Probably My Second To Last Email If I'm Consistent With How Long It Takes For Me To Send Another One

Peers, preachers and people I know,


A lot has actually happened since I have written last time. First things first I'm now serving in Clallam Bay and if your wondering where that is, it's on the north coast of the Washington Peninsula, towards the west. We actually cover the most north west point of the continental U.S.


Fun facts about the area:

- We are not apart of a ward, it is actually a group, so not even a branch.

- We have a nice trailer home that we live in and it's huge.

- We have 5 recent converts currently in our group.

- 4 of those recent converts are from the Reservation in Neah Bay.

- Neah Bay is a fun little town in the Makah Reservation.

- Some of the Makah's are lowkey racist and don't like us.

- Alot of our members are pretty good friends with their catholic neighbors.

- We meet in a house but soon we should be meeting in an old Presbyterian building that the church is leasing out.

- Apparently there's a lot of good fishing spots around here. I don't like fishing, but I can learn to like it? Idk


Highlights of the week:


I didn't embarrass myself that bad at the makah basketball game last night. I actually made a bucket it was pretty cool


We helped a lady chop her wood, which she really appreciated because she knew she wasn't going to be able to do it herself and she wasn't able to find help in Neah Bay because she wasn't Makah.


My two cents:


Well I didn't just get transfered I was emergency transfered. My whole mission I never thought I would be mad to be transfered out of Silverdale, but I have to admit Silverdale 1st has been one of my favorite areas I've served in. And I was frustrated that got taken away from me. I asked my mission President and he said he felt it was just right for me to be here and he knew how much i loved Silverdale (he was going to have me stay another one if it wasn't for the ET). He told me I was supposed to be here and that what he saw happening was that l'd come to start loving this area. So I tried to love this area. I tried to make this area my favorite area, but I couldn't. I tried to replace members who I loved in Silverdale in my head with members here. I tried to do things in this area that I tried in Silverdale. It didn't work I found myself missing Silverdale and feeling like I did my whole mission. Like I just didn't belong in this area. President said I was supposed, but I still didn't know why. He could have put any other missionary here and it would've had the same impact. And missionaries would come up to me and say "hey your in Clallam Bay now?" "You must be so lucky". I didn't feel lucky. And everyone's comforting advice was always "you're supposed to be here" "God has a purpose for you here". And everyday I couldn't figure out what that was. The adversary had me trapped and I wasted half of my transfer here on this attitude. My companion even got fed up with me. I couldn't help, but think that I just blew it. I just failed (I would be the first missionary to ever accomplish that). l complained about this the person I always complain to, my dad. And he told me the generic stuff, but than added that maybe sometimes it's just our time. That maybe I could have stayed in Silverdale and done great and even better things there, but sometimes it is just our time. I thought this moment in Alma 45: 18. Alma leaves Zarahemla probably to go prophecy to the people in melek, but he never heard from again. It is assumed that he was translated, but ! wonder how he must of felt. When he was told his time was over. Quicker than expected. I thought of what President Brown said to me in interviews. "If you are sad to leave, you probably were doing something right". I can make all these justifications and all these reasons I should have stayed. And maybe it would have been, maybe I don't have to be in Clallam Bay, but that's not what happened. And sometimes it's just our time to leave. Like leaving home for a mission.

Like leaving a job, like leaving a grade to the next. Because the gospel doesn't have us stay where we are at. It moves us on. It changes us and our circumstances. I'll miss Silverdale and I'll be darned if I don't my favorite converts temple endowment, but I know I have to move on.

God put me here and that's all that matters, whether I'm supposed to be here or not.


OK sorry for the Sappy story time, I guess that's what happens when you don't write an email for a long time. I hope all of you guys are having a good life and that you all see God's hand in your life this week.


That's it goodbye
















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