Hey everyone!
Well it's been a pretty incredible week. Monday night, we had a family in one of our wards take us down the canyon here in Twin called Centennial Park. It is beautiful down there with a little waterfall, a beautiful lake and a bridge that is monumental here in Twin Falls. We had a nice little BBQ and got to walk around enjoying the beautiful scenery. The only downside was the mosquitoes that decided to have a little snack on us...
Last Sunday, our whole mission had a "Finding Fast" in which we fasted and prayed to find more people who are ready to hear about the Gospel. I love fasting because I feel like it's prayers on steroids. And indeed it works, we were able to find 6 new investigators this week! A lot have been more Nepali people, which I love. They are so kind and humble and have such a strong family unit (everyone is family, even if they're not really related..."this is my cousin!" haha). If I get to stay here in Twin Falls, which I hope, I'm going to invest in a Nepali dictionary so that I can learn their language more and hopefully break the language barrier a little more. Sister Hamilton and I had the opportunity to teach the Nepali sunday school class in one of our wards yesterday and it was so fun! We were teaching them and they were teaching us, as we learned how to say certain doctrinal words in Nepali! Seriously on an international mission right now :)
We got to help out in the Bishop's Storehouse again this week, which was a little bittersweet for me. I love serving there, it's so wonderful to help out people and get to know them, but this was Elder Hansen's last week serving in the Bishop's Storehouse (he was serving a senior mission). He became like another father figure to me and I will miss him dearly, but I know that this is another life-long friend! We were able to go to the Twin Falls temple afterwards and do some work in there. I am so grateful to have a temple just 10 minutes down the road from our home and to be able to participate in temple ordinances even on the mission!
Transfers are coming up this next week, and this is basically the deciding transfer as to which new mission I will be serving in for the rest of my service! My companion and I have NO CLUE where either of us will end up, but we both know that wherever we go is where we are needed (again fingers crossed that I stay here in Twin).
Although this has been a wonderful week, it has also been a strengthening week of patience. Things do not always go as planned, people do not always treat us how we'd like to be treated, but as we turn our faith to the Lord, asking for strength through Him, and continually loving those that we come in contact with and seeing them in their potential - not in their weaknesses, we are able to handle these situations. Life is not easy. We know it and God knows it, but that why we have been given families, communication through prayer, scriptures and prophets to continue to guide us and help us face the challenges that we may face. When it gets too hard to stand, fall on your knees. When the news gets overwhelming, turn to the scriptures. When negative things come your way, count your blessings. The Gospel is true, the Bible and the Book of Mormon are true and written for us, and our Savior LIVES and His Atonement is at our access whenever, wherever!
I love you all! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Wightman
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