Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we had dinner with a non member, Pam. She loves the missionaries but won't take the lessons, we even asked her again while we were helping get things together. We were like okay... You'll say yes one day so we'll keep trying. We've got a few people going over to her home Saturday to help her fix up her yard and cut down some trees so at least she can meet some more members from the ward. There's a family that is fellowshipping her now, the Marshalls, but they might be moving so we really want to get her to know more people. We've got a lot of great people coming and helping so that will be great!!

 

Something that really hit me hard this week was agency. We can choose to be so many different things. We can choose to be thankful for the things we've received, to be happy, discouraged, sad, upset, annoyed haha. I looked at myself and what I have been doing and feeling like on my mission... For a while I honestly wasn't feeling happy. I couldn't figure out what was wrong I mean really I am on a mission for the Lord preaching the wonderful gospel what would be the problem?!! I looked at what I was doing here, I was getting discouraged about all the little things. There have been some pretty lame moments (duh!) and I was getting down on myself for not getting something right the first time... I could tell I wasn't giving it all the positive-ness as I could. I know that seems kind of silly but I forgot really why I'm here! It's definitely not to be perfect, but to do the best I can to bring others unto Christ. We keep telling people that you don't have to be perfect but you do have to try and here I was beating myself up for the being perfect... Ironic huh?
For the most part we can all choose to be happy. I wasn't really choosing that I was kinda stuck on the bad, BUT good thing I can choose to change that huh?!?!?!? Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say in a not so short of a way, haha, is that even if things don't work and you aren't perfect choose to look at it in a good way. There's good in every situation. Obviously you can't always see what it is at first but maybe days, months, years down the road you will.

CHALLANGE!!!!: When you have a crappy moment try and get 2 positive things in your in and hang on :) Discouragement stinks and it weakens faith. SO try and stay discouraged for as short as possible... Or you know don't get discouraged.... BOOM problem solved! Haha :)

 

Anyway so while I was on trade offs we got into a less active's home! YAY! We were able to share a message and she wanted to take our photos for Christmas presents! Cool thing is that there's a less active in my ward who we're trying to get to do the same thing! Funny how that works huh? Her daughter has a friend that knows the sister I was on trade-offs with so she decided to record our spiritual thought and send it to the other missionary's mom. All I gotta say is that I don't do well while being filmed haha. If it's on youtube it'll be a good laugh for someone. 

Last night we get to sing a song at the Stake Christmas Concert. All the missionaries that were able to make it, there was like 50 of us. We sang Little Town of Bethlehem, we sounded awesome!! had a few non members show up from the place that we volunteer at, it's called the Shelter is like Marion House in CS. SO COOL RIGHT?!

 

That's all I can remember for now... I'll leave and think of something else... I'll just write it down :) 

 

Com Amor!!!

Sister Irons