Hello! Last mission email, can you believe it?
A lot of things happening. Our area will be closing next week--the sister's will no longer be in that area. We will be packing the apartment up this week and turing investigators over to the elders, and the zone will actually become part of the Daejon Mission from March 4. We all got the announcement a few weeks ago--this will be a part of some adjustments in missions around the world. The rest of the Seoul West Mission will be combined with the Seoul Mission as of July.
It has been sad that what we're doing won't be continued with other sisters, but the same work will go on--and will go on well. And wonderful things are still happening--the most wonderful, and the most wonderful feeling when things are directed by the Spirit.
One of my two companions, Sister Choi, had to go home this week--she left on Tuesday night. The new school year is starting, so she had to leave a little early. She had been serving in Suwon for seven months, and touched a lot of people. There was an outpouring of love towards her with her leaving. A lot of people inviting us over, a lot of people wanting to see her.
One was the councilor in one of the bishopbricks of the wards we're in. They are a stalwart family--four kids, one a returned missionary, one on a mission now; his wife teaches lessons a lot with us. He asked us to stop by and say hello at his chin bang shop--sweet buns filled with black beans and steamed. We got off the bus and wandered through a market street to find his shop--it was tiny. He fed us buns as we talked and shared favorite scriptures.
I don't know if he was saying anything in particular, but for some reason my thoughts were on Christ, filled with thoughts of Christ, and changed my mind on what I had planned on sharing, trying to find a verse that reflected what I was feeling. The best I could find in the moment was 2 Nephi 4: 20, from "Nephi's Psalm," from Nephi, who crossed an ocean, who's brothers hated him, who trusted God and did what he said: "My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep."
I had this warm feeling. I felt close to my Savior. I felt that He was with me, and I felt like He had been with me the whole time. That He had been with me through all of it. I feel guilty so often--I know I am insufficient, I know I don't make good choices sometimes, I know I don't do as much as I could or should. And I felt like He knew, and forgave me, and that it was okay.
Walking out on the street, down through that market, I felt, Christ is here, among these people. I felt connected to everyone, but not person-to-person, but because I was connected to Christ, and He knew every one of the people I was seeing on the street, on the sidewalk, on the bus. I felt love. I felt like I knew. I felt like Christ was with me.
I am grateful for my mission.
I love you all, and I'm so excited to SEE YOU SOON!
--Carrie
A lot of things happening. Our area will be closing next week--the sister's will no longer be in that area. We will be packing the apartment up this week and turing investigators over to the elders, and the zone will actually become part of the Daejon Mission from March 4. We all got the announcement a few weeks ago--this will be a part of some adjustments in missions around the world. The rest of the Seoul West Mission will be combined with the Seoul Mission as of July.
It has been sad that what we're doing won't be continued with other sisters, but the same work will go on--and will go on well. And wonderful things are still happening--the most wonderful, and the most wonderful feeling when things are directed by the Spirit.
One of my two companions, Sister Choi, had to go home this week--she left on Tuesday night. The new school year is starting, so she had to leave a little early. She had been serving in Suwon for seven months, and touched a lot of people. There was an outpouring of love towards her with her leaving. A lot of people inviting us over, a lot of people wanting to see her.
One was the councilor in one of the bishopbricks of the wards we're in. They are a stalwart family--four kids, one a returned missionary, one on a mission now; his wife teaches lessons a lot with us. He asked us to stop by and say hello at his chin bang shop--sweet buns filled with black beans and steamed. We got off the bus and wandered through a market street to find his shop--it was tiny. He fed us buns as we talked and shared favorite scriptures.
I don't know if he was saying anything in particular, but for some reason my thoughts were on Christ, filled with thoughts of Christ, and changed my mind on what I had planned on sharing, trying to find a verse that reflected what I was feeling. The best I could find in the moment was 2 Nephi 4: 20, from "Nephi's Psalm," from Nephi, who crossed an ocean, who's brothers hated him, who trusted God and did what he said: "My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep."
I had this warm feeling. I felt close to my Savior. I felt that He was with me, and I felt like He had been with me the whole time. That He had been with me through all of it. I feel guilty so often--I know I am insufficient, I know I don't make good choices sometimes, I know I don't do as much as I could or should. And I felt like He knew, and forgave me, and that it was okay.
Walking out on the street, down through that market, I felt, Christ is here, among these people. I felt connected to everyone, but not person-to-person, but because I was connected to Christ, and He knew every one of the people I was seeing on the street, on the sidewalk, on the bus. I felt love. I felt like I knew. I felt like Christ was with me.
I am grateful for my mission.
I love you all, and I'm so excited to SEE YOU SOON!
--Carrie
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