Holla Familia!
I'm here in Bedford with my lovely little
Ginger friend Sister Nielsen! We have been rocking it out here. So far
so good! Of course I have only been here, what, four days? I love
Bedford It is much like Back Creek only we have less miles for our car
and not as many gravel roads. It's wonderful. I decided that if I ever
got a Ford 2013 it would need to be in the west where there aren't so
many hills or places you can scrape the bottom of the car... Because
these puppies are low riders and it's terrible!
Anywho, I got to spend transfer day with Sister Larkin in Cave
Spring because her companion wasn't coming until the return train back.
Sister Reed came with the first drop off early in the morning at 6ish. I
love waking up super early, it's my favorite thing in the world. Sister
Reed is pretty cool, this will be her third transfer in the mission so
Sister Isobe is Greenie breaking! She has never trained or greenie
breaked before. So that will be fun.
I had an awesome day with Sister Larkin she is such a fun
missionary to be with. She talks super fast and she has a really good
gospel knowledge. The awesome thing about her is she Loves talking to
people, she is the ultimate ITL'er She just does it. It blew my mind! I
guess that is something I need to work on, not freaking out so much
about talking to people and giving them a card. It was a lovely 98
degrees + humidity = death. We tracted for like 30 min. I thought I was
going to die, but a lot of cool things happened. We were able to contact
a less active that we didn't have any records for, and we were able to
get a hold of a few other people. It was super neat. The last thing we
did together was talk to this Less Active member who was trying to come
back from the deep end. He was a pretty interesting dude. I have never
had an experience like him on my mission. He knows. He knows there is a
Devil and he Knows there is a God. He talked about how earlier in his
life when he was about 14 he had studied all religions, including
Satanics. I have never felt so weird talking to someone. I felt very
uncomfortable at the very beginning, because he kept saying how he was
going to be cast into Outer Darkness because he knew that God was real. I
finally had enough and told him that the only way he would continue to
deny the Holy Ghost as he thinks he has is that he would continually go
down that path that he is heading. If he chose not to follow the
commandments of God that he knew, then he would be denying God. Because
he knows God exists and if he knows he exists then he knows he needs to
follow his Will. The one thing that kept running through my mind the
entire time was: he may know that God for sure exists, but he does not
know the Atonement. The Cleansing power, or the Strengthening power that
comes from it. If he knew the love of God and then denied that, that
would be something different. But he has never felt the love of God in
his life, and he is afraid of changing or what he has done. He feels
hopeless. No one should feel that way. If you know God is real, and you
have a sure witness then why do you not do his Will? You Know! Do His
Will.
It was a really interesting, eye opening, experience. I have never
ever met someone so far in my life who has had the experience he has
had, and to see the pain that he had. We need to realize that God knows
all things and man cannot comprehend them all. We need to continually
learn, but if we hinder our progression because we think we have
destroyed our chances then we do not understand the Atonement. With
Christ's Atonement we can always start again. It is never too late.
After that we went to the Stake center to get our new companions.
Sister Larkin is now serving with Sister Williams (who just came from
Portsmouth!). Sister Larkin old companion Sister Michie was just
transferred there that morning! AH where my mission began! There were a
lot of people that Sister Richards and I told her to see how they were
doing.
I got Sister Francis and we drove the car that Sister Thomson and
Curtis had left that morning, and we drove it back up to Bedford. Yeah!!
Party of people who have no idea where they are going! Unite! Haha
luckily they warned me beforehand and I had left my GPS out of my bag so
we could easily find the place. It was a good hour drive! We didn't get
to Bedford till about 9pm.
So it was a long, long day. A really good long day.
Well
so far things have been awesome with Sister Nielsen and I. It's like we
have been companions before or something! We have really good teaching
Unity already and we have only been together for four days! so hopefully
that continues on forever. Because I sure enjoy it. She is so fun to be
with. I went from Awesome Sister Isobe to Awesome Sister Nielsen! It's
perfect!
Crazy thing for this up coming week! We are getting our new Mission
President and President Pitt will be leaving us! AHHHH!!! Time has just
flown by! I'm going to miss President Pitt and Sister Pitt. They were
wonderful! I can't wait to go and meet them in Utah! I also can't wait
for the new Mission President! President Salisbury. Like Salisbury
Steaks!!! YUM! haha
Well I love you all and I hope you are all doing well. Keep working hard. Love the Lord, Love yo Neighbor, and Love yourself.
Loves,
Sister Call
"When
we are tempted to do things we should not do, let us listen to the
loving warning of trusted family and friends, our beloved prophet, and
always the Savior."~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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