Week #55: Transfers

We got transfer news this week, and we are both staying another transfer! It's a new record for both of us- we've never had a companion for three transfers. So it will be awesome. It's going to be a transfer of miracles! Also a transfer of a lot of whitewashes (where two missionaries are both put in a new area). Most of our zone is leaving, and we're down two sets of sisters- they're putting them somewhere else!

As for this week, it was pretty awesome! OMSI on Monday was a blast.  On Tuesday we had lunch with Sister Dover because she had some Thai eggplant that she wanted to try (they looked like golf ball sized watermelons) so she made us a curry and some sausage, and it was really good!







On Wednesday, we went out to our car (we'd parked on the street- our apt gets one parking space so we alternate nights) and our car had been egged! I think it was just some kids driving through the neighborhood, not intentionally to our car. So we had districtmeeting, and then spent a lot of time trying to get the egg off our car (unfortunately it was pretty dry by then). We learned that egg
takes off the finish pretty quick. So it's mostly gone now, but if you
know what to look for, it's still visible.

On Thursday we went to Snow Cap and we met someone from Germany who is
here volunteering! She was super nice. And on Friday we saw Sister
Staples- she is way cool. We had a good conversation with her and she
said she'd be at church on Sunday!

Saturday was our day of service- not intentionally! But someone in the
Kelly Creek Ward needed help weeding their backyard, and then someone
else needed help moving in. And we had a lunch with all the sisters in
the zone and went over some policies and stuff.

Church on Sunday was awesome! In Gospel Principles, we talked about prophets and Brother Beckman, our teacher, did a cool illustration of the pride cycle- I'll take a picture of it and put it below. The thing that stuck out to me from the lesson and everything we talked about was how most of the misfortune and evil that happens in our lives is self inflicted- not all of it, but a lot. On the Book of Mormon it's especially visible- when the people are prideful and reject God, bad
things happen to them, often as a result of their own actions and because they lack divine assistance due to their own refusal to accept it. The pride cycle is something that happens in each of our lives- I know it happens in mine. And my goal is to spend less and less time in self destruction and more and more time trusting in God and having faith that things will be okay. And some days it is really hard! But that's the point of mortal life. That's how I've learned. I'm nowhere near done learning, but I can honestly say I'm a lot farther than I was before, and that means I'm doing alright and I can keep pressing forward.


Don't forget to cheer yourselves on this week! Love you all!
Sister Jacobs