MOTHER'S DAY THIS SUNDAY. I GET TO SKYPE MY FAMILY! I am so excited!! ❤️ This past week has been great!! One of the highlights happened on Friday when we spent the day in Rockport and Gloucester, Massachusetts. If you really want to feel jealous, go google those towns and see what I was able to enjoy. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. The ocean lined both cities and we were able to climb up on the rocks and eat lunch right on the ocean shore. What! I was in heaven!
That same day we went and visited with Sister Makalou who, if you remember, I absolutely love :) she ordered us pizza and accidentally ordered 4 pizzas for us in the process hahaha! That same night, we set up a temple plan with her to get her back to being temple worthy. She committed to do the things necessary to get her there and we are so excited for her. She wants me to wait for her to get her recommend so that we can go to the temple together :) i can't wait!!!
This week was full of lots of walking again which was so difficult due to all the blisters on my feet. The pain is real. On Saturday one of my blisters decided to open and bleed everywhere in the middle of one of our walks which caused us to stop at the Ipswich library and ask for a band-aid. Super embarrassing. As one of the librarians was digging through the first aid drawer, I got the prompting to ask her about her interest in family history....so I did. She was very interested in it and took a family history card and told us she would call us if she had any questions or needed any help! Woo! So because of my bloody blister, the Lord led us to somebody who was ready to feel the spirit through family history :)
Last Monday we had exchanges with our sister training leaders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and that was so much fun! We do it differently now where both sets of missionaries stay and work in the sister training leader's area for the 24 hour period. We all sleep in the same apartment and work in the same area but we exchange companions for the day. I was with Sister Pierce who served in Bath, Maine after me so we were able to talk about that. We also both served with Sister Black so we talked about that as well! I'm learning to love exchanges which is huge for me because I despised them at the beginning of my mission.
We taught the word of wisdom to our investigator Idania and she happily committed to live it! Her friend, Sister Coa, was there with us in the lesson and she was able to testify and share her conversion experience and how since she felt converted to the gospel, she didn't feel like living the word of wisdom was a difficult change in her life. She said it was simple to stop having the things that were against the word of wisdom because she knew that the commandment was from God and that there was a reason for that commandment. That's how I feel about everything Heavenly Father commands us to do. If we have full faith and trust in Him, then obeying Him shouldn't be difficult. We should be doing it with joy and a willing heart and the comfort of knowing that we have these commandment for a reason.
I am so thankful to have a Father in Heaven who knows us and knows what we need in this life to truly be happy. We may have to make big sacrifices and humble ourselves significantly in order to please Him and do what is right, but we are promised so many blessings if we do these things. Elder Jeffrey R Holland said, “You can have what you want, or you can have something better.” Strive to reach that "something better" by making those small sacrifices today!
I love this gospel and I love serving the Lord. I love being His tool in bringing others to the beautiful knowledge of His plan of happiness. I love seeing the light in faces of those that accept the messages we share as missionaries. I love feeling the spirit testify through me to the people that are ready to make their next step to returning to live with their Heavenly Father again. I love you all and I'm so grateful for the support and prayers in my behalf. Have a good week!
Love, Sister Watson
Mural in downtown Ipswich. Every picture signifies a part of its history!
One of the many, many, many cat stickers I see on the cars here in New England....
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