Oh my!
What a week!!
She
videoed me opening my call....but I can't send it because it's too
large? I'll find a way to get it to you at some point. It's pretty funny
because Sister Mahoney was filming but she opened hers first so when I
opened mine I read it before I said it out loud and I just looked at
Sister Mahoney with this funny looking face...but it looks like I'm
making the face at the camera haha woops.
But ya, I am super excited and cannot wait.
This
week has been filled with transferring my investigators, preparing for
transfers (can't believe that is next week already) and trying to pack
and sort through all of my stuff. It's funny when I first got to the
mission I felt like I had nothing compared to all the other sisters-and I
liked it, they all had problems packing and moving and I told myself
that I would become that hehe. Which is funny because I have somehow
become that sister now. So now I am just giving everything away.
Something
really awesome that has happened this week was our training that we had
from our area authority, Elder Clarke, and Brother Donaldson from the
missionary department.
I was expecting it to be a
training about the iPads that we are going to be receiving soon but I
was so wrong-it was so much better than that. It was a training about
us, about who we are and about who we can become. It was an amazing
experience.
"This is a journey not an event. This is about becoming" -Elder Clarke
The
entire purpose about it was to restart the idea of giving missionaries
iPads. Because in the few missions they tested it in, it wasn't working.
So now they are giving this training before any missionary gets one.
They are working from the inside out, just like Christ does. If they can
change the missionaries, then iPads will become a wonderful tool to
further the work of the Lord. It was a cool experience. We got to see
just how much the leaders in our church work and pray for the
missionaries and to help us become the instruments the Lord needs. The
idea of giving us iPads was a very long process. I was very surprised
when they explained it to us. And even after they gave some missions
them they were still discussing it. Something that Elder Bednar told
them when they received their training in preparation for training us
was:
"Reasonable things do not need revelation. Giving iPads to missionaries is not reasonable-this was all done by revelation"
I'm excited to see what the Temple Square Mission will be like when I get back.
Well
I love you all!!! Thanks for all that you do for me. Hopefully I'll
have a cute little southern accent after three months of the south.
Fingers are crossed!
XOXOXOX
-Sister Fluckiger
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