FAM!
Boston is outrageously beautiful right now. The leaves are KILLING me! I now understand that I've never really experienced a fall until this year. There are colors/color-combinations I never knew existed and the New Englanders know the perfect colors to paint their houses to go with the leaves (light blues, grays, butter yellow, shale, navy, forest green). So pretty I might die/cry. Sister Hyoung and I are going to the Mount Auburn Cemetery to soak it all in and take pictures today. Can't wait!
P.S. Remember how the Red Sox won the World Series this week? NBD. :)
But in more spiritual news, it's been a great week! We've have a couple new people in our finding pool who seem pretty promising- Danny from Belgium that we met on the bus and Sarah, a friend of a member who has been to the singles ward and then to Stake Conference and she loved both. She is married, so she would belong in our ward. Danny is married, too, and actually lives in our ward boundaries, so both would be so great to be able to teach! We run into so many students who we pass off to the YSA wards and so many random people who live in other parts of the city out of our ward boundaries, so it's nice to meet potentials that might actually work! :)
We had a miracle on Friday when a man, Franklin, walked into the Longfellow Park Chapel after our district meeting and asked to meet with missionaries, and he lives in our boundaries. AWESOME! We went to visit him on Saturday and he might be a little crazy, but he asked for a return appointment, so new investigator! :)
Allison has been really busy, but she is (hopefully) reading the Book of Mormon. She said on Saturday that she was going to read that night. I JUST LOVE HER!
And we passed Dusya off to the Boston Sisters because she won't move to Cambridge for at least 2 more months. She's awesome! We hope she moves back to our ward.
This week has been such a growing experience for my testimony and for my relationship with Sister Hyoung. One of the biggest lessons I've learned this week was expressed so beautifully in testimony meeting yesterday by one of our members, Sister Roper. She talked about how our Heavenly Father is watching us struggle and just waiting for us to ask for his help because he is so happy to give it. We just have to ask! I think I've been too apologetic about my prayers and have not asked for help "in whatsoever thing I stand in need" (Dad, I'm working on memorizing that verse) because I felt that I should be able to do things on my own and Heavenly Father would be annoyed that I'm just not getting it. Maybe I've been feeling that way about my relationship with Heavenly Father because I've been impatient with Sister Hyoung when she doesn't understand things that I feel like she should. But I've learned that Heavenly Father is so patient and loving and understanding and he is so happy to help us with anything, and so I need to be exactly like that with Sister Hyoung. Thank goodness for repentance!
I adore Sister Hyoung! Her progress has struck me so powerfully this week. I watched her give part of a lesson to Caty on Saturday and Sister Hyoung bore such powerful, sincere, and real testimony. She says she is insecure and that she doesn't know enough about the gospel, but I completely disagree! She gets it. And she has grown SO much over the last 2.5 months. I love being her companion and working with her! Going on an exchange this weekend made us realize how well we work together. We've even become so Zionistic that last night, Sister Hyoung introduced herself to a street contact as "Sister Wheeler" without even thinking about it. SO FUNNY!
This ward is amazing. The members are doing great work with their friends. We love working with the Elders! The auxiliaries are giving us wonderful things to help with- Sister Hyoung and I have been helping RS members get names ready to go to the temple, including Rosa, Caty's mom. We have also been helping the Young Women with their Personal Progress. One of them, Jennifer, is usually very disrespectful and I'm kind of terrified of her. We went to help her on Saturday and she was so uninterested when we first arrived, but after we sat with her and worked on it patiently and lovingly, she COMPLETELY changed. When we left, she was so grateful and excited to see us again. We walked out and I said to Sister Miller (we were on exchanges that day so Sister Hyoung and Sister Sorensen could use their musical talents in a Stake Conference in Hingham), "That is the most successful I have felt on my mission!!!" The change in Jennifer was so noticeable and so immediate. I'm so grateful to be a missionary and to be able to give people my time and attention and love in such a concentrated way.
I bore my testimony in sacrament yesterday and talked about how the privilege of serving the members in this ward has helped me to better understand my Savior as I've felt so much love for them from serving them selflessly. I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE THIS WARD!!! Transfers are in two weeks and it will be my 6 month mark in this ward. I feel like there's a very slim chance I'll get to stay and I know that whatever the Lord wants me to do is right, but I just want to stay! This ward feels like my family and I love them so much!
Must run see the fall colors. I love you all so much and am so grateful to be a missionary! This gospel is true and our Heavenly Father has a perfect plan for us. It is a privilege to be able to teach that to others and see the gospel light up their lives!
Love you all!
Sister Wheeler Jr. :)
P.S. Sister Hyoung has now lost a set of scriptures and a PMG on the bus two separate times. Her creativity in proselyting (even if accidental) is impressive. :)
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