Skip to main content

Learning my purpose...

Can't believe how fast time flies when you're having fun !! this has been the last week of my district being together which is so heartbreaking but I am very happy for them too because each of them will be amazing missionaries !! I have come to love them SO MUCH in the last 3 weeks ! Friendships based around Christ are such a big big blessing. PS to follow up with my last weeks email, I've been reassigned finally !! I will be leaving August 3 to the California Anaheim Mission !! I am way more prepared for Canada weather, so now I have to go shopping again for California's weather (sorry mom and dad🤣) But other than that, it has been the usual routine everyday of studying and classes, not getting too wild over here haha! 


To keep this somewhat short I wont bore you with the details of my everyday life!! However maybe bring some things to light that have helped me. Ive found in workshops and classes that many missionaries are struggling with reassignments including myself. The let down of knowing you cant go to where you're called is a lot more difficult than I thought it'd be. As I've prayed about it and sought for an understanding, the Lord has shown me that it doesn't matter where I go for my mission because I am only called to spread the work of God. My calling wasn't to boast in where I am going but rather serve the Lord. No matter the location the message remains the same. Missions have been emphasized more on where we are going rather than what we are called to do and our purpose. I feel like Heavenly Father is reminding us to remember our true purpose as missionaries!! Another thing that I've thought about is the phrase "full experience of the MTC". I know people feel sorry for me since they think Im not getting the full experience of the MTC by doing it online. When I hear this phrase I get super confused because I'm not exactly sure what they mean and so I just wanted to say to everyone not to worry lol!! I am definitely getting the full experience through online MTC. The purpose of the MTC is to create "an atmosphere of love, trust, confidence, and respect" and more importantly "help missionaries draw nearer to God". I can certainly testify that my home has created the same atmosphere the MTC would provide and it has most definitely helped me draw nearer to God. The spirit is just as strong through technology and I am SO grateful for this. Id absolutely love to meet my district in person of course, but because we cant it has brought us even closer! COVID isn't the most ideal situation, but Ive learned that as hard as it can be to accept God's will, He knows whats best for each of us individually. And because of that Im just gonna go with it !!! <33 My testimony has grown so much in the last 3 weeks but I know it can and it will increase in the next 18 months as well. I cant express how excited I am to follow my purpose as a missionary and get to work!! 


Hope you all have an amazing week, love yall !! 




My District 

Two extras in class today!





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

No more Lying!!!

hiiii !  it was a good week:)  ☆ ward picnic for labor day, it was so much fun ! we went to Modjeska park for the whole day lol.  ☆ park day with the faletoi/schuster fam ! ahzira is my bff (the one also w the crumbl box lolol!)  ☆ this guys uncle is from the hawaii 5-0 show so he wanted to brag with his picture ! **below ☆ met the Tili family who asked if we could help their son, Ike, get baptized by October 2...yay !  ☆ met with Cilla & went over her baptism things for September 25 :)  ☆ funny story . . . SO my soa & I (comp & I) were walking around temple grounds in Newport Beach which is covered by a different mission. (Yes we have permission to go there). We saw a lot of missionaries & we took our tags off because we didn't feel like talking with any of them (it was a ROUGH week for us to say the least) & yet somehow some elders managed to talk to my soa while I was looking at the temple. She walks away with them & I was like ?!...
Post a Comment
Read more

I loved this week

This week was one for the books !! It was a crazy busy week & the days just flew by. I realized I don't share too much about my week or anything too spiritual lol but that can change !! So to start off, Monday night our entire mission got chastised by the president lol. Then Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday we had exchanges & Sunday we had a baptism with David !!   It was a week of A LOT of self reflection & seeing the areas I can improve . . . plus a lot of fun !!   This weeks exchanges I got to be with Sister Ratcliff, Sister Mattice, and Sister Ware !! I learned a lot from each sister & since it was a self reflecting week...I asked each sister & every return missionary member what they learned from their missions && believe it or not, every single one of them said they learned their identity as a daughter of God. It was tender to hear because I do forget my identity as Heavenly Fathers daughter, very often. Seeing the past experiences of my miss...
Post a Comment
Read more

Absence

The clock strikes 12:47am. My companions rush hurriedly to the door. I make my way down the stairs, trying not to fall asleep. As I felt the cool air brush against my face, I pull my blanket to me, angrily mumbling. I stare at the asphalt covered in droplets of rain but when I eyes revert to whats ahead of me, I deeply longed to go back in time 20 seconds prior. My heart sunk deep in my stomach as if it was the titanic. I look to my phone and the word 'absence' appeared as my daily common word from the Word Web app. I chuckled at how ironic this vocabulary applied to my very situation in the moment.   Our car was absent.   We won't go into detail but we actually found our car hahah after like 20 mins, we are just dumb ! I actually laughed so hard when I saw the word absence though because I truly felt called out by my own phone haha. But it was a wild adventure... I got to spend the night at some sisters apartment on the hardwood floor. Got 3 hours of sleep with a 6 hour me...
Post a Comment
Read more