It's been a long week. I can barely
remember what happened last Monday. It feels like forever ago. I went on my
first exchange on Tuesday with the sister training leaders for our zone, Sister
Bean and Sister Prior. Sister Winsor went down to Goose Creek with Sister Prior
and Sister Bean came up to Moncks Corner with me. I was really nervous about
it. I didn't feel ready to have Sister Winsor leave me. I still don't feel like
I know the area very well, or the people. Sister Winsor knows everyone pretty
well, since she's been here almost four months, but I feel like I barely know
anyone. But since I was the one who knew the area, I was going to have to be
the person who decided what we did and who we met with on the exchange. It
ended up going really well. Sister Bean is great, we got along really well. And
I really surprised myself by how well I was able to talk to people. We taught a
few older kids in the ward who were recently baptized last month, and it
actually went really well and I did most of the talking. And with other leads
and less actives that we visited I was able to do most of the talking as well.
I was surprized. The exchange was definitely a good thing. It was a huge
confidence booster for me, because it helped me understand that I can take the
lead and talk to people and decide where we should go. It gave me that push
that I'd been needing to really get that, because I'd tried to get more
involved before, but every time I'd get stuck, I'd just let Sister Winsor save
me. But then I couldn't lean on her, so I had to figure it out. So it was good.
I learned a lot and also had a lot of fun with Sister Bean.
We also had zone conference this
Friday. They combined both the Charleston zones, so there were about 40
missionaries there. It was a really inspirational meeting and Sister Winsor and
I got lots of ideas about how to be more effective that we're trying to figure
out how to use. I was also part of a couple musical numbers, which was
fun. And President Holm rode a unicycle at one point. It was a fun day.
We had dinner with a member almost
every day this past week, so I feel like I've eaten a lot of food lately.
The ward loves to feed us. Now we're just trying to get them to love giving us
referrals as much as they love giving us food. Members here are willing to come
with us to teaching appointments, but since we have so few of those what we
really need is referrals. Sister Winsor and I have a plan that we've started to
work on and we're going to start working with a couple families this week. We'll
see how it goes, it's probably going to take awhile before anything starts to
happen, but we can be persistent.
It's been raining so much down here.
Even though we didn't get a hurricane like they were predicting for awhile, we
still got a ton of rain. People are saying it's the wettest summer they can
remember. I'm happy about all the rain, it makes it cooler.
I hope you're all doing well. Thanks
for all the letters, they really mean a lot to me. I love hearing about what's
happening at home. I love you all. I'm really happy to be out
here.
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