This week is going to be crazy! We have five sisters coming to stay with us! INCLUDING SISTER CHRISTIANSEN! She goes home on Wednesday and we get to spend the last night together! Ask me if I am stoked....I am. So in between getting all the sister situated and giving them something to do and saying bye to the departing missionaries and then going over and picking up the new missionaries and training them and doing orientation and then welcoming all the new sisters in the zone and theennnnn on top of that...I have a new companion who is a new STL....I am leading the area....and we have a busy week filled with missionary work and I have no idea where I am at half the time! I can say the least....I. AM. NERVOUS. MSU is a crazy, huge, busy area to take over....I slightly want to cry...but I know that won't help anything. Haha so I won't...I probably don't even have time to cry...
So this week was also a bit crazy! (Let's be honest....Missionary life is crazy) we had transfer calls and then we were so busy saying goodbye in between appointments and what-not! Yesterday while Sister Brems packed I went hay-wire cleaning the apartment...it felt so good to have time to clean! I feel like that is just my counseling. It is seriously the greatest thing....and then at the end of cleaning a I hung a little sign over the door saying "welcome to the MSU inn...enjoy your stay!" it is only appropriate...
This week we had a lesson with Val! She is seriously so wonderful and so smart! She wants to be baptized it is just a matter of when! She is a little bit nervous! She said " I feel like I have cold feet...you know that is a real thing right?" She never fails to make us laugh! She is hilarious! Did I ever tell you she does kick boxing!? Seriously....
Then we met with Thien...oh my heavens...Thien....Thien...We were teaching about prophets and how they are leaders and teachers! And we were comparing how the apostasy it kind of like when I teacher is trying to lead a bunch of kids and the kids won't listen they just want to do there own thing and he all the sudden looks really sad and then says..."I got kicked out of elementary school....I bit someone." Oh poor little Thien! But then he started laughing really hard...It was great! He LOVES learning about Jesus Christ! He has so many questions! It is great! At the end of the lesson he said "wait here a second I have something to give you!" and then just turns the other direction and starts running!! 10 minutes later he comes back with Milano cookies....haha! Thien is the best! HE brought us Vietnamese food Saturday night! :)
We have been eating a lot of international food lately...hahah we met with our Korean investigator and had Korean food and then we had Chinese food with Chris! I have now learned the REAL art of using chopsticks :)
We also met with Kyle and he is doing sooo wonderful!! I love KYLE!!! He is super duper sweet and just loves learning! He is like five minutes early to his lesson every time! We are teaching the BEST people in the world...I seriously am the luckiest missionary!
Well family! This week...I will be completely honest and real with ya...it was hard! But something I learned so much this transfer...is to be patient with yourself and your faults and mistakes and sometimes when you say really stupid things! I learned....or well was reminded...this week of how imperfect I am! I guess you could say in short terms...I was humbled...over and over and over again. Which is hard...but you cannot let the adversary come in and let that expand into something that it is not. Being humbled does not mean you have to feel terrible about yourself and beat yourself up. Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less. As I realized that I have 6 months left I got a little nervous...because I still have so much to change! But I know as I consecrate everything...and that means everything...that I will find who I really want to be.
24. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
I know that this church is true with all my heart! I know that through the atonement of Jesus Christ I can be perfect! I am soo grateful for this sacrifice without it I would literally be nothing, but through Jesus Christ I can be anything I choose to be. It really comes down to a choice...isn't the gospel wonderful?
Much Michigan Love,
Sister Oswald
P.S. In honor of the MSU I did my e-mail in green...
Michigan trees....what a dream...I feel like I am in a fairy tale!
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