Hello Family! I am on a little bit early today. Its that part of the transfer again, and now have just begun my 15th transfer...so, that is crazy to think about, but its all going well. Transfer movements are in the process and missionaries are flowing all over the country, and miracles are happening to allow them all to go smoothly, so the Lord is hastening his work...and our drivers :) but, all is well. Had a surprise last week...2 more missionaries are joining our group, but won't arrive until this weekend, so right now we have 18 coming in tomorrow, 9 elders and 9 sisters, and then 2 more on the weekend from the USA, so we are having a great time trying to get all that sorted out, but small small. Schedule for the week: Tuesday - pick up missionaries, Wednesday - orientation - Thursday - dish out the missionaries/farewell dinner for departing 5 missionaries Friday - Dish out the elders who have finished their missions Saturday - hopefully teach teach teach! Next week: Zone Conferences ALL WEEK....Needless to say, lots of work and its great and sweet, but boy am I missing teaching and what not..small small, ministering in all sorts of different ways :)
The past week was nice and crazy, receiving the transfers news, preparing the movements, revising the sheets, preparing newsletters, and whatever other mess that we get ourselves hooked up in...oh, but its wonderful :) I love getting to be with President and discuss and be a part of this great work on a broader sphere, it truly is a privilige!
Not too much went down this week though... Elder Penia left us this morning :( so, we are all going to miss him, and especially his cooking in our apartment...and my haircuts haha. Saturday, we went up to Hill Station and got to witness their massive baptism, with an Elder who is going home this week ending his mission with a bang and had 14 baptisms for his area haha, it was pretty sweet, and I can imagine he might have got tired in that font, but he made zero errors, no repeats, because he is a boss :) of course.
Concern of the week brought up by investigators...1 Corthians 15...women covering their heads...well my friends, women do not need to cover their heads, "Excuse me, is that biblical?" After my companion tried to explain to them the scripture, I felt inspired to read more of the chapter and came across I believe V.15...women have hair, which covers their head :)...to which all of our investigators were greatly content with that answer and many strangely said that was a testimony to them, since nobody had ever been able to explain that scripture to them before...um...broski, just read the rest of the chapter and ...well, that is my little sphele, excuse me :)
Not to much to say though, I love you all and everything is going well out here, I studied a sweet story in the Old Testament yesterday morning, about how King Zedekiah did not believe in the words of the prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah because their prophesies seemed seemingly contradictory, but almost impossibly came true, to the downfall of him and his family. Just sweet to see even the craziest of prophecies come true :) I love the scriptures so much, and they bring me so much peace in even the greatest times of turmoil. The Savior is so generous and sweet to us and continues to feed our starving spirits with modern day prophets and revelation, and I am glad that my feast will never end, though sometimes I just want to try everything on the table, just got to be patient haha...well, off to work on more and more projects. life is good though, love you all, enjoy the week!
Love,-
Jesse
Elder Sumrak
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