Week 56  Being Sick and Translating

Well talk about a week and a day. We have pday on a Tuesday this week since we had zone conference on a Monday...so that is why my email came out later. This week was definitely interesting started out with celebrating Y's birthday with all the sisters and M. That was a fun night. Y showed me her drawing tablet she just recently got and man did I nerd out on that. Being with the sisters and one my favorite families was so fun! We met with em a few times this week and went over the baptismal questions to evaluate and see where she is at. I was actually very surprised by her answers...she knows this is true and is willing to follow the commandments. I guess I've gotten so used having baptismal dates dropped so much that I just didn't have any faith in her. Sad I know but it's the hard truth about the mission. You work hard, but reap very few. But hey there is hope because the bom in Georgian will coming soon....don't know when but I know soon. What's actually interesting was right before that meeting I wasn't doing so hot. I was starting to get sick and right before the meeting I thought I was going to throw up, but I went and basically just left it up to god. We actually had a great meeting. This also happened on Thursday at English group. I took a small nap in the middle of the day to get some energy and then we went to English group

...I was not doing very good before English but I just pushed through it and prayed for some strength. I felt a lot better during English which is good. Friday was the official sick day.....expect we went down to Rustavi cause nail lady said she would come to their English group...she bailed last minute and so we were up there for nothing. Saturday we had a young adult activity. Just games and pizza and a ton of people showed up! I had such a blast and Y also came. Sunday was a dozy. Probably the hardest Sunday. I finally translated for sacrament. The elder that has been doing it made me do it and I only agreed if he would sit in the front row to be my cheat sheet. I actually did OK! I prayed so hard and basically was like "god you know better Georgian than I do so you gotta help me on this one". Well I also was chorister....so sacrament was just watching sister Jensen go back and forth on the stand. A lot of the members came up and thanked me and told me good job afterwards. Made it worth it. Afterwards I translated for relief society. I had made the lesson for primary but some Americans came so they needed me for translation. So sister Mafi took my lesson plan and taught primary. Monday was fun, we had zone conference and every companionship taught a part. Me and sister Mafi taught about listening and how listening helps us be a master teacher. It was actually pretty good! After that we had a baptism which was very interesting. Only the missionaries were allowed to come and his brother. He is from a country that isn't oh too fond of switching to the Christian religions let's just say...so he wanted only very close people to see his baptism. Today we are going to Rabati with all the missionaries so that will be fun. Fun pics to come!

Spiritual thought: God is amazing! Literally if you put your trust in the lord he will deliver. I was beyond nervous for translating cause I was worried i was not going to be actually able to do it. Well with a lot of prayer and realizing that I should really just put my faith in god, I did it. I kept re saying a phrase from the bible the entire time leading up to my translation which is, "oh thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt". That for some reason just really uplifts me. I seem to realize when I say it that I really have nothing to fear. Was my translation perfect no of course not, but I stood up there not nervous and was able to almost understand everything. I felt the same way with our training we did at zone conference I was nervous before but then I realized there is nothing to fear. I stood up there and my mind was clear and my voice was smooth. If I did that before my mission I would have been so nervous that I wouldn't know what to say and my voice would have shaken the entire time. So god is pretty amazing if you give him the chance to work his miracles. Cause if he changed me then I would say he is pretty dang amazing.

Well that's the week, til' next time!

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Also not really any pics this week well at least ones that i can share....sorry