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| Institute of Religion/Young Adult Ward |
Dear Family and Friends,
I'll see you on Thursday!
k love ya bye!!!
love,
Sister Wuehler
...just kidding, I will tell you about my week first!
It's been a crazy week! We haven't found out what's going to happen with
Sister Hart up here yet, but we are assuming she will join in with Sister
Poudrier and Clark. We are going to the Fair just after this. (emailing) My flight is to
Anchorage tomorrow afternoon (alone!! without any companion) and I have a red eye Wednesday night/ Thursday
morning. It is all I can do to push through all the questions about everything I
will be doing when I get home. It is good that they want to know, I just am
trying to be HERE as long as possible. I hate goodbyes! (gets home 9:27 Thursday morning at Oakland airport!!!)
We helped with the pig farm this week. This time to bring the momma pig and
her piglets. I thought she would get the chance to bite someone or something,
but they got the piglets out from around her, let her see the last piglet, then
she just walked into the trailer.
We finished my last weekly planning all in one sitting- that hasn't
happened in a while...
By the way, we tried southeast crab this week- (a sister) made us crab salads,
we also had Alaskan halibut another night- I will miss Alaskan fish! You haven't
tried fish until you've gotten it here! Or Alaskan meat- all genuine if you meet
the right people. Sister Hart took me one night to dinner at Loose Moose- when
is the next time we will be able to have buffalo burgers? haha... it's also
pretty great because she mixes her own fry sauce everywhere she goes!
A few cool experiences this week were one with a guy who promised the
Elders he would come back to church. He realized he needed to come back, and we
visited him only a couple of days after he made that promise. When we shared
Alma 7:11 with him, you could hear that he loved that scripture. He practically
recited it as we read it. He told a story from his mission where he knew that he
was sent to help this man who had cancer and was diagnosed to only live a few
more months. He couldn't speak much, but he could clearly communicate- he wanted
to be baptized, and he got to hear the gospel before he passed away, and was
able to be baptized.
Our Chinese investigator read Alma 32, and said it was an answer to his prayer. He prayed last week when he was fishing that he could
get fish, and you know what, he did, but he had to toss them back. He said he
wants to start praying more often.
We were able to teach our investigator who is going to get baptized this
week. We all agreed that it would be good to move it forward a little,
but she is moving to Anchorage soon. She told us what baptism means to her and
talked about how she can start again, but as we were talking, you could just
feel the way she loves the spirit, she knows its true, and she is preparing
herself, and that is how I know that she is ready. As she continues, she will
come to understand more and more how important and vital the Gospel is, and as
that deepens, I can't wait to see her grow. So lucky me, I get to keep in contact
with the wonderful people here in Alaska. The Lord loves them! So do I!
We got to have dinner with the Hulls this week! I just love them!!! They
just told story after story- it was so great, but she told us about one of her
favorite books that's out of print- it's called "The Myth of Self Esteem." She
was talking about how so much of what we do to build up ourselves and others is
to compliment and talk about ourselves. The true thing is, the only one we need
to please is the Lord, and if we give everything to the Lord, we have that
confidence we need to move forward, because it is him who truly defined our
worth when he gave us the blessings and sacrifice of the atonement. All he asks
is that we give our shortcomings, sins, weaknesses etc that easily beset us, not
just the things that are easy to give.
We met a woman this week while trying to find her daughter who invited us
to talk with her. She hasn't been to church in a long while, since she's been up
here, is divorced, and she is a sweetheart. We talked with her for a while and
got to know her. She seems quite lonely. When we offered to share a message, she
accepted and I turned to 2 Nephi 4. A thought came to mind and what I said after
that weren't my own words. In the verses before 2 Nephi 4:20, Nephi is talking
about how wonderful his God is, and the support he gives him, but goes on to say
how wretched he is, how weak, and how easy it is to fall. But he says that God
was his support in the wilderness. Right now, I am in wilderness. He has been my
support, and that message was for her, but it was just as much for me as it was
for her.
I feel like leaving will be like ripping off a band aid, the pain comes a
little here and there, but I think I will feel it very soon. I don't need to
focus on that right now though. It feels like I still have ages to go. Sister
Hart is awesome!!! I am so happy to end my mission with her. It's crazy how
often we say the same thing at almost exactly the same time, or just can't stop
laughing, which happens a lot! We were so tired this week and one night we were
passing by this place called Bun on the Run that we had gotten lunch at once,
talking about how the dijon mustard is gross, but in our slurs it came out
"dijon is di...gross!" man i love her. I have been blessed with
companions!
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I bore my testimony at church yesterday- it's hard to make it through that
last Sunday. Everything comes back to how much our Savior loves us, that the
Atonement is real and that it is a gift from him so we can return to him one
day. The Atonement is for us all, and there is nothing greater than helping
someone to have it in their life. My mission has brought me closer to my Savior,
to see who he really is, what he thinks of me, and of all of us. He is my best
friend. You need nothing to qualify for his love. It is always there, and that
is why we should reach out to the people around it who need to understand it
most. I'll take this name tag off next week, but Heavenly Father will still
reach out to his children. I know that's true.
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Wuehler, for the last time
Scripture: 2 Nephi 9:41 (he employs no servant there, it is Christ)
41 O then, my beloved brethren, acome unto the Lord, the Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the bway for man is cnarrow, but it lieth in a straight course before him, and the keeper of the dgate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name.
4:20
20 My God hath been my asupport; he hath led me through mine bafflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.
ism: "Fall down 9 times, get up 10"
"live in a way that those who don't know Christ but know you will want to
know Christ because they know you" -Sharon
"We believe in being honest, true, chased by an elephant?!?"
There was a sister we were hoping to meet that we finally met this week-
some past missionaries wrote "nasa child" by her name. We finally met her and
were wondering why on earth she had that there! As we drove to our next
appointment it hit us that it really meant HAS a child!
