Welcome home Danika! I definitely had a
moment in the middle of eating my burrito after district meeting on Wednesday
where I stopped and then said "She's HOME!"
How weird! How
strange! Only Three months away...okay, enough about that.
This week has easily
been one of the busiest weeks of my mission. Zone P-day Monday, Missionary
Leadership Council meeting Tuesday, District meeting and coordination
Wednesday, Zone Conference for East Zone Thursday, Exchanges on Friday, Finally
weekly planning and a Baptism in our district Saturday, and six hours of church
on Sunday. Not to mention starting teaching new people, picking up old ones
again and setting goals as a district to accomplish before the end of the
transfer (May 14th), correlative reports to the zone leaders, preparing a
training for our Zone meeting this week and hardly any dinners since it was a
conference weekend and our calendar wasn't passed around. Then again, we worked
through a couple of dinner hours since we didn't have enough hours in the
day to meet with investigators with all of our meetings and exchanges and
reports and things. Whew. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. But, I'd rather
be busy and doing things than not, so it's a good thing.
We had a lesson with
a Hispanic women that Sister Staker contacted while she was on exchanges with
our STL Leader last transfer, and we finally were able to sit down and meet
with her again. We think she might have Alzheimer since she didn't remember
meeting with them at all. She was a pretty funny lady giving us water and
ginger cookies and telling us all about how her catholic church totally
believes in Joseph Smith. She can't read, and she can't write, but she was
excited to learn that our church time on Sunday didn't overlap with her church
time on Sunday so that she could go. Her favorite thing to say was
"Mmmiirrrraaaa!" as she was surprised by everything we talked about
("Mira" here would be in my words "oh wow"). She also was
surprised at how good Sister Regan's Spanish was, but she wasn't surprised at
mine, because she thought I was Mexican, so of course I could speak Spanish.
After I told her I wasn't Mexican she was impressed and another round of
"Mmmmiirrrrraaaaa" began hahaha! We got in the car and I asked Sister
Regan if I looked Hispanic she said "well, more than I do!"
In MLC (Missionary
Leadership Council) this week, we had four missionaries who had been released
as Zone Leaders and Traveling Assistants and Sister Training Leaders last
transfer and been trainers and district leaders the last six weeks come back to
talk about things after not being on the Council. They were kind'a like the
moles telling us if we were doing our job as leaders in passing information and
training and leading. It was interesting and the most common comment was that
there just wasn't enough communication and trust between Missionaries and
leaders. It was really interesting and to me it was a paramount life changing
meeting. I felt like we were actually getting to the gritty part of what is it
going to take as a mission to raise the vision and push a little higher. We
talked a lot about districts and district leaders and the role of Sister
Training Leaders.
The next day we had
district meeting and set goals as a district for what we could accomplish. It
was a really good meeting, and I feel like we became more unified as a
district. I'm excited for what the next five weeks hold for us together. One
thing our district leader told us was "God has placed us in the areas
where we are for a reason and in a district together for a reason" then he
said "Let's go find out why." I was the scribe writing our goals and
plans on the board, it was really good. Sister Regan and I are giving a
training on "Applying our Trainings" in Zone Meeting this week, I've
gotten a little bit passionate about it. We'll see how it goes!
Anyways, sorry it's a
bit short today, I hope everyone is doing well. Keep kissing those babies for
me!
Love,
Hermana Cheyenne
Montgomery
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