Well, basically everyone has asked me about transfers because, let's face it. i've been in midwood for quite a while. yes, i am being transferred. transfers are tomorrow. i don't know if i have explained transfers yet because our mission is different from a lot of others - we get transfer calls on saturday night and have sunday to say goodbye to members (well, that has definitely carried over into monday because we could NOT get to everyone yesterday) so all we know is who is leaving and who is staying in the area. everyone who is getting transferred goes to the mission office and we have transfer meeting and at the VERY END all of the district leaders stand up and announce where everyone is going... and then right after they say the prayer, we grab our bags and our new companions and go to our new areas... so i have five other options - riverhead long island, bay shore long island, astoria queens, jamaica queens, or bensonhurst brooklyn. jamaica is where sister smith is - i would LOVE to go and be her last companion - however, i'm really excited for anywhere. it's weird to think that i can go to another area and love the people as much as i love the people here. yesterday was CRAZY. crazy. i spoke and started crying, which was thoroughly embarrassing, and then right after sacrament meeting got over i said more goodbyes than i really would care to :) but it felt really good. really good to hear a lot of people say a whole bunch of compliments (even though they are all obligated to because i'm leaving) anyways, it was good. i'm nervous and excited and just really pumped that i get to start a new adventure :)
SO FOR THIS WEEK:
-we got on a wreck on the bus and it was pretty hilarious. i have just been waiting for it to happen because drivers here really are nuts. even the bus drivers. and so some guy tried to pull around the bus and didn't make it. so then the bus driver just kept driving for a few blocks before he actually got out and checked out the bus. the other guy drove off - surprise. and so we just went on and got off the bus and then i realized we were about a 20 minute walk from our appointment because i got the cross streets wrong for the address. and we were already late to the appointment (thanks bus wreck). and we couldn't call the guy because his phone wasn't working. and it was the guy that we met on the train that thought we were nuns and he is AWESOME. so anyways, i was kinda freaking out a little bit and a little stressed. HOWEVER, i said a prayer and just told Heavenly Father how important this man felt our appointment was and how much we both wanted to teach him because he needed the gospel so bad in his life right now. well, guess what? obviously you can have faith in Heavenly Father and obviously He knows how important our appointments are. so we got to the appointment and knocked and he wasn't there. so we knocked on his neighbor's door just because i felt like it. and they said he wasn't there. and so we were writing a note to him and lo and behold, Aaron shows up. We talked to him for a while and he again poured out his soul to us and talked about how much he was changed when he saw his baby girl born and how he felt like none of his prayers were being answered because he couldn't hold that baby girl or put her in the crib he had just bought for her. it was pretty sad and we just bore our testimonies about how Christ really is there and that this is an answer to his prayers. well then we couldn't get a hold of him for the next couple of days because his phone still didn't work - well, we talked to him on saturday and it was so awesome. umm for anyone who believes that God is not a God of miracles, please read on. Aaron told us that he was going inside the house and reading the entire Book of Mormon, he said it didn't matter how long it took him. well, he did read and this week the mother of his baby called him and said she was coming back and giving him another chance and he told her about church and she said okay and that they both wanted to go. oh yeah. it was pretty tight.
we met some crazy guy on the bus that was complaining about the snow... then he started complaining about how everyone in egypt is revolting against the government. funny how detached i am. we both looked at him and said. oh. okay. and then we got off the bus. sorry egypt! we also went to meet with some of the young women and their grandpa came over and said a prayer. he blessed the senator that got shot in the head (obviously i'm pretty oblivious so i have no idea what he was talking about) and then he said "please bless her because we know that it is really hard to get shot in the head and live"
Sister Robinson has been practicing her karate skills all this week, mostly in the elevators. i would die laughing if i ever saw the video feed from the elevators we ride. sometimes we go in and we turn our backs to the door so that anyone that comes in feels really weird that we are standing the wrong way. one time sister robinson yelled at the top of her lungs and the elevator stopped and some lady came in, smiled at us and then yelled at the top of her lungs. apparently she heard us haha. it was pretty funny.
blaise is doing AWESOME!!!!!!!! he is getting the priesthood next week and he has been called to be a ward missionary (can't remember if i already told you that) and he is really doing well. sister robinson and her comp are going to take both blaise and rachel to the temple in a couple of weeks (it is closed right now) and rachel is doing AWESOME as well. she lost quite a bit of money this week, and her family is going through some really really tough times - well, on sunday she came to church and asked us if we could help her fill out her tithing slip. she told us that she has been wanting to pay tithing for so long because she knows it is God's commandment and that is what she needs to do. faith? yeah, i think so. it was really really cool to see.
everything else is just kind of crazy. i haven't let the reality hit me of "hey sister smith, you are leaving midwood and you have a large possibility of never seeing these people again." yeah, that stinks because i really really love the people here, so i just don't think about it :) i talked to one of the sisters going home last night and she said she loves the miracle of being able to love and love and love even though you think that you have given everything you have.
well, family i love you. you guys are awesome and i am so grateful for you. i will keep you posted on where i go!
i love you!
sister michelle smith
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