So this week was another week full of well..... insanity. To start off with a bang I had to give yet another training in Zone meeting *silents applauds* the Zone Leaders yet again crushed their training and hopefully ours went just as well. We talked about how important the Book of Mormon is in our conversion and in the conversion of the people we our teaching we invited them all to liken the scriptures to someone they were teaching and promised that if they did they would strengthen their testimony of it. I've really tried to apply it myself this week as well, and everytime I do, it's like the ideas or thought about the stories come to my head without any problem, God just takes care of me when I try to do what He wants.
This week started with a WHOLE lot of cleaning. I'm not talking about eh just sweep a little cleaning but DEEP cleaning. Our housing coordinators called us and said that we had to gi clean an apartment for them and HOLY that apartment was janked. Like oh my goodness... it was so nasty. It took us 5 hours to clean... no joke. And by the time we were done we were completely disgusted. There was moldy towels in the washer, old cheese in the fridge and throw up on the walls.... nasty. The good news is that I fulfilled my womanly duty and cleaned all day, bad news is that I hate that womanly duty lol
There was a lot of other random non missionary but very much STL responsibilities that came up this week and we had to take a lot of time to not only address what was happening by try our best to resolve it/soften it for the sisters we are over. I never realized how much went on behind the scenes from an STL point of view until I became an STL. You just develop so much love for these sisters and you want to do everything you can to help them love their mission so you end up helping them more than helping the people in your area. The Zone Leaders said something though that we found so true, he said, "The more you focus on the missionaries you are over the more your area will thrive," it sounds kind of backwards but the principle is true. God assigned me to help these sisters in anyway I can, so when I fulfill that calling, God will help me to fulfill my calling as a missionary too. We havent had any insane miracles yet but we had someone come to church for the first time in 4 transfers for this ward. It was a miracle to say the least. The members were so amazing with her too and invited her for dinner and into their home. It was like they just adopted her into the ward without question. It was a tender mercy for sure.
I've been actively trying to deepen my conversion this past week. After going to MLC I realized how much room for growth I had and I want it so bad. I want to be the missionary who comes back so strong in the gospel, I want to be the missionary who grew so much spiritually that everyone can just tell I'm different, I want to be the missionary who is powerful and diligent and all of those things and so I've spent this week trying to do that every chance I get. I can feel the difference. I read a Conference talk called, What Lack I Yet and in it he challenges us to ask God what we are lacking and He will direct us on what we can do to be better, and it wont be something we cant do, it will start small until we can do that hard stuff. So i did that, I asked what Lack I Yet? The answer was, I needed to be more purposeful with my prayers. So I hit my knees, quite literally, and I can say that everytime I try and be more diligent and honest about my prayers, I feel the Savior around me more and more.
There were a lot of small tender mercies this week that gave me a lot of hope and happiness. For example, I saw a Corgi this week WHILE WEARING CORGI SOCKS. It was insanely epic. I also had a lot of people compliment me when I felt the most down, and I even got an email when I really needed it. God just gives me little nudges to push me forward. He probably is up there thinking, "Shes going to see a Corgi today, she's going to flip" and just gets so excited to watch it all happen. I'm so blessed to know that God loves me so intensely to give me simple moments like those to make me happy.
Well this was a heavy spiritual weekly email this week but I hope you all loved it just as much as my funny ones! My testimony really grew and I'm hoping it will continue to grow for the next little while at least.
I love you all!! Keep growing you spiritual giants you.
Remember God is in the Details!
Sister Carter
