Called to Serve: Week #14

ister Wood

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Melissa Wood <melissa.wood@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Alrighty... So this past week has been a long one to say the least. The 5th week of the transfer always seems like an eternity because you find out if your staying or going on that Sunday night. So waiting for Sunday to roll around was killer this week.

We had some adventures though, that is for sure. Sister Owens' bike got stolen from the patio of our apartment last Tuesday. That was rough. We had to file a police report and all that jazz. So Tuesday was an interesting day.

Wednesday, Ermilisa asked Sister Owens and I if we could come help her. We assumed "help" meant service because she is renovating her house all by herself. So we go over to her house all in jeans, t-shirts, and tennis, ready to work. Ermilisa just looked at us and said " when I said I needed help I just meant I needed help praying..." haha we felt pretty stupid at that moment. We all just laughed haha.

Ermilisa is doing really well. She is praying and reading in the Book of Mormon everyday! She has started to notice that the adversary is working super hard on her. She is very strong and has incredible faith. She just wanted us to pray with her because she said she likes the way she feels when we spend time with her and especially when we pray with her.

We had a beautiful kneeling prayer with Ermilisa. I think that will be something she will always remember doing with Sister Owens and me.

Ermilisa then told us that she was going out of town, but wondered if there was another sacrament meeting she could attend while she was gone. We helped her find a church building on LDS.org She was really excited and said she was going to see if her friend would go with her. So we were pretty excited that she was wanting to go to church even when she was going to be out of town!!

Well this week most of our appointments fell through so we got to do a lot of finding. We came across some really awesome potentials. Hopefully we can get in with them in the next few weeks.

We visited a former investigator, Kathy. She is super cool! We knock on the door and she is all excited to see us. She tells us to come in. That was just a huge shock to the system because we had been facing rejection all day pretty much. We got to talking and found out that she is a Genealogy specialist. Whens he lived in Virginia, she was assigned ( given the calling ) of ward Family History Consultant ! The ward had to get special permission, but it all worked out. She told us that their ward had the top number of names submitted to the temple the two years she was the family history consultant. She is catholic and pretty set in her ways, but she loves family history and could talk to and teach you about it for hours. It was super cool.

Sunday finally rolled around. We had a pretty good Sunday, minus the fact that none of our investigators came to church. :( we had a good meal and lesson with one of our investigators. So it was nice to finally get to meet with her. She has been investigating the church for over a year. The lesson went pretty well. She is always super busy with work and we have a hard time setting appointments with her.

Anyway we were finished for the day and had my last day of 12 week, which was just watching The District 2 Dvds. So that was good. I am officially finished being a greenie!! YAY! Not that I feel like im done...I am always learning new things haha.

So we got to planning at 9PM. That is always the dreaded time of day when we receive transfer calls... Last transfer they were done with transfer calls around 9:20 so when 9:25 rolled around, we thought we were golden!!

Well just after our excitement, we get a call from the Zone Leaders telling us that Sister Owens is being transferred and she is training another missionary. I was just in shock that my new best friend wouldn't be my companion anymore. Then Elder Pearson says "oh! Sister Wood! you will be training too!" I was like hahahahah that's a funny joke.... but he was completely serious. I WILL BE TRAINING A NEW MISSIONARY!!!! What is this life?! I just finished my own training..... YIKES!!

I know everything will be good though. I trust that Heavenly Father has a plan for me and I am excited to experience something new :) Wish me luck!

So Sister Owens and I will be traveling to Tallahassee to meet our new companions on Wednesday. Its definitely bitter sweet!

I just had to get a picture with Whitney since this is the closest I will get to her in a while :)

Saw these people having fun in the Bayou... It made me miss Pineview :/ You could say I was pretty jealous! :)

Sister Wood