Sister Nielson pack your bags
Soooo. This week has been crazy intense!! we have transfers tomorrow!!! So here's how everything was told to me...
Tuesday
night we get a text from our awesome zone leaders that says "The
meeting starts at 10 :)" and of course sister garry and i panic thinking
"what meeting?!" so we text back asking and just get a reply of
"hahahahahaha" ... fishy or what?! So we called and asked what was up
and they said we would be getting a call soon and that person would need
to be at the la vista chapel at 10am
for a meeting! so sister garry and i starting placing bets which one of
us was training... well then we see President Maluenda on our phone!
AHHHH!!
I'M TRAINING!!!!!!
They called me to be a
trainer! I'm gonna finish training a sister! So in training, we have
this program thats the first 12 weeks of your mission... well this
sister has done the first 6 and i'm gonna finish the rest with her! So
she's my step daughter(: I can't decide whether I should count her as my
first born in the wilderness or not... but its ok(: I'm still excited!
But they didn't tell me who I would get! So we had to
wait for transfer calls! They finally were supposed to come Saturday and
the elders ended up just telling us in person because we were
practicing for a musical number for sunday. Elder Smith couldn't keep a
straight face telling me... Because... we've had a long standing joke(we
are in a ward with the assistants to the president) that if we aren't
nice to them, they will send us to corpus! so last transfer we left
candy and a note in the office saying "thanks for not sending us to
corpus.... yet!" Well guess where sister nielson is headed to train?!
CORPUS CHRISTI!
I'm headed back up north!!
I
will be serving on the beautiful North Padre Island with Sister
Peterson! I'm super excited but nervous and sad to be leaving Mission
East! This area has truly been amazing! I have so much love in my heart
for all the members and people we have met in this area and I am going
to miss Sister Garry so much!!! But when the Lord calls, we must go!
The training meeting for new trainers and district
leaders was super amazing as well. I have learned sooo many things this
week! one of the biggest things I learned in the training is that the
last 10 minutes of the day truly are the most important. Its in those
last few that you show God if you are truly willing to endure to the end
and do all that is possible to bring his work to pass. It truly is an
amazing work that we are about... Miracles happen when we are having
fun, following the spirit, and doing all we can to listen to its
whisperings.
Our mission president truly is a blessed man! He is so
intune with the spirit and wants us to focus most on what it says. our
training meeting was ALL in spanish. and i was nervous at first but i
was pleasantly surprised when I totally understood everything that was
said... then President Maluenda went around and asked people what the
spirit and told them... You know that terrifying moment when a tall
chilean man asks you what the spirit has told you and you know it has to
be said in spanish? Yep. Happened! BUT. It was awesome. The thing I had
been thinking about the whole meeting was when we give our will to the
Lord we can become what he wants. He knows how special we are and wants
us to feel that and understand that. Though I am finishing training
someone and not getting a brand new greenie, there is a reason! This
sister and I are specifially needed to be together for some reason and I
need to find that reason out by giving my will to the Lord and doing
what he wants! I can't wait to get to Corpus and starting working harder
than I ever have! I'm determined to be that missionay that has to be
picked up by an ambulance at the airport after my mission because I did
all i possible could. I won't do it perfect, or maybe I won't change the
whole world, but i will change lives in Corpus!!!
Our challenge we have been giving members lately is to
have a mighty prayer! In Enos we read about his "wrestle" before the
Lord before he received a remission for his sins. then after he prayers
in behalf of his people and us as well! Future generations! The
challenge I want to leave you today is to have a mighty prayer! BUT NOT
FOR YOURSELF. We pray for ourselves all the time! The Lord needs you to
occasionally kneel down, and pray solely in behalf of those around you.
Don't mention yourself at all in your prayer. Just prayer for others. It
doesn't have to been long. but make a list of people or things you
would like to pray for before hand and pray for them(: Have a mighty
prayer in behalf of others. I promist you will feel the love of God even
stronger as you turn away from your own needs and fears and ask for
others strength. Thats what has made the mission truly amazing. Not
worrying about myself and focusing on the needs of the people around us!
I love you all! next time you hear from me I'll be a
little closer to home! But not really.... Good bye for the last time
from the Mission East, Mission Zone area of the GREAT Texas Mcallen
Mission!!!!
Hermana Courtenae Nielson!
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