One year ago.
lright ladies and gentlemen..
We have hit another big
mark! One year ago... I was in Laredo!!! What in the world?! On the 12th
of March I hit my one year mark of being in the field as a missionary!
Last year at this time, I had just had my little break down freak out
and wasn't sure if I could do this whole missionary thing! Well I'm very
happy to report at this time, that I can do it! I have been doing it
for a year now :)
This week was an interesting one... it has seriously passed sooo
fast! I feel like just yesterday I was emailing you! But ah well! lets
go over some adventures of the week:
We had exchanges this
week! Yay! I went to work in the Sister Train Leaders area in McAllen
and Sister Garry came to Edinburg to work with Sister Perez in our area
:) It was definitely interesting haha! I think that sometimes we think
of our leaders working sooo differently than us and that exchanges will
be this huge enlightening of learning and such! Nah... it was just a
normal missionary day :) We did have a couple people accept the
baptismal invite though! Convenient they actually live in Sister Diaz
area! :) YUP! We set BD's with people who live in my babys area! we got
to call her and sister diaz was sooo happy to talk to me and so excited
when I told her she had two new investigators :)
Another adventure of the week... we had a ton of set appointments
the last couple of days! It was so cool! we literally had five set
appointments in one day! and so we worked like crazy to get members to
come with us... then literally, the members first canceled on us, then
the people weren't home :( that was a major bummer! But we found other
really cool people to fill the time with and teach so it all works out
in the end.
Then on sunday! One of the bishopric members called
us Wednesday night and asked if all the sisters would speak in church
and tell our stories of how we decided to serve missions and the
blessings we have seen as we have served. That was fun :) 6 sister
missionaries speaking in sacrament meeting sounds crazy right? it
actually went super great! I was 2nd to speak... so the first sister got
up and just gave her testimony really fast and sat down after 2
minutes... so I got up and talked about when the age change happened. I
still remember sitting on the couch as mom and dad were making
breakfast. and that moment when everything just froze as we realized
that I could go on a mission. Remember how mom was bragging the week
before that she was so happy I was girl turning 19 so she didn't have to
worry about a mission for me yet? ;) The whole congregation got a kick
out of that. and then I bore my testimony in the end about how the Lord
truly does bless us for going on missions.
I know that the Lord loves us so much. He loves us so much to give
us the opportunity to go out into the world and proclaim the truth to
His lost sheep. He has a lot of trust and confidence in the youth of the
church as well to send out crazy 18 year old boys and 19 year old
girls! You can definitely see a difference between the elders and
sisters that left at a young age ;) sometimes its a maturity difference.
But to be honest, the testimonies of the 18 year old missionaries are
some of the strongest that have truly brought me to tears.
This gospel is such a wonderful blessing for all of us! We should
never be afraid to share what we know to be true and help others come
closer to their Savior! Everyone needs to know the peace that living
faithfully brings! I love being a missionary! I love sharing my
testimony and I love helping my brothers and sister come unto Christ! Be
safe and strong this week and if anyone asks, don't be afraid to share
the truth with them!
Love you all!
Hermana Nielson
ps. I got to hold chickens this week :)
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