Well the verdict is in and I am being
transferred to Billings. I will be a office missionary with Sister
Spencer, (I have only ever met her for like 5 seconds.) I will be
serving in a singles ward so that should be a blast, I am really excited
cause I really did not see that coming at all. I thought I might be
transferred but not to the mission home ha ha. I am really excited, but
really sad too. I do not want to leave Riverton. I love it here so much.
We have some amazing investigators and I am so sad that I will not be
here to see them be baptized.
This week has been a great week, a hard week with lots of
work, but amazing. We visited the Karikers during the week to give
Brother Kariker a birthday gift, a whoopy cushion. Cause we knew that
would fit him. Then Sister Kariker ran down stairs and came back up with
gifts for us. She gave us each some office supplies from their business ha ha that have their address's on them. Then a sweet card and a picture
she drew. My picture that she gave me is of some Spanish homes in New
Orleans. :) I am so thankful for that. I will treasure them forever. It
will hang in my home.
This week Brother Taylor read! They have just been
reactivated, but our biggest struggle has been to get them to read. She
started and has been doing amazing, however he will not. Well we knocked
on their door and through the window we saw him reading! He read a
chapter! Which is so huge for him! Then we read 2 more chapters with him
while we were there and he read with us. Normally he refuses to read,
but he read! This week really has been phenominal.
I don't really know what else to write. All I can think about
is transfers. I am starting to freak out. I love these people so much
and I do not want to leave them. I never realized how much I could love
people, but I do. My heart is breaking to have to leave Riverton. All
the amazing memories and the people that I cherish so much. I keep
telling my self I will see them again, but I am so worried I won't, for
some reason or another. I have to see them. I think about the spirit
world and being reunited with them there. I will run to them and give
them the biggest hug. I pray that they will see the light, that they
will build their relationship with Christ and they will let him bless
them.
I love this area so much I can't explain it. I want to just
cry, it hurts to know I will be leaving. I think about Great falls and
how hard it was to leave, but I think I am having a harder time now.
When we first got here we had nothing. We had to really work hard. And
by working hard we have accomplished so much. I loved the people so
much and I truly care for them. It is harder to leave these amazing
people. I hope that I can finish my mission here. I love it here. I am
sorry I have repeated myself so much, but that is all that is going on
in my head right now. Just to finish off I want to bear my testimony. I
know that this is the one true church on the earth. I know that Heavenly
Father loves us so much more than we can imagine. For a long time I
just trusted that he loved us, but now I know that he loves us because
of my mission. Like I said earlier I never knew I could love so many
people, all individually and know them individually, yet I do. My heart
grows each day, I find room in my heart for more and more people. I now
know that infinite love is possible and that Heavenly Father know us. He
cares about us and understands us and loves us all as individuals. He
literally understands my pain that I am going through right now. He
understand that I really don't want to go, he understands that I am
scared, but yet excited. I am so thankful that we have prayer and that
when I feel like this I can turn to him. I also have scriptures to read
and find compfort in. I know that he has provided us with every tool
that we need to return home to him. I know that we have prophets who are
called of God and Hold the priesthood authority of God. I KNOW that
this church is true. I love it with my whole soul.
Please pray for me, that everything will work out well :) I
love you all so much. I am sorry I rambled and this email did not make a
lot of sense.
-Love Andrea
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