Hello, all! Just wanted to send a quick update. Here's what I had to say to my mission president this week. I love, love, love being a missionary! Hope y'all are doing great!
Hi, President Ware!
It's amazing to see the way the Lord strengthens me as a trainer and helps me to be patient, loving, kind, and repentant. Especially the repentant part! I am definitely trying to be the best companion for her, and trying to be a great example. I hope that she will see me repent from my mistakes and do my best to move forward from them. You can't be perfect, but you can be perfectly trying! But even then, I'm not so good. But it's a process, and that is a blessing. I don't realize how well I'm doing until we get to companionship inventory and she tells me all these nice things about how I push her to do hard things and help her to want to work hard and be better. Do you ever wish you could go outside of yourself to see all the good that you really do? :) I think that's what companionship inventory is for.
It's been a good week! One cool thing that happened was on Tuesday. We were walking on our way to an appointment, and we were sharing the sidewalk with someone coming up to us. We got right in front of him and started to get to know him. Ed S. has studied religion most of his life, so he doesn't have much of an interest to "fit [himself] into one of those boxes." But we had a really great conversation about Christ! We asked if we could come over and teach him more, but he declined and told us we'd see him around. We found him again later that night! The Spirit prompted us to knock on a door as we were walking home, and there he was! It was so exciting! We taught him about the Plan of Salvation as we talked about the passing of his wife, and it really seemed to resonate with him. We called him this morning to confirm our return appointment with him, and maybe we shouldn't have because he cancelled. :/ But I always tell Sister Hamblin that I'd rather teach someone when the Lord has finished preparing them, rather than when they're not ready. The Lord provides a way!
Another person of interest this week is Ed B. We met him awhile ago, and have been meeting with him and our ward mission leader. We taught him about the Book of Mormon this week, and it was a really great lesson guided by the Spirit. I always love watching things make sense to people and seeing the Spirit work on them. Ed, or Brother B, as we've taken to calling him, isn't quite ready to commit to a baptismal date. But he is significantly more receptive to reading the Book of Mormon, and I think that's progress. :)
We're excited for the week ahead. I'm grateful that we have the opportunity to improve, grow, and move forward from our imperfections and mistakes. Life is a process, and it's made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ. His hand is stretched out still! :)
~Sister Nielsen
Pictures!
My cute companion in the rain! :)
Somewhere over the rainbow, right?
Weekly planning with mi compaƱera :)
Havin' lunch with the 1st Ward sisters!
A cute pic of downtown Walla Walla
Mi compaƱera... made curry! :)
I guess we liked the rain.
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