Hope you all had a great week!! We definitely did. It was a crazy one
though. We had the three week meeting on Wednesday and interviews on
Thursday, which means we had to fit all the work we would normally do
in one week into 4 days. We were basically chickens with our heads cut
off.
So Wednesday we had the three week missionary meeting in London. It is
where the new missionaries meet and are trained and us trainers are
given trainings as well. (Wow that was a lot of the word training) It
was long, but good. We had some great trainings and learned about
obedience and planning. The three week meeting is generally the same,
so I've listened to the same trainings a few times. This time the
spirit taught me something different, as I sat there I realised that
these things are important in life and not just in missionary work.
Obedience, obviously. But planning is something that we can't live
without in missionary work and should be the same in life. We need to
set goals and make plans or we will never progress to what our
Heavenly Father wants us to be.
Thursday we had interviews and WOW! The spirit was SO STRONG!!! We got
home after and we were EXHAUSTED because the spirit was so strong. We
were given a training on becoming consecrated missionaries and I
thought about becoming; becoming better missionaries, becoming better
friends, becoming better family members, and becoming better people. I
realised that when I step off the plane no one will see how many
people we taught or found a week, or how many baptisms we had in a
certain area, but only what I have become. I have changed a lot since
July 2, 2014 when I first stepped on a plane to London. But I have so
much more to change before I come back, and I'm so grateful and
humbled to be able to have the opportunity to change those things
because of the gift of the atonement.
Sadly this week we decided that a lot of our investigators weren't
progressing, and that we only have a certain amount of time to be
here. Our time is so precious so we prayed about it and dropped almost
all the people we were teaching. Sister Cardoso was having a hard time
with it because she felt like we were failing, and it was only when
she said that that I realised this is my favourite time in missionary
work!!! Because now we will find with our whole hearts and might and
strength, and now that we are desperate to find people to teach the
Lord will trust us with those who are prepared. I also realised we
should be like that all the time!! So I'm working on that too.
Cool story for the week: Kizzy got asked to leave the place she was
living (as said in previous email) and she had to be out by today. Her
aunt came into her room last night and said a lot of mean things and
asked for her house key. Kizzy was crying and praying all night to
know what she should do, she closed her prayer and not 30 seconds
later the Relief Society president texted her and said there was a
member that she could stay with. Not only that but the member is also
VEGAN!!! God is so good and prayers are answered.
Well, this email has been a lot of reflection about this week and the
changes I am excited to make, but I hope it helped one of you out in
some way!!
I love you all so much! I love this work and I love this gospel. I
love my Saviour and I am so grateful for the atonement!!
Your favourite missionary,
Sister Wright
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