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They have a chocolate bar here called Heidi. I ate it and it was nice.
Now I'm going 40 days without sweets (except for DA's) cause I need to
be healthy. Hopefully I can get back in shape!
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And another Monday has
sneaked up on me...time is slipping out of my finger tips. But such is life.
This week was a great, average week of a missionary! We were
able to celebrate small successes we have seen and able to laugh a lot. Here is
what happened this week :)
The majority of Monday and Tuesday were spent planning zone
training. I seriously never understood how much time leaders put into helping the
zone...but it's a lot. It takes a lot to pull together a 6-hour meeting! But it
was good. Like I mentioned last week for zone training we wanted to recreate
the MTC for the missionaries. I have been able to see in myself and other
missionaries that the "fire in our bones" as President Gubler always
calls it has died down a bit, we don't have the same enthusiasm we used to, so
to solve it we thought we would take them back to when we were all happy and
excited to start a new adventure serving the Lord. Us and the zone leaders did
a really funny role play (or at least we thought it was funny...) walking
through the life of a missionary from when they decide to go on a mission to
their first day in the field. I'm getting really good at acting on my mission
from all these role plays I have to do all the time haha. But then I had the
opportunity to teach all the sisters about "revelation through church
attendance" which was really good for me to study. I was able to learn a
lot about the power of church (all 3 hours of church, not just sacrament
meeting) in receiving answers to my prayer.
Then a fun part of the
meeting was that we did what's called TRCs where I act as an investigator and
the sisters each had to teach me. It was
fun to be on the other end and also to see how other sisters teach. Sister Moyes
and I also did a presentation all about Jesus Christ. We sang hymns about him,
and watched the video missionary work and the atonement. The spirit was there
super strong and it was really good.
One of my favourite parts of zone training though was at the
very beginning. We were able to do "interview with Christ" as companionships,
which is something president has talked a lot about. Basically you sit in a
room with a picture of Christ across from you and just talk to him and have an
"interview" with him. It was a very powerful experience for me and I
was able to learn a lot about what I need to do better the rest of my mission.
After zone training I FINALLY GOT TO GO ON EXCHANGE WITH
SISTER O'GRADY!!! We were so happy! Haha. We did what's called a work over in the
VC so we were able to work with each of the sisters for a few hours. Wednesday
night I was with Sister O'grady and we knocked for 2 hours. I had so much fun
with her. I'm still praying we get to serve together haha. I also got to spend the night with her and Sister
Rosenkilde, which was a lot of fun!
Thursday we were with the other set of visitors centre
sisters which was really fun. VC sisters have such a positive attitude and contagious
spirit for the work.
The work in Sutton is really hard and has been getting me
down quite a bit lately. For the past 4.5 months I have been finding non stop,
and we have had one new investigator from it, who ended up dropping us.
It is really frustrating sometimes when you find for hours on end, finally find
someone who will meet with us, but then they cancel or flog for some reason. It
is honestly one of the biggest struggles for me as a missionary. This week we
didn't teach a lot of lessons, which always gets me down. I know missionary
work isn't about numbers, but I like teaching people. Well last night after
accounting I was sitting pondering the eternal perspective of missionary work
and what really matters. As I was thinking about this and about how my week
went, I realised that 20 years down the line I won't be sitting thinking
"man, that last week of January 2016 I didn't find one new investigator!"
But what will matter is that I can look back and say "that last week
of January 2016 I gave it my all, and that is all the Lord asked me to
do". This really hit me hard and helped me a lot. Missions are hard, but I know as I remember
him, lay aside all my sins, and not hang down my head with sorrow (2 Nephi 10:
20), that the
Lord will be pleased
with me and the work I have performed. Just a note of how I've been feeling
lately :)
Some funny moments from the week:
Saturday night I got asked to buy cider for some teenagers...haha. Sister Moyes just like yelled "nope, no,
nope!" at them. But I guess I look old enough to buy alcohol...so that's
good :) Haha but to contradict that...I
got to play the piano in sacrament yesterday (I've basically become the ward
pianist and I play all the time, I love it!) and one of the ward members came
up to me and told me how she didn't recognize me sitting behind the piano, that
she kept looking thinking "who is that 14-year old girl?" I
guess I haven't aged as much as I thought I had haha.
But that's about all for this week. It wasn't a very
eventful week, but I am excited for what my future holds! )
Love you!
Sister Robison xxx
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| With the wonderful visitors centre sisters! I still feel like I secretly belong there...but I decided it's cause when I'm old I'll serve a senior couple mission there :) |
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| A member named Nikki, who I met my second day in the field and haven't seen since. I was able to see her and have dinner with her when I was in the VC, it was fun to see her again and catch up with her. I love people in England :) |
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