On a typical day we get up at 6:30 and I pray do some sort of
exercise for thirty minutes (I miss the gym) haha and then at 7 we start
our personal study! I just finished the Book of Mormon for the second
time in my life and so now I am going to read the doctrine and covenants
which is good. then I get ready for the day and eat and at 9 we start
companion study this is where we plan what we will teach our
investigators and the members we visit for the day. And since I am
training right now we have an extra hour to doing training our of a
booklet they gave us which mostly consists of watch segments out of the
District and talking about them haha. when we are all done with that we
head out for the day and we going to appointments, visit less actives,
or other people and have lunch sometime and then we have dinner usually
with a member and we have to be back at 9 in our apartments. it's
sometimes hard to fill up time, but you know me I love to be busy so
when we get down time that is when I start to get a little crazy.
So working on week 5 in the mission field! It's
flying by it seems like. But this week went really fast and turned out
good. We had our first training meeting where all the new missionaries
and their trainers got together we talked about Christ-like attributes
to have and how important it is to have they while you are working with
others. The one I think I am trying the hardest is to have charity for
everyone. You know I love people, but when I go to an appointment and the
investigator didn't like read or go to church like they said, I get a
little disappointing so I am thinking okay how can I help this person
see that it is for their benefit and not just because I am asking them
to do it. I love thinking of charity and how everything a bout it is
Christ. Everything he did revolved around charity and helping out
somebody. he never once thought about himself no matter how hard his
circumstances got he always wanted the best for somebody else. I need to
be like that. haha it will come though, slowly but surely!
After the training meeting was when we did the
exchange and I when with the Hermana and headed up the Buffalo Grove/
Waukegan. I thought is was so strange because all the stores had Spanish
names like what I learned in spanish class, I was like oh my this is
read my teacher wasn't lying. literally all the stores are called milk
store, bread store, pastry store, fish store they don't just have like
Walmart store, Target store haha anyways thats just a side note I
thought was cool, but I loved it. We went to a ward member's house for
dinner and they only spake spanish it seemed like the longest
appointment of my life, because I could only understand like 10% of what
they were talking about, so I just smiled and laughed when they did. I
did talk though! and bore my testimony in spainsh and asked them a
question! haha it was cool. Now I am back in my area thought and
loving every second!
We taught Janet this week a couple times and oh my
goooodness! I Sister Emily Tincher asked her to be baptized, I almost
fainted while saying the words, but it happened. She said how many
months do I have to wait? and I was thinking... months!? Girl no, we
don't even have to wait days! ;) haha but she said she wants to learn
more and pray about it was well. So I pray that everything will go the
Lords will and she will find absolute happiness in her decision to be
baptized. It so interesting to see how much people change once they
understand what God has to offer through His Gospel and how much
happiness and joy you and experience when you follow his plan. I love
that I have the opportunity to see that change occur. I love working
with people.
I hope everything is going great! I love and miss
you and I can not wait to hear from you next week. You guys are in my
prayers!
Love, Sister Tincher
Love it! Love her!
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