled Masterpiece: https://youtu.be/3QCkBL2DfVg
When people are "yelling at you" and pushing you, it means they haven't given up on you. When God allows us to be tried and stretched, it means He hasn't given up on us. He sees our infinite potential and He won't allow us not to have the opportunity to reach it!! TRUST IN HIM. RELY ON HIM. He will be by our side the whole time, guiding us and pushing us. It may hurt and it may seem hopeless, but by the time we look back at what we've done, we will barely believe that we could do what we did. It is ALL through Christ.
Death Crawl Scene from Facing the Giants: https://youtu.be/-sUKoKQlEC4
I would definitely recommend taking a look at the videos. They were shown in our zone conference and are what a lot of my thoughts spiraled from!
Daily pic
The night view out of the Preator's back porch deck!
The view was incredible, not even close to the pic!!
We took some selfies in the dark hahah
We made Christmas Sunday service invitations that we will attach to peppermint bark candy (:
Me being silly
Sister Egbert and I right after making invites and being silly. We love each other a little bit (:
Scenery on the way to Zone conference in Butte
Me with my hair all pretty
Pics from caroling - Sis E and me
Our zone leaders, Elder Helms and Elder Steelman
Group pics from caroling! -- Elder Curtis, Veazie, Helms, Eveleth, Me and Sister Egbert
-- Elder Steelman, Curtis, Schweighardt, Veazie, Helms and Eveleth, Me and Sister Egbert
I love Sister Egbert!
My family loves spoonerisms. This is for them!
We got to the conference early and took a pic when we got our seats. Sister Stanworth didn't realize and is staring off into space heheh, and then there's Sister Anderson, me, and Sister Egbert
Some members brought us dinner in Christmas bags because we were in all day with Sis E being sick
My sweet, cheerful and very sick companion, Sister Egbert (Sister Eggie to me)
Almost Christmas!!!!!
Us at the urgent care on pday
She's gorgeous even when she has influenza, strep and a sinus infection.
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