Well this week was insane!!!!! We had no time in our area just because we were going around all over the place taking care of the transfers, the trainees, and the new cities. I am so tired it's crazy. The worst is when you wake up and you still feel like you need to go to bed! haha
So obviously transfers were this week, I'm still with Elder Rogers as AP, it's kinda funny because in our district everyone is training except us so they are all helping their trainees and it just makes me feel even older in the mission.
So after Wednesday morning my group is now the oldest in the mission which is pretty strange. Elder Chingas had his family come and pick him up and he has a 17 year old brother too and I was like woooohhh this is weird. Also I got to take Elder Befus who was my companion to the airport which was kinda funny because we had been together taking other people to the airport.
Then the next day the big group of 20 new missionaries finally got here. It was all kinda crazy getting everything ready for them and I knew it was going to be a lot of missionaries to handle but when they all stepped out of the airport, I was just like ohhh crap...there are so many of them! It was so crazy trying to keep track of all them, Elder Rogers and I actually thought we lost one of them at one point so that was awkward. Anyway I was getting super stressed out trying to figure out where everyone needed to be and what needed to happen which I kinda feel bad about, I know I need to be better and just take some deep breaths and realize it'll all be ok. As it always does with the Lords work everything worked out actually surprisingly well. They are a great group of missionaries. It was interesting choosing who would be training them because I'm used to getting to know them a lot better before we have to decide! So we really had to rely on the Spirit and just how we felt about everything but I really think it went right.
It's definitely something that I have learned a lot about on my mission is how God speaks to us and guides us. Like I never expected to see a vision or anything like that but I have found that a lot of the times a prompting for me is much more subtle than I could ever have imagined and I've been taking way too much credit for myself. I have found when something just really makes sense to me or it just seems like it would work or anything along those lines that really it's not me but it's the Spirit. God speaks to our hearts and our minds! It's brilliant! He can help us out without us really even noticing it. I think about when I chose what school I would go to. I really wasn't sure where I wanted to go and BYU wasn't exactly the top of my list but I thought about it a lot and probably should have prayed about it a lot more but one day I just thought you know I can see myself at BYU and I went for it and just felt relieved like I had made the right choice. I always just kinda assumed wow I'm so good at puzzling things out by myself. But how could you deny the hand of God in that? Especially seeing how great the decision turned out for me. I loved my first semester and I love that school. I felt like this was really where I needed to be.
Another thing that I have really noticed this past little bit is the problem of having your phone out at church. It's starting to seem like a real problem to me. You see the solid RMs come to church and then they just sit in the back and play on their phone the whole time and think they have already learned it all! Or recent converts texting the whole time and you know that they couldn't tell you anything about what happened at church or what was said! You might as well just not go! I really don't want to be that person! I just want to be more detached from my phone in general and I know it's easy to say out here but it's a goal I have. But really people, we need to have more respect for the sacred things. Could you imagine Christ coming and talking to everyone and you have a bunch of people looking down at their phones texting!! So that's my latest sermon! Don't use your phone at church except for scriptures!!!!!!! I'm a believer in electronic scriptures used properly, it's a great tool!
Anyway Love yall living in the life, this week is looking to be another crazy/busy one but it will all work out as usual!
See ya!
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