Hello everyone! I’ve now been in my new area for almost a week! Things have been a little crazy trying to adjust, but overall I’ve been blessed with a lot of peace about my new area. It is definitely a difficult area, because it’s been whitewashed a ton of times, it’s super tiny, and most of the people are very wealthy and uninterested in changing their lives. However, I love my new companion, Sister Hansen, and the Prune Hill ward. I am so excited for all of the new experiences I will have, and I know there are people I’m meant to meet here! Anyway, here’s how my week went down.
Monday–We did so much! We visited a wall of Washi tape (you just know I had to buy some!), ate Indian food, signed transfer journals, went to froyo with Valeria (I love her!), ate dinner at IHOP with Ali, baked a billion cookies, and deep-cleaned the apartment. And cried. A lot.
Tuesday–We had to go say goodbye to even more of my favorite people and it was so sad!!! I LOVE these people and they have truly become like an extension of my family. Even though it has been rough not knowing about PR at times, I am SO grateful Heavenly Father allowed me to come to this mission.
Wednesday–We had transfers! I could tell right away that my mission experience is about to get a whole lot different, but I’m really excited! Sister Hansen is the bomb and so is the member we live with!
Thursday–We had so much fun! We did 2 services on Thursday. One was packing food into boxes, and the other was mucking out and leveling horse stalls! It was really awesome AND I got to see Elder Finley again! He was my old district leader and it’s going to be fun to serve around him again.
Friday–We had a super interesting day that eventually ended up with us getting a razor blade in our tire. But, this really nice Romanian guy named Nic helped us put the spare on, so we’re going to go back with a plate of cookies and hopefully make him and his cute family into new investigators.
Nothing that interesting happened Saturday or Sunday, but it was fun to get to know the ward a bit better, and I fasted for revelation to help us jumpstart this area, and I already feel like I’ve received some good ideas!
I hope you have a fantastic, gospel-filled week! I’ve been reviewing conference talks this week and one of my absolute favorites was “One More Day” by Elder Taylor G. Godoy Of the Seventy. He talks about how our personal sacrifices to live the gospel make it all the more meaningful to us, but also how no sacrifice we make is anything in comparison with the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. He says “…of one thing we can be sure: we all have a “today” to live, and the key to making our day successful is to be willing to sacrifice.” I loved the perspective that his talk gave me, and it definitely strengthened my resolve to be better each day that I have been granted to live here on this earth. Never forget how important it is to live this gospel with all of your heart!
Love,
Hermana O’Barr
