9.23.15
Fellow friends and family,
Yes another transfer has gone by, how crazy is that. I have
just started my 7th transfer out of 13, so pretty much halfway done! I cannot
believe it, it couldn't go by any faster. So this transfer I am not a trainer
again which will be different but I still got a call from our president on
Monday, I have gotten a call from president every transfer I had a companion
leaving, and yes my companion is leaving, She is going to Morgantown
University, YSA ward for sisters, which doesn’t happen very often and she is so
excited, I am sad we are being split up but I know she is going to do great up
in West Virginia:) Anyways the call from our mission president for me, He told
me that Christiansburg was going to become the new Sister Training Leader (STL)
area... WHAAAA? and my new companion has never been in this assignment either.
I am not sure what all it consists of but it is going to be great, I am just a
little nervous. For those of you who don't know what a STL area is, it is Like
a Zone leader over just the sisters, So we will call and check up on the
sisters once a week and go on exchanges with each of them once a transfer. Lots
of stuff but I am really excited to learn so much from so many different
missionaries! I know my companions name, But not much about her, other than she
has been out like 1 or 2 transfers more than me or something like that.
Anyways so that is how this last few days have gone, lots of
phone calls about what this next transfer is going to consist of:) But this
last week was really good. Lots of good bye lessons for my companion but lots
of cool things as well have happened. We have been able to see people that we
have not been able to get lessons with easily and hope to see lots of people
more often now.
So last week we had this training where we got something
called a TIWI box installed into our cars. I am not sure how many missions
actually have this box but our mission has it now. So let me tell you a little
about this TIWI box. It is plugged into our cars and has a GPS in it and tells
us when you are speeding, when you start or stop to fast, when you take corners
to sharp and when you go over speed bumps to fast and things like that. So we
got it last Thursday and yesterday was my first day without it having to tell
me to check my speed. I don't actually speed that bad but there are a few
places where the GPS in the system are wrong. And another thing about this TIWI
box, when it warns you it is the scariest thing in the world. I don't know
about the other warnings but when you speed a little red light comes on and it
says "CHECK YOUR SPEED" and it is the scariest thing in the world. Really
though, like you are just driving along and then it freaks you out. It really
will save the church money and lots of wreck and lives will be saved, I know
that it was an inspired thing but it doesn't make it any less scary. I'll have
to take a picture of it for next week, It actually makes our car look a little
bit like a spy car when the GPS is up on the window haha. It was my goal every
day to not make it go off and when I would make it go off my companion and I
would laugh about it for like 5 minutes because I would get so frustrated haha.
But the training we had while we got those installed into our car was excellent,
it was about how to improve our teaching skills and there are lots of things
that we want to do now. One of the things we talked about was getting creative
with our missionary work but staying with in the White hand book and the Preach
My Gospel guide lines. The elder in Christiansburg that is staying here and I
have talked about going with our new companions and talking with the mayor and
how we can help the community more and gain the trust of the community more. I
am way excited about what lies ahead in our next transfer!
We have been working with this one guy and we have really
been trying to help him quit smoking and this past week he had a couple days
were he had none and other days where he only had 1 and his brother that lives
with him is hoping to come to church next Sunday and said that he would start
sitting in on the lessons we have with him soon and accepted the Book of Mormon
a few times ago when we went over there and said he wanted to read it!:)
So yesterday one of the members we have been working with
who has been coming back to church wanted to take us out to dinner before my
companion left but we were running out of time so he asked if he could take us
out to lunch at some Chinese restaurant so we took him up on the offer and really
enjoyed it. Sounds like a random little tid-bit to put in my email but I tell
the story because of what happened at the end of our lunch appointment. So the
Brother that took us out is like 78 and does really silly things. So he gets
his fortune cookie and opens it and looks at the paper really weird.
"Learn Chinese....... Potato???" then pauses for a few seconds with a
really confused look on his face, "Thats a really weird fortune. By this
time my companion and I were laughing and told him to flip the paper over and
then he smiles. It was really funny, maybe a had to be there moment but I
thought it was really funny:)
I hope you are all doing well! And that you are learning
lots. Another side note, I was really sad to hear that Elder Scott passed away
the other day!:( I cannot believe that we are going to be getting 3 new
apostles in the next general conference! I hope you all are getting excited
about that as well! I know I am! I never really did understand how important it
really is to listen to the prophet and the apostles. But how blessed are we to
be able to listen to the prophet of this world! SO excited! Love you all and
hope you have a great next week!!!
Love Sister Mauck
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