The transfer happened, and my P-Day is now on Mondays! I have a new companion, and I'm training again!! Her name is Sister Honeycutt and she's from Georgia, and she's the sweetest person. I absolutely love her, and I'm super excited to be with her this transfer!
1. I love training!! Training is by far the best assignment in the whole wide world. No worries about anyone besides the people you're teaching, and your companion. I love the opportunity to be a trainer because I think it pushes me to be a better missionary - I want to be a good example, I want to be more obedient, I want to be a good companion and I want her to enjoy her mission. I remember how much I love my trainer and how much I looked up to her and was so grateful to have her, I knew she loved me - and still does - and I want that for my new missionary! I've also learned that with missionaries, there isn't much of a one size fits all method for training. Sister Ioane and Sister Honeycutt are so different from each other - it's so fun though!!
2. We had our devotional with the General Authority 70! It was seriously one of the coolest experiences of my life - the whole time I was just thinking about Jesus Christ and about He is the master-servant, and about how He did things to serve His apostles that you would think that they should be doing for Him. For example, washing their feet. During the devotional, we all walked into the room, and all of the 70 stood for us as we walked in, after the devotional, they formed a line to meet us and shake our hands - all things that I should have been doing for them! It just made me think of how Christ is, and how He instructs those that are great among us to be our servants - I could literally see and feel of their humility as we were with them. Something else I took away from the devotional, was the music- when they sang, you could feel and hear that they were not singing just to fill time or to follow the program, but that they were singing to praise God. I loved hearing them sing.
3. Merry Christmas everyone! I love the Christmas season - although I'm not converted to the whole "white Christmas" ideal - I'll take the green warm Christmas any day! I love how people act around Christmas time. I love that they want to help others and that for so many people, they want to think of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for this second Christmas on my mission, I have loved the opportunities I've had to focus on Christ during Christmas. I think that when we celebrate the birth of that baby in Bethlehem, that we need to remember to also celebrate His perfect life and resurrection, because, without those two things, He would have just been another baby.
I love you all! Merry Christmas!
--Sister Black
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