Yes! i finally have a cool subject... Because this week is CRAZY! hahaha so as you all know that this week was transfers... let me start with describing a few things so everyone can understand. So in my area of porto novo we have 2 sets of sisters. So 4 missionaries. The other sisters live in a different zone and they work in the south part of porto novo. I work in the north part and we have a different house. This house is amazing. the best house in the mission really. It has hot water-- no houses have hot water. It has great water pressure too! It is just super booji! And another thing about the Ward... we have a LOT and i mean a LOT of prospective elders. So all guys who want to teach with us... but they cant unless we have another women... and NO women will teach with us. So that has been a big problem. and also with these 2 areas... we are divided by one road. and in both of our areas we have big ribieras... or these big ditches that seperate zones.
Ok now that you all understand let me talk about transfers! So sister zimbelman and i recieved a call on saturday night... not expecting a call a day early but it was president. eeek! Well we knew we wouldnt stay together for one more transfer but we didnt know what would happen. So sister zimbelman finds out first she is getting sent to Fogo to be a sister training leader! Totally saw that coming. She is awesome!! And then i get the phone and president tells me i am TRAINING... An american! Sister Colhert... i think. something like that. BUT wait! That wasnt all. He also said i will be moving to the other sisters house that night because we are recieving elders in porto novo. We recieved one of the former assitentes to the president and he is white washing the area so that they can work with elders! yup... so... I had about one night and a day to move out of my house. Well let me tell you about the others sisters house... NO HOT WATER... i will try not to cry. and also no water pressure... and also... they dont have enough furniture so i am using boxes for my clothes. oh my goodness. haha so right now the house is a disaster completely because they had this one room... called the cave of wonders that had all sorts of trash. so we had to clean it out to use as a study room for one of us... and let me tell you it was a cave of wonders. haha so the house has all sorts of crazy stuff. and you know how it is when things just are not tidy... you feel stress. imagine my stress level right now. haha dont even worry.
Ok so the elderes are taking part of my area. And i am half white wasing and training at the same time as i will be taking part of the sisters area. WAHOO. I was soooooo excited when i got the call... NOT! That is a lie... i was pretty upset. My idea of these next transfers was to stay in my pretty little area and enjoy my pretty little house and have a new comp and work things out and just stay in my comfort zone. That is NOT what the lord had in store... and i didnt have faith because really when i got the call i didnt think it was what the lord had in store and something was messed up. So saturday night i prayed a Lot. a lot a lot a lot. i dont think i slept more than 2 hours. ha
Oh and the new areas are split up by the riberias... ok now you all know.
Anyway. I was pretty upset saturday night. I did not feel a desire to be in the others sisters house. i love them, but we are so different and do things so differently. And that house is just always not clean so we are definitley going to organize some things. but i just knew it would be a lot of work. and with training too. i wanted to help my greenie feel comfortable and not stressed out like i was feeling. So i knew we had been talking a lot about desires and faith this week and we talked about the atonement in district meeting and how we have to help our investigators understand the atonement so that they will have this desire to keep the commandements. So we taught this a lot this week. i even noticed how the spirit was helping me understand the atonement better as we taught about it. And as i was pouting about transfers i remembered what i had been teaching the investigators is exactly what i needed right then. I need to change my desires, my attitude and keep the commandments or the committments that the lord had given me. And i need to trust in the atonement. As i said it is amazing how we can truly change our desires as we use christ... i prayed a lot that in the morning i would feel peace and an excitement to take on this adventure. And you know what... i changed. I can honestly say now i am excited. i KNOW it will be so hard. haah but this is how i am going to change and be the missionary the lord needs me to be. we change in difficult times. So i am ready and excited! Right now i am with another sister on a different island as she waits for her companion to get here. it will be fun to teach in her area for a few days. i leave to santiago, praia in a few days to pick up my greenie\daughter... and we will hopefully get back to our area on saturday or friday!
And funny story about all this... the elderes zone leaders picked me up from the boat place to take me to my new sister for a few days. and we accidentely left my bag in the taxi... yeah... i know. So we prayed. haha and laughed really hard. and hoped the taxi guy would come back. so we about stopped every taxi asking if anyone knew a guy who lived in a certain zone. we didnt ask him his name! next time we will! Always ask the taxi drivers their name and always contact everyone! lesson learned. oh... we got the bag back because he happened to return. The lord is watching over us. And also a funny story about this week... i heard a spanish guy speaking on a television ( i swear i was not watching it... but it was on.. soo... ) Anyway i saw this spanish guy and he had portuguese subtitles. The first thing i thought was "the poor guy needs subtitles because he has speach problems" hahahah and then i realized he wasnt speaking portuguese...hahaha as missionaries in cabo verde we are just so used to hearing creole and pretending we can understand everything everyone is saying... But yeah whitney... spanish people have speach problems.
Love Sister Johnson
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