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| Us and the Hermanas |
What a crazy, exhausting, lots of meetings, running around like we were chickens with our heads cut off week! I am not even sure how to express to you how tired we are. BUT The Lord is so incredibly good and has given us so many wonderful people to work with and lots of good things to do!
There were just a lot of meetings and planning this week. Life of a mission leader. But if it helps everyone else's mission go smoothly then I am willing and happy to do it! We seriously did not have time to study and read the Book of Mormon for like 3 days in a row... let me tell you that is not fun! PLEASE read the Book of Mormon, you feel like a total bum and the spirit is not there. For realz.
We found lots of new investigators just by talking to everyone! E is super searching for answers and for God. He did not know how to pray so we taught him, and then he gave one of the sweetest prayers. The spirit just lit up the room! It was amazing. We are having a church tour with him tomorrow and he is coming to church Sunday!!! Another great family we are teaching are just amazing too! they were totally kind of not wanting to hear about it at all at first. But we shared the Book of Mormon with them and the mom pulled out her highlighters and a note book and everything. It was SOOO cool! Why is God so good? :)
We went on exchanges with the Hermanas as well! (added to the stress too but they are fantastic so it was actually a great blessing during this crazy week!) They are just stellar missionaries - doing the good work of the Lord!
We did some yard work too! We have been doing lots of that lately. Which brings me to how grateful I am for the earth - for the plants that produce such wonderful food for us. The Hermanas have inspired us to eat super healthy! We were doing pretty well but it was getting boring. Salad after salad. They introduced us to some creative fun healthy and easy recipies! Wahooo so if y'all have any of those please send them our way!
We got the wonderful privilege to speak on the Fort Eustis base on Sunday. What a great group of guys meet there! I spoke about gratitude and just how amazing it is! When we are grateful we can truly see the hand of God more fully in our lives! Its incredible! So many wonderful blessing await us when we are grateful!
Well, hopefully this week should not be too crazy! After zone conference we should be in the clear and be able to give all our focus to our area again! Newport News is a wonderful place, how I love it!!
Thought for the Week: Are you the kind of person that someone else would want to be? WOAH. Yeah deep right? It blows my mind. I really do want to be a good enough person that someone else would think that. I know that as we turn to our Savior, He can help us become that person. That person that will lift and bless others. So goal for the week... actually no goal for LIFE, have Jesus Christ turn me into the person that He would have me be and help me to help others to find their true potential as well.
LOVE YOU ALL! Thanks for you support, it really means A LOT
Be blessed
Sista Poulsen
Bonus peek into a Sister Training Leader's life from the Questions email:
So yeah. Super looooooong exhausting week. We are now not having zone meetings anymore only zone conferences. That is 3 zones combines. And we and the Zone Leaders have to plan them and do like 35 minute trainings in them........ We were dying because we had to plan for a 35 minute training at our last zone meeting, plan out 20 minute talks for sacrament, plan our training for this Wednesday (35 minutes) and then call all the people that we want to participate in zone conference... also our area is still on fire so there are SOOO many people to see and just zero time so let's just say I am falling a sleep at the computer today. After emailing I am literally just going to go lie down until 2:30 when a sister that is here visiting the mission that was comps with Sister Nelson takes us to get Tropical Smoothie and hang out... man oh man. I hope this next week goes by faster. #tears
so yeah that's our lives right now. But soooo many miracles don't worry! I will write all about them in a minute.
