April 7, 2014 The End of Transfer 6

April 7, 2014

The End of Transfer 6

Hey Family!!

 

Wow, today is transfer calls and next week I will be starting my seventh transfer and I can hardly believe it.  I want to stay in Cheonan for a long time because we are seeing so many miracles and the Ward here is so great!!  They love us and my favorite is doing meals or activities with multiple families, it makes me feel right back at home:) 

This week we arrived at District meeting and Elder Allan, our District Leader, was doing announcements and said he would start with the big one.  He continued to say that President Shin called our Zone Leader last night and told him that since there are not as many missionaries going into the MTC, they are re-lengthening the time in the MTC to twelve weeks, so this transfer was being extended by two weeks and when I asked they said our return dates were going to be three weeks later.  I was freaking out at this point.  After a few minutes of discussion and processing it all Elder Allan says,  "April Fools!!" ahhhh, I can't believe we fell for that.  All the Elders knew so it was only the Sisters getting tricked!!    Obviously I had to do something to get them but the limited resources and time made it kind of difficult.  But I definitely filled Elder Allan's water bottle full of salt and have a good retaliation plan up my sleeve for tomorrow's District Meeting, it most definitely involves bugs:)

This week I had a really rough day on Wednesday where problem after problem with an investigator and other missionaries hit one right after another.  I went to bed really discouraged and frustrated, but prayed a lot.  The next day I decided to not dwell on the bad things and just try and move on and make the most of the situation.  Then we received some great miracles that same day.  Just a testament to me to keep going and not let Satan tear me down with the negative things.

Our big miracle that day was our grandma investigator.  Her husband and children are all members and she has been attending church with her husband for a few months.  We have been slowly working with her to teach her the lessons.  Her daughter just moved back from New Zealand and it is awesome because they are the ones giving her the push and helped us so much in teaching.  We are going to start teaching her twice a week and I think she will be able to receive Baptism really soon.  The best part was listening to her darling husband bear his testimony while we were teaching the Plan of Salvation.

This week was food overload!!  They sure feed us well here in Cheonan!! My favorite was the member who took us out to all you can eat of my favorite food, shabu shabu.  It is Vietnamese spring rolls!!  She knew it was my favorite and you should have seen how happy I was!!  But I haven't felt that full and almost sick in a long time!!  Not to mention the insane amount of sam-gyop-sar (amazing meat) we ate last night at a member’s house! I kept slowing down because I was getting full and they would say, "Are you full?  Eat more!!"  haha, I can't say no to meat!!  By the time we left about a fourth of the Ward was over at their house for dinner.  I love this Ward because it is just one big huge family!!

We just received our transfer calls and unlike the Elders lies we heard this morning, I will be staying in Cheonan and become Co-Senior again which is just what I wanted.  My companion’s name is Sister Lee ji-yoo.  We served in the same Zone so I already know her and she is an amazing person and missionary.  I am positive we are going to see so many miracles!!! 

Hope everyone has a great week, conference weekend sounded like a blast and I am dying for some abelskievers!!  Tell the Gardiners Hi!!  I love you all so much!!

-Sister Jacklin