Little but Mighty

Adventure of the week - TORNADO WARNING!!! To be honest, it was really anti-climactic :( It was an awesome thunderstorm though!

Zone Training Meeting was fabulous, as always. We were trained on setting goals which I am so grateful for! A great principle of missionary work, and life in general! We have been better at applying it the past week and it has made the biggest difference! It keeps us more focused and on task with a purpose in mind. And then it is so fulfilling to accomplish them! Then, with that feeling of motivation you go accomplish another one :)

Interviews with president were this week and those are always a joy :)

We also learned that we are classified as a "hard" English speaking mission. Kinda cool, right? He explained it as such, "we are in the bible belt with the Southerners, the Baptists, the Indians..... and the mountain men!" ha! I felt like he was talking about our area specifically. We have a plethora of all of that! 

Short letter this time, but it was still a great week! Keep up the work that you each are doing. I love you!

We have amazing recent converts in this branch! We had lessons with Chelsie this past week and her enthusiasm for the gospel is contagious. Every principle she treats like gold. It's so fun to teach her! She was thrilled when she got Sundays off of work so that she could come to church and take the sacrament. It was a big deal to her.
She even attends church when she is out of town because of what it means to her. She is also eagerly waiting to go to the temple.
Yesterday she, with the other YSA's in the branch, drove to Atlanta to attend a YSA ward there and she shared with us a principle that she really liked. It went hand in hand with the lesson we were teaching her: obedience. We were expanding on the quote "When obedience ceases to be an irritant and become our quest, it is in that moment that God will endow us with power." - President Benson. She said, "That's kind of like missionary work! We can do missionary work out of a feeling if obligation, but the real power comes when are actively inviting - when we see it as a privilege to do missionary work" Isn't that so true? :) what a privilege it is to be a missionary: A full-time missionary or one with a "badge painted on your heart." Find the joy that comes as we take advantage of this glorious privilege to work with God in his purpose of "bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." :)