Hey Family, August 4, 2014
So I am not too sure how to say all this but....
Yesterday we were in West Orange again and we were just
trying our last person for the night. It was a long day, nobody was letting us
in or being super interested to listen. We even had our only appointment for
the day cancel. Kinda rough night, but at 8:30 PM I got a call from President
Taggart and... yeah I am a zone leader now.... What in the world am I doing? Ha
..... So I'm trying to relax my last p-day before I start to lose my mind. No
I'm messing- its all good. But me? a zone leader? Ha this is going to be fun. I
am actually pretty pumped for it. No idea what is going to happen the next few
days. My responsibilities are about to quadruple. But I am confident in the
Lord's confidence and trust in me, and the trust President Taggart has in me as
well. I feel like I have a billion weaknesses and am not qualified to lead so
many people, but my focus is on learning and loving and using my strengths and
gifts to help out these missionaries the best I can. I will give you more
details next week. I am feeling good about the calling. Nervous, but excited to
learn and serve. Luckily we have the best missionaries in the world here so I'm
not too worried. I will be getting transferred as well.
So goodbye to Short Hills... Wow I feel like I was just
living the good life here. Its probably one of the nicest parts of New Jersey.
I have the best companion, Elder Lopez. I can't even say how many times we were
laughing and smiling. He is such an awesome missionary. Only been out 3
transfers and he is the best teacher I have ever taught with. I learned a lot
from him. The branch here I will always remember. They are just the happiest
people and so nice and loving. So solid in the Gospel too. I have never seen
such a solid ward council meeting. The area is awesome as well. Definitely a hard
working area. We did some work here and I am going to miss the streets we
walked down everyday. We are going to be running around tonight trying to say
goodbye to a few people before I head out. Transfers are tomorrow and after
that its pure zone leader responsibilities for a few months. Most zone leaders
are there for 6 months, so it is going to be an adventure.
Anyways this week we had one of our less active members just
completely flip around. A month ago she was yelling and just so exhausted with
her life. She was baptized about a year and a half ago. She is from Costa Rica,
and has the strongest personality ever. Her name is Ni---. She became inactive
when some of the missionaries left. She is super solid bust just needed a
testimony boost. She felt like her life got so much harder after she was
baptized and she didn't see any of the blessing she had gained. So she stopped
going to church. But we have been helping her come back and one of her visiting
teachers is absolutely amazing and has been bringing her to church. Oh my
goodness... Ni--- is like a new person now. She had to move houses. Her old
house was filled with a bunch of her old friends who had some bad habits of
drinking. So she moved away from them and started living with just her daughters.
She is so happy now. I think just coming to church and getting away from her
old friends and temptations just changed her life. She is someone I will never
forget.
This last transfer I probably learned the most from my zone
leaders. They were just super good friends with me and I got to go on a few
exchanges with them and they just taught me so much about leadership,
confidence, and just finding fun along the journey. That is probably what I
learned most this transfer. One sister missionary put it the best this last
week: Have fun in your trials. It has helped me just have more fun everyday
instead of trying to wait until the end of the trials. Oh it has been the best
transfer of my mission so far. I just love being a missionary. It is hard as
ever sometimes, but there are always happy moments along the way.
Happy 16 birthday Sam! Just a few more days. Get that Eagle
than you will be driving in no time.
I am using all my energy from sleep, and from food, so I
started just running off energy from the sun (Son)... either way you look at
it... Ha I am just in the clouds right now.
Here we gooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Elder Sumsion
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