Week 63  Saying Goodbye

This was a little bit of a sad week. Well, at least the ending. One of our elders has been sent home due to health reasons. There is a chance he can return after his operation...but there is no guarantee. It came to shock to all of us really. On to the more happy part of the week...it has been kinda of a crazy week. We had a wedding dinner with some investigators. Meetings with members. We had an FHE activity hosted by our senior missionaries which was fun. We did a whiteboard activity that same day and it was great! We invited a ton of people to church and I had some great conversations about Christmas with people. I felt like such an old missionary though cause it was just us sisters and I was the only one experienced on how to do it. We took the white board by taxi, and wow talk about a weird moment. Ya'll I'm old. I mean I am the oldest sister here so its true, but sometimes I just forget that though. We learned a Georgian Christmas song! We asked one of our contacts to teach our district a Georgia Christmas song and it was so fun. And then he came to church this Sunday...so that was dope. He lives not in our area so we are gonna have to do a pass off. Friday was AMAZING! "M" got baptized!!!!! I gave a talk at the baptism. I wanted to do something special for it so I learned how to bare my testimony in Persian. Only a few sentences but I did it. I had asked a friend of ours to translate it for me and basically my lunch hour was learning it. Listening to the same recording and trying to mimic the sounds. I was nervous about my talk for some reason, but I went up and I was fine. What was cool though was that although I had a talk completely written out, I didn't even look at it. I just went up and started to speak. I had the same structure, but I didn't read off anything! Talk about progress man. For those that went to my farewell talk, this was quit an improvement; from literally dying on the stage to this. I've changed a lot. One of the sisters later in the baptism said that I was glowing. Man, I was so happy that day so it made sense. We had another baptism on Saturday which was great. In my entire mission there has never been two baptisms in a single week. So miracles! Sunday was cute. We got together as a district and made crepes for dinner to say goodbye to the elder that was leaving. It's sad to see family go especially on such unfortunate terms. I do hope that he comes back. Today we are going have a relief society activity so that will be fun! And then later go to m and y's so...yay!

Spiritual thought: I memorized a scripture recently in Georgian. Its Mosiah 16: 9. It talks about how Christ is a light that can never be put out and oh how true that is. Because of him our lives have light and we can truly hope for a better world.

Til next time!

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