Dear Family and Friends,
So, I am being transferred, and to a YSA ward! In the coldest place!
Fairbanks!! eeeee! Surprisingly this wasn't the thing that I first thought of
when I got the call on Friday night that I was going there. I will be companions
with Sister Sherwood who just finished the 12 week training, that'll be fun-
people rave about this ward so I am excited to see more. Also the fact that it
covers up to Barrow...technically... not really, just all those in Fairbanks
zone in our reach, but Barrow is in that zone! (Note: Barrow is the northernest town in Alaska...and the coldest!)
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| Zone Lunch - Monday, February 4, 2013 |
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| Saying Goodbye to Sister Chan. |
To begin, the week started off crazy, with two missionaries walking into a
bar... How EMBARRASING! We went to this restaurant on Monday night to meet our
dinner appointment, and it had two different doors between the restaurant and the
bar. Totally missed that piece of info. Anyways I thought it was funny and
ironic. We left as soon as the color left our faces in shock and we laughed about
it over the hours and hours that followed. It's all good guys.
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| Sister Wuehler and Sister Hatfield --just themselves!! |
We were invited afterwards to go to Family home evening at our ward mission
leaders house with his family and a recent convert and her family. We had a
lesson; then we frosted cookies. Let me tell you, I hate most sugar cookies, but I
frosted 4- they were way too much fun and we got too creative with them. The next day we helped the woman who we make cookies with
make 520 heart shaped sugar cookies for February! I am cookied out, but her
thought this month to go along with them was interesting... A lot of our week
was spent in saying goodbye and tying up loose ends with different situations,
doing service, and many meetings-- sister H will still be in the
area though.
There's a priest who is leaving on his mission soon who was out of town
when we went to dinner at his house, but he is always really quiet and
awkward when we are around and his mom will slightly tease him for it. His mom
and dad told us this time that he was glad to not be around us this time because
he said that he didn't want to be attracted to sister missionaries because it's
like being attracted to nuns! We are not nuns! haha we all had a good laugh
because that had never occured to me- weird.
So Sister Hatfield turned to me this week and said, "remember how we high
fived in the mothers lounge" So for the Bush branch, we call into a conference
call for church, which is right before Rabbit Creeks' Sacrament Meeting, and the
quietest place is in the mothers lounge with the comfy chairs. A recent convert
we had been teaching called into church and we were so excited because she
hadn't before- I think I said that last week, anyways, we high fived. It was
funny, probably had to be there, I just wanted to remember that thought one day.
haha.
We finished MANY binders for new missionaries this week, planned for a
training the sisters were giving for zone meeting on Friday, and helped out a
little bit around the mission home while they were crazy with transfers and were
hiding from everyone. They had a hard time planning it, but when they were
finally done they were so tired, but Sister B. tried to get President to read
the roster over polycom to a beat at 6:30 a.m. in the most ridiculous way and
President said, "In our happenings for the day, I think we lost Sister
Beesley."
We had a fireside this week and Elder Christensen of the Seventy came to
speak to all missionaries, bishoprics, ward missionaries... He talked a lot
about how the Lord has prepared everything to hasten his work, I don't have much
time to list it all out, but all has come together to begin that haste. Israel
is being gathered constantly, it is now being hastened, and the Lord has his
hands in that. Just look at how many more missionaries are out--it went from
58,000 to 110,000. That is only one thing- Pres. Beesley said, "We see the Lord
has already done all the heavy lifting, we just have to open our eyes." The
Lord, quite obviously can do his own work, but desires us in it; it is the only
way we can experience anything and strengthen one another as brothers and
sisters. This is a great work and I am blessed to be here.
We had a face to face lesson yesterday with a man from the Bush Branch who
has now become an investigato. He has had background in the church and wants to
be baptized- it was so neat but our time this week has been nuts- we have given
up many lunches and had a fireside that Sis H had to sing at in Eagle River, called
The Love of God- it was good, but so crazy with saying goodbye and all and MAJOR
COLDS that made it hard to sleep and plenty of tears.
Love you all! have a grweeat week!!!!
Shout out to Dad: Congrats dad on becoming bishop- make sure you take time
to get sleep!
Love,
Sister Wuehler
Scripture: Matt 6:21-24
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine aeye be bsingle, thy whole body shall be full of clight.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that adarkness!
24 ¶aNo man can bserve two cmasters: for either he will dhate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and emammon.
isms: "Laundry is an eternal principle, nothing in life is more consistent,
it's job security!" --Sister Johnson
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| Tuffie and Elvie, the silver Yorkie, and his pet fish that he protects and watches!! |
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