May 28, 2019
Hi everyone! Our P-Day was changed to today since Memorial Day was yesterday and we were supposed to go out and meet some new people. So hello everyone, I'm a day late, but I'm here!
Last night we were woken up just an hour after falling asleep by our Sister Training Leaders asking us if we had tornado sirens in our area and telling us to go hang out in the bathroom for awhile. Luckily we were out of the way of the tornado, but according to Facebook it looks like it caused some pretty bad destruction and has been all over the news. We're pretty limited as to what we've been able to hear about it, but we did get to experience some wicked wind and thunder last night. And now we get to have boiled water until further notice because we don't know if the water is safe. It would have been a pretty fun experience if it weren't for the damage it caused so many people.
I got to go on exchanges for the first time yesterday and it was so much fun! I was put into a trio with two of our wonderful Sister Training Leaders. It was a really neat experience to see how life was with different missionaries and in a different area. We visited a part and drew The Plan of Salvation out with chalk! This cute little boy even came over and started writing things like "God is good to me" around our drawings. It was the neatest experience! We took some fun pictures but the other sisters have them and haven't sent them to me so I'll include them with my email next week when I have them.
We're putting a man named John on date for baptism sometime this week! We visited him a few days ago and he's been really excited to learn but hasn't been progressing very fast up until now. But as we were talking to him he suddenly turned to us and said he thinks he's ready to be baptized. It was amazing to see the difference just a few days can make in someone.
You know that cool D&D guy named Al that I mentioned a few weeks ago? So he wasn't really progressing, like at all, but he was willing to chat with us and we'd become great friends so we were still talking to him frequently up until last week when he had some tough stuff happen in his life and we suddenly didn't know if we'd be able to visit with him anymore. Well, right after our awesome chat with John, we hopped in our car and felt like we needed to ask Al if we could visit him even though we didn't have him on our schedule for the rest of the night. It turned out that we caught him right as he was filling up his car with gas and was about to drive to California because he just couldn't stay in Springfield any longer. He let us come say bye though and as I was driving, the urgency I felt to get to him before he decided to leave was greater than any urgency I'd ever felt to get anywhere before. After talking to him for a good hour we convinced him to stay one more night and come to church with us the next morning, which was something we didn't think we'd ever be able to convince him to do! After church the next day he felt so much better and he's willing to let us teach him more! I know that his change of heart was 100% God's doing because we could never have caused everything to line up as perfectly as it did.
A song I've been obessed with lately is "It's Not About You" from the 2016 Youth Album. I just thought I'd includ the lyrics below for anyone who might need the reminder that you're never too small for a job the Lord asks you to do because it really isn't about us or how little we sometimes think we can do to help others.
"You look into your father's eyes when he takes his hands of your head
He whispers that he's proud of you and he knows you'll do your best
You say you wonder if you can do it
And that's when he says
"It's not about you
It's not about you
It's for the people who are blessed by what you do
It's not about you
"Everybody's gathered round you, eyes all ago
You start to read that peice of paper so see where you'll go
And you wonder if you're ready
But you already know
"It's not about you
It's not about you
It's for those who are searching for the truth
It's not about you
"You get home and you fall in love
But you're scared to death
Cause you wonder if you're good enough
But then a though goes through your head.
"It's not about you
It's not about you
It's for your children and the world they'll come into
It's not about you
"So you've become much better because of what you've been through
But it's not about you
It's not about you"
Invitation of the week!
For those of you who already have a good scriptures study routine: I invite you to try studying in a different way sometime this week. Whether that means you study by topic or by writing down your thoughts in a journal or by using the footnotes. Find some way of studying that you don't normally do!
For those of you who don't have a regular study routine: Find at least one day this week and sit down and study for just half an hour. If you don't know how best to study, choose a topic and look it up in the topical guide or gospel library and start there.
If you take my challenge, let me know how your study session went! I promise each and every one of you, if you'll study The Book of Mormon and pray sincerely before you study you will come to know of it's truthfulness and strengthen your testimony. I had a testimony before my mission but I definitely took The Book of Mormon for granted and I wish I hadn't. There so much truth and light inside it's pages that your Heavenly Father wants you to be blessed with if you'll simply read what it says with an open heart.
I hope you all have an amazing week. I love each and every one of you dearly.
Love,
Sister Bliss
Pictures!
I got to try real Cincinnati Chill at Skyline for the first time and loved it!
Some cute pictures of me and my MTC buddies at new missionary training last week :)
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