Thank you for the coat and sweaters! They arrived today and I will be nice and toasty! I forgot how large that coat is... I am excited to be a black version of the Michelin man.
We found out some interesting things this week:
1. We will be staying at the sites just as many days this winter as we have been this fall {which is currently 4-5}. This came with mixed feelings - I love the sites and taking tours, but we were looking forward to spending most of our time in our area and actually having time to really find people. I know we will be blessed though for staying at the sites. President feels strongly that this year sisters need to be there in the winter.
2. We trained on mormon.org chat yesterday! It was way cool! They told us last week that we will be using some of our site time to be the missionaries that chat with those who get onto mormon.org and want to instant chat. It was even better than I thought it would be - just like teaching a lesson, but online. We teach as a companionship, so sister Gonzalez is on her computer and I on mine, and we talk in the same conversation to someone - teaching, asking questions, inviting. We also are able to link them to articles, scriptures, videos, pamphlets to help them with whatever questions they have. we talked to two people in the hour we trained yesterday. One had a question about gay marriage church policy and another on polygamy. It will take getting used to, but it is very neat and exciting. It is an incredible resource for the church and helping clear up misconceptions and also introducing people to the gospel.
The best news of all this week was: Liz came to church! And she really liked it! We have felt overwhelmingly grateful for the blessing it is to get to teach Liz. She is incredible. I love watching her faith grow little by little as she keeps commitments and gets a testimony of the commandments we have taught her. We taught her about keeping the sabbath day holy this week and she did it! She put work aside, she didn't shop and she came to church. Watching her progress is the happiest experience of my life. We get to teach her tomorrow about following the prophet. Teaching her is the treat of the week :)
We mowed our investigators lawn this week which more = chopping down a forest. My body felt it the next day, but it was fun and they appreciated it.
Tomorrow marks 6 months of being on my mission. The past 3 weeks Sister Gonzalez and I were feeling really physically drained, and I attributed it to the 6 month wave of tiredness that apparently hits. By 6 in the evening I was having a hard time being motivated to be excited. But the lord humbled me last night. Every Wednesday night we have 'Site Training' with all the site sisters {about 32} and the Senior couples. Last night president Christianson had requested that we watch a video - "17 Miracles" which is about the Martin Willie Handcart company. It was a very touching movie {i.e. everyone cried} and at the end I couldn't stop thinking this was the Lord's way of telling me, "You know nothing about being tired." It gave me determination to never let being tired prevent me from doing just one more thing. I am extremely grateful today for my ancestors and all the pioneers that did whatever it took to follow the Lord. Elder Eyring said that when he is tired and tempted to slack on his priesthood duties he tells himself, "remember Him." That is how the pioneers kept going - by having faith that the Savior could help them and remembering that it was Him who had asked them to go to Salt Lake.
Well that's about it for this week. We haven't had the massive hit of snow that the east coast seems to be getting. I am very grateful about this :) But I hope Tim & Sharla's power is back on now and things are safe and sound. Thank you for your letters, support and prayers. Prayers are always answered! I love you all very much!
love,
Sister A
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