It has been another amazing week here at
NOM. It has gotten pretty cold this week, but no where near as cold as
it is at home. Oh how grateful I am to be here instead of home haha!! I
hope you are all staying warm. So I thought I would give you some info
this week about life as a missionary. I love Sister Graham. She is
from Orem, and I know that we will be friends forever. I have so much
to learn from her. She is such a powerful teacher. We get along great.
She only has two transfers left. We both feel like we will be
together for both transfers. I am just going to be killing all of my
companions off. I had a melt down this week with Sister Baker. I
missed my Sister Belka a lot. I learned so many amazing things from her.
I am the missionary that I am today because of her. Sister President
has talked to us a lot this week about not looking back, and of course
with every commitment comes a trial of our Faith. So I had to repent
about that and move on. I am so grateful for the trials that I face each
and everyday. As I pray to Father at the end of the day I am able to
reflect on my day, and realize that I have changed. This gospel is all
about changing and truly becoming who God needs us to be.
The Trail Center has been really slow this week.
It is great though because we get a lot of time to study. I was able
to study and learn about some of my ancestors this week. It has been
amazing. I learned that the First Bishop of the Church is my 5th great
Grandfather. AMAZING!! I also learned that My great great great great
grandfather was a twelve apostle. We have quite the legacy. I am
grateful to be able to learn from the pioneers. Just as they had trials
we too have them as well, but as we give everything to the Lord like
the pioneers did we too will be strengthened, and be able to see
miracles just as they did. I am so grateful to be here. This is where
Heavenly Father needs me to be.
There is a Doctor Named Dr. Fisher who is friends
with Elder Watson. He holds a free clinic every Thursday. He has a
whole pharmacy, lots of nurses, and doctors. He found out that I was a
nurse, and so he let me take care of the patients. Ahhh it was so
awesome. I learned so much. I was with a Med Student, who was really
attractive, but don't worry I remembered I was a missionary. It is my
goal to convert him, and then marry a doctor haha j/k j/k. Anyways back
to the clinic it was so awesome. I saw like 5 patients, and was able
to treat, diagnose, and just learn a lot. It was awesome!!! It made me
miss my job back home. It is such a tender mercy from Heavenly Father
because I will be able to count all the hours, and then I won't have to
stress about keeping my license when I get back.
Right now we are working with a lot of Less Actives.
We had three of them come to church on Sunday. It was awesome!!! We
also have been working with a lady named Leanne. She is in a rest home,
and is great as they come. When we walked in a couple of days ago she
got a huge grin on her face, and was like oh my girls are here!! She
was able to get a priesthood blessing. During the blessing I was
overwhelmed with the spirit. I was able to feel of Fathers love for
her. She had so much faith, and she knows that she can be healed. She
is set for baptism on February 2, but she isn't able to come to church
because of her health so we have to figure something out so we can get
her into the water. She is incredible. We have also been meeting with
Alli who is Claudia's dad. He has met with missionaries 3 different
times, and his whole family is baptized. We have met with him a lot
this week. The spirit is changing his heart right before our eyes. It
is so amazing. It was his birthday this week, and so they invited us
over for dinner and fed us. Well let's just say I am always dreading
eating there food because it is well DISGUSTING. So let's just say that
I am such a nice companion hahaha!! Well we sat down to eat, and they
always give us way more then we can ever eat. So there is this rice
that they make that literally makes me want to Gag. So being the nice
companion that I am I got a huge scoop and when nobody was looking I put
it on Sister Graham plate hahaha!! She gave me the look of DEATH!!!
She literally was going to kill me, and I could not stop laughing. I
switched couches so she wouldn't give it back to me. Then I really got
the look of death. Ah aren't I so GREAT!! So I finally get control of
myself and realize I have to be able to find a way to get this food down
so I came up with another great plan. Sia always comes to the rescue,
she is 2 by the way. So I have her come and sit by me, and start
feeding her. The family all thinks I am so cute with her, and so nice
to share my food haha, but hey the plan worked!! I had a clean plate.
After Dinner we were talking to them all about the importance of coming
to church, and Alli turns to us and says if you come tie my tie for me
in the morning I will come to church. So of course we were all over the
idea. Well we got into the car, and we both realized that neither of
us could tie a tie. So it was 9 at this time so we had 30 minutes to
learn. So we ran over to Elder Watsons house, and he taught us haha!!
Luckily he was patient with me, and laughed at me a lot because who knew
tying a tie was so difficult? So Sunday morning we went over there
after our meeting and tied his tie. His whole entire family was at
church together. It was AMAZING!! Heavenly Father truly blessed us. I
am so excited to continue to watch him learn and grow.
I love this work!! I am so grateful to be here. I
LOVE being a missionary. I am happy that you got to talk to Sister
Belka she is amazing! I miss her everyday. I can't wait for you guys to
go to Targhee too. You better tear it up for me. I hope that the snow
is good this year. Send me lots of pics. I hope that you stay nice
and warm too!! Know that I love you all, and am so grateful for each of
you!!!
Love,
Sister Whitt
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