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| My district! L to R: Park, Paskett, Stradling, me, Jensen, Friedmann. This shows how perfectly awkward our district was |
This was by far the hardest week I have been out so far. Not for
any reason other than the past few weeks of actually being a missionary
finally are hitting me. And its hard. I had quite a few break downs this
week and sometimes I thought that I didn't want to go on, and was praying
that I could just go home because I hated it. Everyone always tells you
that missionary work is hard but you don't really realize how hard it
actually is until you have been here for a month. And I was talking to
sister Marsden about it and she said that missionary work is so much
harder than anything else because you never get a break. And that is so
true! You're always a missionary even on PDay there is no such thing as a
break. So its really taxing to your body mentally emotionally
physically and spiritually. Anyways, so really hard week for no reason
other than being a missionary is the most taxing thing I have ever done.
So Thursday and Friday and Saturday were really bad, then, when I was
talking to sister Marsden about it, she suggested I get a blessing.
The priesthood is real. And it really is God's authority. I asked
our zone leader Elder Paskett to give me a blessing. He had no idea what
was going on with my life besides feeling like I needed a blessing. And
that blessing he gave me answered all of my prayers. I have been
praying to really gain a testimony of the book of Mormon and to better
recognize the spirit in my life. I also have been praying that the Lord
give me the strength to endure because I have just wanted to give up a
LOT. And in the blessing. Elder Paskett blessed me to gain a love for
the Book of Mormon and to feel the promptings of the spirit with more clarity. He
also blessed me to have the physical, mental, and emotional strength to
meet the demands of a mission. EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED! I always believed
in the power of the priesthood but wow, it was a humbling experience
when a guy I barely knew answered every single one of my prayers in a
blessing. The priesthood is real! And I don't know what I would do
without it :)
Anyways onto the other things about this week. Transfers are this
week! Sister Hilton is being transferred so that's depressing :( and pretty
much our whole zone is being changed but hopefully it will
be fun. We met with Amanda this week and she asked us to bear our
testimonies to her! So that was exciting. And she talked to us about how
she feels like she has been so focused on studying English that she has
turned her back on God recently. Sister Stradlings response to that was
" Maybe that's why we are in your life." Totally the answer! In Pres. Monson's talk, "We Never Walk Alone" from the last relief society session, he shares a
poem about prayers. She said that she wanted to memorize the poem and
she added a line of her own to the end. It said "And I will endure to
the end." We love her she's great :)
Then there's Stella. We have been struggling with her lately because
she hasn't been coming to church and she hasnt been keeping her
commitments. She came to a baptisumal service on Friday with her friend
but left before the baptism even happened because her friend wanted to
go get dinner. So we were really discouraged. But after church yesterday
she texted us and said "I regret that I didnt come to worship today. I
think it purifies my mind. I shjould attend worship every Sunday. and
make it a duty." So it looks like things might be looking up with her
too! We attended her college graduation on Friday and met her parents.
It was a really good experience and she was really touched that we came
We also met with a member of our ward this week who teaches kids
arts and crafts and she wants us to come in a teach our 30/30 program to
them once a week (30 min english 30 mins gospel) and we got two
refferals from members up in Seoul who want us to teach their nieces English and introduce them to the gospel! So it was a pretty good week
besides the break downs but those are just minor details :)
I hope everything is going well for you and you all have a great week :)
- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja- mae)
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| Posing With Confusius |
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| Me in front of a huge tree. |
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| This is what happens at night on a regular basis
These are from today. We went to this really famous paintings on houses
this that I don't know the name of right off hand i have it written down
but it was so fun! The Korean women in the pictures is our young women's
president and the other white girl is Rebekah shes in our ward and just
moved her to teach English. Shes the secretary in young women
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