Wow. It has been an awesome week! We had some crazy awesome success. We found 2 families this week, and had at church, and had 7 baptismal extensions, which ALL accepted! Let me tell you, I feel so grateful and happy.This is the first time on my mission that I set HIGH goals and met and/or exceeded ALL of them. Sometimes when we have success, I am prideful and attribute it to my own success and hard work. But this time, I can't even try to take credit. Heavenly Father has been good to us. I feel like Ammon in Alma 26 where he glories in the Lord and his brother tells him to stop, beacuse he's boasting ad he says, I'm not boasting! I'm glorifying God! Yep, that's how I feel. So grateful. So happy.
AND THE BEST NEWS EVER: WE GET TO GO TO THE TEMPLE
TOMORROW!!! I haven't been in almost 7 months now. And I'm dying to go.
There's just this whole inside me that can't be filled anywhere except
the temple. I'm so excited.
One of the families we are teaching is from the
Dominican Republic. You have NO idea how useful Spanish would be. I will
be learning it when I get home. She speaks a little bit of English, and
I speak a TINY bit of Spanish. I can say things like "Dios es tu
Amoroso Padre Celestial" and "La Iglesia de JesuCristo de los Santos de
los Ultimos Dias benedice tu familia." hahah. not much.. and a few other
things that aren't real helpful. Luckily, we have Spanish speakers in
our ward who are willing to help translate our lessons. :)
OH. And we did LOTS of service this week. I love
service. :D We helped with the Bishop's storehouse deliveries and
gardening, and cleaning at a park, and at a farm. SOOOO fun. LOVE love
love service!
except... this week was awesome except... I just
found out my uncle is in the hospital and not doing too well. Will you
all please say a prayer for Rob Wood and his family? thank you.
Love you all. Have a good week. Do something COURAGEOUS this week. Give someone a Book of Mormon. :)
April 21st: Okay. So let's just say this has been the crazies, busiest, longest, shortest week ever.
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So.. last Saturday, we got in a little fender bender. Someone backed into us.
Monday: Crazy Awesome Zone Fun day. Capture the Flag in the pouring rain, volleyball, BBQ. Awesome.
Tuesday: Trip to Columbus for TEMPLE DAYY!!!! :D Best. day. ever! I missed the temple. And I was able to receive some needed inspiration while there. :) BUT opposition in all things: We had a rough evening resulting in ME backing into someone else's car. :( Fender Bender #2.
Monday: Crazy Awesome Zone Fun day. Capture the Flag in the pouring rain, volleyball, BBQ. Awesome.
Tuesday: Trip to Columbus for TEMPLE DAYY!!!! :D Best. day. ever! I missed the temple. And I was able to receive some needed inspiration while there. :) BUT opposition in all things: We had a rough evening resulting in ME backing into someone else's car. :( Fender Bender #2.
Wednesday: We had interviews with our Mission
President and received training from our Assistants to the President.
President Nilsen gave me a much needed Priesthood blessing. After being
very uplifted and inspired, of course, came more opposition. We had to
go to the Emergency Room. BUT It wasn't for ME this time! ha. We thought
my companion's appendix were about to explode. But now she's fine. ish.
I'm definitely keeping an eye on her. and Ibuprofen in her.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: Crazy busy. Completely
jam packed full of things to do. We had some amazing, incredibly
powerful lessons though. :)
Sunday: EASTER!
So, I think the craziest/hardest part of this week was
finding out that my uncle passed away unexpectedly. I felt slightly
helpless that I couldn't be there for my family and his. But I received a
lot of strength and support from my companion and especially the
Spirit. This has been the most meaningful Easter to me, because of what
has happened. Because Christ lived again, my uncle will too. The link
attached is a video we've been showing to everyone we teach. Take the 2
minutes to watch it. You won't regret it. HAPPY EASTER! Love you all.
Hang in there. We can all do this, Because of Him.
Sister Carter
April 28th: Hellooooooooo Friends and family!
Well.. I was just about to write "well it has been a crazy week," but then I realized that I think I write that in EVERY weekly email. But it's true. Every week is crazy. Let's define crazy. Amazing things happen, unexpected things happen, more life lessons learned, we're insanely busy, and loving it!
Well.. I was just about to write "well it has been a crazy week," but then I realized that I think I write that in EVERY weekly email. But it's true. Every week is crazy. Let's define crazy. Amazing things happen, unexpected things happen, more life lessons learned, we're insanely busy, and loving it!
We had a great week. We had an exchange with our sister
training leaders. It was awesome. I have learned so much from them. I
love the way every person that is part of our lives is placed there for a
specific reason. To teach us a specific lesson. Or many lessons. I LOVE
my companion. She has shown me an example of Christ like love. She is
kind to me even if i don't necessarily deserve it.
Anyways. We also had an emergency training this
week. We've been having some complacency, so President had to crack
down. But it was VERY inspiring. and out of Love. Some good quotes: "The
only things worse than a problem is not realizing there is one." and
"Once you've recognized the problem, the job is half way done."
Do you realize that we can be whatever and whoever
we want to be? It just takes work. See a problem in yourself and fix it.
It's not comfortable, but "THERE'S NO GROWTH IN THE COMFORT ZONE."
Sorry.. "no pain, no gain." Everything worth doing takes work. And
becoming more like our Savior, so we can live with him again is worth
every ounce of discomfort and pain. He thought so at least. Set a small
goal to be better at. It's the best feeling to look back and see self
improvement. It's worth it.
Love you all!
Sister Carter
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