This week has been pretty wild, and also a ton of fun. Right now,
we're headed up to the Ape Caves for a hike- hopefully by the time we
get WiFi I'll have some fun pictures to send!
On Monday night we had an amazing Family Home Evening with the Boyd kids at the Johnsons' house! They also invited the Primary teachers of the other kids. They got along so well with the other kids who were there! And we had an amazing lesson- the Spirit was really there. The Boyd kids are amazing.
We saw Angie on Tuesday morning. She's been meeting with the
missionaries for a while. She is super sweet! We also were the Cookie
Monsters- we make cookies with Mama Hobbs (a sister in the ward) and
then drop them off at various members' houses. It's a lot of fun!
On Wednesday, we had our zone meeting which was a lot of fun. Our zone is really chill, and everyone gets along really well.We saw the Boyd kids again on Friday- they're so fun! And they came to church again on Sunday. They are just soaking everything up, and the
ward has just enveloped them and taken them in. They fit in perfectly! This ward's really good about reaching out to everyone.
Also on Friday we found out that Elder Anderson was not coming for mission conference after all- apparently there was a typhoon somewhere
and the remnants of it were headed straight for us. So we ended up actually getting told to stay in Saturday morning because it was supposed to be so bad. Well a few hours later we were told we could go out again and that the storm had changed course. It actually even got sunny! So that was our disappointing typhoon. But we did carve
pumpkins during the time that we were inside!
Sister Sitala had nevergotten to carve a pumpkin before, and she did an awesome jack-o-lantern. It was a ton of fun.
Church on Sunday was awesome! The Boyds came again and loved it. We
have 1pm church here, which is a first for me, and it's really odd
because by the time we get out of church, the day is mostly over! We
had dinner with Nasy Chan, who is a member of the ward, and some of
her family. She made some really good food- and enough of it to feed
an army! She kept bringing more out! There was stir fry, crab, rice,
salad, potstickers, Cambodian Jello and Cambodian dessert- kind of
like large coconut tapioca- and some sticky rice roll things and soda,
and there was large amounts of everything. It was so good! She sent
some home with us too.
The Ape Caves were pretty bomb today! (We are driving home right now). It was really pretty, but also really dark- I definitely did not prepare adequately for that. My lights were not very bright and one is kind of dying. So I stuck close to our group and eventually borrowed an extra light. There was one part where there was a five or six foot
ledge we had to all get up- that was fun. And lots of rocks to climb over! Then on the walk back we had to cross a river but the path was flooded so we used some trees that had fallen across. All in all, a lot of fun, and definitely tiring. A good exercise in zone unity, for sure! We have a really good zone.
On that note, the experience I had today with my lights proving inadequate reminded me of a conference talk from October 2015 by Vern
P Stanfill called "Choose The Light." In it, he told of a similar experience biking through a dark tunnel and having to temporarily rely on a friend's light.
He said "In our lives, the extended hand of the Savior may take the form of help from a trusted friend, leader, or loving parent. While we are struggling in the darkness, there is nothing wrong with relying temporarily upon the light of those who love us and have our best interests at heart." I love this quote! It was important for me, in order to be safe climbing over large rocks, to rely on the brighter lights of those around me. Similarly, when it feels like we are spiritually lost in darkness, it is important to
know that we can temporarily rely on the light of others until we get our own feet back under us. Then we can continue on our own. Once I had a light in my own hand, I could go forward more confidently and no longer needed to rely on others.
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| Sister Sitala gets two fillings! |
I love you all! Have an amazing week!
Sister Jacobs
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