Soooooo. Transfers happened this week! Sorry I totes forgot to mention that last week. But hey, better late than never! Crazy things happened... Sister Merrill and I are staying! WHAT?!? She totally thought she was leaving. But nope, God's got something in store for us! So we have another 6 weeks in lovely Franklin! So yeah, tis all.
Not too much this week. We did have interviews with President and Sister Weed though! Love those guys :) And instead of doing interviews and zone conferences every 2 transfers, we will be doing them every transfer, so stay tuned for some good stuff! But we are truly being led and guided by great, inspired leaders who are lead and inspired by Christ, who is truly the head of this church. Thank heavens!
I finally met the owners of downtown Franklin! The sister missionaries have helped them out forever with service projects around town and such. They are both so sweet! They are not members, nor are interested, but they love us and our help! And us being able to help them gets us out into the community. So that's awesome! We should be doing some stuff for them this week, so stay tuned! They are having some fun activities coming up too, so fun!
We have just been walking, riding, and biking around talking to people! Whether we share a message or not, we just love to meet these people, and it's neat to try to see all of them as God sees them! When we do that, it makes it less intimidating and scary to talk to them.
The Weeds also attended our District Meeting. It was kinda scary because we had to do a training so... NO PRESSURE. Nah, it was good. The spirit took over so it was fine.
HAHA funny biking story, Sister Merrill ran into a trash can... yeah. It even left a bruise. After the tears stopped rolling down my face I decided to ask if she was alright. We are having quite the fun times with our bikes. It is tricky to ride them because they are boy bikes, and they are too tall for us. Good times.
We stayed after church yesterday and sang a bit in the choir - that was lovely! I am trying to sing alto because there was only one other and no one else wanted to - so yeah. I'm trying to stretch my musical talents!
Thought for the week: We got our conference issues of the ensign this week, YEAH!!!! It's basically the best present us missionaries can receive. So I have been reading up on those. I encourage you all to read them, they are amazing! So thankful for our leaders, they give such inspired guidance and counsel. One of my favs was one given in the General Women’s meeting. I can't remember her name, but she talked about "having a bedrock understanding of the doctrine of Christ." So I thought "How do we do that?" And BOOM in the next few paragraphs she explains just how to do it. AWESOME! So go over and read some talks that impacted you. As you study and read them, you will answer questions and find ways to improve, how wonderful!
THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH! I truly feel the love! Can't believe I am hitting my half way this week, crazy soup! I has been a good, bad, wonderful, heartbreaking, fantastic 9 months. Can't wait to see what the next 9 bring me!!! Or better yet, brings to Gods children who are searching for the truth.
XOXO
Sista Poulsen
"God is good y'all!"
