Ok, I know I do this all the time but just look where I am serving!
Anyway, this week was pretty great! We had a really neat experience while on splits. (I feel like all the best stories happen on splits... we've only done them two or three times this transfer but you hear a ton about them...) We did a lot of service for an awesome lady named Donna. They have a cow farm and she taught us all the names for the weird animals and their children animals and all the machinary and whatnot. Well she used to be a member, but her names got taken off the records do to a bunch of stuff like fourteen years ago. We had a really good talk and reminded her about the reasons she was a part of the church and the feelings she has had. After reminding her about the feelings she had in the past about the church she told us she would love to be rebaptized, but the man she's lived with for thirty years won't marry her. They have kids together and she feels like she can't choose between living with her family and baptism. But now the desire is there and we can start the work process. Pray for her! It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Also we've made ground with my best bud Mike! Really fun to get to be by his side while he's learning about all these things and trying them himself for the first time!
This week is one where for the first time I think I had the thought that I would be scared to go home. Not just cause I'm in love with the country or just get a huge kick out of listening to EFY music on a loop, but just because I love being set apart. Set apart from real life! I'm starting to have to work on a college application and I hate it. Now I'm going to have to remember a bagillion passwords and worry about essays and go over grades again and use my real world brain for a bit and it's lame. I love just having this last breath of myself. I don't know if that makes sense. But here all I have to do ever is walk around beautiful places and help people by helping myself. Literally the only thing I'm concerned about is improving who I am and helping others... and then finding good ties on P-Day. I'm never going to get to do that ever again. Being an adult in the real world sounds miserable (sorry parents). Job?? Bleh. Finances?? Bleh. Realizing your childhood is forever over?? Bleeeeeehhhh. Homework?? Blech. I'm just thankful I have ten months left of enjoyment. So even if it's way hard sometimes and I feel a little lonely or sad I realize that this time is freaking awesome so I better change my attitude. Yeah sure seeing my family and everything will be great and I would love nothing more than to sit down with some friends and listen to Ed Sheerans new album. But that means a lot of other stuff will start as well.
Also I won't be able to make weird faces with my MTC group at mission conferences anymore! I love these guys!
But hey. Everything happens for a reason. Just the knowledge I've gained from my mission so far and all the changes that I've seen inside myself make it easier for me to know that even though the rest of my life will be lame it will still be good cause I'll get tons of new experiences at different phases of my life and after all there is eternity so I guess I'll have all the time I need.
Just a change of perspective from 10 months being an unsermountable (spelling?) climb to being a big chunk of time to savour. We're getting transfer calls either tomorrow or the day after and I have no idea what will happen. I kind of want to change but I don't want to leave the investigators I love here.... We'll just see what happens.
Umm funny stories... we found a crazy Spanish guy that demands we tell him stories about super random parts of the Bible. We called him yesterday and he yelled at us in Spanish after we introduced ourselves and then he hung up. OH! Also. Mom I am under oath to delived a message to you from a lady named Else (Ell Suh). I knocked on her door and she was starting to say no and wanted to close the door but I just started asking her about her opinions and ideas and started a conversation. Turns out she's very curious about Mormons but just thought we were typical religious workers and that we were mindless. However after talking she made me promise that I would tell you Mom that you brought me up right and that I was nice, charming, and easy to talk to and that she is very impressed that I don't drink or swear and haven't ruined my life and she is impressed by your parenting...ness. Something along those lines. She might come to church soon! Fingers crossed =)
Also while talking to a couple of girls on the street two of them distracted us while the others tried to measure Elder Burtons butt... but I won't go into detail on that one.
We had a member of the seventy come talk to our mission about the possibility of us getting iPads soon. I had mixed feelings about what he said but I know there was a lot in there that I can use in the work so those are the parts I'm gonna focus on. I just felt like our mission presidents training he gave there had a lot more personal meaning to us as a mission and that it meant a lot more. Anywho, it was incredible and we get another one here next month when Elder Bednar comes! Super stoked for that!
May Robin Williams rest in peace.
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