Happy
New Year!
This
Christmas week was awesome! We got to watch the Mormon missionary movie "The
Best Two Years", and it has a whole new, deeper meaning to me now because
of actually being a missionary on a mission! It was so good to Facetime with
you as well, despite all the preceding technical difficulties involved. We made
it thru! I am excited for after the mission, but for now my focus and my heart
will remain here in the mission field. Getting trunky is silly!
I
have been frustrated with things, but now I'm doing better, because there's no
point in fighting what you can't change, like that I'm going home on Feb
23rd... *sigh* Also, The one thing I've decided will be my focus to change this
year of 2016 is: Meekness. As I begin my transition from missionary to
civilian, I want to be meeker, which I feel will help me increase my kindness,
gentleness, patience, calmness, and peacefulness now and for the rest of my life.
I
talked with President Lewis this past week, and I came up with three simple and clear goals for the
remaining weeks of my mission; all of these are also goals I can take with me
to my newly enhanced member missionary life after my formal mission ends:
1-Deepen my relationship with the Holy Ghost
2-Gain
more confidence in teaching
3-Find,
teach, and baptize two more of my brothers and sisters. (This is a
companionship goal, we're doing it together. There are people prepared for this
now!)
Simple,
clear and focused goals for now the the future. I'm doing!
We
saw a miracle yesterday as a part member family came to church for the first time
in years! The parents are members, but their four children are not and they're all
investigators. We'd had a lesson with them on Tuesday and for the first time
they said they "would" come, not that they "would try" to
come to church. Then things worked out where we ended up having daily contact
with them in many different ways, and they showed up to church 11:30 on the
dot! We had been hoping and had saved a pew for them, but we also we're worried
because they hadn't responded to our call or texts—luckily they responded to
the promptings of the Holy Ghost. We, however, were not as in tune with the
Spirit it seems, since we were close to the point of giving up hope, when they gloriously
walked through the door. They hadn't responded to us because they had wanted to
surprise us. BEST SURPRISE EVER!!! I am so glad that God blessed us yesterday
with this miracle. He renews my faith daily in the fact He touches the hearts
of investigators to come to church.
Sister
Karony-ism for this week: We were meeting with President Lewis when he came to
check up on how I was adjusting to the recent changes and
"traditional" missionary experience, he said something funny. He said
to Sister Smith and I that he wanted to make sure that no one had died. I was
like "What's that supposed to mean?" And his reply was "Where's
the little girl, Sister Karony?" and Sister Smith was like "I'm not a
little girl..." (I laughed about this later because I realized it was an
unintentional short joke!). Hahahahaha! President Lewis gets me! Bwahahahahaha!
My
Ponderizer for last week was Moroni 8:26. This week's Ponderizer is Alma
17:11, my call to serve! Developing Christlike attributes is a must!
Tell
Mercedes I say hi! And say hi to Sam for me! I miss them both! Love you all!
Love,
Sister Karony
Our Ch
ristmas tree!
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