All right, so my week!!! It was a busy one that’s
for sure! We went on an exchange this week! I stayed here in Warsaw with Sister
Blake (from my MTC group) and Sister Stratton went to Łódż! It was a short
exchange but we saw so many miracles!
It is like spring here!!! It was seriously so
nice!! On Saturday it was 9 degrees!!!! It was just so happy and sunny and all
the snow is like gone!! We had like 2 weeks of cold and now it feels like
spring! It’s so weird but I’m not complaining!! We just walk everywhere instead
of taking the trams.
So GUESS WHAT!!! On Thursday, I had to go to
the train station to take Sister Blake there to meet everyone for the mission
leadership-training meeting. This meant got to see Elder Lanham!! Elder
Kotter!! And Sister Wendel!!!! It was a beautiful little reunion!!
AND THEN I was talking a ton with Sister Wendel
and SHE IS SERVING IN KATOWICE CURRENTLY!!!!! So we talked all about it
and how everything was going. She told me all about Barbara!!!! She is doing
really well and is going to AMERICA FOR PATRYK'S WEDDING! Her son! She is progressing
really well and going to church and they talk about when she will be baptized
and I FREAKED OUT!! I knew that Sister Wendel would take good care of her. I told
her that she was going to help Barbara prepare for her baptism. The Lord has
his own timing for everything and I just KNOW that Barbara is ready and I was
filled to the brim with JOY!!! AND THEN GUESS WHAT ELSE!!!!!!!!!! Literally 5
minutes later I was still with all the missionaries and my phone rings, I didn’t
know who it was so I answered it and IT WAS BARBARA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I screamed
and freaked out and she was laughing and she told me that SHE WAS COMING TO
WARSAW!!!!!!!!!!!! And that she wanted to see me! She is flying to America from
here AND I HAPPEN TO BE SERVING HERE!!! WHAT A TENDER MERCY!! I cannot wait!! I
am so excited to see her! I will take pictures :)
SISTER STRATTON CAME HOME TO ME!!! Praises I
missed her so much!! I love our companionship! We have so much fun and I just
love her so much!! It was a really awesome week! Like I said before the sun was
shinning and people were almost cheerful!! We talked to some really cool people
and I just LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!
Last night Sister and Brother Dresler invited
us over for dinner!!! They are the sweetest people in all of Poland!!! We had
so much fun and the food was so good!! They sent us home with a ton of it and I
felt like I was serving back home!! Except we were speaking polish the whole
time! After dinner we sang a couple songs for them!! Actually Sister Stratton
played the piano and I sang for them. The spirit was there! It was beautiful
and one of the most amazing nights of my mission!
It was a beautiful week per usual full of
miracles and miraculous experiences that are helping me become that person I
have always wanted to become!
I read a talk this week from the October general
conference, “Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?” by Elder Timothy J Dyches It changed my
life. It taught me about the Atonement and I was filled with a better love and
understanding for my mission and for the Savior. Here are some of the
scriptures that stood out to me and some of the talk I was most impressed with.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28–30).
As we draw near to Him, we realize that
mortality is meant to be difficult and that “opposition in all things” (2 Nephi 2:11) is not a flaw in the plan
of salvation. Opposition, rather, is the indispensable element of mortality and
strengthens our will and refines our choices. The vicissitudes of life help us
fashion an eternal relationship with God—and engrave His image upon our
countenance as we yield our hearts to Him (see Alma 5:19).
If you feel unclean, unloved, unhappy,
unworthy, or unwhole, remember “all that is unfair about life can be made right
through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.”3 Have faith and patience in the Savior’s
timing and purposes for you. “Be not afraid, only believe” (Mark 5:36).
Be assured the Savior still seeks to mend our
souls and heal our hearts. He waits at the door and knocks. Let us answer by
beginning again to pray, repent, forgive, and forget. Let us love God and serve
our neighbor and stand in holy places with a life made clean. The impotent man
at the pool of Bethesda, the leper along the journey to Jerusalem, and Corrie
ten Boom (a devote dutch christian woman) were made whole. “Wilt thou be made whole?” Rise and walk. His “grace
is sufficient” (2 Corinthians 12:9), and you will not
walk alone.
These were my favorite parts. Life can be hard
but through the Savior we can find peace and understanding! I know that when I
have something hard to go through in my life it is because I am learning to be
a better person. I am given the opportunity to become more like Christ. I think
if we all recognized that DURING our trials we would hardly see them as trials!
Read it!! Also I don’t have sound on the
computer in this library but there is a new Mormon Message called “The Other Prodigal
Son” I just watched the whole thing without any sound and I was almost brought
to tears! So I am suggesting that you watch it, it was beautiful!!
Love,
Siostra Pearson
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