Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:25 AM
Subject: Confident, Uno, and HUMP DAY!
Hey yall!!
Last Wednesday I hit my hump day! I have officially hit halfway! I've been out nine months and have nine to go. I'm so happy to be on my mission and there is no place I'd rather be.
Sister Hjorth and I had a great week. We didn't get as much tracting done because Sister Hjorth was sick for a couple days, but she got a blessing and is feeling much better now. We get along fantastically! She's super laid back and loving, sweet, hard working, funny, and a diligent companion and missionary. Plus we rap and beat box together about missionary work. With makes her that much more awesome. We've also had regular Uno tournaments. They get pretty competitive! There's a page in the back of my planner dedicated to funny things she says. I love her. We teach well together and I'm grateful to be her companion.
Keo & his daughter Jane (12), our Loatian investigators on date for the 26th, were not at church and we haven't heard from them in a few days. But it was the holiday weekend so we're hoping they were just busy with family in town. Hopefully we'll have a family home evening with them in a member family's home tomorrow night. They are so sweet and humble. They light up when we teach them the gospel and are so willing to learn. I hope all continues to go well with them.
I've had the awesome opportunity to teach lots of children in this area, both in member, part-member, and non-member families. I love teaching with songs and visual aids to children! They are so pure and accepting of the doctrine. We're so blessed.
Lawrenceville has been a great switch for me. I feel very confident and happy with who I am, the work I'm doing, and who I have become. I feel like God took me apart brick by brick, and He's been slowly reassembling me throughout my mission. Now I feel like the structure He's rebuilding me into has taken shape and is becoming more refined. This last week, I have received many promptings from the Holy Ghost about humility-- to study it, work on it, pray about it. I was pondering one night about how to be confident and humble at the same time, and the words came to mind, "Remember where your strength comes from." I think it's because God doesn't want me to plateau and stop asking for help now that I feel confident. He wants me to keep working hard and progressing; otherwise I will digress. I am striving to have an attitude of gratitude for the confidence and sense of self I've gained, so I can work harder and accomplish even more.
I read an awesome chapter today! It's Alma 34. It's pretty much Amulek's general conference talk about the Atonement to the Zoramites. I've never gotten out of it quite what I did this morning. I love how it explains the need for the Atonement, how it was done, and how we can access it personally. It's beautiful scripture, as I'm sure you already know. I loved verse 31 especially-- "...Therefore, if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, immediately shall the great plan of redemption be brought about unto you." The Atonement works immediately when we turn to God and use it.
Eat peaches!
Sister Taylor
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