Dear Family,
Thanks for emailing me Dad. I love the advice that you give
me, it always seems to apply to my situation. I'm grateful
that I grew up in Morgan with a great group of friends who kept each other out
of "danger", and built our foundations together so when we fell we
could rely on a friends foundation until we could rebuild our own.
Some members told Sister K and I
about the new Temple video! I want to go so bad! Is it permanently the endowment video
or just for some time? In our mission we can only go to the temple if we are
withing in 60 mile radius or something like that and we live in Iowa...so that
counts us out. We could go if an investigator of ours is going for the first
time or if a family is going for the first time. Which is cool, but we
don't have anyone that's quite that far progressed. It will happen one
day!! I just have to keep reminding myself that my mission right now is
for the living and not for those that have passed on, and that the temple will
be there when I get home. I remember when I got my temple recommend
interview in Logan the Brother interviewing me said that the endowment session
is all about the Atonement. Everything about it is about the Atonement. I
haven't had the chance of fully understanding that yet because I've only been
like 10 times. I remember I always leave the temple with a headache because
I just keep thinking and thinking and thinking! It's painful! haha :) Except
for the time that I went to the temple while I was in the MTC, I was so pumped
that we could just focus on the temple for 3 hours. That time it was more
relaxing than anything. :)
I will have to talk to the members who came with me to cheer
me on during the ice cream challenge to see if they could post pictures on
Facebook for you guys. Someone has a video of it, but I don't want that on
Facebook...It was a giant bowl of ice cream. The trick to do it is not
order anything with chunks in it and then put hot water to melt it and then
shove it in and stir it up so you can slurp it up and the end. Then try
not to puke. I'm glad I "inherited" the love for ice cream trait. I'm
sure that gene is scientifically proven.
Well this week has been interesting. We did a lot of tr-acting. Like a lot. Which President Weston said specifically not to tract
because we should be working with the members to get investigators. However the
members haven't caught the missionary spirit here in Le Mars yet. So we were
all out of people to see because all of our investigators were out of
town. We were like lost puppies for a couple seconds not knowing where we
needed to be. It was scary at first to start tr-acting but Sister K
made it into something fun and it helped us improve as missionaries by
immediately testifying and bringing the Spirit when we meet someone. We've
gotten some rude responses and then we've gotten some surprising ones.
This one lady we talked to we mentioned family history and she freaked out. She
let us in and then for an hour she showed us all of her family history. All of
it. So we're going to back to show her the new features of the new family
search thing. It was just funny. The C's took us to this one town
called Brunsville. Classic little town. Bar and Catholic Church and then 25 to
30 houses. The C's were like well have fun and dumped us out of the
car. We didn't get any new investigators but we placed a Book of Mormon.
Although the community wasn't open to us, there is power in having a Book of
Mormon in a community. It will be interesting to see what's going to happen
with that.
I have been a little frustrated with
our work. Because I know how much better it could be going if members had a
bigger desire to help us out. I
m sure they do, they're just scared, which is human. But
this is salvation. This is eternal life. So no big deal...:) However the
disappointments, we have seen miracles. Whether it be a Less-Active letting us
in for the first time. Or meeting someone new and being there friend. Or
painting a white fence for neighbors out of town who are crazy busy all the
time and wouldn't have time to paint it. Or an investigator singing us a song
called "Sioux City Sue" (it doesn't get twangier than that). Although
being in a small town is ROUGH, and it's hard to lose yourself in the work when
the work is slow, I have learned so much. How to be humble, have faith,
really use the Atonement, exact obedience, and the biggest lesson is how to
love the people. Oh and the scriptures are pretty great too. :)
I hope you all know that I love you. I love getting emails
and I love always knowing I have your support. Keep reading the scriptures and
Preach My Gospel.
-Love, Sister Curfew
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