EB Mission Blog: I love you all, and most importantly....God loves you the most. ❤️

Dear Family and Friends,

So first of all, so everyone knows.....my pday for next week will be this Saturday, the 28th of Jan. So if you want me to email you for next week, email me before then :) the reason for that is.....next week (from Jan 30 to Feb 5) is our 100 hour work week. And it is going to be crazy. So please pray we stay awake haha. We will be waking up at 5, we will be out of the flat from 7:30am-9:30pm every day and it will be nuts. I'm so excited. Poor sister Chen thinks I am nuts (which I am, but hey ho) but miracles are gonna happen.

Welcome to my weekly email....and some quotes from sister Chen! (And some from sis smith)

"Look at my eyes and tell me that again!" - sister Chen (to our ward mission leader....)

"Lets go ladies!!!" - sister chen (whilst skipping out the door)

"I worry if my husband don't like me, he won't marry me" - sister Chen

"My boyfriend don't know I am like this in my private life hahahaha" - sister Chen

"How do we breathe the breathe?" - sister Chen

"If you ever send me a puzzle for my birthday, I'll write you hate mail" - sister smith

This week has been insane. And also the most successful week of my entire mission thus far. It has been SO GOOD. So many miracles. So many member splits. So many lessons taught. Oh happy days

sis Chen and I are sad cause sister Smith will be leaving during this week but it's OK, we will still work our butts off and just see her in a couple weeks at zone meeting. But anyways!

Here's a quick bullet point list of miracles/funny moments

we got in contact with Helena and she is super pumped for her baptism on the 11th
Xavier is rocking it and loves the gospel and remembers everything and should get baptised during our 100 hour week!
We found 10 new investigators this week. 10!!!!
It was a zone challenge week and we killed it and did all the challenges 🏻🏼no clue why we didn't win but....yeah. Our district won at least. so that means the ZL's have to drive all the way to Peterborough and give us all lunch. Oh happy days!
Sister Chen had "dancing bowels" and we were stuck in the flat for a day
I knocked 200 doors in 2 hours with a member.
We went district finding and found the most English house to ever exist. (A Pic will be sent)
I got to call Sister Sharp on her year mark (which makes me feel so old 🏻) and that was such a happy thing. I love sister Sharp.
Sister Chen had her birthday and it was full of miracles and she is now 21!!! I baked her a cake cause no one had ever done that before, and we ate like the whole thing. Perks of the birthday
We taught 6 solid lessons within 1 1/2 hours. Miracles.

That's all I can remember at this point but it was an insane week of miracles and happiness and I am so happy.

During my studies this week I've been focusing a lot on one certain scripture, in the new testament. It's Mark 12:30-31

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

I feel like as I've been serving here I have learned so much more how important this is to me. I love God. I really love Him. It's not a perfect love cause I am so imperfect, but I try my best to show my love by exact obedience. And as I serve and show my love for God, the second commandment seems to come naturally. I learn to love my neighbours as myself. I feel that as we do our best to love God and to serve him daily, he let's us see just in a small way how he loves those around us and let's us feel a portion of that love for them. And that is something that I am so grateful for. Even when people reject us, I just love them. I know that no matter what, they are gods children and if I've tried to serve them in some way, maybe they will feel gods love coming from me. And I love sharing gods love. :)

I love you all, and most importantly....God loves you the most.

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