This week flew by! but it was
very good. It hasn't snowed here yet! my companion is like really
wanting it to because she is from California, and I am like no you don't
want it to it's way to cold for that. Me and my companion are getting
along we are really trying to getting good at contacting before the next
transfer but it's a struggle for us, we will get the hang of it
though.
For conference we went to the church building and watch it there,
haha I don't think I have every sat down for every session without
getting up before! haha I learned so much and took a lot of notes. Ones
of the things that stuck out to me was about having spiritual strength
and how it's likened to physical strength and enduring. The more we
exercise our spiritual strength the easier the race of this life will be
and more capable we will be able to handle the obstacles a long the
race with more endurance. The Lord wants us to be strong and like a
coach they have us work out, do hard core strength training so when the
game comes we will be able to play with with out fatigue. The same works
for the Lord and His game. Every challenge and trail is like a strength
training session at the gym, while you are doing it you are hating life
but when you are done you feel so much better and stronger.
Oh! so some exciting news!! there is a sister in our mission who is
really struggling with her mission and she is speaking spanish.
President called me and Sister Tuifua and was like, I am impressed to
have an exchange for a day with sister Tincher and this other sister. So
this Tuesday and Wednesday I am going to be a spanish speaking
sister!!!! Ah!! I have secretly been practicing me spanish ha.... it's a
secret. I am so excited like, whaaat? yeah very exciting. So I will
tell you in my next letter how it went!
This week we met with Janet again actually like three times
haha we finally got her a French Book of Mormon and she just like loves
it, she keeps saying I love this book, I love it. She is so humble and
loves God and finds so much peace in what we have been able to shw her
in this short time. I can't even believe what a blessing it is to be
able to teach such a ready person. Haha I wish I could speak french to
her so bad so I could explain to her in my out words what this gospel
has done for me, It is true and He is real. The spirit will do that for
me though, thank goodness for that!
Some real cool things have happened this week and I know that when
you have exact obedience miracles happen. When ever something little,
but cool happens me and sister Tuifua are like Miracle! (we have a
little jingle tune to it). so one this week was when we were going to
look for some people on out list of Find out's we were walked to the bus
stop and there was a man there he asked about us and who we are and we
talked and then the bus came and we got on. When we got on the bus we
got off that the street we thought we needed to be on and as we are
walking we figure out the apartment is like across the town but on the
same street so we talk all the way there and the person didn't want to
talk to us and all this stuff happened and I was thinking, "Something
good is going to come out of this I can' feel it" so after much walking
and waiting for the bus we finally getting to where we need to be to get
to our next appointment as we are walking to the bus stop we ran into
the same guy, like okay sorry but that was cool. He says hey what where
is your church at I want to come to it. So the Lord works in mysterious
ways, like confusing sisters on what roads to go and buses to take just
to have perfect timing to meet someone he cares about. It's real.
I hope everything is going great at home and I wish the best of
luck to you. thank you for everything you do for me, it means so much
and I am so thankful. I love you and God be with you till we meet again.
:)
Keep on Keepin on!
Love Sister Tincher
Sister Tincher, you are so awesome. You are doing exactly what you need to do, and have the exact experiences you need to have to prepare you for the rest of your life. I remember when I was in the MTC, I was really struck by all the scriptures about patience, and I felt like I would need them someday. I kept feeling those in my mission. All those years later in my recovery, those impressions I had in the MTC have served me well to remember to stay with the Lord's unknown timing because my own timeline - who the freak knows. Not me! I love you tons and you are inspiring. Blessings to you always, your uncle Mike James
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