Oh man this week was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So to answer your questions Mama yes I am learning my responsibilities. I had a meeting with Sister M. and also talked with President M.! Yes I will travel to go and help the Sisters in their areas BUT this transfer I did that at Zone Conference because I can’t leave Sister S. (my temp) in charge of the area… So something cool is President M. asked me to also be the STL for the Suriname sisters which means I get to stay in close contact with Sister K. (the cute sister I trained 2 transfers ago) and help her!!!! When I called her she screamed and was so happy. So was I. But with them the flights would take to long so I will just be skyping them and calling them weekly. While we were in St. V. I got to have some quality time with those wonderful sisters and I interviewed one of them and gave her some encouragement because she was feeling sad. It’s amazing how I feel the Lord strengthening me by giving me more responsibility.. I actually literally feel stronger and more able to handle things than I did last transfer.

There is awesome quote that I read that says “Do not give me tasks equal to my strength but give me strength equal to my tasks” I thought that was inspiring especially at this time 🙂 I am honestly and truly doing so good! I am loving life and no way am I getting worn out from training. If the Lord requires it I will do it for the whole rest of my mission! Sister S. is doing really well! The first few days the people were not being very nice to her. But she is warming up and we are practicing teaching skills and I am doing my best to help her. She is very willing to learn and will soak in everything I say. She is such a goober sometimes but so much fun! I have learned a lot from her already.

The branch is doing well. We are just building up the branch still right now!  Things are looking up. I am glad we have the senior couple to help 🙂

To answer your question about the root of sin: I would say that the root of sin could be any number of things lack of self control, lack of confidence, pride but what it really comes down to is it’s a lack of faith. Not trusting that God bless you for obedience. People here will always say “I don’t want to back slide after I get baptized” and my answer is always simply “then don’t!” Don’t back slide, don’t choose to sin and give Satan power over your life. That is something we have to remember is that we always have a choice… ALWAYS! Satan only has as much power as we give him. We have to keep that eternal trust and perspective that God has given us to withstand temptations. Yes of course we will fall short sometimes but if we live gospel to the best of our abilities we will always have the spirit with us which will warn us of temptation and sin. Anyway I could go on for hours about that 🙂 There is a quote by one of the apostles that says “we never need feel we are alone or unloved in the service of God because we never are” Yes there will be trials but often times those come from our Loving Father in Heaven to bless us and strengthen and test us.

Alright Mommy thanks for all your love and all that you do for me.

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you!!!!!

Dad: I am glad to hear that Murph (the car) is doing great and you are taking care of him! I know what story you are talking about! (The Donut Story) I love that one. It’s a good explanation for the atonement. Keep up that garden! You are the best. LOVE YOU!

Anyway you are all amazing and sure do love and admire you all.

Thanks for everything. I hope you have a great week and go out and set good examples for everyone around you!

Love, Sister Emily 😉