Alrighty, the transfers news you've all been waiting for:
I'm
staying in the Rhyl ward AND I'm staying with my trainer.
What? How
insane is that?
Let me tell you: very insane.
Trainers and trainees
stay together after the 3 month training about 0.001% of the time. In
fact I think that percentage is just me. In fact, 3 out of the 4
sisters are staying.
Let me re-iterate how unusual this is. We've all
bugged President Preston about keeping us together for weeks and weeks
and he was incredibly sick of hearing it I think. And he told us he was
hearing it from the ward members, the ward mission leaders, all these
people. But he came to our ward the week before transfers and told one
of the members, "these sisters were called to the England Manchester
Mission, not the Rhyl ward" and so I thought more of us were goners for
sure.
I think it's a tender mercy honestly. And the missionary coming
is a Sister that's already been here on exchange twice. It says to me
that the Lord is keeping a very close eye on the Rhyl Ward because such
important things are happening here.
I'm
relieved. After being completely astonished that is. Sister Nemec and
I were in our ward mission leader's home when we received the transfer
call on Friday evening. Both of us were so antsy all day and about had
heart attacks when we finally found out. But after all that I felt
really settled about the decision. And Sister Nemec and I have had
incredible days since we found out, and I feel like the Lord was showing
me the potential for our work in this next transfer. This makes me
think that we have a VERY specific reason for being here together. I
have a couple inklings about what they might be but I won't say anything
yet. It was nice to know though that the ward wants us though. All I
really want to do here is help people change and grow, and their desire
for us to stay makes me think we have made a difference here.
This
week we committed a less active family to take the discussions again,
with the intent of returning to full activity. The son just returned
from a mission and is getting married in a year and they all want to be
there for that. At some point during the discussion the dad told me I
have a really good poker face, whatever that means...
Well that's about all for now, but I love you! Preparation days are back to normal on Monday.
Here's my assignment for the week:
Mosiah 2 and the talk, 7 Lessons on Sharing the Gospel
Love, Sister Gish
PS this means my address hasn't changed, so feel free to send those letters...
did
you know you can dear elder my the England Manchester Mission? Just go
online and type up a letter and put in my information and they print it
and mail it for you. Then it comes extra quickly. Just saying.
PPS
LIZZIE. HOW BIG IS THE FRUIT? How are you? You're going to be a mom
in 10 days!! I wish I could be there to kiss her hello.
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