It’s
Me again. I’m clingy.
Monday
we had our Zone P-Day, Sister Pulse, I’d say our mission nurse but she is more
like our mission doctor.. and she’s not just over our mission. Anyway she’s the
coolest and she is in our ward and she’s an orthopedic surgeon. She let the
whole zone come to her house and fish off the dock and play sand volleyball and
she even bought us a bunch of pizzas. It was loads of fun!
Sister Fiu
and I then went exchanges, she is from Hawaii. This is
her first transfer and she’s already a stellar missionary. We were
out in the middle of nowhere… Lacanto.
Later that week We went to an apartment
complex to find some less Active members, when we were driving through the
parking lot this tan white middle aged man with gold teeth and a
thick southern accent started talking to us, he was
nice enough to help us find the building
number and he called me baby girl about 5 times.
He made my day. His name is Big Toe.
We
also had interviews with President Clark. President told me that
Sister Naylor and I will be companions in the celestial kingdom. She’s an
amazing companion and I was truly blessed and given
tender mercies of the Lord to get transferred to
Leesburg to be with her. Really I’m so very lucky and I should never complain.
Looking back I’ve learned so many wonderful and beautiful
lessons on my mission, I’ve worked hard, I’ve
struggled, I’ve given my heart out of my chest
to those I love.
Thursday
we went early in the morning and had a lesson with Anicesha. She is going
through a whole bunch of trials right now and she’s just looking for some
comfort, she has a young son who is about the age of 10. I hadn’t met her before,
the sisters only had taught her briefly but now she’s allowing us to teach her
about 3 times a week. We were very pleasantly surprised to discover she had
read about 6 chapters and when we went through and reviewed them with her she
really started to see how they can relate to her life personally and we asked
if she had any more questions and she said “no but can we just read more?”
Seeing the hurt in her is heartbreaking but we know that the gospel can help
her and she’s very willing and that’s all that matters first anyway, is
desire. Also who doesn’t love a black women’s OH FATHER GOD prayers!
Sly
and Regina fed us dinner that night. His granddaughter wasn't listening to him
so he just goes. “It says it right there in the Bible. Thou shalt respect thy
parents or thou shalt be beaten"
Sly
is a recent convert and Regina is our investigator, she struggles with a lot of
heath issues but on Sunday we was at church all done up and ready and so happy.
And it made me so happy.
Friday
had a lesson with Anicesha in the morning again, it went very well she kept
reading and she asked all the “preach my gospel” questions. Lesson went over
and we were late to lunch with Sister Wright.. She had us meet her at the food
court in the mall, that was hard to find. It was weird being in a mall. She talked politics, and I
was confused. People forget we don't know anything.
Then
we went and found a member.. Who actually isn't a member and was baptized in
the break off of the LDS church.
Saturday
We had two church tours today. First was
with Steven Keller, we were hoping that his whole
family would join but just his daughter
came. He seemed totally like it though. His
job keeps him really busy so it’s just going to
be a lot of consistency that we’re going to
have to create with him. We know he has strong desire and wants to learn,
it’s just the ability to act on it and we need to get his
whole family on board.
We
went and checked up on some of the people Sister Naylor
met on exchanges, and they weren’t around but as
we were driving away we saw a lady out by her car and the spirit
told me immediately that we needed to turn
around. Once we did and started talking to her, we discovered she
didn’t speak English at all but then her
son rode up and we started talking to him
and he’s letting us come back next week to teach him!
Then
we had a church tour with Eli, Danielle didn’t come
because she was sick apparently.
He’s He loved the church tour he
said he will do anything to come next week. His only issue
is he has already been baptized and he firmly believes
that he doesn’t need to be baptized again but we just need
him to pray and read and he knows we have promised he
will receive the answers.
Sister
Naylor and I had lots of good conversations this
week about how much we owe to our missions, we
know this experience isn’t for everyone but I’m so
grateful it was for me, there’s so many things I would have
missed out on if it hadn’t of made the decision to serve.
My life is forever changed. And I know
everything can change in an instant, so I learned the
proper tools to keep myself on the right path and focused
on what truly matters to me.
- Sister Sorensen🌞
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