Gosh, it was so great to talk to you all yesterday and it has just left me invigorated and excited to go out and do the work even more. I just love this gospel so much and it just brings me so much happiness. Teaching families and testifying of families and seeing the love these people have been channeled to their families and Jesus Christ is just fantastic. I know without a doubt that my Redeemer lives and what amazing comfort that gives me...that there is a purpose to everything we do, there is an answer to every why? and we have such great things ahead of us...the future is always so perfectly bright with an eternal focus...it really is amazing!
Pretty much the phone call was the highlight of my week, and most certainly for our Sunday yesterday haha. We did have one sweet less active mommy come, sister M., who was baptized like 10 or so years ago and hasn't come to church in 6 or so years due to some issues with doctrine and the like, but we went and ate some of her food the other night, got bounced by a ton of people, and it really was a blessing because it led us back to her for a lesson on temples and eternal marriage which gave her the drive to come back and ah, it was so sweet to see her come and sit down next to us in church, gosh it made me so happy :)
Wednesday was a nice a and busy day as we got up and caught a ride from the Kanzlers over to Kossoh town to attend the kossoh town/ kissy/ makeni zone meeting with the visit from Sister Barret, the west africa mental health advisor, and introduction of our new couples the Barneys. I got to conduct the meeting which was cool since I noticed how scared I would have been 2 years ago, and how comfortable I have become speaking in front of people now, it really is a miracle from the Lord and I am so grateful! We had about 80 missionaries in attendance and it was just a sweet meeting, then we had lunch with the leaders and a nice little Mission leadership counsel meeting with the zone leaders, but to be honest the highlight of the day was seeing our beloved Elder Hill, which made me and Elder Stanford so very happy. that guy is just so awesome and we have missed him so much so it was so great to see his smiling face again haha!
Thursday we worked on the transfer sheet and all the transfer movements and ran through them with the drivers and Elder Kanzler and everything checked out okay! we got to go out a little bit to teach that day fortunately!
Friday, in the morning we had the freetown/lumley zone meeting and then president had us preside over the MLC because he had to leave and the meeting went super sweet and we got tons of great ideas from the zone leaders there so we are super excited for the future and the trainings and everything we are planning. it is going to be so sweet! We had quite a bit of office work to do as well as some meetings with President, then some emergency transfer changes already, which meant we had to re do movements, then we had our transfer preplanning meeting with the office and couple staff and got everything all planned and scheduled out...yeah...another busy busy day.
Saturday was sweet in that we got to proseltye for a considerable portion of the day which was great and we really enjoyed that. The upcoming week is going to be great with transfers and new missionaries and the like. Today was really sweet as we got to go and play some sweet football and have a good ol time with that, now just resting and relaxing and getting our bodies ready...pop some ibuprofen soon probably and take a nap. made some pancakes this morning and then this afternoon I enjoyed the Abdulai (oats, gari, kingdriver, sugar,) mashed up in a cup...then got hungry and made the Sumrak (oats, gari, sugar, peanut butter, almonds, walnuts, and blueberries) mashed up in a cup...living the good life. Life is sweet! got to keep going hard, love you all so much :)
Elder Jesse Sumrak
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