Well I'm staying in Richmond Hill, at least for the next five weeks. And I'm glad because Sister Snow is now serving here! Wahoo! Best thing ever.
I'm so happy to be with a companion that is happy! I love it. This week we've worked pretty hard and have a couple of new people we are working with- so hopefully we see them start to progress and come to church. We also have had to do a lot of dirty work by calling and looking up potential investigators to set up teaching appointments.
At transfer meeting President and Sister Calderwood talked, as per usually. President spoke all about his "3 ways to success on a mission and in life".
1. The first was learning to rely on God in everything. He talked about a lot of us think we rely on him, even on missions, but don't really understand this until there is a life or death situation, like cancer. [A missionary from this mission that went home 2 transfers ago just was diagnosed with stage 4 Synovial Sarcoma. He has a soccer ball sized tumor on his side and didn't say anything about pain when he was serving. They found it a month after he got home.] President Calderwood shared how after his mission, he played college football and was going into his junior year- he was newly married with a baby and his wife just found out she was pregnant, he was in he best shape of his life- and was diagnosed with cancer found during his physical to play. He just told us how even though we think our missions are hard, much harder times are going to come in our lives and we need to learn now how to rely on the Lord.
2. The second piece of advice he gave is that "if you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves". So many people focus on their end goal, forgetting about the little things it takes to get there, and never end up achieving it. But if you focus on the small and simple things, great things are brought to pass. "The little things are what makes up your mission".- Pres. Calderwood
3. He talked all about how your attitude is everything! Which is so true. And I am not perfect at this personally. Sometimes when you're sitting at the bus stop for 40 minutes, in the cold, and weird men drive by hitting on you, it is really hard to be happy about it.. But, it does make a difference if you're able to have a sense of humor and a good attitude! He also shared how we should never let a negative thought come out of our mouths. Whoops. So, I'm trying better on being positive and not complaining!
Anyway, this week was good. I cannot believe it's Mothers Day already! See you soon family! Approximately 11:00 am, Utah Time. (1:00 pm NY time) And Happy Mothers Day to all those I won't be seeing on Sunday.
I love you! (Mostly my Mom though)
Sammy
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