Well
this week was more difficult than most. It's hard leaving your baby area.
My new companion Sister Craft is nice. She are I get along for the most part, except when it comes to things like contacting methods, teaching style, and planning. Then, we clash a little bit, but we are working on it. We've only been together for a week so I think it will just take some time to get used to each other. Not all my companions can be a duplicate of me like Sister Romero was, otherwise, I wouldn't grow and learn! We only cover 6 wards, but they are divided by a highway and we have no car and my companion isn't big on biking so we have to rely on the members to give us rides, which they are actually pretty good about doing. I know I wanted to be in a biking area, but it's hard not having a car because I feel like we are less productive, hopefully I can convince Sister Craft to bike with me soon!
I'm really looking forward to this next transfer though. Patience has never been an attribute I've had very much of but something I've always wanted to develop, and think this is going to gene transfer where I have a lot of opportunities to develop it. Not just with learning to teach with Sister Craft, but with the area and people here as well. This area is basically dead. We have 3 people on date for baptism, but I've only met one of them and sad to say but I don't think he is going to make it because he doesn't understand anything the missionaries have taught him. We are going to start the lessons again and hopefully we can help him understand and have that desire to be baptized for himself! Right now he just wants to be baptized for his dad and doesn't really listen in the lessons.
There's not really many people we are teaching in this area, we only have maybe one or two lessons planned a day, and even when people confirm the morning of, we show up they say they are sick. It can be frustrating, the majority of people here just aren't interested. We cover a lot of trailer parks so it is a poorer area of Tooele.
When I first got here I was really frustrated that I was taken out of my old area where we had tons of work happening and put into this area where there isn't really anything. But I've been studying Jacob 5:21-22 this week, it's the part where the servant asks the lord of the vineyard "why did you plant these trees here? This is the worst spot in the vineyard." but the lord of the vineyard replies "Counsel me not, I knew that it was a poor spot of ground; wherefore I said unto thee I have nourished it this long time, and thou beholdest that it hath brought forth much fruit."
It's amazing how clearly the scriptures give us answers to our questions! I was asking why did the Lord take me out of my area and give it to sisters who are also covering another stake and are STLs
and might not have time to take good care of that area with all their other responsibilities and put me in this poor spot? But, The Lord knows best and He prepares every area. It was His area first before it became mine and He has nourished it. So it is our job to go out and to bring forth the fruit! I know that if this area is still open it is because there is someone out there that The Lord wants us to find. He
has prepared someone to receive the gospel, we just have to find them!
So something great that happened this week, we discovered Waffle Love! It's a food truck. I don't know if you all have ever had it, but I promise with all the authority of my calling that once you do you will never want go back to a normal waffle again! It's that good! I'm a huge fan of breakfast food so was pretty stoked that we found this place. :)
My new companion Sister Craft is nice. She are I get along for the most part, except when it comes to things like contacting methods, teaching style, and planning. Then, we clash a little bit, but we are working on it. We've only been together for a week so I think it will just take some time to get used to each other. Not all my companions can be a duplicate of me like Sister Romero was, otherwise, I wouldn't grow and learn! We only cover 6 wards, but they are divided by a highway and we have no car and my companion isn't big on biking so we have to rely on the members to give us rides, which they are actually pretty good about doing. I know I wanted to be in a biking area, but it's hard not having a car because I feel like we are less productive, hopefully I can convince Sister Craft to bike with me soon!
I'm really looking forward to this next transfer though. Patience has never been an attribute I've had very much of but something I've always wanted to develop, and think this is going to gene transfer where I have a lot of opportunities to develop it. Not just with learning to teach with Sister Craft, but with the area and people here as well. This area is basically dead. We have 3 people on date for baptism, but I've only met one of them and sad to say but I don't think he is going to make it because he doesn't understand anything the missionaries have taught him. We are going to start the lessons again and hopefully we can help him understand and have that desire to be baptized for himself! Right now he just wants to be baptized for his dad and doesn't really listen in the lessons.
There's not really many people we are teaching in this area, we only have maybe one or two lessons planned a day, and even when people confirm the morning of, we show up they say they are sick. It can be frustrating, the majority of people here just aren't interested. We cover a lot of trailer parks so it is a poorer area of Tooele.
When I first got here I was really frustrated that I was taken out of my old area where we had tons of work happening and put into this area where there isn't really anything. But I've been studying Jacob 5:21-22 this week, it's the part where the servant asks the lord of the vineyard "why did you plant these trees here? This is the worst spot in the vineyard." but the lord of the vineyard replies "Counsel me not, I knew that it was a poor spot of ground; wherefore I said unto thee I have nourished it this long time, and thou beholdest that it hath brought forth much fruit."
It's amazing how clearly the scriptures give us answers to our questions! I was asking why did the Lord take me out of my area and give it to sisters who are also covering another stake and are STLs
and might not have time to take good care of that area with all their other responsibilities and put me in this poor spot? But, The Lord knows best and He prepares every area. It was His area first before it became mine and He has nourished it. So it is our job to go out and to bring forth the fruit! I know that if this area is still open it is because there is someone out there that The Lord wants us to find. He
has prepared someone to receive the gospel, we just have to find them!
So something great that happened this week, we discovered Waffle Love! It's a food truck. I don't know if you all have ever had it, but I promise with all the authority of my calling that once you do you will never want go back to a normal waffle again! It's that good! I'm a huge fan of breakfast food so was pretty stoked that we found this place. :)
Well
I love you all and I love hearing from all of you!!! Thank you so much for your
emails! I love to read them! Keep praying to our Heavenly Father for help and
he will direct your path! Love you all!!
Love,
Sister
Abby Martinez
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