My dear family,
First off, I know you already know this but I'm exited about it so I'm
going to tell you anyways... I'm now officially in the Botswana/ Namibia
mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How cool is that?? I'm part of a brand new mission! As far
as I know I'm just going to stay in Botswana. Missionaries aren't allowed in
Namibia as of right now. But who knows what will happen in the next 15 months.
Exciting stuff is ahead!
So because we were splitting from the Johannesburg mission, this week we
had a big goodbye conference. President Omer and his wife came up for the last
time. It was harder than I thought it would be to say bye to them. I've only
even met them like 3 times but still, he was my mission president. There is this
connection to the people you serve with. We had a really nice little program to
say bye. The office elders prepared a slideshow of pictures to show and a few
people performed musical numbers. All the sisters sang I Know That My Redeemer
Lives. Then we had a big lunch and everyone took pictures. It was really nice.
Fun thing though was that me, Sister Anderson, Sister Gillis, and Sister Cook
(one other companionship) all wore matching dresses. I realize that sounds super
cheesy but it was way fun. One of our investigators gave us a couple bags of
clothes to donate to the church and in the bags were some traditional Botswana
dresses. So we decided to wear them for the conference! People started calling
us the Feirsome Four (I probably spelled that wrong). It was way fun. It stinks
that we don't get to keep the dresses though. Before I come home I will
definitely be buying one.
Other than that though, this week was extremely uneventful. We taught some
good lessons, did a bunch more tracting, helped one of the senior couples get
ready for the mission split, and cleaned the new mission home for the new
president. Fun thing with that is that me and Sister Anderson decided to put
sticky notes up all over the mission home with funny quotes, scriptures and
little words of encouragement on them. Apparently when President Wilson's wife
saw them she cried cause she was so happy. I'm glad we did it.
In other news I got all scraped up this week. Last Monday after I emailed
you guys, we had a zone activity. We played ultimate spoons. It got intense. So
we were at an apartment complex where one of the senior couples stays. So we did
the whole card passing part on the porch but then the spoons were hidden all
over the playground on the other side of building. There were like 20
missionaries playing. So as you could imagine, it was quite a sight to see to
watch a bunch of young people frantically running around looking for spoons. By
the end of the game, like 5 or 6 little kids had all come out of their houses to
watch us. It was pretty cute.
Other than that really nothing happened this week. I'm sorry that this email
is kind of short and boring. I'm still loving it here. Our area is slowly but
surely growing stronger. And my 3 month mark is this week. I can't believe how
fast time is flying. Its July! Craziness.
Before I go Ill explain the significance behind last week's favorite
scriptures. So Mosiah 21:16- I just like the first part. I read it and it struck
me a lot. I have been having a hard time with the new area. It just has felt
like things were going so slow and nothing productive was happening. But when I
read this it made me realize that its not going to happen over night. Its going
to happen by degrees.
Then there was Mosiah 26:37- I like it because of one word. Circumspectly.
I looked it up in the dictionary and it means that you take no risks. So when
you walk circumspectly before God, you do everything they can to stay on the
straight and narrow. You don't see how close you can get to the edge.
And lastly- Alma 3:27- I just like how it basically says that whoever you
work for is who you will get paid by. I think I'd rather get paid by Heavenly
Father so I think I'll work for him.
And now for this week's favorite scripture- 3Nephi 13:21. If I treasure the
work and if I treasure Christ and if I treasure the people, my heart will truly
be in it.
Well I love you lots and I hope you all have a lovely week!!
Love, Sister Gehring
p.s. My first name is starting to sound really weird. Its strange.
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