Arrived Oct 19, 2014
Heavenly Father knew exactly how to get me excited
Love you more than…
Singing opera style!
Well after last weeks excitement-preparing myself to
leave the mission on Nov. 2nd instead of Nov. 26th. And
not wanting to leave. Now I think I’m a little confused! Dittooooo Mom! DITTO!
It was such this rollercoaster to go from planning for 6 weeks to all of the
sudden imagining it being less than a month. Yaaa how could you not help but
feel a little bit trunky, thinking that I was coming home in 3 homes?! It was
like I mentally prepared myself for the 26th for so long and then
was prepping for Nov 2nd and so then when President told me it would
stay the 26th I almost felt like I had to readjust my brain again.
It makes me realize one thing though—the Lord’s plan is perfect and it will
happen no matter what! I think it was a good chance for me to practice what it
will be like in a few more weeks and yet still have the chance to focus back
and get back to work. Ya, not gonna lie… I was pretty excited to give you all a
hug in a few weeks but we’ll postpone that just a few more weeks so that I can
find and baptize a family first :)
Well I am crammed for time this week so I don’t know how
much I will get to share but I’ll just start with the spiritual theme for the
week: The Lord’s timing is not our timing but it is perfect! That sums up the
whole week! When it comes to my pulang date (my going-home date)
Heavenly Father knew exactly how to get me excited enough to work hard and not
feel like my time is already up, but that I still have enough time to throw
myself into it 100%!
On Tuesday we were on our way to a sick member’s house
when we got a text message from an old contact asking us to come by. Turns out
she is in the same bus route so we were already on our way to her house without
even realizing! Well then we ran out of time to visit that sick sister and felt
so stinkin’ upset that we promised to come and couldn’t! Well we finally had
the time two days later and on our way to her house this man sees us as he is
about to drive away on his motorcycle then he shouts “Are you…” So I turn
around to see what he is going to say and he is just staring at our nametags.
Well then he starts to ask us where we are going. We tell him we are visiting a
member of our church who is sick he asks the funniest/neatest question “Don’t
you visit people besides your members?” “Ya of course!” we reply, he asks “Well
do you have a message of joy and good news for me?” we are like “Ya!” he asks “How
long does that take?” us: “We can be just a few minutes.” Him: “Ok come in
right now.” How cool is that?! So we taught about the Book of Mormon and he was
like “I’ve never read that I would love to borrow one!” So that was another
timing miracle!
So then on Sunday we went to visit an inactive who
didn’t come to church and we happened to come right as she was leaving for
another church with her friend… good and awkward timing! But we went to visit
Sister Lely and guess what?! Her husband has read the Book of Mormon every day
for the last few weeks! He said he liked how it is so much more to the point
and makes sense. What a huge step! Sister Lely really opened up to us about her
life and I cannot believe the things she has had to go through in the past.
Makes me hurt to see how scarred she must be BUT she has found a new life in
the Gospel. She is the most cheerful and uplifting and inspiring lady. You HAVE
to meet her when you come!
Funniest thing that slipped out of my mouth this week:
“Those are my two favorite things! Glow in the dark and Jesus!”
PS I have been studying through 3rd
Nefi and 4th Nefi and been thinking about how
awesome the missionaries the 3 Nephites are! They NEVER went home from their
calling! Why can’t I be more like them?! Just awesome eternal missionaries! But
after studying 3 Nefi chp 19, 27 and 28 I have one question for you—What one
thing do you most desire? More than anything else in the universe… literally
the universe. The multitudes desired the Holy Ghost, the apostles desired
answers, and to be with God after their ministry, the 3 Nephites desired to
“bring the souls of men unto [Christ] while the world shall stand.” Something
to ponder about.
If there is anything else to get done, lemme know about
your questions and what not. I have been thinking about classes and majors and
all that jazz and have started to organize a few classes for next semester! I
already have 15 credits planned and organized if you wanna see. But class
sign-ups will be on a P-day so I will be able to do that all right from here!
PPS What are you going to be for Halloween this year?
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! I hope that you have a great
week and find someone to do something special for!
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| Taman Mini Indonesia |
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| How many times have I held a snake on my mission? |
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| Makes a cute scarf eh? |
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| All the sisters with the snake |
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| Sister Akaiti, me and Sister Manurung |
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| Vespa with Sister Manurung |
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| Goofy district of ours |
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| The whole district! Our only picture all together at Taman Mini |
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| Jakarta Sisters |
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