Family!!
Another day, another week. Time plays a mean trick on us missionaries. I don't like it.
Which
means President also asked us to do a training at zone conference in
front of half the mission. Yep, that was fun as well. It was a very
spiritual meeting, but I am glad that our portion is done haha. We've
(APs and us) have decided that we are going out to dinner one night to
celebrate the completion of zone conference. (it's been a crazy week
trying to get everything ready for it) it was a fun
experience though. We have discovered the perfect way to explain our
calling this transfer, we work in the office and we basically run around
with our heads cut off to make sure the APs look all calm and put
together haha. For example, today is the second part of the zone
conference for the other half of the mission and this morning, (because
we didn't go we went about our normal schedule, workout, get
ready,study) the APs gave us a call while we were both getting ready,
saying that they forgot the program and they needed us to run to the
square to get it. So we did. We literally ran haha, luckily no one was
on the square because it was so early. Then we ran to the stake center
where the zone conference was being held. I'm sure we both looked like
death, i.e. wet hair, red faces with no makeup, miss matching outfits,
heaving breath. Haha we passed the mission secretary, Sister Moore and
she just stares at us for a second and says "hhmm you both look really
tired today"
We had quite a morning :)
We
also had the opportunity to go to dinner with a ward family this week.
That was wonderful! (We actually went twice, because some reason
something happened and the APs needed us to go again) The first family
was so fun, It was a family like ours, the kids were all grown up. The
oldest was married and she was there with her husband, they had a boy
who just got back from a mission and then one preparing for a mission.
They also had a littler girl who was about 14 who couldn't be there and
the oldest son who came down from school for the holidays. It was very
fun to eat with them. They had a cute set of Christmas china that we
used and a delicious meal. We talked about life on the square and about
the missions that their children had served. We were able to sing with
them and share a scripture as well. They even gave us a little box of
chocolate. The other family was the opposite in ages
haha. They had 7 children ages 1 to 16. It was crazy but so so fun! They
had this cute little home that was beautifully decorated. I loved dinner
with them. The dinning table was beautifully decorated with a big fancy
meal and then we ate with paper plates and plastic utensils :) There
was screaming and kids running around, yet everyone was very calm. The
older kids were helping with the little kids. Even though it was crazy,
the spirit was still in the home which I loved. Even some of the
comments the little kids gave when we were giving our little spiritual
thought it was evident that they had Family Home Evening which I that
was so cool. It was a great night. And I really know that when a family
is built in the gospel, it is strong.
We
have also had a lot of tender mercies with our investigators. One in
particular really strengthened my testimony on the love that our Father
has for each of us. We have an investigator who I met a few days before
transfers on chat. She had been attending church with her member friend
pretty frequently and is just interested in finding the truth. So we
have been staying in touch with her since. Well she has gone home for
Christmas and we got a text telling us that she was thinking about
getting a tattoo the next day but her member friend told her that she
needed to text us first. It was evident that she didn't know why she was
texting us but she did which I saw as a true desire to follow Christ.
So we tried to explain about tattoos with the basic, normal "our bodies
are a temple" but that just wasn't clicking for her. So we told her
that she should just ask her Father in Heaven and see what He says. She loved that
idea! We emailed her some links from lds.org,
a talk by President Hinkley and then the statement on tattooing and
invited her to read those and then pray again and ask whether or not she
should get a tattoo, we then wanted her to text us her answer. We then
went home to plan for the coming day. We then prayed that she would have a very strong spiritual experience and would recognize what her answer was. Well we then got a text a short time later simply saying that she wasn't going to get a tattoo. It
was a really cool experience. Even though we didn't feel like we were
able to explain to her in words, we knew that her Father in Heaven would be the
best and only one who could resolve her concern. I am so grateful for
the spirit that she was able to feel and know that it was an answer to
her prayer.
So yes, we are busy working and loving
the work. And Heavenly Father is so good, He is always placing little
things in our path, to either encourage us or calm us down when things
get crazy here.
I hope that everyone has fun and
exciting plans for Christmas this year. I really do love this time of
year because it's all about our Savior. When we had dinner with one of
the families, we talked to them about how we could have Christmas every single day of the year. And really, because the spirit of Christmas is
the spirit of Christ, as long as we have Christ in our lives each day
and are living in such a way that we are constantly remembering and
serving Him, that's living Christmas all year long. And who wouldn't
want that :)
I love Christmas and I love my Savior.
Merry Christmas
XOXOXOX
-Sister Fluckiger
P.S. How is the Book of Mormon reading going? ;)
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