Week 69  Soup for Days

Talk about a week! Started out with a wheelchair project. Last year we did this too. We unloaded a whole truck of donated wheelchairs and man talk about a tiring day. Later went to a digital space museum with the sisters, super cool! We had exchanges this week and I was with Sister Gehring which was so fun. We met with a few members and did some finding together. We taught about the Melchizedek priesthood to a member and we had the elders with us so she could do a small "interview" with them as she called it. Also, we met with a member family here that I am in love with! Their daughters are adorable and seem to always cling to me. Turns out one of the girls gets baptized a few days after I leave which made me soooooo sad! Looks like I am face timing in! Then Thursday happened, the big day. We had the area president come for zone conference, President Golden. He is from South Africa. Awesome guy! Interesting accent. Turns out he did a stake conference in Livermore back in 2010!-hence the reason I don't remember, I was 11. He showed me a picture of him and the old stake president, President Alexander. Talk about a small world. We had a fireside that night. He actually interviewed me which I will talk about later. Weekend was chill. Currently translating the children and youth booklet into Georgian. We have a few kids qualified and I am working on having an activity where we go over the program. Sunday was chill didn't have to do anything really, for once. Yay for breaks. Though I didn't have the best day. Some days I wake up and I'm like I can speak Georgian...other days quite the opposite. I was having that day. Also didn't help that half of relief society was in Russian...so couldn't understand anyway. Although at times it was in Georgian, but my brain just couldn't figure it out. So frustrating. OK now to the reason of my title. We have been making a lot of soup recently cause it is soooooo cold and it's nice to eat. We told that to one of my favorite members and she asked if we have tried Borshe (russian cabbage soup which is literally purple) and I said once but it wasn't very good because a missionary made it. She said she would make it for us. Well, Sunday I walk into the sacrament room and she hands me a bag with a container of borshe!!! I love her so much! It was actually pretty good, so borshe, highly suggest. Transfers happen this week and as of right don't know where I am going. This is my last transfer...which is crazy to think about. I really want to stay in this branch! My favorite people are here! My last bit of time left I want to spend with these people.

Spiritual thought: I don't know how spiritual this is for others but it was spiritual for me. These past few weeks has been kinda ruff for me to be honest. I've been just pretty hard on myself and beating myself up. It's just hard when I feel Georgia deserves so much better. There is so much to do here since the church is so new so it sometimes feels like the weight of the world is on my shoulders. I want to be the best at this, but at times I only see myself failing. Anyway that's been on my mind recently. Broke down actually after a priesthood blessing which freaked the elders out😅. I got a bit better. Well, when President Golden came he wanted to interview a few missionaries and I was one of them. I told him a few of my thoughts and he just looked at me and said "stop that, stop beating yourself up". He proceeded to go on about a few things that I was thinking about. Basically a lot of things I really needed to hear. He then said he knew we needed to meet so I could end my mission without these thoughts. Also said not to think about that type of stuff for the rest of my life not just on my mission.😅  God loves me and is proud of me was the gist of it his message. I have seen in the past few weeks with having certain experiences where I can feel God saying I'm doing ok and keep going. This was the cherry on top. With that in mind I know just how much God loves his children and truly cares about them, even if it's just a good pick me up.

Well that is the week,til next time!

Forgot! It was my companions, sister mafia's, birthday!

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