Week 45  Goodbye Saburtalo - Hello 20's

Well, I am finally leaving my beloved Saburtalo. Half my mission is in this area so it has a special place in my heart. I am transferring to Isani which will be in the other branch, which means goodbye Temka Branch. I didn't want to leave Temka branch but I got too comfortable. God always seems to work like that. When I didn't want to train, I trained. And when I didn't want to transfer I got transferred. I will grow to love the area no doubt but it is hard saying goodbye to a good family. Man it feels like yesterday that I was freaking out about transfers because I was training. Now I have trained and I have realized that I freaked out way too much in the beginning. My dad was right, I was really the only one doubting that I couldn't do it. Thanks dad👍! We didn't really have too crazy of a week sadly. Some fun meetings but that was it. We met one guy at a Book of Mormon stand talked to him about the church and he took a Book of Mormon. Turns out he took the wrong language. He told us "it's like Arabic but then not I don't think this is right". Well he took the Persian Book of Mormon which was funny. We met up with him later and did a quick Book of Mormon exchange since we had another meeting. He instantly started to fire questions at us. Turns out he spent a lot of the night before reading our website and had a lot of questions for us. We hope to meet him next week. The other meeting we had was with the elders. We went to this lady's hostel that she has been building for students. She came to church last week and really enjoyed it. She super cool and has been trying to do a lot service projects especially for students, hence the hostel. We went over and we got a feast! It was homemade Indian food at first and then into some type of pasta. They had a potato salad of sorts and guess what was in it! Apples! Apples and mayo never would of thought of that mix. Actually it was pretty good. We ended with a tour of the hostel and carrot cake....like completely made out of carrots. Not my favorite, just interesting. Don't worry I will attach photos. Let's see...Saturday was interesting to say the least. I will make a small list:

- old lady out the window asked us to grocery shop for her. Every other word was in Russian.....don't know how I got through that convo

- possessed man on the bus. Had a full convo with himself in a monotone voice staring off into space. Talked about people and bad people......that was creepy

-watched a group of teens hype each other up to talk to us, I think they made a deal. Proceeded to ask about our badge in Russian, astonished that we knew Georgian and once they instantly knew we weren't jdubbs went off on their merry way.

Well sunday was a doozy. I spoke in sacrament and then taught primary for second hour. We also had a baptism as well! Invited an investigator and he loved it. Also this investigator gave me a Georgian bible as a gift in church. I guess he knew my birthday was coming up. That was basically the week. Today the sisters are going to an escape house because it's my birthday. Ya'll I'm 20...what the heck. I still look like I'm 15 at the end of the day so it's fine👍

Spiritually thought: Ether 12:27. Through god your weaknesses can become strengths. Truth! I feel that this transfer I have grown a lot. I went from having very little confidence in my Georgian , to Istill not really knowing Georgian but not worrying about it so much. Not saying I don't study the language but I am not worried about every sentence I say and if people correct me. I say, I make my mistakes, fix it and move on. God has thrown a lot of curve balls at me and my weaknesses always seemed to show through. But with each curve ball my reflexes started to get better and soon enough the things I thought I couldn't do I can do. I stood up at sacrament and gave a talk and for the first time I wasn't nervous. Yes, I read from a piece of paper, but my voice was clear and I wasn't uncomfortable to be up there. God has a lot of things planned for us and the weaknesses we may have now, with faith and action in him they will be made strong. We can become closer and closer to the person heavenly fathers knows that we can be if we really put your trust in him.

Well that is the week, til next time!

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