Week 33  I'm Training!!

So what is so cool about the email I am writing right now is that I am doing it from my new phone! Which means...I am not at a greasy internet cafe. Halelujia! Monday started out with a bang. We did service altogether, all the missionaries, by unloading a gigantic truck full of donated wheelchairs from the church to a charity fund here in Georgia. I got a pretty dang good work out that day. Afterwards we went and shopped to find some more summer dresses because summer here is very hot and when you walk all day it just feels like you are swimming through air. It's already so hot and its only spring. All the missionaries keep telling me to buckle up because I haven't even experienced the worst yet. Monday night sister Arutyunova got a haircut...which turned out very badly. The lady cut her hair very interestingly and sister Arutyunova did not like it. I had to cut it a few days later which was so fun and nerve racking all at the same time. Turned out well so we are good. Tuesday was interesting. We got our phones that day and to hold a smartphone again and to call it yours was so weird. Talk about a flash to the past. I have somewhat gotten used to it again, but I'm trying not to go back to old habits of the phone. I have wasted a lot of time on my phone before my mission...wasting countless hours on it.....yeah I hate to admit that (my parents are probably thinking "I told you so" as they read this) I don't want to go back to old habits especially now since I am not only on the Lord's time but also we don't have a lot of extra time to spare. 

Tuesday we went to Korean for lunch. There is a small Korean restaurant a few metro stops away that we love. Kinda small but amazing. Some kpop music played in the background and it through me back to old times, surprised that I knew most the songs played. After Korean we had to go home because my neck and the back of head hurt really bad. I think I tweaked it on Monday. Not from the service because I started to feel the neck pain even before the service. I laid down for a bit and when I started to feel a little better we went and saw an inactive member and dropped some banana bread off. Wednesday we finished a project we have been working on for the church which was so great. After getting everything printed off, I again had to go lay down because of my neck, but luckily the pain wasn't as bad as before. That night we went to go see a former investigator. She lives pretty far from the church and it took a long "marshutka" ride to get there. I have to say that drive just reminded of how crazy it is that I am a missionary in Georgia. I mean I basically live in the middle east speaking a very weird language! How did I even get here! Crazy where the Lord needs you at times, and for me it just happened to be on this side of the world. Thursday my neck was a lot better, some good rest and putting a heat pack on it really helped. So don't worry I am ok! We planned and then did some finding with the Delisi Elders for a bit. We then came back to the apartment to wait for our plumber guy to show up and fix our water heater...he came too late. We ended up having to leave. We had a meeting that night with some members. There is an American family who have been living here for about 2 months for travel. Super cool family. Their son got to live with one of our members out in a village for a bit and I am soooooo jealous. Friday was okay we tried to stop by and see a member but he wasn't home nor was our backup plan so we went street contacted. We had games and I learned another fun game that I can add to my list of card games. I guess I forgot to mention but this week is a focus week. So we were given 10 challenges to do this week and if we do 7/10 we get a prize. So during this week we worked on it. Saturday was interesting. Our plumber guy came to fix our water heater because the wire melted...while fixing that he had to use the shower cord so he unscrewed it and took it to the kitchen. Well when he put it back he put it in wrong and damaged the shower. So now our shower is broken. So most of Saturday was dedicated to that being fixed. Sports night was so fun as usual. Frisbee for 2 hours straight woot woot! Sunday...was a doozy, church was good. We taught primary which was fun. Then we got transfer calls...we have 6 sisters in Georgia and we are getting 2 new sisters and 2 are going home. So 2 companionship will be in training and 1 companionship will be sister training leaders...so this transfer every companionship is doing something. I didn't want to train but God knows my weaknesses pretty dang well...so I am training next transfer in Saburtalo and to be honest I am pretty dang scared. I am definitely excited but also scared.  This transfer is going to push me a lot, but I guess I need that. So wish me luck and pray for me, I'm going to need it. We actually got transfer calls at M and Ys house so that was interesting. We explained the process to her and she was sad and cried about it. She is good now though. We told her we aren't going away permanently. That was the week. A lot happened and a lot will happen next transfer. I still can't believe I am training! I don't know my trainee yet but pictures to come this week. 

Spiritual thought: I heard this super cool thing about the word perfect and integrity this week. So the word perfect actually comes from the Greek word for complete. So when you read the scripture "be ye there for perfect as I am" it actually is "be ye therefore complete as I am". The meaning of that scripture almost changes completely, well at least in my opinion. No using the the word complete...to strive to be complete is to have integrity and while integrity is indeed being honest, honesty is only an aspect of integrity. Integrity is staying the same in any situation, that you don't change depending on the people, place and/or thing. Which being the same in every situation and adding on other Christ like attributes is being complete. Hopefully that all made sense, it does at least in my mind. Now that I know this I want to start switching the word for perfect with complete in the scriptures and see what I learn.

Well that was the week, until next time!

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