Well... This week has been pretty interesting! :)
We
had our interviews with President and that just rocked. I love the
Wolferts so much. They both commented on my enthusiasm for this area.
Why? Because I love it!! I can't even express to you how much I love this little branch. It's adorable :)
Also, tracting with Sis Tanner is probably my
favorite thing. Because the houses are so spread out, sometimes we bear
our testimonies to the cows. Unfortunately it doesn't "count" for
anything as far as numbers are concerned. If they did... man. Our #s
would be through the roof! But hey. As long I get to bear my testimony,
I'm a happy camper :)
A midst all of this joy and happiness, I made the
mistake of praying for the ability to accept others' agency better.
Well. People definitely used their agency this week and I did lots of
praying and I know things will work out the way they need to. Moral of
the story: Heavenly Father definitely answers prayers :)
But Heavenly Father also loves us... so he blesses
us with little miracles at Chinese take out places. Lemme 'splain. Sis
Tanner and I don't get very many dinners with members in this area. It's
been really fun to actually cook dinner :) We avoid restaurants and
fast-food. Most of the time. We were doing a special fast for one of our investigators on
Saturday and were both really, really hungry. Sooo we thought we'd
splurge. We went to this little Chinese place (It reminded me of Rice
Wok) and saw a member there! So we talked to the member for a bit. They
left and we waited for our food. As we waited, our cashier asked us
where we were from and why we were in Georgia. Her sister was actually a
member of the church and she remembered going to Young Women's at some
point. By the time we left, we had her name and number and we knew that we were both craving Chinese for a reason. The Lord works in mysterious ways! :)
This week at church, I learned something that I
really liked. A kid from another ward came to the branch and spoke about
making good choices. He said something along the lines of, "If you want
to be happy, do things that happy people do. If you want to be
depressed, do things that depressed people do." And the Spirit said,
"And if you want to be a successful missionary, do things that
successful missionaries do." I feel like this applies to all of us! If
you want to be a successful mom, dad, student, employee, brother,
sister, husband, wife, visiting/home teacher, Sunday school teacher,
pianist, football player or whatever else... do things that a successful
(insert title here) does!
It really is a different world out here. I love it
so much and I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for this cute
little branch :) Hopefully I'll have some more crazy stories next week!
Love y'all!!
~Sis Jacobs.
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