Aloha to my favorite people! :)
Just a few odds and ends
before I get to the meat of this week:
I got to work in the
Peanut Butter factory of the church this week. I worked so hard I rubbed my
right hand raw; it was AWESOME!!
Remember how there is only
one set of missionaries to an area? Well this week one other Hermana in another
area and I swapped places for a day. It was so hard and so fun! I also got to
take this picture of Downtown Houston!
I got a question from a
kind and beautiful soul this week about what a day in the mission is like. I
wake up exactly at 6:30, and then my companions and I go running for
thirty minutes. Then we shower and get ready for the day. Then I read the
scriptures for an hour, study with my companion for the next hour, then study
Spanish for an hour, and because I am in training we then do training stuff for
an hour. Then we eat lunch and hit the road. We then go teach people all the
day long. In Spanish. If we don't have people to teach we go and look for them
in a variety of ways. This is called contacting. We go home at 9:00 pm,
plan for thirty minutes, and then we get ready for bed and are in bed at
10:30.
When I first got to the MTC (CCM) I had
a really hard time with waking up exactly at 6:30 because I was so
tired. The one day, I was reading about the end of the life of Jesus Christ
when he was suffering for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane and his apostles
were sleeping (This is all in Matthew 26) and he kept asking them, in the Madison
McCurdy translation, can't you just stay awake for an hour? Here the Son of God
is carrying the sins of the world. He is more than exhausted and yet he is
still being exactly obedient. This hit me in my heart. I am as a representative
of Jesus Christ. This is his year and a half, not mine. He is not asking Peter
to stay awake, he is asking me. All he asks is for "me" to stay awake
for a single hour.
After that I have not had
a single problem staying awake or getting up.
God is not only asking me
to stay awake, he has also asked for this year and a half of my life. The more
I experience it the more I am glad that I gave it to him. When I chose to give
him the reins he has began changing me and helping me grow. How I am excited
for the next 15 1/2 months too!
I love you guys!! Try to
stay awake that extra hour this week and I know you will get so many blessings.
That is the great thing about the gospel. The more you give the more God gives
in return. That is the beauty of my message. :)
-Hermana Madison McCurdy
The Peanut Factory
Shakes
Beautiful Houston
Feeling French
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