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Well
this was a week... A LOT... and I mean a whole freaking ton of crap happened...
Just so that I can give you a quick overview, Monday- Zone
activity P-day, Tuesday-Interviews with President, Wednesday- Zone Training
exchange, Thursday un-exchange a find out we are going to the temple,
Friday-TEMPLE, Saturday- get home from temple late... Sunday- Church and Stake
Presidency meetings... EVERY DAY was filled with adventure!!
First off, I got some letters saying that I sounded
"down" last week... I was not... I had had a very exhausting week and
was trying to email with 10 other missionaries in the same room... I was a
little distracted. Last week was incredible! Last month our mission had the
most baptisms that we have had since President Richardson got here and it was
exhausting (and rewarding) work to push as hard as we all did! SO NO I AM NOT
DISCOURAGED NOR SAD!!! I am ELDERPARK!
We will put that a side for now and I will tell you that this week
was the happiest and the saddest week of my mission. It was a freaking roller
coaster. I felt like a 12 year old girl... My emotions were so freaking high!
We had interviews with President Richardson on Tuesday, we were
also expected to had a District Leadership Training the same day. Which meant
that we needed to be in Wellington at 4:30pm and leave Belle Glade at 3:00pm
(that's 1500 hrs mom). Does anyone know how effective the hours from noon to 3
are in Belle Glade? 90% of the population is out in the fields at that time
pickin' corn! NO ONE IS HOME. Anyway we tried our best and then left for
Wellington, we had a great DLT (ending at 5:00pm or 1700) We then proceeded to
wait for our turn... Interviews are supposed to be 15 minutes... President
NEVER only takes 15 minutes! Our interviews were scheduled to be at 630pm and
645pm with me going first I didn't start my interview until 745pm... Now the
whole scheduling thing and time crunch were not the stressful parts of the day.
President decided that these interviews would be us interviewing or asking him
questions... But gosh dang it he sure pushed towards his own direction! Man I
had a specific agenda I wanted to talk about, but no he had to talk about
completely other things that I hadn't intended. I swear his purpose was to make
me tear up! But it was a very spiritual experience and I learned a lot.
Well with that over we started out on Wednesday with Zone
Training, that went really well, we shared everything that we had been given in
MLC the week prior. But after when everyone came back to the church for lunch,
we found out that one of the Sisters in our zones back problems had been
worsening, but we didn't think much about that. After lunch I headed to Jupiter
North on exchange with my new bike I bought a helmet when we got there but they
didn't have a good lock so I borrowed another Elders. On the exchange we had
some very spiritual experiences, and we were definitely in the right place at
the right time.
Thursday was a pretty normal day, other than we found out that we
were going to go to the Temple Friday night with one of Elder F******' converts
in Ft. Laud.
Friday we prepared to the temple and right as we are about to
leave we get a text from the sister's stating that the sister with back
problems will be going home... YOU DON'T JUST TEXT THAT!! So we called them and
had a big chat and found out that she will be going home for surgery and that
she will be leaving Tuesday (tomorrow). That was not a happy moment right
before we go to the temple, but luckily we had a missionary in our zone who had
gone home for surgery and returned so we had him call her and calm her fears.
And the we were off to the temple, since it was a 730 session we would not have
been able to make it back to Belle Glade at a reasonable hour, so we spent the
night with some missionaries in Ft. Lauderdale. It was a great experience to go
back again and I learned a lot!
Saturday was just flat busy trying to get home and round people up
for church.
Sunday right after church we had to head to a stake meeting in
Jupiter (hour drive) with the Stake President and President Richardson... That
was an interesting meeting... Basically it is us telling the stake president
what the wards need to do better... Its a great learning experience and it is
full of opportunities that help you understand how the church works.
But let me tell you that basically everything that happened this
week taught me about to things that I thought were the same but are not,
Ministering and Administering, a good leader understands that both are key to
creating growth and improvement. They are different but essential and
necessary. And just these meetings this week I know have helped me prepare
better to serve the Lord in whatever capacity He needs of me. I don't know why
I had these experiences but I know they were all important.
Anyway I love you and miss y'all
Stay Strong, Push ON!!
ELDER
PARQUE
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