Dear All,
Got your picture of you and Carter at the ocean! Looked like you two were having a blast. Sounds like it was all great fun too. He looks bigger... Guess that's what they do when you feed them huh?!
Also received all your letters and Dear Elders! Looky at who knows her stuff! Sister Marriage and Family Counselor. Carter will be fine, he'll be great! The kid is the happiest darn thing that I have ever seen in my life, I've got a lot of faith in y'all :)
So news!!!! I don't need to get up at 5:30 anymore!!! Schedule change and now all the Brazilians are on the regular schedule and can actually GET UP at 6:30. It is FABULOUS. I get to feel like I'm sleeping in every day now. Today is a mini P-Day so we did laundry and get to email (obviously). But for the next couple of weeks (ALMOST TIME!!!) I'll send things on Fridays. So You get two emails from me this week, yay!!
So there is an experience that I wanna share with you that I've had these ppast few days.
There was a lot going on at home before I left on my mission. Everyone has there different trials and handles them in their own different ways. For the first few weeks I didn't feel like I had any time to actually think about anything except what I was teaching (anyone having been in the MTC, y'all know exactly what i"m talking about!).
While in the MTC there are two things that you hear CONSTANTLY. 1) This mission is NOT about you, forget yourself and go to work. 2) Trust the Lord. The mission is a hard time, but we're on the Lord's side and He wants to help us. Give HIm all your worries and problems (because even though most of the time you're thinking about your investigators let's face it, we still sometimes think about the things we need to improve on and try to deal with the problems we have).
The past few weeks I've pondered on some things that happened before I came and was having a hard time with it. I usually can just pick up the phone and talk it out with mom or dad but hey it's the mission you can't do that! Which is fine but I wasn't really listening to the counsel given to me and totally stretching forth my hand to receive the help Christ could, and I know would, provide.
This last Sunday a lot of things helped me out but the one that I'd like to emphasize is Trust in The Lord. I was thinking about the blessing I had received before I had been in the MTC and the one I had received while being here. EVERY SINGLE one has said "Trust in the Lord, hold out your hand to Him and LET HIM help you." As you very well know I am stubborn and was all like yeahhhhh, okay sure. I told myself that I could do it myself... Cute right? I had to pull down my stubbornness and realize that the relationship we have with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is an absolutely amazing one. He knows what we go through but we have to ask for help and can't just assume that since He knows that He'll do something. Having the faith that He'll help you and humbling yourself to realize that this, whatever this may be for anyone, is something in that we need the help of the Lord.
I think in the last three/four days the lesson/spiritual thought/gooy feeling/whatever you want to call it is this; ONE other person knows EXACTLY how you are feeling. When you're sick, tired, exhausted, sad, frustrated, happy, confused, stressed, and all other emotions you can think of, Jesus Christ. It's the hardest lesson I've learned so far, and I know there will be a lot more harder things in the field and throughout life.
I feel about 1.0000 times better now and I feel like I've grown so much ( I know only four weeks, think about how I'll be when I get back!).
I absolutely love this gospel and I know things will work out how they need to, the journey there just get's pretty crazy.
Anyways that's what I have to say. Love you and I can't wait to email you again, on Friday :)
Te-Amo,
Sister Irons
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