Hello Family! :) :)
This week was full of
miracles and amazing experiences. Life as a missionary is really so
great haha ( Maybe I'm just weird) But really I love being a missionary
far more than traveling or teaching english in China or Ukraine. There
is just something special about having this ability to love others so
much and want to do everything in you power to help them and to see a
change for good in their lives. Missions are hard of coarse, but life is
hard- and let me tell you the challenges I face on a mission are way
less difficult to overcome because I am able to see the blessings and
miracles God is giving me each day. God wants to bless us so much, we
just need to let him!
This morning was amazing! We woke up early and
headed to the temple. The missionarys who are returning home were giving
their farwell testimonys, and it was so good! One of the Sisters said
something that I loved! Our goal every week is to talk to 140 on the
street or knocking doors or whatever it may be, but 140 is the goal. And
sometimes we look at it like "ughhh, I have to make 68 more contacts…
or I have to talk to 84 more people who don't want to listen to me" and
she said that she looks at it like " I have the opportunity to bear my
testimony 140 times this week!" - I just thought that was such a good
reminder to me that each person we talk to truely is a child of God, and
we really should be putting our whole heart into trying to help them
realize the love their Heavenly Father has for them. I am guilty that
sometimes the people I talk to are more Korean practice that me bearing
my testimony, but today that was a good reminder that each person should
be an opportunity to share the happiness I have in my life.
Exchanges were this week tooo!! So much fun, haha I
always have fun and learn on much on Exchanges. I was with Sister
Washburn, she goes home this next transfer and is just the sweetest
sister I've ever met! We had a lot of fun laughing about silly things in
Korea like the crazy traffic, or on the bus we sat down next to this
guy holding a blow torch haha. Just randomly. haha, yep I love Korea.
Conference was super funny! We had P.J. Rogers speak to us about Korean
Culture and is was really good! I learnt alot, and got a bunch of tips
on how I can learn the language. Rachael just sent me Adrians Blog post
from last week and it reminded me that the time for missions all changes
because of the MTC training time changing. So everyones mission is
being cut down 2 weeks :( Super sad, that means I will be hitting my 1
year mark in 2 weeks. I can't believe how fast time goes by, I feel like
I just got here.
Because of the holiday we weren't able to meet with
as many people because everyone goes out of town for the hoildays. I had
one of the most amazing expereinces earlier this week with one of my
investigators being in the hospital and being able to arrange for our
Zone leaders to give him a blessing. I won't go into details but it was
probably one of the most amazing experiences I've had so far on the
mission! Faith is incredible thing. Speaking of faith Ive been studying
faith this week and sacrifice. Its amazing what miracles you see when
you put the two together. I think too often I think I'm lacking faith,
when really I've jusy stopped exercising my faith. We can't forget that
faith is an action word!!!! Your not going to see the miracles or the
power that comes through faith if you don't do something! It takes work
and sacrifices- but the blessings and happiness that comes through such a
small effort out weighs the sacrifice 100 times.
Thanks everyone for the letters and love!
(
Random… Adrians Aunt Terri… I can't find your address anywhere for some
reason, If you could give it to my sister Rachal Robertson that would
be awesome! haha I have a letter waiting here to be sent but no address
:( ) Jenny && Sarah Your babies are SSOOO cute! they are getting
so big its insane!!! :) :) But man I have the cutest niece and nefew
ever! ( If you want there are SO many cute toddler clothes here… let me
know if you need some shopping to be done on one of my p-days :P)
Korea from a Graiffes Eye View:
I can't
even express how good it is to hear from you!!!! I got 2 letters from
you this week at conference and made all the missionays in our MTC group
super jealous! I love you so much and think about you as much as time
allows. Keep being strong girl, You are where you are for a reason!
Don't even stop looking for ways you can bless others lives. And just
remember that to me, you will always be Sister Gelder. :)
Love Always,
Sister Sulz
If you look closely you can see the red crosses lit up on all of the churches outside her window.
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