Week 11 Transfers

TRANSFERS!!!!! WOOHOO

FRIDAY- 

the best part of the day was seeing my sister Jacobson. She's my most favorite. I always call her "my comp" . She's forever MY companion. Then I met my new comp and she's so energetic and outgoing. She's really nice but also knew. I said goodbye to my stls and comforted sister Williams her new comp avoided her all transfers and sister williams was really scared. I told her to blame all training visits on me lol. I drove home hahahaha freedom. Two hour road trip with no silence already off to a better start. We got burgers and fries. Found two new people. Got settled in. I'm glad I stayed in Solon now I am driving and leading out the area. So slay. 

Saturday- 

A beautiful day. Comp unity through the roof. We killed our lesson with Keith. Made friends with members. Found all the hidden gems in solon. We did some service. Built an even stronger friendship with Sister Reidhead and her husband Ali. He loves us and that's unheard of. We played a Lil soccer with his kids after service. We are eating with them tomorrow. So many good things. We did some great weekly planning and set some amazing goals. I'm so excited for this transfer. Solon is gonna fly upwards with the work. Everyone will be found, members will be reactivated, we are hastening the work. Sister Heaton has so much energy but is still nervous of other people so I took the lead today. I kind of feel like a trainer because I'm driving, taking the lead, I feel like I bloomed overnight. She's just out of training basically but she's doing real good. I still will learn a lot from her. We are a power team. 

Sunday- 

BEST DAY EVER

Such an amazing beautiful day in the service of the lord!!! Started off with an awesome time at church. Fast and testimony meeting was filled with the spirit. Oh we also got to know ALL the members. After we ran to lunch because our meeting went long. We did some amazing studies and I had a lot of revelation come from my reading in 1 Nephi 20 and 21. I read it yesterday with a friend but I felt like I needed to read it again. So many things really touched me I wrote so many notes and thoughts down. 

1 Nephi 20: 18

The comparison of peace to a river is BEAUTIFUL. My original thought was it's always flowing, always readily available. That's all I thought the time I read it with our friend. Today in personal study I couldn't stop thinking about it. I then started to think that a river comes from a large body of water and then most of the time flows to another large body of water. It's one flowing source but it returns to the same type of location. Peace comes from the savior and brings us to the savior. Peace comes from the gospel and brings us back to the gospel. Anywho I have like a thousand thoughts on just that one verse 

1 Nephi 21:16 

I read this during personal study and just cried. I was so touched. The lord literally cannot and will not forget us. I sat and just thought about what it meant for him to feel all my sins and to feel all my heartaches, all my anxieties, all my everything. I thought of the pain, devotion, love involved. I then thought about how selfish we are not to turn to him. He already paid the price of it all, there is no reason for us not to repent. When we don't turn to him, his suffering is in vain. I can't imagine the day we stand before him and see the prints in his hands and feet. The reality will set in and I know I will crumble before my savior. 

I love when the spirit takes me in a completely different direction in my studies. 

Anywho after we went to visit a self referral and she was super interested but was naked and cooking so she set a time for us to come back. On our walk to the car we saw a group of men. I felt so prompted to stop and call out to them. They came from their back yard to the front of the house. Short story is there was Les and Les's friend. I talked with Les and he asked what we were doing out here. He was concerned for out safety cuz he said he gets scared coming to this area. We just laughed lol. Anywho to the point he grew up religious but for a while now he has felt very alone and has given up on God. He is really interested in learning more and getting some of his questions answered. My mouth was literally filled with thoughts. One thing that was holding him up was he was heartbroken on why God could allow his family members to die and allow wars to go on. I shared about Jesus and him coming to earth to feel all that we would feel. He chose to be our savior to feel ALL the awful things we would. At the end of his life Jesus couldn't bear his own cross and needed help. In our lives the same will happen. We're asked to carry our crosses. Our crosses can be diseases, death of a loved one, any trial. Sometimes we have those things happen so we can help someone else 

Mosiah 18:9 

We too can't bear our crosses on our own. The savior has to help us and sometimes we need those around us to also bear them. Sometimes we simply go through awful things just to help someone else. We feel all the awful things so we can lighten, comfort, uplift someone else. He just stood there and then said I would really like to start meeting with you sisters. He then started talking about just wanting to know evidence that there is a God. Right away I whipped out a Book of Mormon and marked Alma 18. I challenged him to read it and that there was someone just like him who wanted the same evidence. I told him we will call him in two days. Meanwhile my companion was teaching his friend. We found two new people at the same time. We are a power team. I wasn't even panicking that I was teaching alone because I knew I had the spirit with me. I knew the savior was right there with me. 

We then went to the Reidheads for dinner. When we pulled up my companion got out of the car and I knew I couldn't. I felt the strongest prompting to stay a minute. All I could think about was writing a note. So I called for her to come back and I had somehow brought my sticky notes which I never do. Anywho, I wrote a little message for Sister Reidhead. When we went in she had mascara smeared all under her eyes and on her cheeks. My heart just felt so heavy for her. I talked a bunch with her and helped do the dishes and clean up while my companion got closer to her husband. She then had to go help her kids so I joined my companion. He taught us a game that he learned when he lived back in Iran. He really likes us and was laughing and sharing stories of his life. He told us we could call him for anything and really enjoys having us over. He insisted we come back super soon to play again and come play soccer with his kids. I snuck my note onto the Fridge as I left. I'm so grateful that God trusts me with these promptings.      

After we had a devotional where three families that were Amish and got baptized, they shared their stories and it made my desire to serve 100000x stronger. I am so pumped up from today. They now have all had kids serve missions and have been sealed in the temple. My heart wants that for everyone. Eternal families are such a blessing. Nothing brings me more joy than to know I get to be with my family forever. 

I feel like a Lil trainer. I am driving like a mom and doing all the talking. I feel so 180 with everything it's amazing how everything changed in like three days.