calm here in the good ole FTM! Tuesday we had a meeting down in Gulf
Port for all of the sisters in the mission. I think president realized
that the stress level surrounding the sisters in the mission was
substantially higher than that of the elders. Mostly because there
have been a lot of changes implemented recently and the sisters freak
out if they don't execute every new idea flawlessly. President
basically told us to relax and be more like elders. Sister Yellow and
I thought that was hilarious because this transfer every time we
started getting down on ourselves or stressing out we just stopped and
asked, "what would an elder do?" So far it has proved rather
effective!
So sister Yellow and I have to give trainings to other missionaries
every week at district meeting. This week we decided to do a little
object lesson regarding the Spirit. We had a jalapeño and a grape. The
grape represented the spirit and the jalapeño represented negative
feelings that may block us from feeling the spirit. So for the object
lesson we picked three volunteers and had them close their eyes (so
they didn't know what we were giving them) and put both the jalapeño
and the grape in their mouth at the same time. It was rather hilarious
to see the reactions. We then asked which flavor was more prominent.
Obviously it was the jalapeño. When we allow things like pride,
frustration, anger, or whatever else into our hearts and mind, it
becomes extremely difficult for the spirit to speak to us.
This object lesson went perfectly in the first district, but in the
second district we had a slight mishap… one of the sisters must have
gotten a really hot part of the jalapeño and her eyes started
watering. She then wiped her tears and got the juice from the pepper
in her eye! Whoops! Without thinking I was like, "she will be fine."
All the elders gasped and then burst out laughing because I sounded
totally heartless. In an effort to redeem myself I said proudly,"I
have faith. She will be fine." That didn't help my case much, but
sister Klien totally had the best attitude about it and she was in
deed okay! :)
Transfers were this week and we are both staying! We are so excited! I
love it her and we are pretty sure I will finish my mission here in
Hudson with Sister Yellow. At least that is what we hope happens! All
in all it was another incredible week here in the sunshine state. It
was a little chilly for my FLORIDA blood, but it is warming back up so
I think I will live.
Love you!
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| It was cold enough to wear a scarf |
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| Curry family |
Sawgrass Park in St. Petersburg
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| Of course she's in the tree |
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| Trying to have a serious conversation on the phone |
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| Josiah |
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