My first
transfer is (almost) complete! Weird, or what? We went on exchanges this past week. Man. It's
stressful to be the "senior comp". Even just for 24 hours! Being the
driver was stressful as well. It worked out though. No laws broken or cars
crashed. It was really fun to have Sis. King (the sister training leader) here
though. She's going home next month so it was neat to see a more
"seasoned" missionary. I learned a lot from her. Just to be more
real. I think I've been a bit mechanical. Probably just cause I'm in situations
I've never been in before. I also learned that I am perfectly capable. Sis.
King was like, "Wow. You are a really powerful teacher". Something
that kind of made me speechless.
Thank you
for thinking of D. Being "in-charge" of Heavenly Father's children is
really stressful! We met with her again. Tried to set a baptismal date, but said she
needed to pray about it. Understandable, I guess. We committed her to come to
church...which was stake conference. But that night she told us she'd still be
out of town. Pretty disappointing. We're seeing her tonight and going to
emphasis the importance of church attendance. Hopefully it won't be too much. I
think it'll be really powerful.
Gosh. It's
been hard to not be able to call you and Dad. At the end of most days I just
want to call you and tell you about all the things that we did. I'm doing
really well though. We have "New Missionary Training" on Friday this
week and I'm very excited to see all my MTC buds. It'll be fun to see how
everyone is doing.
We found a
couple new investigators this week. Always good. Most of them seem moderately
interested so I'm very excited about that! K is one of them. She's my fave.
She's a young girl. Married. I don't know if she has any kids. Anyways, she
said she and her husband about a year ago were looking for a church and had
briefly heard about the LDS church, but nothing happened. When we asked if we
could give her the BoM she was like, "Oh my goodness, yes, please! I'm
going out of town for a couple weeks, but we're taking a train so I'll have
lots of time to read through it before you come back!" You could only
imagine how pumped I was. Then as we were leaving she was like, "I'm
really looking forward to talking with you in a couple weeks"! Who says
that? She's just the cutest and I'm really hopeful for her. The Lord has
prepared so many of His children here in Oshkosh and now it's just a matter of
working hard to find them!
In Stake
Conference, Elder Packer (of the Seventy) spoke, as well as Elder Haynie (also from
the Seventy). Elder Haynie said, "To sprinkle salt (the gospel), you have
to get out of the salt shaker (your comfort zone)". I just really liked
that. There are so many ways to sprinkle the gospel. And Elder Packer said,
"We, who are the pilots of our lives, must learn to land and fly our
airplanes in both good and rough conditions". Loved that too.
Have a
marvelous week!
Xo,
Sis. Quist
Her District: Elder Amann (going home the same day as
me!), Elder Drishinski (going home soon), Me, Sis. Straight, Sis. Goldwater, and Sis. Gifford (holding the makeshift selfie stick) Too funny. We have too much fun together.
