Starting
your last transfer is kind of a weird feeling. Everyone asks you how you're
feeling and such. I don't know how to answer because I legitimately don't know
how I'm feeling. It doesn't feel real. It's like when I was a kid and you told
me that someday we would go to Disneyland. Someday I'll go home. Except someday
is actually in 5 weeks and it still feels like someday.
Sister
Smith and I had a sad goodbye. At least 68 times our last few days together we
said, "How can I get a new companion," or "What am I going to do
with someone else?" I remembered the last of our only/greatest hits:
Quail
Little
GrillEyeballs
I
do love Sister Childs though. She is wonderful and the kind of companion I need
my last transfer. She is a sister training leader so I will still go on quite a
few exchanges with the sisters she is over.
She said that she believes that the sisters she is over are hers because
they need to learn something from me as well this transfer. That is an interesting thought. It's interesting
that she remembers so much of what I said when I was her district leader. She's
openly shared things that I taught in district meeting or on exchanges with the
sisters she is over and has told them they are things she learned with me. I
don't even remember saying some of the things she remembers. She is a hard
worker and will be such a blessing to the area when I leave (she is now too,
but I feel good about her being here without me down the road.
Our
4th of July was pretty good! Last year it was a day off, but this year were
expected to be missionaries all day. We went into the day with a positive
attitude and knew that if we were happy then we would find things to do. That's
the way the Lord works. If you do his bidding without complaining then he gives
you things to do. We did service for our ward mission leader's neighbor and she
fed us lunch. We were asked by someone we are working with to feed their dog
while they were out of town for the weekend. We stopped by there a few times
during the day to feed the dog and give her more water. We played with her a
bit and loved her too. She was a sweet little thing. Then we met with Sister
Childs' sisters and had the beginning of the transfer goal setting meeting you
have with your sister training leader. We didn't have a dinner appointment, so
we went out to eat with our roommates on our way to downtown Mesa where we
helped with the Celebrate Freedom Festival. On Friday when we found out that we
were expected to work on the 4th I remembered seeing an opportunity to
volunteer with them, so I called the lady and asked if they still needed
volunteers with the event being 24 hours away. She said they did and we went
down and had a good time manning the blow up water slides all evening.
We loved the Freedom Festival. It was so fun and patriotic.
We
met with Polly at the assisted living home last night and actually shared with
her a lot of the Restoration lesson finally. I don't know if we'll teach her
everything in this life, but in the very least we are doing service for her. We
also stopped by a couple in the facility that is a part member couple. The wife
is a member and the husband isn't. In all the years that missionaries have
taught him he's never read the Book of Mormon I guess. I asked him why he
always says, "I'll join when I decide to," and he didn't have a good
answer. So I asked if he had ever read the Book of Mormon and he said no. So we
spent quite a while talking with him about that and committed him to start
reading it. Crazy people anyway.
We
actually had someone approach us yesterday after sacrament meeting who wants to
be baptized. Literally out of nowhere this lady pulled me aside and said,
"I just got married to a member and took the lessons a year ago. I want to
be baptized. How do I do that?" I
almost died! I've always wanted that to
happen. And then we found out she isn't in our ward boundaries...
We're
working with a couple who has an 11 year old daughter who isn't baptized right
now. It's been a challenge getting in to see them the last few weeks but they
finally came to church and are finally open to us. We've had a few good
contacts on their doorstep and they approached us about setting up a time to
meet on Sunday and they specifically said that they're ready to have their
daughter baptized. They really seem to
like us. The husband loved my testimony from sacrament meeting. We made them
cookies on a whim for the wife's birthday and they love that too because they
celebrate birthday week. Obviously that
gave us something big to connect on. We're excited to work with them and get
the daughter baptized and help them go through the temple.
Our
week was busy, but other than that nothing too eventful seemed to happen. Just
normal soul saving stuff.
A
good quote from the week:
"Sister
Poppe. I just like you. You bring me solace. I don't even know what that means,
but it's true."-Swaggy B
Love,
Sister
Poppe
Day 1 of
American clothing week. I actually forgot to take my picture
a lot of days,
but I will send the ones I actually took. This is also a
picture of
running into a family member at church!
And Sister
Smith and I matching all cute like.
Day 2: I lack
red in my wardrobe, so I celebrated with a
lot of blue and white and my hard to see red
headband
Day3: Swaggy B and I unintentionally matched.
Day 4: The Red Solo Cup really upped my patriotism.
Day 5: Sister Smith's last night with the Eagleston
fam.
They're one of
a kind. I love them so much.
No comments:
Post a Comment