Never Grow Up

First of all, I know you all are sitting on the edge of your seats to see where I'm going to be transferred... well you'll have to wait a while because I'm staying in Good Ole Capser for another transfer AND I'm training another new missionary!! Its crazy, I will be here in Casper for 7 and 1/2 months and hopefully, if my dream comes true, I will staying the transfer following so I can be with the people I love so much here in Casper. If not, it will be the hardest goodbye of a lifetime I think.

I also had to say a hard goodbye to Sister Johnson on Sunday. She had become one of my very best friends and having to tell her goodbye and not be able to see her for an entire year is hard. One thing they don't tell you in the MTC is that you will make some of your closest friends and then you won't be able to really even see them until you complete your mission, and in the case of Sister Johnson, there is REALLY no chance of seeing her in the mission until I'm released in 2020...it's hard but I know she will do amazing.

After I said my hard goodbyes to Sister Johnson I went with 8th ward to spend the next few days without her. While I was with them we had a chapel tour with someone they are teaching. During the chapel tour I felt so close to her and at the end during the review of the tour I shared a powerful message about how Christ has felt every single thing that we have felt, from the pain of Labor, all the way to the gas chambers during WW2. I talked about how I'm not sure how He did it, I don't know how he knew what it was like when my dad was diagnosed with cancer, I cant comprehend how He felt was it was like when they told me I wouldn't be able to go on a mission, I honestly wonder how He knows how much physical pain I'm in sometimes but He does, He gets it. He's felt it. He's walked it. It's an understatement to say that He did it because He loves me, which He did. He did it because He wanted to know what it felt like to be me so that He could best know what I needed at anytime of my life. God doesn't want me to feel that pain but He knew I had to so He gave me a way to find relief and joy in my sorrows, through His son Jesus Christ. I could feel so strongly the Spirit guiding my thoughts and many tears were shed both mine, hers, and my companions. It was tender to watch God touch her heart.

Sorry this email is on the shorter end but I'm wayyyy busy splitting two areas! Next week will be longer I promise!!

I love you all so so much, pray for me and my new "baby"!! Also I'm sick today so also pray that I'm feeling better by the time I get to meet her tomorrow!!

Remember God is in the Details!
Love,
Sister Carter