Week 53  1 Year Mark

Well it's been an interesting week. I'm officially old now, I've been a missionary for a whole year and surprisingly I kinda know what I'm doing. Woot woot! The week started off with going to Ananuri(ანანური) with the sisters. It's an old church by a lake. Super pretty. Tuesday was interesting. Remember the lady we met with that fed us super salty xachapuri? Well she contacted us and asked us to help her out with a lecture at her college. So we went. I'm not really sure what our purpose was because we really just sat there, but it was still good. We definitely bonded more. I think more than likely it was just to hype her up. She has said that every time she is with us she just feels super happy. That's the spirit! We actually met with her and her family and the elders again the following day. She expressed that she feels like God lead us to her. We of course testified that that was true. I sense potential. Our main investigator is progressing, we weren't able to meet with her one on one too much this week, but we have had daily contact. We are pushing her date back because we need a little more time to make sure we have had all the lessons before the date. We met this couple walking one day and they instantly invited us over. We went over on another day and man did they treat us like kings...queens. They fed us a ton and gifted each of us a painting that the husband made. Mine is picture of an abstract baby of sorts...he said since I am a child I should have it. So fun keepsake from a meeting. Sadly, theu live in the other missionaries area so we are passing them off to the Gildani sisters. We had a baptism this week! And guess what!? X came to the baptism! Don't know if y'all remember but she was my main investigator back when I was a trainee. I haven't seen her in a year. Man just the smell of her perfume sent me back to Christmas time last year. We talked with her for awhile and I realized how much I have changed. I remember talking to her in my training days and being so shy and having no idea what to say (this is all in English since she knows English). This time we had part of our conversation in Georgian and man am I very different than I was then. Talk about improvement! Sunday was a doozy, but I wasn't in primary. I translated for relief society and man did it go bad....no idea what they were saying. Doesn't help that the member teaching is known to talk a million miles per hour. Later in the lesson I had to correct what they were teaching because it was incorrect doctrine...yeah we don't take on the sins of our parents. Luckily that is when the gift of tongues really kicked in. 

Spiritual thought: I have done a lot of reflecting in the past few days. You know God is pretty amazing. He has a perfect plan for each and everyone one of us. He knows who we are an who we can become. That plan will, if we make the right choices, lead us to becoming the person that God wants us to become. I have seen that in my own life here. Looking back on the person I was before my my mission and now how much I have really changed. I followed the prompting to come out here and man did God deliver. He has helped me become a person who can be a missionary. If you put your trust in him he can mold you into a person you never thought you could be.

Well that was the week, til next time!

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