Monday after e-mailing we went to the church and watched 17 Miracles with the elders in the district. Such a good movie. I'll attach a picture of our awkward district picture taken that day.
I have to admit, transfer meeting was kind of lame. Usually there is a lot of energy, but not so much this time. I got to see Sister Clark! She told me she would put in a request that we be companions :) My new companion is Sister Bunnell!!! MTC COMPANIONS UNITE!!! I was WAY excited. She knows how to work hard and what to do. We know each other pretty well after spending the MTC together and serving in the North Vernon ward together for three transfers. But before transfer meeting started I was talking to the sisters who have been serving in Seymour and they were catching me up on the area. Sister Jones and I found this lady, Mary Louden, right before I left. I love her! They are teaching her which I was VERY excited to hear about. Talking with them made me miss it a bit.
Wednesday night we had another dinner appointment with the wonderful R. family. After dinner they took us to go meet one of Sister R.'s high school friends. Had we been tracting, they would have definitely not let us in the house. However, since we were introduced by a member they let us in and said we could call to come back! Members introducing us to people is the best way to find. We are having dinner with the again tonight and teaching afterwards!
Thursday we were out tracting and no one was answering. Until! Alejandra. She's in her young 20's and is open to learning about any different religion. She didn't have time so we asked if we could come back again on Friday, which we did and she had company. A similar story when we went back on Saturday, but we will get to teach her!
The favorite elder from my district last transfer is now serving in Plymouth with Elder Oram. All four of us are PUMPED!!! We get along really well and are working as a team together. I'm really excited for our district this transfer. District meeting on Friday was pretty fun. We spent Valentines Day with Sister Smith; the same sister we spent Christmas Eve with. She was so cute; she bought us a card and cookies.
Sister Bunnell is helping me love role plays. Saturday morning we practiced for the lesson we were going to teach Tim and Chastity. I was so excited all day and really looking forward to it. Well, they were sick and we couldn't teach them :( I was super bummed.
Church was awesome! A brother spoke about the doctrine of Christ in sacrament. Definitely a RM who studied PMG a lot. I was inspired to study the doctrine of Christ in my studies this morning. He gave a definition of doctrine that I really liked. Doctrine is a truth revealed by Heavenly Father that pertains to our salvation. That's what we must focus on in our scripture study and at church. The principles and the doctrines that will help us become more like our Savior. After church I was talking to a member in the branch presidency. I made a comment about reverting back into my shell. He said something like "you were shy before you came out?" I told him indeed I was and that I found it a huge struggle to talk to people. He couldn't believe it. That made me happy. I've fooled people into thinking that I'm talkative and outgoing. I told him it was probably the mantle placed on me. I like that I recognize change in myself.
Last night I was studying in Alma 37. Verse 41 talks about the danger of lack of diligence in the small things. "They were slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence and then those marvelous works cease, and they did not progress in their journey". This verse is talking about Laman and Lemuel and their journey in the wilderness. However, if I allow for "spiritual slippage" (President Cleveland) then I will no longer progress. It requires diligence throughout life in order to progress and change into what Heavenly Father needs us to become. A little fear in the back of my head is that when I get home, I will quickly revert back into who I was before. Then I thought of the principle of setting goals and making plans. As a missionary we set goals and make plans every.single.day. There's a reason. Goals help us stretch and improve. If I plan on spiritually progressing for the rest of my life, then I need to have goals and plans of how I'm going to do it. Self mastery is everything.
ZONE CONFERENCE THIS THURSDAY!!! I'm way pumped. Randomly throughout the day I'll tell Sister Bunnell "zone conference this Thursday". The assistants called last night asking if I would play the piano. Then last night I had a dream where the piano bench was only about a foot off the ground and the piano kept moving forward, so I messed up a lot. Hopefully that won't happen on Thursday haha. Yes mother, I'm not hiding my candle under a bushel :)
We've got more potentials to work with this week. I'm really excited about the progress Sister Bunnell and I will be able to see this transfer. The important thing that I'm trying to remember is to always do everything out of love. Love for my Heavenly Father and love for the people. Thanks for all the prayers!
Sister Mayberry
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