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Dinners with members is one of my favorite things about being a missionary. They're always fun.
Actually there are too many favorite things about being a missionary. Like, I get to attend any ward party or family function that I am not invited to, and people are so excited to see us. We pretty much belong everywhere even if they don't know how I am personally. It's just because I have a cool name tag on. And suddenly where everyone's best friends! Well, when they're Mormon. It's to balance out for all the people who see your name tags and run away. But yeah, I got to help set up a wedding reception a little bit this week, and then we just dropped in to the party. It was pretty bomb.
I also really like all of the friends it's so easy to make, just with other missionaries. Because… We can't really be left out. You're always invited to things if your companion or if anybody in the district or his own is going and everyone is obligated to be nice. Cause that's what missionaries do! I like nice people. So people have actually gotten a chance to get to know me when normally I just stay to myself. But having lots and lots of fun. I love people. I'm pretty sure God sent me here so that I can make more friends.
I really love the constant companionship of the Spirit as well. I know that I received that at baptism, but on a mission you have no other focus and you're living so obediently that it's hard not to be in tune with him. Pretty much all I've ever wanted in life was to be able to speak His language and I feel like I am finally starting to get a hang of it! He has prompted me to say and do things t hat have really helped people and caused miracles and making everything I testify about feel real and truer than I thought I could ever feel.(it's cool when like I was prompted to park somewhere that would make us walk a certain place and we met a potential investigator, or He stops me from going to see someone and we are led to run into our investigator Jason, who always works and hardly ever gets to see us.) but then He sometimes tells us to do some weird things that we still aren't sure of what purpose they were for, like last night, we drove by a park full of a bunch of hoodlums playing basketball and we were late for a meeting but we really felt like we should go over there....not even to talk, and it didn't feel like just a temptation/desire to hang out with them but we got out and walked over and then felt like we'd fulfilled the purpose. I think someone just needed to see us.......I have no idea what that was about but whatever! Maybe Sister Smith and I are just crazy. Actually I'm pretty sure we are. But we have fun!! I'm just really excited all the time. If I'm ever not, then she takes over. We're a good balance with basically everything. My excitment got me prayed for again. This 17 year old guy we're helping be happy and come back to church actually prayer for me. He was praying and asked for Sister Smith to feel better because she was sick so I guess he thought he had to say something about me and all that came out was..."please bless Sister Krueger....that....she will calm down. With all of her energeticness..." And it's hard not to bust up laughing in the pray (but we know how good I am am holding that back from family pray history) and it also is hard not to be able to hit him because he's a boy and I'm a missionary. Whatevers. I love boys. I got to play some basketball for 10 ,inutes when we saw some little scouts outside as we were driving to an appointment. We inky had ten minutes but we totally beasted.
Oh!! ,y other favorite thing about missionarying. Everyone's prayers. Not just for me to calm down or for my ears to open, but that even though we come over to people's homes and spare annoying, telling them how to live their lives and crying repentance, they still always say whether they open or close with the prayer that they are grateful that the sister missionaries could come over. Every single time. Sometimes I don't really know if they're actually grateful for us, but it's always been interesting that they say so before they pray for anything else.
One of the biggest things I'm trying to focus on right now is exactly that, having charity for people. I know that that consists of doing service for them, but even though I feel like I have a gift of being able to love everyone easily, I want to have a more Christlike love. Being able to be bold and actually help them change. I just want to fulfill my purpose!!! Lol
Bah!! Favorite story of the week! Actually again with a young man of 17, we were outside and he dropped his ring into the grass. I saw exactly where it landed and ran to go grab it. We all did actually but when we went to that spot, it had disappeared. That happens to me a lot, losing things and whatnot. The kid looked all over the place for it and it was nowhere to be found. I told him that we needed to stop and pray and ask for where it was. I promised him that if we did that then we would find it immediately. He did not want to pray. He is said "no I'm good, I'm just going to retrace my steps and I'm going to find it." I laughed and said "you're not going to find it. " We looked really hard and it was nowhere. Five minutes later, I turned to sister smith and asked "sister are you ready to pray about where this ring is?" She said yes and so we stopped and prayed, this boy even laughed in the prayer because he didn't believe it would work. She finished and I open my eyes and looked down, right in the spot where he had been looking I saw the rain. It was satisfactory. I told him to use his faith. Prayer is super real!
Miiiiiracleeees. How long until the power came back on? I want a power outage! Well, I'd be happy if maybe it just rained again. It makes really cool lakes cause the ground here doesn't know how to soak up water.
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| I finally went hiking this morning!! I have been begging people to go hiking my whole mission. I don't think I've gone since I was in Peru. The hike here was a lot nicer because I was actually able to breathe due to lower altitude. But it was still really hard and I felt like I was going to die in many portions of the hike. ..... Worth itGod created such a beautiful world. I never thought that I would be one to enjoy nature but after having gone to the temple I appreciate this world so much more and I'm so grateful for things like mountains and dirt and being outside. He did a really good job making this I can't even imagine how it happened. |
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