Jan 20

At Camp Liahona they focused a LOT on "Banking on Blessings"

When we are obedient, we get blessings.  And there are specific blessings that coincide with specific commandments.  If we want the Windows of Heaven to be opened in our lives, pay your tithing.  That simple! (Also, much easier said than done.  I understand)

Anyway- this week we saw those blessings.

We met four AMAZING people who have clearly been prepared by God to hear the Gospel.  It was so exciting!  We have been struggling this entire transfer to try to find new people to teach.  We have been doing a lot of work with formers (people who were taught by missionaries in the past but for some reason or another stopped).... but that hasn't been proving to work very well.

"Where you look where everyone else has looked, you will find what everyone else has found"

So we started looking in different places and guess what?  We found some amazingly golden people.

I have a testimony of obedience!  We started contacting that 20 people a day and we immediately saw the blessings.  I know it was not coincidence.

I am going to try my best to illustrate to you the emotions of transfer week.

So each transfer lasts 6 weeks.  On the Friday night of week 6 we get a call from our Zone Leaders in which they explain our fate... if we will be staying, if we will be going, who our new companion will be... it is very nerve racking!

Sometimes President or Sister Alba will call you on Thursday to tell you if you are getting a special assignment (such as being a Zone Leader, District Leader, or STL [the girl version of those] or training).

So all of Thursday you are terrified because you are just waiting for the phone to vibrate and for Sister Alba to be on the screen.  That is such a scary, scary moment.

Well.

This Thursday Sister Andrews and I were teaching people on Facebook when the phone vibrated.

You can imagine the sinking feeling in my stomach when "Sister Alba" was on the caller ID.

So we answered and Sister Alba said, "Hello sisters!  Can I talk to Sister Andrews?"

PHEW!  Off the hook.

So she told her that she will be trunky transferred (the last transfer of her mission will be in a new area) to Rio Vista and that she will be an STL there.

And then... she said, "and Sister Bryant, can I talk to you?"

WHAT. NO NO NO!

She then proceeded to ask me to be an STL and to train.

I'M GONNA BE A MOM!!!! (For those of you who do not know, that means I am going to have a 'greenie' and I am going to be training her in the mission.)

And I am here to testify that The Lord calls us in our weakness.  I am terrified.  I feel so ill-prepared.  I do not know Spanish well enough.  Up to this point, all of my companions have been older than me in the mission and in actual age.  I am... humbled.  So humbled.

Apparently the Lord needs me to step up.  So step up is what I am going to have to do.

I think The Lord is pulling the sink or swim method on me... so hopefully I don't drown haha

If I do, goodbye.  It was so nice knowing ya'll!

Anyway. I love you.

Thank you for being so diligent and so wonderful.

The Lord loves you too!

Love,

Hermana Bryant