Week 45 - Back to Dickinson?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Hope you liked my click-baity email subject haha. As with most clickbait, the answer to the question is far more disappointing than you would hope. The title I thought of using was simple, bland, and would probably land straight in your archived emails. It was going to be titled "Exchanges." I know, it makes me want to gag too. Then I thought that maybe there was a funny or clever play on words involving the word exchange/exchanges, but I came up empty handed. I did, however, find this awesome quote: "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance," Robert Quillan. That has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this email, but dang it's a good quote!
So yes, exchanges. My companions are the sister training leaders, which means we exchange companions for 24 hours with other sets of sisters in our zone of the mission. Well, this is supposed to happen with each set once a transfer, and it got pushed all the way to this last week of the transfer, so it resulted in a week of death. I won't even try to explain all of what happened, but essentially over the past 10 days, I've been temporary companions with Sister Finch, Kropf, Van Hoff, Schmeichel, Astle, Fonotoe, and Jenkins. WOW. Talk about exhausting! I did get to go to Dickinson 2nd ward with Sister Astle for one of the exchanges though, so I was with my old comp in my old area and it was like HEAVEN. It had taken me the full 3 weeks to try and adjust to being in Bismarck now, but the second I was back, it felt like home in the best way possible, and now my heart is aching for it all over again. It was worth it all the same!
While there, I got to go over and visit with Ted and Angela! (The couple I got to teach while in Dickinson who chose to get baptized). It was just incredible! Angela made us more gifts; that woman has way too much charity! I now have 2 aprons and a solid 6 more masks, along with a stuffed dog and a huge candle lol. A woman some of the other Dickinson elders were teaching was also getting baptized that day, so two of the elders who helped teach her last transfer were ALSO in Dickinson. It was a full blown Dickinson reunion with all of my favorite people! It was so much fun.
ANOTHER THING: Elder and Sister Uchtdorf gave a special devotional to our mission, the Nebraska Omaha mission, and the Montana Billings mission!!!! It was absolutely incredible. My personal favorite part was at the end, Elder Uchtdorf bore his testimony, and during it he said as seriously and genuinely as I've ever heard, "I know Him. I know Him." The Spirit washed over me like a flood and bore witness to me that he is a man called of God, and that he knows our Maker and our Savior both personally.
Then, if you haven't listened to President Nelson's message of hope and healing to the world yet, I encourage you to repent and watch it immediately! Here is the link for your convenience: https://www.
Sister Balls
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