No Fear!

A Group of New Sisters with their Trainers

Hello my dear family who I love SOOOOOO much!

 

I am so glad that you all get to be together this week to celebrate Matt and Heather's wedding! Crazy that it is already here! I guess time does fly when you are on your mission. It is weird that it is already part way through July... what happened to June? This is my last week of my first transfer... I've been out here for 5 weeks already! Sister Brown and I continue to get along very well! I will be sad when we get split up... but I'm not focusing on that. haha

 

This week we taught a lady named Anuja, from India. Her fiance, also from India, was baptized almost a year ago and now we are working on her... and she said she is definitely interested in learning more... our first investigator! Besides her there is another lady from India, Mabel, and 3 other potentials all from China. Never thought I would get such foreign experience while still in the states!

Wednesday we had Sister Bernhisel come with us to visit our recent convert Karen. We had a powerful lesson on the priesthood and helped her understand how important home teachers are. (especially to a single woman who lives alone). She is more open to the idea now and it is so fun to see her learn and just light up when she hears something that "just makes sense".

Thursday, 4th of July. We had a ward breakfast and met a few non-member friends who came. After that we got to do our weekly planning. It wasn't a very eventful day but we did get to see some fireworks at night outside of our window.

Sister Brown and I Studying

On Friday we did exchanges with some other sisters and I got to be companions with Sister Bartholomew for a day. It was so fun because we were in the same district in the MTC so we already knew each other. We were able to talk about some things that were hard about being a new missionary and about some great things we have learned from our different trainers. Something that I didn't notice until I was with Sister Bartholomew is that I literally have NO fear when it comes to talking to people. I just walk up and knock on the door and go for it! She is taking a little while longer to get used to it and still gets very flustered and she doesn't feel like she really knows what she's doing. I am so happy that Sister Brown just throws me into things and I just go for it and don't look back!

Saturday we spent all day walking, I don't even know how many miles, around different neighborhoods doing some door knocking and visiting lots of names we found in the Area Book . The Area Book is our best friend! We didn't really have a whole lot of success that we can see right now, but we talked with a lot of people, handed out a lot of cards and pamphlets, and planted a lot of seeds. We didn't have a dinner appointment that night so we were just planning on working and eating a late dinner after we walked back home. We happened upon a member's home while we were out and they invited us in for dinner and gave us a ride to the next area we wanted to work in that was a lot closer to home. The family is so nice!

Sunday we had Mabel show up to church again and we set up an appointment for this week to teach her the first lesson. We also received a watermelon, yes a WHOLE watermelon, from a family in the ward who just felt like we might like it. So we got to take that with us to our meetings after church.

Something fun about having your companion be a sister leader is that I get to help teach at Zone Conference this week! Talk about scary!!! I've only been here for a few weeks! I don't know what I'm doing! haha But luckily I will have lots of help. I know Sister Brown won't let me fail.

I do wish I could be home this week to see you all and spend time and celebrate the wedding, but just as most of you said, if I was there then I wouldn't be here. I know this is where I need to be and I am doing what the Lord needs me to do. Please send me some pictures next week!!!

Love,
Sister Shurtz

 

 

 

 


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