This week has kind have felt like a blur. It was a really fast but really slow week at the same time.
So I had my first exchange as an Sister Training Leader this week. I was really nervous going into it. There is definitely a lot more pressure when you know others are looking to you to set the example. It was also a little nerve racking because the Hermana I was with, Hermana Hopkins, is in her last transfer so I felt like it should be going the other way around. I hope she was able to learn something. I know I sure learned a lot, she is an awesome misisonary! It really is humbling to serve in a leadership position. I am learning so much about Christ-like love and selfless service from it.
My companion, Hermana Sheffer is as awesome as ever. This week we felt like we had a huge break through in the work. About half way through the week we had an awesome experience with one of our less-actives. This woman is someone that I visited here in Manteca when I was first here and Hermana Sheffer has visited her over the last 7 months as well and all of it with little to no progress. We both felt like how we sometimes felt like broken records while in the lessons with her. After the lesson we had with her this week though we realized that a lot more of it may have been us than her. For whatever reason when we were talking to her this week, instead of launching into our whole church is important spiel (which for some reason we as missionaries love to do with less actives) we just started asking her different questions. It was amazing to see the change that happened in her and us as we just learned about her. For the first time since both of us have been there we received the actual reason as to why she was less active. We as missionaries had made all of these assumptions about her and why she wasn't coming to church based off of the fact that we would teach her and then nothing would change. We definitely were humbled but we came out of the lesson feeling a greater love for this Hermana and with a greater understanding of what it is we need to do to help her to gain her own testimony. It was a lesson to me on the importance of just loving God's children and not making unfounded judgments.
We also had an awesome day yesterday after we decided that we where just going to talk to people and get to know them and then just testify about what we knew. It was amazing to see the difference in people as we talked to them and to be able to feel the spirit that was there. As I shared my own gospel experience and testified of those things I could feel the spirit testifying to me that what I was sharing was true. I want all of the experiences I have with people to be like that. I know I have so much to learn still as a missionary!
I am really doing well though. Hermana Sheffer has been letting me work with her amazingly curly hair (just like your's Kylie) so I have been in heaven as far as that goes. She is just funny and so easy to get along with. We have some investigators that are really great. I get home every day and I am exhausted but I love that feeling and I love feeling that I am really helping God's children.
Well that is pretty much it for this week. I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love,
Hermana Carpenter
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