November 27, 2014 Thanksgiving
Weekly Update
A lot to update on since it’s been a while!
Monday the 17th was a lot of fun.
We met out district and went bowling together!
I enjoy bowling and like to consider myself pretty good at it. We played 3 games, and then back to the usual
Pday stuff. Grocery shop, clean the car, email……
That morning, we woke up and decided
something wonderful was going to happen.
And nothing spectacular did, but having that mindset made a world of
difference. What an impact our attitudes
have!
Tuesday, holy cow we were sore! From
bowling. We decided it’s because every
time you bowl, you do a lunge. So that’s
like 60 lunges with weights in hand! It’s
all on the same side though so it was really just my left let that was sore but
it hurt to go up and down stairs. Haha
we got sore from bowling.
We did exchanges on Thursday! Remember my first exchange when I was so
nervous? Now they’re fun! I got to go with Sis. Slade in Silverlake (YSA), and
Sis. Davis stayed here with Sis. Smith.
We did a lot of finding, and I’m grateful that I got to know Sis. Slade
a little better. It felt like I was just
having a sleepover with one of my friends since we’ve known each other so
long. She told me it was one of her best
exchanges of all time so that was pretty awesome! We’re totally going to hang out and be real
friends at BYU!
In Sacrament on Sunday, the meeting was all
about being spiritually self-reliant. Someone
talked about how when we are not self-reliant
and are dependent on others, we are to some degree under their control,
and we therefore give up our agency. It’s
an interesting concept I had never thought of before. In Relief Society, we talked about President
Monson’s “Ponder the Path of Thy Feet”.
It’s a good one. You should read
it.
On Tuesday the 25th we got to do
service! We volunteered at a Presbyterian
Church and helped with their weekly soup
kitchen and helped provide a Thanksgiving dinner to people in need. It was so much fun and I loved getting to
help.
Wednesday was our last district meeting of
the transfer and since it was the day before Thanksgiving, we just talked about
all we’re thankful for. Sister Slade and
our district leader are both going home at the end of this transfer so that’s
super sad.
Theresa, one of our investigators had her
baptism interview on Wednesday, and she passed so she’ll be baptized this
Saturday! We’re super excited! Theresa
doesn’t have a job or anything, so all she does is sit at home and read the
Book of Mormon all day. Since the
beginning of October when we met her, she’s finished the Book of Mormon once
and is now in 3 Nephi again! She loves
the gospel and we love her!
And today is Thanksgiving! So many things to be thankful for. I tried to make a list the other day, but
there are just too many. I don’t know
how I got so luck to be so greatly blessed.
So here are just a few.
-
My Family
-
The gospel and all that comes
with it.
-
How the gospel has blessed my
family so much
-
How I get to be a Missionary and
spread this gospel so others can feel the same joy it has brought me.
-
That I get to serve in the
Washington Everett Mission and all the people I have had the incredible
opportunity to meet.
-
And the list goes on and on!
This morning, we went and played football
with our zone. It turned out to be a lot
of fun! I know most of the rules to
football, but I’ve never actually played, so it was a good experience. Even though it was sprinkling outside and it
was muddy everywhere, we still had fun with it.
After that and we’d put ourselves back
together, Sis. Smith cut my hair! She’s
a hair stylist, and my hair was in desperate
need of a trim, so we went to their apartment and she cut it. Then it was time for dinner! The Blackmon’s invited us over to enjoy our
Thanksgiving Dinner with them. It was
good, but a little hard since it was my first Thanksgiving away from my
family. It’s okay though I love being a
missionary and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Since it’s a holiday, we had to be home by
6:00, and since it’s the Thursday before transfers, leadership calls were
tonight. And the Zone Leaders
called. This time with leadership
assignments…plural. Sis Davis is going
to be a trainer! And I’m going to be a SISTER TRAINING LEADER. What!
I don’t know what I’m doing, I can’t be an STL! So we’ve both spent the evening freaking out
but everything will be okay! We are
going forward with
faith!
So this means that Sis Davis will probably be training here and I’ll be
transferred somewhere else. We won’t
know for sure who’s going till Monday though and where on Tuesday. It still hasn’t hit me yet but maybe it will
tomorrow when we go to leadership training.
I love you all and hope everyone is doing
well!
Love,
Sister Tennant
Washington Everett Mission in Photos |
Share the Gift of Christ this Christmas! |
Beautiful Sunset |
First Snow! |
Exchanges with Sis. Slade |
Theresa's Baptism ! |
Silly Companions |
Thanksgiving Dinner |
Thanksgiving Dinner With the Blackmon's |
Our District |
Going to do service in PANTS! |
Bowling |
Bowling with the District |
It's not even late....why is it dark! |
No comments:
Post a Comment