I AM IN LOVE!
My greenie is ridiculously cool. Everyone is in love with her especially me. She is so fun and just HAPPY. Its the most refreshing thing in the world. She is so full of life. I dont think ive stopped smiling since thursday. We also haven't sat down since Thursday. SO BUSY.
Her name is 서나리 seo nadi and is from Pusan. She lived in Australia for a year and speaks the funniest english ive ever heard. She is sort miniature...like maybe she is five feet tall.
I thought yesterday was Easter and i was super upset because there was no sign of it at church so I made everyone sing Easter songs and planned a huge Easter snickerdoodle cookie party at the church for the youth and our investigators and shared a big easter message and then I found out it was actually NOT Easter.
There is a new special 12 week training for new missionaries that requires us to be inside all morning. Im going crazy we have to take breaks like every 20 minutes. Plus we watch these videos about missionary work and i just get really mad because its made for missionaries in America and I feel like missionary work is so COMPLETELY different in Asia. bleh.
anyways one of the things we were supposed to do her first week is extend a baptismal commitment in the first three days. I was really worried because i couldn't think of anyone that would even maybe say yes and i so badly didn't want to pop her bubble. But we prepared for a lesson with an investigator who i love but has been progressing SO SLOWLY. She has been meeting with the missionaries for like 7 months and came out to church for the first time last week. Anyways we sat and started to teaching and the spirit completely filled the room. She kept asking us why we were so happy all the time- and i told her the truth. My life isnt perfect. I am not perfect. I do stupid things every 45 seconds. But my testimony of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ makes everything ok. Nothing could happen that isnt made right through the atonement of Jesus Christ- and that is something to rejoice about. We asked her how she felt about the book of Mormon and she said she loves the way she feels when she reads it and that she felt that maybe it was true. We explained that if the book of mormon was true then Joseph smith was a prophet and our church was the true church. She sat and thought about that and then i realized HEY! She is ready to be baptized! I said in English SUPER fast "ask her to get baptized". 서나리 did a beautiful job explaining and asked her to be baptized on the 15th (the real easter) and she said YES!!!! MIRACLE! I am loving serving with a greenie- they still have that unstoppable optimism and we are seeing miracle after miracle. I hope i get to stay with her until I die.
Ive been studying the Resurrection and the atonement a lot this week because i thought it was easter and feeling in a way i haven't before an overwhelming love for the savior. I love being a missionary and putting on my name tag every morning. It is such a privilege to bear his name- I feel like im suiting up for a team where the quarterback throws nothing but touchdown and because im on his team I know we'll go undefeated no matter how inadequate i am.
The only problem is our uniforms are really lame and no one has any idea how cool we are and mostly just tell us we are a cult and run away. Their loss.
Love you madly,
sister lund
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