Tuesday, February 17, 2015

"JUST BE WEIRD" February 17, 2015

Hey Everyone!

     Well this week had been a good week but also a little bit of a struggle. We have had some really good lessons this week. We had exchanges with the Grovetown sister on Wednesday to Thursday. Sister Robinette came to swainsboro with me and Sister Baker went to Grovetown with Sister Owusu. Sister Robinette is a visa waiter and is waiting for her visa to go to Italy. She is from West Point. That went well, since Sister Baker was gone Sister Ference asked what I wanted for dinner so I chose chicken alfredo because it has everything my companions haven't been able to have for the last two transfers! It was delicious. Then Thursday we had ZTM in Augusta. It takes us 1 1/2 hours to get there so it's quite the drive. It was a good meeting though. It's nice to see other missionaries since most of the time it feels like we are in exile kind of! The weekend was awesome though! It was stake conference this weekend so on Saturday night we drove to Augusta for the adult session and then Sunday they had it broadcast to our branch building. Our plan was to get the Bro and Sister Cruz to take us because then they had an obligation to go. It worked perfectly! It also worked our really well because Sister Cruz had chosen Saturday as her day to quit smoking so we went over and helped her make cookies because they were having a potluck dinner before the session and she had never made homemade cookies before! Imagine that. I can't. Then they drove us and it was awesome! It was funny to watch the newly coming back members at stake conference because there was so many people. The Ference's had gone up to Augusta earlier in the day to spend time there. They just kept commenting that there were so many people! It was also really fun because I got to see a bunch of people from Augusta! I loved that. The session was awesome! This year's theme for the adult sessions is how families and wards can be blessed by effective ward councils. I thought it was great. I never really understood ward councils/their purpose before my mission but now I definitely have a better grasp of them! I have seen really good ward councils and not so great ward councils and I have learned a lot. I was a little nervous but the Cruz's loved it too and on the drive home we talked about how we could apply it to their family and having family councils and stuff like that. Elder Kopischke was awesome as usual! He really got the congregation involved and helped them see how it applies to them and how they can use it. The Sunday session was also really good. He talked about how people are afraid to share the gospel because they don't want people to think we are weird. He says we are weird, that is what makes us different and interests other people so I liked that. He said to just be weird! Sister Baker and I have been having some communication problems so we had a really long comp inventory to figure that out. Comp inventory is when you talk about your relationship and problems and how to fix things at the end of the week after you finish weekly planning. I have decided that it's something I'm going to do when I get married because it's a good way to work things out without getting angry. We mostly solved it and we are working much better together but we still have some work to do! It's good that we both want to work it out though because that makes it a lot easier. We have also really been trying to follow the spirit more and so far it's working out awesomely this week! It's only Tuesday but our week has been going really well. We tried to get the Cruz's daughter to take us to district meeting today but she said she couldn't wake up that early. I felt no sympathy for her because she didn't have to wake up until 9 but oh well. Not everyone is a morning person! We had a really good district meeting today, I really like our district it's pretty awesome! I was also really glad we had a meeting on Saturday because tracting on Valentine's day is the worst! Well I hope everything is going well! I got a package from Catherine and I loved it! It was just what I needed. I'm glad grandma is doing better! She is definitely in my prayers. I love you all!

Love,
Sister Price


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