Monday, March 3, 2014

Can I just say.....MISSIONARY WORK AND I FELL IN LOVE THIS WEEK! We are getting married and I am never coming home. Sorry, but really this week was just so great and just what I needed really...so many hardships and trials... but guess what?? 4 months stronger and better and I love everyone in the Kalamazoo 2 ward so much I will probably cry ALL the way to my next area....transfer calls are in 3 weeks...WHERE DID THE TRANSFER GO?! I am not okay with leaving! I am begging Heavenly Father every night... please just one more transfer! I just love it here so much and I can hardly stand it!! I truly feel like Ammon when he says my joy is carried away even unto boasting in my God! For I know I am NOTHING, but it is truly wonderful knowing I have been an instrument in His hands doing this great and marvelous work! (alma 26 great chapter haha)

This week nothing special happened really, but I just have felt the love and support of the ward,  investigators, ya'll back at home, and especially my Father in Heaven! (even when some guy at the bus station told me I wasnt very pretty hahah that hurt a bit...definitely didnt feel the love and support from that guy!) I am so grateful to be a missionary and it is just so wonderful being out here! 
 
Now that I have convinced you all that I am bi-polar....
I met so many fun people this week! 
First is David...I love David so much I don't even know how to describe it...craziness! We were waiting for our bus at the station and this blind man walks in and is trying to find the bathroom using his stick and carrying a HUGE bag. Lets just say it was not working out and instantly I LOVED him! I jumped up and slipped my arm in his and we went to find the bathroom! Everyone was watching as we walked to the bathroom (David has a really loud voice so we were the center of attention in the middle of the bus station) and he kept trying to turn and then I would say no just keep straight and then he would say oh...okay. Then he would try and turn again and I would say again, nope still straight and he would say oh...okay! It just went again and again until finally we were there. Then when he came back we sat and talked for ever! He used to be a painter. He would paint sceneries! But then he got quiet and said, "but I guess I cant do that anymore."  :(  Good thing he couldn't see me crying. Then he went through all of his tapes he had in his bag trying to find his favorite one to give to me.:) But he would pick one up and feel it and then ask me what is this one...then he would put it down and pick up the same one and say what is this one....we did that for a while! :) oh man I could go on for hours about David....I LOVE HIM.
 
Then we were door knocking and it was SO COLD and we were ready to go back and Sis. Nuttall and I looked at each other and said ONE MORE DOOR! haha So we did and we found James....I LOVE JAMES! He went to Afghanistan and did not see very good things and has a very sad sad countenance....we were trying to help him realize that God does love him and really is there but somehow I don't blame him for being hardened by the things he saw. Even just the bit he told me I didnt want to hear anymore... :( We promised him that if he asked that night he would get his answer! :) TBA!!! 
 
Welp, those are my two best stories for this week! Also, we went to the church of Israel of God...we were the only white ones...haha. But they had the greatest choir in the world! Totally rockin'! The preacher came and sat us down and talked to us. He was really nice! I really liked him! We are going to have a study with him sometime! We switched phone numbers! The Israel of God Church goes STRAIGHT from the bible...meaning they live pretty much the law of Moses except for the sacrificing and other things....but it was fun and WAY different....we had to wear these frilly white things on our heads....but yeah....fun stuff!
 
So many little things happened this week and I just loved every second of everything! I am learning to love my trials! I really just love this area so much and I am going to be so heartbroken if I leave next transfer :( Anyways,v I love you all so much and I am so grateful for all your love and support back home! This church is so wonderful and so true there is no denying it! Gah...I love everything....GOD BLESS!
 
Love, Sister Oswald

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