One week older and wiser too

July 3, 2012

Weekly funny thing:  Sister Loketi sometimes gets text messages in Tongan.  When I have the phone, I will open the text message and try to read the Tongan.  She about falls over every time I try because I can't pronounce anything correctly so she doesn't understand a thing.  Although I do know how to say I love you (ofa atu) and repent (fakatomala).  :)

A hike we took a few weeks ago

John Schmidt concert when he was playing with his foot as well.

 The next two pictures are from mud volleyball that we did last week.  It was a lot of fun, but a very big mess.  Some of the missionaries got completely covered from head to foot and had to get hosed down.  I didn't get quite that dirty.

I realize that I should be writing about two weeks of activities, but they are all kind of scattered in my mind.  I thought we would be emailing on Tuesday like we typically do, and I only found out a little bit before we came to the library that we would be emailing today.  It is definitely going to be interesting adjusting to how the SLC mission does things, but I know that it is still the Lord's work.  I am praying every day that I will have the patience and trust to adjust to the changes without resisting, since I know that they don't really matter.  I mean, it doesn't really matter if we have our p-day on Monday instead of Tuesday, but it will be an adjustment.

These past two weeks have gone by really quickly.  We had a young woman with us for a few days who was supposed to be with us for two weeks.  She was going on a mini-mission/trial mission thing. She lives in Bountiful and was supposed to come and be with us from 9am-9pm.  Unfortunately, she called after a few days and said that she just didn't have the energy.  I never realized how physically exhausting missionary work really is until I was thinking about someone else and if they had enough energy.  So, I hope that this young woman still decides to serve a mission and doesn't let the exhausting experience deter her enthusiasm for the work.

On Saturday, I had the chance to attend a wedding held in one of the church buildings.  It was for a member of the 8th Branch who was getting married.  It was very exciting and she was just SOO happy to be getting married.   I am grateful for all the chances I had to help out with other weddings, because I was able to show up and help with just random things.  It is such a blessing to know that even a little bit of stress is relieved.

I finished rereading the Book of Mormon yesterday.  It is such an awesome feeling!  The Book of Mormon truly does testify of Jesus Christ.  I encourage everyone to reread the Book of Mormon and see how much it testifies of Jesus Christ and His love and Atonement.