Hi everyone!
This week has been great! We have come in contact with
some awesome people! Mostly everyone we have talked to is
religious and even if they don't have the same beliefs as we do they will
tell us we are doing s great thing and to keep up the good work. It
is so cool to hear that, even though they don't want to learn more
they still respect what we are doing.
It has officially been a one transfer since I have been out on
my
mission! We had what they call "Return and Report"
where all of the new missionaries come back together and meet with President and his
wife. They are such incredible people! I would love to spend an
entire day just learning from them. They love their missionaries almost as
much as they love their own kids. President showed us some objects
like a rock, a bag of sand, some oil and a pine cone and he asked us if
they were any type of special object. We all agreed that they were
just any ordinary object. Then he told us the story of each object and
about how they had found the little ordinary rock at the top of the
highest mountain in the United States. That the sand was from the
pyramids in Egypt, that the pine cone was from one of the tallest trees in
the world and that the oil had come from an olive tree in
Gethsemane. It wasn't until we knew all of these things that we understood how extraordinary these things are. He then told us to look at each
person we meet with the same extraordinary perspective. He told us that
our
Heavenly Father knows all that we can become and we should look
at each person we meet with that same potential. By seeing people's
potential I have felt so much greater love for them. It was such a great experience and it helped me to get to talk
with the other sisters I came out with and see that we are all going through similar things.
On Saturday Sister Jones got to go to the temple with a
recent convert that was baptized in her last area. It was her first time
to the temple and it was such a good experience for them. We did an
exchange and I got to go with a really sweet sister. I was only with her for
a little bit but I learned so much from her.
On Sunday we had dinner with the Prices. They are so
awesome! They love the missionaries and are always willing to help us with
anything. I haven't been feeling very well. I think it's allergies.
The trees are getting really pretty and so it is making everyone have really
crazy allergies. Well, when we were at the Prices, Sister Price says,
" Sister are you feeling all right?" I told her about how I hadn't
been feeling well and so her and Brother Price started looking through their cabinets for any kind of medicine to help me. They are so
awesome!
So a couple of weeks ago we did a service project on a farm. It
is a
member's farm that they are going to open to teach kids about
farm
work. It was our Zone Service Project and so she wasn't from our
ward but what it sounds like is the missionaries have been helping
out on the farm for quite a long time. We took care of some baby goats
and helped clean out the chicken coop. It was a lot of fun!
I think it is so cool that our home ward has sister missionaries
now.
I don't think there has ever been sister missionaries in any of
the
wards I have been in. As I have thought about it, I have really
seen it as a great blessing that my family will get to talk to them and
know more of what I am doing. I know that they are there right now
for a reason.
I am getting a lot more confident with talking to people and I
am so
excited to continue to get better at it.
Love, Sister Goudy
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