What an eventful week! The pictures of the lake that Dad sent me were so beautiful, I got a little bit of lake longing from it haha! It's like you got to go on a mini vacation. I even remember that cute malt shop in Duluth, they have great ice cream! I am convinced that Germany has the best ice cream though. Just sayin 💁♀️
Awhh I would love a voice recording from you and Tanner, that would make my whole week :)
Also, thanks for the little picture quote you sent me this week! I drew it and hung it up on my wall. I've been thinking about that a bit this week. How can I be happier with myself? How can I feel really good about the work I'm doing? The answer came pretty simply, the same words President Hinckley's father wrote to him: forget yourself and go to work. Sometimes it's hard because I want members to love me and know I'm there for them and I want to make the big difference in the lives of the people we teach, but the reality is it's really not about me. It doesn't matter if I see these people baptized or not (I worry about getting transferred), but it's all about focusing on others and forgetting my own worries.
The next thing I'm trying to work on is to let others shine. Ideas come to my mind and I feel good about them and share them and want to make that happen, but sometimes that leaves me stressed thinking its all on me. So I'm trying to learn right now how to depend on others and not get stressed by them making mistakes and just letting them shine. I really need to learn that, baby sibling syndrome has a stronger hold on me that I thought!
Hannah F. and her boyfriend look so cute! She is so cute, I'm really happy for her. Tia is the RS president? That's so good! She's amazing and definitely does a wonderful job. Maybe I'll visit her once. Singles wards terrify me though hahha.
I'm sorry about your knees! That's not good. That must be really painful having the screw sticking out. Why don't you get the surgery to fix it? It won't get better and otherwise will just be painful the rest of your life. Surgery doesn't have to be a scary thing, those doctors definitely know what they're doing :) Pray about it!
Oooh have so much fun with the boys! Aghh I just love them so much, give them the biggest squeeze for me. I talk so highly of them to everyone, my family is awesome! Take pictures and just enjoy their company. Have you already met Logan's girlfriend (is it spelled Brianne?) When are they going to get engaged? I'm excited for them to get married, thats really cute and I hope they are happy together. Have they talked about when they want to get married, like winter or spring or what? I gotta get in wedding shape! 😉
You know how you've given me the advice basically my whole life that I take on more than I can handle? I finally humbled myself this week. I was very prayerful about it, and I felt very at peace with leaving the Arabic program and not studying it anymore. The classes were very ineffective lately and I felt myself dropping behind and feeling bad and just feeling like Arabic was a burden. Plus, my German was kinda going downhill! And I really love German! So I called the group leader yesterday and officially stopped. I feel so good! For the past few days I've been studying German again and I just LOVE it! I really have so much love for this language. This was divine, God knew how much joy this language would bring me! So I will just focus on German for the next 2 transfers. I'm so happy about that. I think it'll probably be useful. Funny thing is, I just got my Arabic nametags last week! So I guess I just have a trophy for what I did accomplish. I mean I can have pretty basic conversations and teach the first lesson! That's pretty cool in and of itself. Arabic is hard but I loved it a lot. Maybe I'll take a class at school, who knows! I also just thought, focusing on German for 2 transfers will help me prepare for the test to get the German credits at BYU! That will be really cool.
P.S. I'm also working on not speaking danglish (deutsch english) so I either speak one or the other. It's hard! I have learned some new English words! I totally forgot about the word "strenuous" haha. "Anstrengt" hört sich besser an.
I had a really good week this week. Milica decided to be baptized in a month! I've worked with her for almost 6 months, and she is completely different this time! I really think she's going to do it this time. She was in the hospital for 10 days and couldn't smoke, and honestly, that was a blessing to kick start her into quitting. God works in mysterious ways. She did ask us if we prayed for her to get sick😂 she's a funny one. I mean we just prayed for her to stop smoking and God worked his plan soooo kinda? Whoops sorry Milica!
I went on exchange with Sister Bowler and Sister Barker was with too! The cool thing is that we were all in the same mtc group, and we were able to reminisce about everything that's happened over the past year. It's been really cool to see how much we've changed. I really really appreciate my mission, hard times and all. I've learned so much and just had the best time! I'm mentally preparing myself for transfer calls on Saturday. As much as I dont want to admit it, I think I'm awaiting a new challenge. It'd be good but my heart hurts thinking about the remote possibility of leaving these wonderful people. Ah this area has been amazing!
We are just chilling again today. The older you get on your mission the more exhausted you are by pday! I will forever have mercy on the missionaries on Sunday, that day is so hard and we are just so tired! Love em up!
Have just the best week ever! I love you a million German language studies!😁😊🤓
Love, Sister Ingalls Jr.
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