Watermelon Sugar High

Okeee so this week was somethn.. how are we this far into January???? MY COMP GOT TRANSFERED. Sheeesh ok so that means I'm not training anymore.. but I GET TO BE WITH SISTER EBARB that's right I'm comps with BARBIE Highlights: - playing with our members new FREAKING ADORABLE KITTEN named cookie 😽 - trying yellow watermelon for the first time and getting shouted a lunch after driving for ages 🤑 - making the elders a famous smoothie :) 🥤 - exchanged with sister Kana!! And fresh meat up north - meeting the senoior version of tom cruise no joke - meeting KING DAVID 🤴 the 90 yr old puzzle legend 🙌 - exploring new parts of my area that I hadn't been to before.. - benny boiii gave your girl a kiwi tat (it already washed off) he's a heart melter at the young age of 8 - we made a epic video filmed and directed by yours truly's companion Lowlights - leading the area for the x3 time is kinda rough ngl.. - transferr newssss - things are still slow with the holidays and this area is hard sometime but its gonna be ok Lollights - met a doubled toed lady who proceeded to give me her lipstick lolol - uhhh having a LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE AT transfers... poor office elders. Man my brain hurts after that one we waited like 3 hrs at the chapel only to drive like 4 more and have to wait like 2 days for luggage..? Long story short TAKE YOUR LUGGAGE INSIDE AND GIVE YOUR CAR KEYS TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE :) This week I realized that this will be my last 5 weeks here in Opononi which is like INSANE and EXCITING at the same time. It feels like I just got here and yet it feels like it's been ages since I'm already on my 3rd companion and have been trained and trained up here.. In so many ways I'm discovering I've come a long ways and yet still have much more to come.. I truly am grateful for the amazing missionaries up here and the opportunity to force myself to change even amid the lack of change.. Scripture Highlight: ** The gospel of Jesus Christ inspires me to treat others with love and kindness. ** and I hope that you all feel the same way. I've been reading in Mosiah and wow just wow everyone pull out your dusty book of mormons and give them a read :) I've been learning first hand about the following: The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality - The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity. - Bednar - The purpose of the gospel is … to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.”1 Thus, the journey of mortality is to progress from bad to good to better and to experience the mighty change of heart—to have our fallen natures changed (see Mosiah 5:2). - ...Atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon (see 2 Nephi 2:14). All in all we STRUGGLE so we can recieve strength and power to do better and be better. I invite you all to read this talk by Bednar :) https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2012/04/the-atonement-and-the-journey-of-mortality?lang=eng Love you all!!🩷 https://photos.app.goo.gl/btkDY6hNfKPBTj3Y6 Sister Talbot