Oh hey there.
Firstly, went hiking with Brother Kinman and the Madison Elders on Monday. It was so much fun! Highlights included scrambling up a rock face to see a waterfall and Brother Kinman falling into the creek. Ha!
Tuesday, we volunteered at the Senior Center. We talked to the people in charge and they put us right to work teaching a "Bible Study with a bit of Book of Mormon thrown in" to a pile of sweet old people. We're so sneaky;)
Exchanges on Wednesday! Got to spend some time in Charlestown while Sister Shepherd led out in Hanover. I sat in on a meeting for STLs and ZLs and DLs which made me feel like a big kid. I learned a lot about how leaders who have a vision and are kind are SO much more powerful than leaders who criticize in the name of helping you do better.
I've always thought of it like this: you can be an awesome missionary AND have fun while you're doing it! But I learned this week that in order to be a good missionary I need to have fun, be myself, have joy. My purpose is directly in line with God's purpose: to bring to pass immortality and eternal life to His children. Basically, God's purpose is to help us become perfectly joyful as He is. I've discovered that the Spirit works with me so much more easily when I'm happy and having fun.
Saturday, we volunteered with the Elders at Habitat for Humanity. We were moving random junk from a massive warehouse to garbage bins. The manager who was directing us was hilarious. He's a shorter man with facial hair and earrings who grew up half Catholic and half Jewish (Cashew, as he put it) and would seriously make the best Shylock. He told us all these stories about his crazy Catholic Aunt Jenny, who spent six months talking to and feeding her "pet cricket" and never knew that it was a malfunctioning smoke detector. I died.
Yesterday we contacted this lady in front of a less active's house. One of the little girls from the less active family came running out and saw my Book of Mormon and got so excited. "I have a book just like that but I don't know where it is!" She grabbed it and started flipping through it eagerly even though she's too young to read at all. She wanted the book so badly and kept asking me for it. I told her it was a special book and if she took good care of it and promised to read it, she could have it. Aaaaand that's my weakness for adorable four year olds.;)
Work harder!
Sistah J
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