Wish I could travel back to the past 11 months of my
mission. Why? Because I just want to relieve through every single day and
pretend that my mission will never end.
I'm at an exciting, yet heartbreaking point in my mission
where I don't know how to feel about time. Everyone and everything is changing
from what I'm hearing, so that's exciting to say the least! I wish I could see
the change I've made from June of last year, to this point. That would be cool.
Communication has been a huge factor in my past week. I
never realized how important it is. I know, that sounds kind of silly, but you
could say I gained a "testimony" of doing so.? There's nothing to
worry about, because I am doing so dandy!
I think I've finally figured out the "WHY" to the
reasons behind me bring transferred English and into Cheney. Sister Ellis. I
love her so much, and it's amazing how I needed to be her companion at this
exact time and place. We are seriously the same person. I'm not kidding. Same
personality, and everything. Everything aside from the physical appearances,
but you get the point. She is that sister I didn't have, and I think I
understand what it's like to have a sister. I don't know if that even makes
sense. Point is, that Heavenly Father knew we both had our own personal
struggles and were facing different things at the precise time, that he needed
us to help each other through. I have never seen the beauties of being so
openly communicated with someone. Something we both learned is that we may get
along super well, but sometimes we need to have that open communication to help
each other out and strengthen one another. We both aren't too huge into talking
about our own personal struggles that we realized we needed to in order to help
one another become better and strengthened through the Atonement. It was
incredible the events that led up to us both realizing that we just needed to
help lift the other. Nothing drastic is happening with either of us, but we
each have fears and weaknesses. After all, we aren't perfect. We created a safe
environment where we could talk about everything and anything, and allow each
other to help one another in overcoming those burdens we face throughout our
lives as missionaries. At the end of the day, we evaluate how we did, and if we
did our best to fulfill goals we had set to strengthen our companionship and
relationship with one another since that's something that's so important to the
both of us. We have seen a huge progress in not just ourselves and our personal
weakness becoming strengths, but also in our work and respect for the Savior. I
think i finally really understood the purpose of a companionship, and I
realized how important it is to put your companion's needs above your own if
you want to have the same done in return. A companionship is about
strengthening the other person and working together to bear one another's
burdens, and in fulfilling our purposes as individuals. It just clicked to me
and I understood how that would pertain to not just my mission, but for what
lies ahead. I also realized how mortified I am to enter that stage in my life
where I get married and all those fun adult like things that we're supposed to
confront. It doesn't mean I'm ready for that commitment too soon, so don't get
too excited mom!
I love my companion though. She is incredible, and I love
how close we've become throughout the transfer and how powerful our testimonies
are when they're combined together to testify of Christ and his restored
gospel. We make a good team!
So aside from that great testimony builder we had, we had
quite the week!
We have this awesome investigator named Adam. He's a 7th Day
Adventist, who is easily one of the most humble guys I've met! Super sincere,
and full of love for everyone! We were doing Family History at the Library a
few weeks ago where I had this strong impression that we needed to talk to this
guy who was sitting off and studying. I didn't understand why, but we did it
anyway. He was the nicest person ever! We talked to him about our purpose and
everything, and he said he'd be into coming to activities! We invited him to
FHE, and he came! Then, he came to Institute that Thurs and participated! He
asked us to give him material he could study to prepare and he even prayed!
Even though concepts he didn't understand were taught that day, he still
participated! He even prayed in the end! He asked us who he could talk to
because he had so many questions and was so intrigued! We told him he was
talking to the right person-us! We had a lesson last Tues on the Restoration,
and it was SO good! He was so humble and sincere in his prayer! We were so
afraid to invite him to be baptized, but we did anyway, and he surprisingly
said yes despite his claim to being biased at the moment! He's awesome!!
Ya'll have a great week!
Love you!
Sis Robles
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