This week has been a real good one, its getting a whole lot colder. Although, every time I talk about it being cold to someone on the subway or to someone we're teaching they say something like, "oh baby girl, it ain't even cold yet. Just you wait" hahaha It finally snowed enough to actually cover everything on Sunday night. And walking around NYC in the snow was a dream.
The members of our ward are seriously the sweetest ever. I think I got real lucky for my first ward so hopefully the rest are this great. They love doing missionary work, help our investigators feel welcome when they come to church and activities, and they love feeding us!
We also visited an investigator her name is Samantha on Sunday. I hadn't had a lesson with her yet because she is never available. But we were able to stop by. We helped her put away some dishes and do a little service around her house and she loved that!! Then we showed her and her 2 grand kids the Christmas initiative video. Its amazing how powerful a video can be and how it invites the spirit and can entirely change the feeling in someone's home.
On Monday, I went on my first split with Sister Evans and she is serving down at the bottom of the island so it was cool to get to go down there and see another part of New York City. On Tuesday morning, Sister Evans and I went to do service at a member's home and it was amazing. We just helped her clean and organize things and she shared her conversion story with us. The best part of being a missionary is all the incredible people I have been able to meet and the love you grow for them so fast!
Other than that, our days are filled with other lessons, finding new people- talking to strangers on the subways and street contacting. Its always a good time. We show the Christmas Initiative video outside of the temple each day and have hour and a half shifts as companionships and I have met a couple members out there who know people from the stake at home. Its super crazy and makes you realize how its such a small world!
Each week I like to study a Christlike attribute, this week was patience.
As I studied, for me I was focused more on how patience can bless me as a missionary. Whether it's being patient with learning things, becoming adjusted, investigators and their progress and understanding, lots of different things. I've realized how over and over in The Book of Mormon it says how the people bore with patience the persecutions and afflictions which were brought upon them. We too have trials and hard things, but if learn to trust in God- that he really does have a plan and a purpose, we can come to know of his will for us and we can receive many blessings for being patient and enduring the hard things that we experience in life. I love the promise in Alma 32:41-43. and I love you all.
As I studied, for me I was focused more on how patience can bless me as a missionary. Whether it's being patient with learning things, becoming adjusted, investigators and their progress and understanding, lots of different things. I've realized how over and over in The Book of Mormon it says how the people bore with patience the persecutions and afflictions which were brought upon them. We too have trials and hard things, but if learn to trust in God- that he really does have a plan and a purpose, we can come to know of his will for us and we can receive many blessings for being patient and enduring the hard things that we experience in life. I love the promise in Alma 32:41-43. and I love you all.
xoxo
Sister Walecki
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| Snowing right outside the temple! |
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| Just too happy because SNOW and it wasn't so cold! |
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They have the cutest tree stands set up on the sidewalks and the night it was snowing, all the
trees were just too cute to walk past without a picture.
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| Dinner with Sister Evans on the split. |
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| Here's a picture of our district after a district meeting a couple of weeks ago! |
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