At Zone Conference in Exeter, NH
Hello and Happy second day of
Spring friends and family. I bet you all thought the cold and snow puns had
ended. Nope, thanks to our good friend New England Mother Nature we have
another day of snow on our hand. So what better way to start of spring with
snow boots and a shovel. Luckily, most of the roads have been plowed so driving
to write you this email wasn't too bad, just cold. I also heard the Provo City
Center Temple dedication was this weekend! I know a lot of you were Abe to
attend that and I hope you all had a good time! Back here in the mission, this
week is a super special week because of the MTC extension we all have an extra
week added to our missions! So if you all were anticipating transfer news, you
get to wait one more week to hear if I get to avenge Sister Banda's
"death" by "killing" Sister DeWidt. Next week will be
Transfer, Easter, Women's Session week! How fun!
Well, I guess I'll get into this week a bit.
Honestly, I don't know where it flew by. Probably because Wednesday we had Zone
Conference in Exeter. We carpooled down with the Elders, got there at about
8:15 am and didn't leave til about 5:15 pm so it was pretty long but really good.
We focused a lot on the importance of the sabbath day and after lunch had a
Sister's Session put on by Sister Stoker to talk about the importance of
sisters in the work. We all prepared a brief explanation of our favorite female
scripture hero and being a narcissist I chose to talk about Priscilla. In all
honesty, I do love Priscilla from the New Testament and if you haven't heard of
her I would highly encourage it. She is a wonderful example of a member
missionary and is someone I aspire to be when I go home. It was also weird to
be back where I had my first zone conference six months later. I feel like the
building felt different, probably because I am a very different missionary now.
I have learned and grown a lot since then.
As far as the work goes it is still fairly slow.
I am officially dubbing this past transfer just sick season because everyone we
work with has gotten sick which makes it difficult for us to work with them. It
reminds me of something I learned in my first area that Jesus healed the sick
and afflicted because it is really hard to feel spiritually when you aren't
feeling well physically. Luckily I haven't been too sick in my time out here
but I know a lot of missionaries that have and we should always pray that
they'll get better.
I guess besides that nothing too earth shattering
happened this week. Even though I've been in Somersworth a month I have been
really trying to get to know the members, especially with the social media
splits we had this weekend to encourage members to share the Mormon.org Easter website
and video. Some members I did meet this week were pretty cool including
bringing us chocolate bars from Ikea when she couldn't make her appointment
with us and observing a members awesome Lego collection. Members are the key to
missionary work. I know that's so true. I encourage you all to share something
from FollowHim.Mormon.org and use that opportunity to share your beliefs about
the Savior and how He blesses us as individuals and as families. And may we all
have an awesome Easter weekend!
Love,
Sister Wright
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