I want to
first start off by saying the gospel is true!!! My testimony has grown
so much in the six and a half days I've been here. It has gone by so
fast but so slow. We like to say here that five days feels like five
hours but also five weeks! It is so true. I leave monday morning August
4th....at 3:30 AM......yay!! Can't wait to be out in the mission field
though!!
So I will tell you just a few things that have happened here. Im going to start off with the bad news first though...
Our
district is made up of 10 missionaries, some going to South Carolina
and some Columbus Ohio. We have become very close and Sister Hathaway(my
companion) and I are like their mothers. Elder Wade who is apart of our
district had to go home this morning. He has some type of lung disease
and there is a slight chance it might be lung cancer. It was pretty hard
on our district to see him go, but we all went and dropped him off
today and then fasted together when we went to the temple for him. So
please pray for Joshua Wade and his family at this time. We all feel he
will be out here again as soon as possible. He would always drink blue
powerade with every meal so today at lunch we all had a glass for
him...it was gross ha but a great way to remember him.
Last night at devotional guess who came to speak!!! John
Groberg!!!!! The member of the seventy who was the missionary from the
movie "The Other Side of Heaven"!! It was so cool. He spoke Tongan and
showed clips from the movie and shared with us about it. He told us to
bear our testimonies in everything we do! Don't be afraid to. We can do
it through talking, singing, praying, who we are, and what we do.
Our teachers are amazing. They each are very entertaining.
Especially Brother Rasmussen. He is crazy. He was telling us that he had
a missionary come up and draw the plan of salvation and they started
drawing the circles that say each step of it. I don't know if you have
seen that before. Anyways he said now im going to draw it and did a
quick drawing of Jesus Christ. He said Heavenly Father didn't sit there
with a white board saying "this is where we are...this is where we are
going..." And yelled no! All he said was "Whom shall I send?" and Jesus
replied "Here am I, send me" Isn't that amazing!!! and so profound!!!
We also learned that Heavenly Father doesn't answer our prayers
the way we think. The guy who created the first ford said " If I would
have asked the people what they wanted all of them would have said a
faster horse." So sometimes we may be wanting a faster horse when what
Heavenly Father has for us is a car. Remember that!
I have also come to love role playing and have been really good at seeing them as a real investigator.
I
love my companion! I know I was definitely put with her through
inspiration not by accident. You thought I talked a lot! man you need to
meet Sister Hathaway! Sometimes I have to tell her to quiet down or let
other people speak hahah but she is great! And has such a strong
testimony. We balance each other out perfectly! I have a hard times
being too serious about teaching the gospel and she helps remind me to
have fun with it. She sometimes gets distracted and Im there to help her
remember why we are here.
We are here not for ourselves but for the Lord. It is time to
forget myself and go to work and I really have. Even though I miss all
of you, back home is not where my focus is at. My purpose is to invite
others to come unto Christ by helping them understand faith in the
Atonement of Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of
the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.
I am doing awesome! And hope you are all having fun! All is well! All is well!
Love,
Sister Rice(white rice)
p.s. my district gave me that nickname.
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