Happy Monday!
It has been one crazy week! I have been
to the city (about an hour and a half away) three times this week.
Once was to take a sister to the doctor, the second was for transfers
and the third was to hear an apostle speak! Elder Neil L Andersen
came and spoke to us. All of us missionaries got to go up and shake
his hand. The day before President Taylor called and asked if I knew
I was giving the opening prayer. I had no idea until he called. :)
Elder Andersen is such a nice, happy, loving man. He is hilarious
too!
Elder Andersen said a lot of things to
us. He told us that if it were not for the missionaries in the United
States we wouldn't be able to have missionaries in other countries.
He also said that if he had a son or daughter serving a mission he
would be very pleased to have them serve in this mission. Elder
Andersen talked a lot about miracles and even brought "a miracle
with him" to the meeting. He brought a lady that he had found
and baptized while a mission president in France. It was really neat!
Elder Andersen had made a goal with his missionaries to find and
baptize 50 people in the mission in the month of February. The
average was 20- 25 a month. He even told them that he would find one
of those 50. Long story short, towards the end of the month he found
this woman... or rather she found him. She called him at the mission
office :) She was the 50th person to be baptized that month.
Elder Andersen told us to EXPECT
miracles to happen in our lives. I really liked that. At the very end
he told us (and I swear he was talking directly to the sister
missionaries) "Don't be so hard on yourselves. It's hard to
become a disciple of Jesus Christ." Then he said this, which
really touched my heart. "The Lord loves you and accepts your
sacrifice." I really needed to hear that.
I am going on my first exchange as a
sister trainer tonight. (I've been on two other 24hr exchanges on my
mission) I am going to go with the campus sisters and Sister Pfister
is going to go with Sister Tudman. I am so thankful I get to do this
new assignment with Sister Pfister. I can't imagine anybody better to
do this with. She is amazing and I always learn so much from her.
This morning I was reading "Jesus:
The Perfect Leader" today in preparation for my new assignment.
I have often felt very inadequate but this talk really motivated me.
I know I'm not perfect, but I just chose one of the Christlike
qualities and will work on that until I feel I can take on another
one.
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1979/08/jesus-the-perfect-leader?lang=eng
I know I have changed and become more
than I was in the last 13 months. I know it is because of the
Atonement of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for the things I am
learning and I look forward to seeing how thing things I have learned
out here will apply when I'm home. I love you all!
Love, Sister Record
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