Becoming as a Little Child

This is the last week of the transfer already! Transfers are on the 19th. Sister Richardson and I still are not sure what is happening, but we suspect that we are going to be split up as the mission is welcoming three Spanish speaking sisters, a new call for the Raleigh Mission for sisters to speak Spanish, and Sister Richardson was told a few months ago to start learning Spanish. We should be getting a call in the next few days to find out exactly what is happening.

This week I found out that Brother Robinson (from Fuquay) is going to get baptized on the 23rd of this month! I am so excited for him and his family!

This week I have learned a lot! As Sisters we are not allowed to be out after dark unless we have an appointment set up. In this area it has been hard to have an appointment. It gets dark around 5:30! Because of that we have a lot more study time and time to make phone calls and things after dinner. I have really dived into "Jesus the Christ" as well as continuing reading the Old Testament and I am loving reading and learning more about Christ and about the different groups of people who were on the Earth during those periods of time. I feel like I am finally starting to understand exactly what the Tribes of Israel are and their importance. I love having time to study, but it is hard because you feel like you can't be as productive during that time.

We stopped by Christina's to see if we could catch her at home and we did! We were able to have a really good lesson with her and hopefully we will be able to set up an appointment with her soon. I love her and her family so much!

We met with Michelle and Irene again this week and at the end of the lesson we were told that Irene has another church she wants to start going to more regularly so she doesn't need any more "bible studies." Everything ended on a good not though and there are no hard feelings whatsoever. We stopped by a few days later just for a few minutes to check on her and see how she was doing.

I really love being in North Carolina during this time of the year because of all the trees changing colors! They are beautiful and everywhere! Also, it is about 50-60 degrees every day, so it makes it a little more tolerable to be in a skirt every day.

Sunday was the Primary Program and it was so fun to see all the children of the branch get up and share their testimonies about how they know they are a child of God. It definitely made me miss all the nieces and nephews back home! It is amazing how simple and powerful a child's testimony can be. I aspire to be more like them! To be able to trust and have such amazing faith. And just like it says in the Book of Mormon:

"And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can in nowise receive these things. And again I say unto you, ye must repent, ad be baptized in my name, and become as a little child or ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God." (3 Nephi 11:37-38)

"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." (Mosiah 3:19)

Becoming as a little child is something I'm going to be working on this week.
I hope y'all have a great week! I love you so much!

Love,
Sister Shurtz