Week 49  "Sister, I got this!"

Well this has been a week. Some good stories to tell though. So remember that visionary man I talked about last time? Well, he is back and we got some more cool stories to tell. So Sunday night, we got a call from the elders saying that mon (visionary man) said that if we go to the second floor in the Galleria (mall) tomorrow at 1 we will find a new girl to teach. Kinda crazy right? Well we did it. Elders joined us and we followed his instructions. We first ate some food and we passed by a table where a girl was sitting. Sister mafi felt that this was the girl but brushed it off and we continued down to the second floor. Well we went in some shops and when we were coming out of one we saw the same girl and we said hi. But it was kinda too awkward to do anything right then, so she went on her way. Sister mafi was like this is her, I feel it. I told her well "let's follow that feeling!" so we basically chased after her.😂 She headed to the bathroom and while we were catching up to her sister mafi turned to me, threw her water bottle at me and said "sister, I got this" and sped up and caught up to her. She talked to her and got her contact and we are meeting with her and her boyfriend this week. Man I felt like I was in a movie, talk about an adrenaline rush. This week was full with a bunch of meetings. A new member lesson and some area book people. One of the meetings the lady kept feeding me ice cream. I ate three whole ice cream bars...and man I did not feel good afterwards. But, at least it ain't sour cream sandwiches. What has been really fun is that Sister mafi has been bringing her ukelele to some meetings and it is really cool to see people soften up to music. Makes meetings so much more fun and open. We went to Rustavi this week and helped teach English to some people with down syndrome and the smiles they had on their faces when she played and sang would make anyone's day. So we are officially the traveling ukulele companionship👌. This week I learned something. So Mon ("visionary man") gave me some random advice. Elders called and said he wanted them to relay the message. Guess Mon felt that he needed to tell me to remember that our companionship, me and Sister Mafi, are one and we need to work together. He also said to beware of pride...so that got me thinking what he meant by that. I did some reflecting. I think I have been adding to my stress. I do everything sometimes because and I don't let my companion try. Good old perfectionism slapping me in the face, again. I felt with certain things that I could do it faster and better so I thought that I should just do it without even letting Sister Mafi try. Well looks like God really needed to tell me this this week because he had to get a middle man for the job. I have been doing a little better. Letting Sister Mafi do a lot more than before. Still struggling at times but hey I ain't perfect. Sunday was another dozy. I gave a talk and I was the chorister. We taught primary although there were so many Georgians and I couldn't keep up all the  English end, so I made sister Mafi teach in English in a separate room and I worked with the Georgian kids. Sorta crazy...but it was still good in the end. I translated a new primary song for them, so that made primary a little more interesting. Yeah in Georgian we don't have a lot of songs translated. So if you want a certain song you got to translate it yourself. So that is what I did👍. Well, that was basically the week, we have zone conference this week and Elder Boom (member of the 70 and a part of the mission presidency) will be coming to Georgia to address us so that will be exciting. 

Spiritual thought: well I listened to certain talk this week to uplift me. Be ye therefore perfect eventually by Elder Holland. It was on a not so good day when I felt like I was just falling short in every single way. I listened to the talk and it reminded me of what perfect really means. In Georgian, and most likely in other languages, the word perfect doesn't have the same meaning as it does in English. Perfect is სრულყოფილი in Georgian. To break it down for you non Georgian speakers: სრული means complete and ყოფნა is being. So to put those two together you will get სრულყოფილი: being complete.  So when it says be ye therefore perfect, it really means be ye therefore complete. We cant be complete in this life, nor can we be perfect and as much is that it hard to swallow at times we all know that the toughest pills to swallow are the ones that change us for the better. God didn't intend a quick magical transformation. He wanted something even better for us. He wanted a lasting change. He wanted us to be complete again, like him. So with every step you take not matter if it is two steps forward and one step back, we are all progressing. Little by little. Becoming a little more complete each day until one day we will look to Him and see that we are like Him.

Well that was the week, til next time!

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