Wow.... What a week!
This week was wild. Tuesday and Wednesday was the New Missionaries/Trainers meeting up here at the Joseph Smith Memorial. Normally it's only one day but in October all the new missionaries and their trainers come and do a big service day where we clean up the camp and the grounds and put up the Christmas lights! It was tons of fun and we got to put up lights and rake a ton of leaves! A few of the elders got to go scrape mold of the roofs of some of the cabins at Camp Joseph haha! It was good. Then Tuesday night we had a really fun fireside with hot cocoa, hot cider, s'mores, and all the fun spiritual things. It was a really good day. Then Wednesday was like a normal meeting with all the things I need to improve. It was kind of crazy being in the same room with all the other trainers because they were all like, "what if my trainee is doing this or this or this," and I was just like, "What if I have no idea what I'm doing!" It was just very humbling...
Thursday was just a normal day with nothing too exciting and Friday we went on exchanges! It was a lot of fun and Sister Strohl is just insane! Haha! She stopped a car in the middle of the road and he ended up talking to us for like 15 minutes! She found someone who lives in her area and wants to learn more, so that was pretty cool.
Saturday we did a lot of finding, Sunday we did a lot of finding.... Hopefully by the end of this transfer I'll be really good at finding new people to talk to! Haha!
With President Nelson's challenge to the women of the church, I've been thinking a lot about the Savior and about His atonement. As I've been reading the Book of Mormon and marking every reference to Christ I've come to slowly understand more and more what Christ has done for us! I know that hard times will come. The storms of life will hit, the pains and tragedies will come, we will all make mistakes, and it will be hard, but Christ can heal it all.
"But just because spiritual trials are real does not mean that they are incurable. We can heal spiritually. Even the deepest spiritual wounds—yes, even those that may appear to be incurable—can be healed. My dear friends, the healing power of Jesus Christ is not absent in our day. The Savior’s healing touch can transform lives in our day just as it did in His. If we will but have faith, He can take our hands, fill our souls with heavenly light and healing, and speak to us the blessed words, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” -Elder Uchtdorf
This week was wild. Tuesday and Wednesday was the New Missionaries/Trainers meeting up here at the Joseph Smith Memorial. Normally it's only one day but in October all the new missionaries and their trainers come and do a big service day where we clean up the camp and the grounds and put up the Christmas lights! It was tons of fun and we got to put up lights and rake a ton of leaves! A few of the elders got to go scrape mold of the roofs of some of the cabins at Camp Joseph haha! It was good. Then Tuesday night we had a really fun fireside with hot cocoa, hot cider, s'mores, and all the fun spiritual things. It was a really good day. Then Wednesday was like a normal meeting with all the things I need to improve. It was kind of crazy being in the same room with all the other trainers because they were all like, "what if my trainee is doing this or this or this," and I was just like, "What if I have no idea what I'm doing!" It was just very humbling...
Thursday was just a normal day with nothing too exciting and Friday we went on exchanges! It was a lot of fun and Sister Strohl is just insane! Haha! She stopped a car in the middle of the road and he ended up talking to us for like 15 minutes! She found someone who lives in her area and wants to learn more, so that was pretty cool.
Saturday we did a lot of finding, Sunday we did a lot of finding.... Hopefully by the end of this transfer I'll be really good at finding new people to talk to! Haha!
With President Nelson's challenge to the women of the church, I've been thinking a lot about the Savior and about His atonement. As I've been reading the Book of Mormon and marking every reference to Christ I've come to slowly understand more and more what Christ has done for us! I know that hard times will come. The storms of life will hit, the pains and tragedies will come, we will all make mistakes, and it will be hard, but Christ can heal it all.
"But just because spiritual trials are real does not mean that they are incurable. We can heal spiritually. Even the deepest spiritual wounds—yes, even those that may appear to be incurable—can be healed. My dear friends, the healing power of Jesus Christ is not absent in our day. The Savior’s healing touch can transform lives in our day just as it did in His. If we will but have faith, He can take our hands, fill our souls with heavenly light and healing, and speak to us the blessed words, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” -Elder Uchtdorf
I know that this is true and the joy and peace we can find through Christ is real! I love you all so much and hope that all is going well!!
Sister Warburton
Pictures:
I just really like elephants haha!
Sister Nye and I at the Joseph Smith Memorial
Sister Strohl and I on exchanges
Pretty Sunsets
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