Taking the Shots: "TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN!" (Week 52: 9/5-9/11)

Wow! A whole year ago, I set out on a journey that I didn't know would
be so hard, but it has been the greatest experience of my life! Yep
that's right! I have been officially out for a whole year! I seriously
can not believe I have 6 months left of my mission. AHH! I'm not ready
to come home. Can I just stay for the rest of my life?

Well Crozet is getting attacked by some sweet missionaries! This whole
past week we have been knockin' out the city. We have tracted pretty
much every single day. The reasoning is because we have a very limited
teaching pool! 😩 which is always extremely sad. But what's even
sadder is that where we tracted, no one was interested. I have learned
that you could tract all day to find no one, but you are being
refined, and you are having God trust you. Crazy thing is, is that the
Lord knows exactly where we need to go, but He sends us to these
places because He wants to see if we will work hard. Well we did that
all week!

But there was a real neat experience that I had this week as well as
other missionaries here in the Virginia Richmond Mission. So you head
all the time how there are General Authorities that come around and do
mission tours, well we had a wonderful guest come to Virginia! His
name was Elder Kopischke. He is originally from Germany, and let me
just tell you how amazing it was! The spirit was so strong there, and
I seriously was like another MTC experience where like the fire house
was just spraying the spirit directly onto you! It was soo amazing. So
many questions were answered. And he invited us to have 3 questions
and to ponder which one you wanted answer and to keep that in your
heart throughout the meeting and that you would receive the answer by
the end of it. It truly works! I invite y'all to come with a question
that you want answered, and go to church and ask God to answer it. I
promise that God will answer the question for you.

Elder Kopischke also talked about how to better use the Book of Mormon
and how to better work with members in the areas where we are serving.
It was truly very inspirational. And I learned that the General
Authorities are exactly like us missionaries, they only get one day
off as well, and that is Monday's. Other thank that they are always
preaching the gospel! Isn't that sooo cool! Oh and I also learned a
little bit of German! Haha. He was sooo cool! He even sat at our lunch
table and got to know us missionaries! Such an amazing spirit filled
day!

Here is a quote that's stood out to me in our lesson yesterday.
- "It is not the design of heaven that we be rescued from all
difficult situations. Rather, it is the Lord's will that we learn to
handle them."- Elder Holland

I know the Lord is aware of us. I know that He knows us each by name.
I am so grateful for that knowledge and for the knowledge of my
Savior.

I invite y'all to take a question to church. I know the Lord will answer it.

I love y'all. Have an awesome possum week!

Love,
Sister Pewtress