Hello hello!
Its been a great and rain filled week. Campus is super dead which has been interesting, but its been fun still!
We spent every day this week walking around campus even though there were only like 5 people on campus we talked to all 5 of those people. We did alot of service for people moving in and out and we got a plant out of it! So here is a random story about plants because I really dont have many stories this week:
There is a rule on a mission that says that you cant have pets. So instead of having pets, because its not allowed... we have plants! We give them all names and then its like we have pets, but we dont. So my first one was tracy. She lives in the Troy apartment and the elders had her brother herb, who they killed 3 or 4 weeks after getting him. Then in my first Tally 1st apartment we had stuart and titus. I cant remember what kind of plant stuart was but titus was a christmas cactus and he is still alive despite the fact that we havent watered him since we moved out of that apartment 4 months ago. must be the survival instincts of the catctus in him. We also had alice who has also gone the way of all the earth because we forgot to bring her with us when we moved. So then I got transfered to tally 5th and there were 3 plants in this apartment, 2 aloes and another random plant. We named them peter james and john. because the aloes are rough in texture and the other one is smooth and james and john have beards and peter does not.... yup. were nerds. So we just got another plant from one of the people we spent forever moving out of their apartment. We had a really great conversation with The husband about god and what not and so when we asked if he needed any help he said we could come back and help them move stuff. So when we got back as a gift he gave us one of his plants. We named it after him, Jason. He picked it specifically for us because its a type of tree that has its roots showing and the roots grow really deep before you even start to get a little green showing and he thought of us because as missionaries we have to have our own roots deep in our testimony before we can spring up and support other people. I thought the symbolism was cool. Plus it goes right along with Alma 32 on faith and growing and nuturing out trees to be stong and to have deep roots. So there it is random story #1.
Random thought #2: We had to speak yesterday in church which was fun. There were a whole 40 people there including leadership and missionaries. All the students have left for the break before fall semester starts so it was like I was speaking to a branch again! Turns out I actually like speaking now. Brother smith said it would be a missionary theme... "so talk about why you came on a mission, what you've learned on your mission, something you taught on your mission..... just talk about whatever you want." haha So really we just got to pick our topics. I decided to speak about waiting on the lord and on his timing. I think for me and my mission timing was huge. It would have been great to go right out of college or right when I turned 21, but the timing was not right. I know for certain that this is where I am suppose to be RIGHT NOW because heavenly father gave me a couple "no's" before he finally said "now is your time to go". I think we all go through times like that in our lives where we come up with a great plan for life and heavenly father says... "thats great, but here is a better one for you" We have to be close enough to the spirit by doing the things that we are suppose to be doing (aka reading. praying, church and temple attendance) so that when the promptings come to do something else, we will hear and respond. That is something that requires a great deal of faith on our part. To drop our plans that have certainty and security to venture into the unknown of a plan that you dont fully understand or see the end result of. here is a quote by richard G scott that explains that thought really well (its one of my favorites) :
"As you walk to the boundary of your understanding into the twilight of uncertainty, exercising faith, you will be led to find solutions you would not obtain otherwise. With even your strongest faith, God will not always reward you immediately according to your desires. Rather, God will respond with what in His eternal plan is best for you, when it will yield the greatest advantage. Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. That causes your faith to increase and your character to grow." (this is from the talk The transforming power of faith and character. Go read it!)
I know that that is true that its in the hard times where we put all our trust in God that we grow the very most. He will never force us to do anything, he will only invite us and prompt us, and it us up to us to follow his will and the way we come to know his will is by communicating with him often and developing a relationship with him.
Well, I hope you all have a great week and that you find something to laugh at every day. Its good for the soul.
I love you all!
Sister Webb
There is a rule on a mission that says that you cant have pets. So instead of having pets, because its not allowed... we have plants! We give them all names and then its like we have pets, but we dont. So my first one was tracy. She lives in the Troy apartment and the elders had her brother herb, who they killed 3 or 4 weeks after getting him. Then in my first Tally 1st apartment we had stuart and titus. I cant remember what kind of plant stuart was but titus was a christmas cactus and he is still alive despite the fact that we havent watered him since we moved out of that apartment 4 months ago. must be the survival instincts of the catctus in him. We also had alice who has also gone the way of all the earth because we forgot to bring her with us when we moved. So then I got transfered to tally 5th and there were 3 plants in this apartment, 2 aloes and another random plant. We named them peter james and john. because the aloes are rough in texture and the other one is smooth and james and john have beards and peter does not.... yup. were nerds. So we just got another plant from one of the people we spent forever moving out of their apartment. We had a really great conversation with The husband about god and what not and so when we asked if he needed any help he said we could come back and help them move stuff. So when we got back as a gift he gave us one of his plants. We named it after him, Jason. He picked it specifically for us because its a type of tree that has its roots showing and the roots grow really deep before you even start to get a little green showing and he thought of us because as missionaries we have to have our own roots deep in our testimony before we can spring up and support other people. I thought the symbolism was cool. Plus it goes right along with Alma 32 on faith and growing and nuturing out trees to be stong and to have deep roots. So there it is random story #1.
Random thought #2: We had to speak yesterday in church which was fun. There were a whole 40 people there including leadership and missionaries. All the students have left for the break before fall semester starts so it was like I was speaking to a branch again! Turns out I actually like speaking now. Brother smith said it would be a missionary theme... "so talk about why you came on a mission, what you've learned on your mission, something you taught on your mission..... just talk about whatever you want." haha So really we just got to pick our topics. I decided to speak about waiting on the lord and on his timing. I think for me and my mission timing was huge. It would have been great to go right out of college or right when I turned 21, but the timing was not right. I know for certain that this is where I am suppose to be RIGHT NOW because heavenly father gave me a couple "no's" before he finally said "now is your time to go". I think we all go through times like that in our lives where we come up with a great plan for life and heavenly father says... "thats great, but here is a better one for you" We have to be close enough to the spirit by doing the things that we are suppose to be doing (aka reading. praying, church and temple attendance) so that when the promptings come to do something else, we will hear and respond. That is something that requires a great deal of faith on our part. To drop our plans that have certainty and security to venture into the unknown of a plan that you dont fully understand or see the end result of. here is a quote by richard G scott that explains that thought really well (its one of my favorites) :
"As you walk to the boundary of your understanding into the twilight of uncertainty, exercising faith, you will be led to find solutions you would not obtain otherwise. With even your strongest faith, God will not always reward you immediately according to your desires. Rather, God will respond with what in His eternal plan is best for you, when it will yield the greatest advantage. Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. That causes your faith to increase and your character to grow." (this is from the talk The transforming power of faith and character. Go read it!)
I know that that is true that its in the hard times where we put all our trust in God that we grow the very most. He will never force us to do anything, he will only invite us and prompt us, and it us up to us to follow his will and the way we come to know his will is by communicating with him often and developing a relationship with him.
Well, I hope you all have a great week and that you find something to laugh at every day. Its good for the soul.
I love you all!
Sister Webb
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