What is up, everybody?
This transfer has flown by ridiculously fast. Can you believe I only have a week left before who knows what will happen? Because I sure can’t!
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| We found some snacks left in the church freezer for the missionaries. |
This week we had interviews with President Weaver. It was such a good conversation, and he really helped me a lot. I am so grateful for him, and I’m really going to miss having him as my mission president. That feels so weird to say. But everyone keeps on talking about how I’m basically dying* in the mission, which is another equally weird concept. I barely hit eight months on Monday, and, as mentioned last email, I had my twentieth birthday!
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| Fun fact about me and Sister Smith: We literally have the exact same hair color. |
Being on exchanges with Sister Smith was such a good birthday present. She and Sister Forbush gave me a fantastic card, along with a “#1 Dad” stuffed dog. What can I say? I’m paternal. We had an amazing finding experience and some awesome contact with a part-member family. We also got to talk to a member who’s the fellowshipper for one of the people we’re teaching, Coe. The icing on the cake was when Sister Haver and her adorable daughters stopped by while we were at the park and gave me a gift! There’s additional icing, which includes all of the letters that arrived to me by mail (thank you SOOOO MUCH I loved them!), surprising one of the people we’re teaching in the drive-thru where he works, and calling my family. I know that I had gotten to talk with them the day before, but it is so fun to talk to the people you love most on your birthday.
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| Me getting my special birthday gift from Sister Haver! Thank you so much (: |
Hermana Aguilera and I had one of the best comp studies of all time on Monday! And because of it, we made a resolution to have the most powerful, spiritual, epic comp studies this entire week. We’ve come up with all of these different goals and focuses that I’m really excited about. I’ll sure be missing her when I head down to Guatemala.
I’m still not exactly sure what the Guatemala situation is. I thought I’d find some details from a Guatemala reassigned missionaries group on Facebook, but, to my utter dismay, there isn’t one. President Weaver asked me what I knew in terms of travel plans, and I told him my portal said that I started on June 24th, but didn’t provide anything else. President Weaver then told me that last he heard, I would be flying out on the 17th. Suffice it to say that the travel process is very confusing, and I am trying so hard not to stress, which goes so against my natural way of being.
Our zone has been reading the book of John together this transfer. It’s basically been New Testament Book Club. Which is what a Bible study is in general. This week, I was reading from chapter 10, and I absolutely loved these verses:
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
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17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
In a lesson we had yesterday, we asked the member present on the lesson to share his testimony about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and Hermana Aguilera and I were also able to share our own. But I would love to testify of it here, too.
There is so much power in choice. The fact that Jesus actively decided the entire time to suffer and die for us is mind-blowing to me. It is insane for me to think about how Christ made the choice to have everything that happened to him happen. And the reason that he did it was purely for love. I am so grateful for that, and the only way I can begin to give thanks is by sharing that with other people. Thank you for letting me share that with you today.
— All my love,
Hermana Newton
* Missionary lingo for completing missionary service.
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