Week 40  The Last Sacred 10 Minutes

I realized I should start titling my emails so I'm gonna start now. Anyway...talk about a good week. Also we reached halfway mark of the transfer which is weird I feel like the transfer just started! Well for normal missions the transfer would be over but its not like that over here.  Transfers are every 12 weeks, not 6. That's because there is only 6 sisters in the whole entire country. Monday, for pday, we met with the all sisters and we went to a Korean restaurant and let me tell you no matter where you go Korean food is just so good! Afterwards we were going to go bike by Lake Lisi, but they weren't renting bikes so we just chilled there and enjoyed the wind, LOL. Some good mediation if you know what I mean. Man was it beyond windy. Tuesday was amazing. We started out by knocking and then did a BOM stand at night which basically we set up a bunch of BOMs and say გამარჯობა (hello) to who ever walks by. The interested people come to you! It's my favorite way to find. Sadly we don't have the Georgian BOMs yet...so we just hope someone knows Russian and or English, we even throw a few Arabic ones on the stand. So at the BOM stand, we had about ten minutes left and we had no success until this guy comes up to us. He explained he saw us in the metro not too long ago and was interested in who we were. We explained who we where an what the BOM was and he was actually really interested! I told him we could meet and talk more about it, he was down! Made my day!! Wednesday was normal knocking found a few nice contacts. Thursday we did another BOM stand and again no success til the last 10 minutes this guy comes up and said he would look our church up online and find the BOM in his language and he literally goes to a bench near us and looks it up! Super sweet guy. We have realized that almost all our potentials come from the last 10 minutes of a BOM stand. So if you put the work in God will always give blessings no matter how late it is. Friday we cleaned the church, the president's office kinda flooded so that was fun. We did another BOM stand in a new area. We had this guy come up to us and tell us that he loves Jesus Christ, so I of course said well if you like Jesus Christ then we have the book for you! He was very interested and said he would go read it in the park. Saturday was the blitz, its where the district comes together in one area and just "finds". It was very exhausting and literally an hour after we ended we had to head to sports night with members and investigators and locals, which we played to the end of the day. That night we only had time for personal study. Man was I exhausted. Sunday was interesting. So there was some confusion...so last week since it was a fifth Sunday and the missionaries were going to teach but the Sunday school teacher thought he had to so he had prepared a lesson. So this week we thought we were suppose to teach...but it was relief society and priesthood. But we had no teacher for relief society and for the first 20 mins after sacrament we had no idea where to go. It didn't help that more than half of our members are on vacation or in the village...so we are really low on members. I think maybe 20 showed up? Very quite Sunday. We ended up just discussing this weeks reading from Come Follow Me with the young women. Well the week went by fast and I can't believe we are on for the next.

Spiritual thought: To go along with the Last Sacred 10 minutes titled, I would like to write about a talk my dad and mom sent me. It's called Bread or Stone, Understanding the God We Pray To. It talks about how God is a fourth watch God in that he will wait to the end of our trail to relieve us, because he wants us to gain the experiences that we can receive through the 1st, 2nd, and 3^rd watch of the night. I feel like the last 10 minutes were our 4th watch blessings. We went through standing, trying to talk to people, stumbling over words, and getting rejected before receiving our potential contact. I realized because of all this I was able to speak so much faster and with ease because I stumbled through it with someone else. So when you going through trials remember that God will always bless you. You just got to remember that part of the blessing IS the trail and the struggle and the gift is waiting at the end. 

Well that was the week, til next time!

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