Hey Everyone!
Ok so it was a fairly uneventful week here in Columbus. My comp and I
both got sick this week. Sister McNeely kind of has health issues anyway and she
is usually feeling nauseous or having reflux or something. I got some sort of
but because half the week I was super nauseous all of the time and really tired.
Not nauseous that I wanted to throw up but just enough that I felt crappy all
the time and I was sooo tired. Plus Sister McNeely's driving makes me kind of
carsick. I think it was going to the All you can Eat Buffet that the Elders insisted we all had to go to!! They are obsessed with this Buffett and it makes us all not feel good after!! Ok so for some reason I can't really remember a lot of this week. I
forgot my planner so I can't go back and look at what happened each day. This
might be a shorter email. I'm sorry! We were both sick so we didn't get as much
done as we could have. Ok but Easter was good! I got Mom's Easter package on
Saturday and that was cute. I loved the stickers! You appreciate really weird
things when you are a missionary like stickers and really simple things in life.
Weird stuff. We had Easter dinner with the Park's last night. They are from
Utah, they are here for the army. Sister Park is the Young Women's President and
she is really fun. We had a really good sacrament meeting, our bishop spoke and
a guy from the stake who is actually in our ward. They talked about Christ and
the atonement and how Easter is a rebirth. It was really good. I wasn't too
homesick but my companion was! Apparently Easter was a really big thing in her
family so she was really struggling yesterday. We have always celebrated Easter
but it has always kind of been a smaller thing. I have been thinking a lot
lately about how I want the rest of my mission to go. I have one year left to
preach the gospel here in Georgia and I have been thinking about what kind of
missionary I want to be, the things I want to do and focus on, things I want to
change. One year left! It seems like a long time, but yet such a short time to
accomplish all of the things I want to do! All of the things I want to study and
work on as a person. I just want to try and be the bravest person I can be in
talking to everyone! That is mostly what I struggle with. I just don't want to
hold anything back! I have also been studying a lot about Charity lately. I have
found some really great talks and some really great things in the scriptures. I
have found that one of the main theme's when everyone talks about charity, is
that you need to acknowledge and accept God's love for you before you can then
have that love for other people. You need to know that God loves and cares about
you personally, and then when you feel that love you want other people to feel
that love also so you begin to have Charity for others! I have definitely
noticed that being here on my mission. As I realize everything I have with the
gospel and the love that I know God has for me, then I just naturally want to
share that with others and let them have the opportunity to feel that also! It
also talks about how having Charity can help us through trials, because we know
that God loves us and is giving us the trials to help us grow and learn. One
scripture that I really loved was in 1 John 4:8 and it says " He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love." I just love this simple statement. "God is
love." If we want to be like Him wouldn't we then love everyone regardless if
they are mean, weird or anything else? Christ loved everyone, including those
who were cruel or who offended him. One thing that I really struggled with when
I first came out was loving the people and loving my mission. I have found that
I really have come to love them though! I love them when they reject us, when
they are mean to us, when they ridicule our beliefs because they are our
brothers and sisters and our Heavenly Father loves them so much! I know how much
he loves me and knowing that, how could I help loving them? I love these people
in Georgia and I love being a missionary and I love the gospel! I love my
family, the prophet the people back home who support me and the people in this
ward who I am getting to know! I hope that you can all feel how much I
appreciate and love all of you for supporting me as I do this. I challenge all
of you to think of how much Heavenly Father loves you, how he wants you to
succeed and to be happy and then share that love with other people because you
will be happier and it will bless your lives everyday! I love all of you and
hope you have a great week!
Love,
Sister Price
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