Wow just as an FYI for everyone... don't eat wild berries.... ever.... it's a bad idea... if you need more details read until the end.... also big BIG news will be dropped in here too so stay tuned!
So this week started off with a HUGE bang and we had mission tour last week *pause for dramatic effect* and we didn't get roasted!! Yes if any of you have stayed tuned in my whole mission, you will remember the last mission tour we were insanely chastised.... like my companion and most sisters in the zone cried kind of chastising.... it was rough. But this year was honestly all rainbows, not once did I feel like we were in trouble or weren't doing things right. We talked mostly about fish oddly enough, and all the different analogies around them.
The biggest thing I wanted to share is something that personally touched me. It's about our story. Each of us has a story, big or small, as to why we are who we are and how we got here. Elder Jones (one of the general authorities) specifically said that we shouldn't be wasting our time talking about the meaningless things such as where I'm from or what I want to study, he said that when people ask us to tell them about ourselves we need to tell our real story. That lit a fire in me. My story is a long complicated story starting with birth stumbling though cancer and ending up on a mission. It comes with a lot of tears, sadness, trials and heartbreak, but results in me becoming the women God always intended me to be. I had to fight, and not just regular playing around fight but a getting down, heavy hitter, full on war to get here but I made it. It changed me. He talk about how we needed to make our story their story. That one day we all will experience similar trials, and events in our lives so if we can somehow make our story their story, they will also know what I know, which is that God is real, He loves us and He will only allow things to happen in our life that He knows will be for our own good, no matter how bad it may seem. So that's my new goal, make my story your story. Hopefully you can get the same results as me just minus all the bad stuff, but if not I can help you through that too. So in an effort to be better about telling my story, email me if you want the full thing, and then my story can become our story. (Also for all of you that are not currently on a mission, you should go listen to Good parts by Andy Grammer, that song is exactly what Elder Jones meant by share your story.... btw I only)
Moving on in the week, Sister Petter and I went to a lesson and while we were outside she saw some wild berries *I think you know where this is going* so she popped a few in her mouth and a few hours later was paying for it.... yep she had food poisoning. Ot was so bad that she ended up not going to MLC on Monday because of it. I felt so bad for her. She was in a lot of uncomfortable situations for those few days.
Then
The thing happened
Transfers
I was called late Monday night and asked to be a trainer!! I was super sad to be leaving Sister Petter, she has become one of my closest friends so leaving her behind was so so hard. I have a new companion named Sister Klingseis who was an Olympic weightlifter 👀 not even kidding she literally when to the Rio Olympics in 2016.... wild. I picked her up on Tuesday last week and made our way to Severance BUT my new area is a legend. I'm splitting the area with the APs. Aka they created a new area inside their area thats just for us... kind of wild. I'm just excited to be in a new place and I'm really looking forward to seeing why God put me here. I was honestly incredibly surprised that I would be going to Windsor but I'm excited about what is ahead. I have big plans for the upcoming weeks but we will see what happens!
Well there is a lot of other smaller details I'd love to tell you about but you'll have to email me to find out more 😉
Love you all lots and loads!
Remember God is in the details!
Sister Carter
P.S. I kissed something this week *see pics below*, don't tell my mission president 😉
