Happy New Year!
It's a new year! Man, 2017 feels like it flew by so I'm sure
2018 will feel the same. New Year's here was pretty tame, went to bed at 10:30
after a great devotional and woke up at 6:15 the next morning. Well,
technically the alarm went off at 6:15 (because that's when the other
companionship of sister's gets up and mine is the only alarm clock we have) but
I'm not going to lie I didn't actually get out of bed until like 6:25. Still
obedient, I just enjoy my ten minutes extra of laying on my bed and waking up
slowly. Sounds like y'all had a blast though!
For me, the emphasis of this week has been setting goals and
then, more than just setting them, planning how I'm going to fulfill them. And
that's been a great thing to learn because although I've always had high
expectations of myself (and in that sense had goals) the planning how to
accomplish them has never really been my strong suit. And part of that was
because there were some really awesome classes this week about setting goals,
but most of that was me realizing that I only have 17 months left and only one
week left here. I've already gone through a month of my mission and it feels
like a blur. It's also weird to think about how on Monday, I'll be in the
field, and have a trainer and will be teaching real people. Which is both
exciting and somewhat nerve wracking. Exciting because I can finally do what I
came here to do, which is invite others to come unto Christ, but at the same
time, they are real people. I think I'm mostly excited though.
I will say I am incredibly grateful that I made the change
to the Latino district because I can keep up with understanding and speaking
well enough now that I can actually listen to the spirit and not have to
concentrate so hard on what I'm trying to say and how to translate it into
Spanish. One of our investigators has a baptismal date and the other agreed
to attend church so that was awesome. I will say that already my personal
prayers have started to devolve in Spanglish, so it's a good thing the Lord
knows the thoughts of my heart and speaks every language because I keep finding
myself switching back and forth.
We were able to go to the temple again today and I probably
said this before but it is gorgeous! And I love going there, it's the same
feeling as coming home after a long day every time. And the devotionals this
week were amazing as always. It's kind of funny how the first week I was here I
was so fed up with devotionals and thought there were too many but that is
definitely not my thought process now.
Con mi amor eterno,
Hermana Rawlings
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