God will consecrate our afflictions for our gain!

This week, we had two exchanges, Zone Conference, and an all mission meeting with Elder Kopischke of the 70.  Talk about crazy!  Pretty much if we were not at a meeting, we were on an exchange! The all mission meeting with Elder Kopischke was so fun!  He is hilarious!  Maybe German people are all just really good at teaching! J  He talked a lot about the importance of helping.  Committing people is all well and good but if we don’t HELP them, then they wont do it or will not know how to do it!  Reading with them, praying with them, staying in daily contact with them, going to church with them is important.  All these things are things that we should do with them! We should help them!  It was a really long meeting and he went over by an hour and then after, we went to lunch and as a leadership council had a second meeting with him!  We missed a few of our appointments, but oh well.  What can you do?

At Zone Conference, we talked about the importance of asking inspired questions and had some really great role-plays!  President Craven also gave a talk about being quick to observe and how being quick to observe is not judging but is a skill that will help us throughout our lives.

For exchanges, I went to Matthews with Sister Treadwell!  She is actually a visa waiter and she has her visa to Brazil now!  She will be leaving at the end of the transfer and is excited/scared!  It was really fun to do language study with her though!  Portuguese sounds so neat!

I also had one of the 3 Spanish sisters come here with me for a day. Sister Calvillo is hilarious!  Spanish was actually her first language, but you would never be able to tell!  haha, so while Sister Nielsen was on exchange with the other two sisters, they were helping her learn how to say "our Purpose" in Spanish.  It is pretty great to hear her try to say it and I am even worse because I try to say it with French pronunciation!  yeah, that does not work at all! Just in case you were wondering. J

Also this week, we had a great lesson with a recent convert named Amanda.  I just love her!  She is so excited for everything and wants to go to the temple so badly!  She has a great desire to learn anything and everything about the gospel and I love getting to meet with her!  Sister Lentz is such a trooper!  Due to the fact that we cannot with meet Amanda where she lives, Sister Lentz invited her and her 3 little kids over for dinner and a lesson.  She was very grateful when it was time for them all to leave!

Anyway, I hope y’all have a great week and Remember to focus on the temple!

Sure love ya!

Sister Morris