Week 6, Transfer 12
It's now Monday - first day of my
last transfer. Weird feeling.
On the upside, we had transfer
calls on Thursday last week and transfer day on Saturday (a one-time thing the
MTC had to do). We are in a trio! Sister Salcedo from Barcelona, Spain
(originally from Peru) has joined us after 1 transfer serving in Hull and
she was being trained down in Huddersfield by Sister Decker before that. Sister
Salcedo…man, she is a fireball! She's 25 years YOUNG, confident, mature,
hilarious, fun, loving, kind, crazy (just like us) and not afraid to be
herself. We all clicked super fast and we're excited to work hard this
transfer. We are squished in a tiny flat meant for 2 missionaries but it's ok
because I'm getting kicked out in 5 or so weeks anyway.
We had Stake Conference on the
weekend and it was fantastic! Sunderland Stake has such an inspired Stake
President, President Spencer. The whole Presidency are just amazing! There were
no topics assigned to the speakers on purpose so that it was truly inspired and
coming from the hearts of every speaker. It was a testimony builder to listen
to the speakers as they gave talks they felt inspired to give. They were all of
such great quality, the spirit was so strong. We also had a less-active lady
called Julie we'd never met come with another member who lived close by to her.
She just felt like she should come to Stake Conference after years of being
away from church. She's probably one of the nicest sweetest women you will ever
meet. We're seeing her today :)
Brother Kennington, the Stake
Patriach, gave a wonderful talk. I liked one thing he said especially:
'Life isn't about waiting for the
rain and the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain'. I
thought that was really cute :) and a good message too!
I know I'm jumping around the days
of the week but that's my brain for you! So on Friday the Elders' investigator Rachel got BAPTISED!!!!!!!!!!! It was so good :) We're really
happy for her. Also, Ashleigh's Mum Mary came to the baptism (and Saturday
session of conference). After the baptism we met with Mary and had a quick
lesson with her. We haven't been able to see her for a few weeks because she
caught an illness. We asked her how her Book of Mormon reading was going and
she said at first, it was just a book, she'd look at the cover from time to
time, never really read any of it and never felt anything...but then she
decided to read it, because she had to be at home all the time, and she said
she just felt it all clicked together, it all made sense. We scheduled her for
baptism on the 14th of November in the same lesson. She has been embraced by
the people in this ward and she has never felt so much sincere and genuine love
and concern from people about her well-being etc. Love really does change
people. Love is the most powerful feeling in the world. It comes from God. It's
such a blessing to be able to witness the miracle of Mary. Now, we know that
Satan is hard at work, and with basically ALL our super solid and amazing
investigators he's won with them for the time being. In the last week or 2
we've basically stopped teaching most of our investigators, but it's okay. I've
been a missionary long enough that it doesn't (and never really has) bothered
me that people choose to not accept the gospel right now. I know that Heavenly
Father has the power and capacity to change people's hearts, and I've seen that
happen many times, but when it doesn't happen, and someone doesn't decide to
partake of this everlasting goodness of the gospel, it's just simply meant to
be that way. I (like to) remember that, when these sort of things happen. I
don't have a problem with disappointment now…and if I do get disappointed, it's
not for long.
The blessing of the gospel isn't
just about church and helping us get closer to God (however that’s basically
its primary purpose), but when we live the gospel and essentially get
closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, we are blessed in so many more
ways in our lives, whether it be in work, school, university, family,
friends, talents and abilities etc. It just enhances your whole being,
your whole life, everything!
I know this is the true church of
Jesus Christ. I can't deny that...and I only know it because I've put in
the time and effort to find out. That's the simple reason. If we're
willing to put in the time and effort and ACT in faith, we will be blessed
with so much more than we are asking or searching for. I've seen and experienced
that kind of 'conversion' many many times. I have a testimony that
Christ lives, He is real, He loves and knows each of us by name. How cool
is that?!
Keep it real, study your
scriptures, pray sincerely, attend church, apply what you learn as you do all 3
of those things with a willing heart, and you will find happiness. You just
will! It's a promise :)
Until next week!
Laaaaaaave you byeSister Kuhn xoxoxox
P.S Shoutout to the best sister in the WORLD who sent me a WHOLE BOX full of timtams to share with the kind people of England...if they make it that far. Ha! THANK YOU. Much appreciated. It will keep me awake for the next 5 weeks :)
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