Hi family!
soooooooooo transfers are tomorrow. it wasn't much of a suprise though. sister mamon is going home (well, we kinda new that one was coming since this was her last transfer) and sister dumas and i are staying together in bensonhurst. i just realized how bad i have let my grammar go in my emails to all of you. for anyone who is bugged, well it probably won't change. :)
the highlight reel of the week is pretty much easter sunday. ruby came to church!!!!!!!!!!! and sheena!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (her daughter) and alexander!!!!!!!!!!!! (her son) it was SOOOOOOOOOOOO good to see them there. the missionaries actually had to sing in sacrament meeting and the elders are incredibly musically inclined and sister dumas has a really good voice too so they all split into the harmony and i was the only one singing the melody (don't worry, it was supposed to be that way) anyways -- who thought that i would actually consider singing in sacrament? but ruby and her family didn't get up and leave afterwards so i think it was okay. i'm sitting here trying to think of how to put into words what i felt the whole time at church yesterday. it was incredible. the change that has come over ruby in the very short time i have known her is amazing. and now her family gets to experience it as well. her daughter kept changing her mind and going back and forth about coming to church with ruby -- but she came and she loved it. she asked if i could go with her to all of her classes, so we worked it out to have some of the members be my companion during class and i got to stay with sheena. she is amazing. she has seen the change in her mom and that is why she wanted to come to church and learn more. she recognized the happiness and peace that everyone in church has and she has so much courage to step into an entirely foreign world and go to church. we talked about the priesthood in young womens and about how much the gospel blesses families and sheena loved it. the lesson made me take a step back and really remember what the gospel does for me and how i have no idea how families work without Christ there to be a foundation. i love those moments that i just remember why i'm here and why the gospel is so important.
Easter was wonderful. our ward was SO sweet. i think five or six families invited us over and so many people have called to see if we had plans and to make sure that we had somewhere to go. we spent Easter dinner with the Phillips family - they are so so sweet to us. sister phillips slaved away in the kitchen FOREVER to make sure that we had a wonderful easter dinner. the primary colored eggs for us and the young women made each of us a little easter basket. AND sister dumas had put a little candy on each of our desks so that we found it in the morning.
something really cool that happened this week - we were looking up some people that the bishop has asked us to work with and we passed the building that one of the members lives in. sister dumas wanted to go see the member... to be totally honest, i didn't really want to... but we had time, so we did. well, she wasn't home. so we knocked the doors on her floor and no one was interested. we got in the elevator and i accidentally hit the 1st floor instead of the lobby. i said sorry to my companions and they said well, it's probably a sign. let's knock the floor. so we did. and got rejected several times. we got rejected at one door and sister mamon recognized russian tv coming from the neighbors house. she got really excited and knocked the door. miracle! the woman was SO nice and normally Russian people aren't super open to the gospel but she was really really excited about the book of mormon. coincidence that in the last few days we have a russian-speaking missionary with us we knock on her door? yeah, i don't think so. we are going back today to give her the book of mormon in russian and i talked to her on the phone and it seems like she can speak english pretty well so sister dumas and i should be fine after sister mamon leaves. :) i love being a missionary!
i hope everyone had a wonderful easter! i LOVED it. it was really cool to have an easter that i wasn't caught up in what i wanted or having another holiday - i really got to study the Savior's life this week and i remembered how grateful i am that everytime i fall short, especially while i'm doing his work, it's okay because He makes up for it. i love you all so much and i hope mom, chad, and dad have a happy birthday this week! and i can't wait to talk to you all in 13 days!!!!!!! woot!
love you
sister mich smith
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