seriously. got done emailing last week. studied. ran errands. and it was 6:00. so depressing! but we vowed that we would make this pday even better. by coming back and napping. (pray that i actually get it in this week!)
we had our "tree of life" experience.... so funny. and awesome. none of our converts had EVER done anything like this before... so we just said to follow the string. lots of tripping. lots of ducking under tables, stepping over boxes, and occasionally helping a person that JUST DIDN'T GET IT... they all eventually made it up the 3 flights to the tree. the best part was the one kid that knew what it was. zoomed past everyone else, and made it to the tree, past the tempters... he knew the goal! i definitely learned a lot. first of all... don't use plastic chairs if you are going to do the tree of life... they move WAY too easy. it looked like a war zone when we were done. we had a really good conversation about the tree of life. what it means. and how we are supposed to apply it. it's a culmination of things that we've been teaching them over the last few months. it is probably the most interesting experience ever - to start at square one. with EVERYONE. no one really has any better of a knowledge than the rest of them. so everything we teach is a new experience.
we found out that elder kelley was moving. we got an envelope that said "the tribe has spoken" on it... (can you guess that was my idea???) and he has written ALL of our names on it. what??? we flipped them over and saw writing on the back. all of us stayed. except the aussie.
the hard part about NOT moving... is that you don't get to go to transfers...
probably not as big of a deal for an elder. but we learned that almost every sister in the north zone (except us) was moving. so it felt like a party. and we didn't get the invitation. no worries. we had a super fantastic day on thursday. came away with 3 people with dates for the 4th. (one of them didn't come to church yesterday... so we're looking at the 11th for her now.) heavenly father does know what he's doing! and i am so grateful that i get to spend a little more time in kpp.
the rest of the week has basically been getting adjusted to having all of the brains... gone. all of the people that knew how this area started... aren't here anymore. and some of us feel a little clueless. (mostly me) but we're all slowly finding out what needs to happen here.
we're in the process of finding a new building. becoming a branch. AND trying to find and teach people. it's.... a little more than the missionary work that i've become accustomed to. but OH! it's so much fun!!!!
i think pretty soon i'm going to have part of my chemical makeup being... mango. here's sister ellis. 70% carbon. 10% oxygen. 5% mango. we eat them.... so much. i come home at night... and probably eat 3 or 4. not including what i eat for breakfast. and the new mangoes that we get from members. from investigators...
so. many. mangoes!
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| mango sticky rice. i'm pretty sure that's the fruit lehi was talking about... |
so that's basically it. there are moments when i think about things like... mexican food. and salsa. and other things from home... but the lord is too good to me. and he gives us lots of miracles here. i know that i don't deserve them - but it just shows me that this really is HIS work. and that it's all true.
so if you ever think that the lord isn't mindful of you. that he doesn't care. or that he pays attention to other people more... it's a lie. he is SO mindful of every one of us. and he wants more than anything else for us to feel his love. sometimes we just need to make a little more effort, and to reach out to him. then he'll reach back.
it's a great day to have a great day!
have the best one ever!!!!
sister ellis
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| waldo! I found him! |
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