Glad you guys are having a good time on the cruise... Im jealous. I was reading an article the other day about adjusting to post mission life and a psychologist from the missionary department said one of the best ways to adjust is to go on vacation when you get home... hint hint haha just kidding kinda
This week was soooooooo crazy. I guess that's normal now though haha. Tuesday I had my trainers meeting up in Cleveland. It was really good, it just takes the entire day to go there so you don't get to do missionary work. I feel like I didn't do much of that at all this week. Friday was the best day. Elder Perkins of the Seventy came and spoke to us. It was cool because at the beginning of the meeting he asked us to write down two questions. One personal and one about the work with your companion or an investigator concern and see if it gets answered. One of my questions was how can I stay motivated during hard times. Like 5 minutes after telling us to do that he says well I felt impressed to do this at the other meeting yesterday and didn't and now I feel like I need to do it today. He then spent like an hour talking to us about why we serve, why we obey, why we do anything and different levels of motivation and how we can achieve the highest level. It was sooo cool to see one of my questions answered like that. We were all supposed to come prepared to teach a 10 minute lesson on the sabbath day. Of course Elder Berryessa and I get randomly called up to role play this lesson. Let me tell you there is nothing more nerve racking than teaching a lesson in front of 70 other missionaries, your mission president and a general authority and then having them evaluate you! I feel like we did pretty well though, it was fun. On Sunday I spoke in sacrament meeting about President Hinckley's talk Find the Lambs, Feed the Sheep. That went pretty well too!
SO this week was pretty rough having to say bye to people.... This area has been like my whole mission. I have worked in every single proselyting area in this stake over the last year. I never thought I would grow to care about a stake so much and the people there. We had dinner with the Warner's Sunday night. I don't know if I have told you about them but they are in the Alliance ward and he is a resident from Utah. We had farewell dinner #3 haha this one for real though. He is like one of the smartest guys I have met out here in the gospel and I have had long talks with him about all kinds of stuff about life and the gospel. I have learned so much from people like them and many others and it sucks to leave! Missionaries usually don't stick around for a whole year so I have gotten pretty close with some of these people. I had to say bye to Tina and Alicia and Andrea last night too. Man that was hard. You get to see someones conversion process and grow and change in the gospel and then you just have to leave them! I made a lot of promises to come back though haha I hope I will keep them! I know the Lord has other places for me to go though and others I will grow to love. I am so grateful for serving here though. Something I will never forget.
I still have no clue where I am going though... My greenie is going to find out where we are serving before I do haha. Oh well I am stoked its gonna be quite the adventure trying to figure it all out haha
I hope you guys have a great rest of vacation! Love and miss you!!
Elder Skalla
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