Well we had a great last week here! Here are some highlights...
Oliver
We started meeting with Oliver, the 16 year old kid we met playing soccer. Our first program with him was SO good. We talked about the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty spiritual program. But being as how this past week I have been a little emotionally unstable...I started crying haha. I was bearing my testimony to him about the Book of Mormon and just lost it. Sister Smith had tears in her eyes too and I think Oliver even felt something because he had some tears in his eyes too :) We met with him again after that and taught him the Restoration. Then last night we taught him the Plan of Salvation. I was telling him how that was our last program and he was like "what about tomorrow?!" So we are meeting with him again after Game Night tonight! :) So excited to hear about how things progress with him. He's a great kid.
Gizi Néni
I had to say goodbye to Gizi Néni yesterday which was so sad. We went to visit her and read a few scriptures with her. I told her we could email each other and keep in contact. She just started crying. She pulled me over to her bed and just hugged me while she cried. It broke my heart. Being able to go visit her the past few weeks was such a blessing! She is such a sweet, strong lady.
Áron
I dont know if you all remember me talking about Áron in Buda that we started meeting with. Super cool guy that would come to Angolóra. I talked to Sister VanDenBerghe last night and he just accepted a bap date! He is getting baptized on October 30th. I am SO excited for him!!! :)
This is it...
I can't believe this is my last email. I'm going to be honest...I have completely mixed feelings right now. Part of me is super excited to come home, to see my family and friends and to start the next phase of my life. The other part of me is not ready to be done, not ready to leave this place and to be done with this phase of my life. I will miss the purpose I have felt every day as a missionary. I will miss being able to see people's lives change. I will miss doing this work. But I know that my time has come. I am just trying to deal now with all the different emotions :). I want to thank everyone that has emailed me over the last year and a half. Getting those emails each week kept me going. They gave me strength from week to week. Thank you for all of the prayers, support and encouragement. This is the best thing I have ever done. It was also the hardest thing I have ever done. It was harder in ways that I did not expect. But it was also better in ways I couldn't have even imagined. I feel like I was given more and learned more than I ever gave or taught. This gospel is true. I am so grateful that I got to spend the last year and a half of my life here teacing people about it. God is our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is our Savior. They both know us perfectly. They are always with us.
Alma 26:12 - Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
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