We've had a great week here on Temple Square!!
1. We've been going on a lot of exchanges this week - there are 4 missionaries (not including us) in our district, and we wanted to make sure we knew all of them, so we spent most of the week on exchanges! It was really fun getting to know all the different Sisters in our district better and understanding more of what they need and how they feel about missionary work. I definitely learned something different from each of the Sisters I was with and have a new appreciation for the value of exchanges. Something I've learned here is being better at verbally expressing the strengths of others, and being able to give constructive help for someones weaknesses. I'm certainly not perfect, but I'm a lot better now than I was before I left home haha. Truthfully though, the Sisters in our district have so many strengths, and they're all so different!! It's so fun!!
2. My first Pioneer Day!! I've never been in Utah for Pioneer Day before, and it was so fun! What a party! Temple Square was pretty empty, but the Days of '47 Parade came right down South Temple, and that's where we were! So we got see glimpses of it, and it was so cool! Some of us were laughing because of how 'Mormon' it was - floats with Book of Mormon heroes on them, a man holding the Title of Liberty dressed as Captain Moroni, and a big 'CTR' float. So cool! Definitely a contrast from the last big parade I went to which I think was back home for Mardi Gras haha. We got to go on a fun half day trip up to the This is the Place park. It's a park designed to look like an old pioneer settlement that may have existed 20 years after the arrival of the early pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley. We had a lot of fun!
3. The work progresses and we have found SO MANY new investigators online this week! Most of them are Spanish speaking, but we even found a lady living in the US who I was really struggling with because she couldn't understand me very well, and my companion looks over at her last name and says "that name comes from my tribe!" and she hopped on the line and starts speaking her tribal language and this ladies voice just lighted up and now we'll be teaching her too! How cool is that!? We're excited for the new week and for all the teaching appointments that we have tomorrow with a lot of our new people. James is doing super well, and he's now on date for September 1st! We're super excited, and really just love him so much. We were talking to him today with the local missionaries there, and they asked him a bit about how he came to know about the church and he just started talking about how he came online and how "the Sisters just threw me a lifeline and I grabbed it, I just wanted to know so bad and didn't know I'd ever be able to learn" it was so sweet, and really touched my heart.
Well, we love you all so much and we're excited for another great week here! We hope you're all doing well! I know our Savior loves us and is mindful of us in all of our different circumstances.
--Sister Black
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