Hey!
I had a pretty good week! We had exchanges with our Sister
Training Leaders, and it was so great. I went to Goldenrod with Sister Pugmire.
She and I came out together and I have always looked up to her since the MTC.
She is a really good missionary and I learned a lot from her. She basically
just told me how great of a missionary I was the whole time! It made me feel so
good! I needed it because I tend to beat myself up and be really self-critical.
So something I took away from it that I am going to work on is giving praise to
others! I have never really been good at that because I'm not very like...the
type to express my feelings and stuff? I guess. Anyway, I am going to pray to
see other's strengths and tell them about them. Sis. Pugmire said that when she
did that and really focused on the strengths that other people had, she was
able to not focus on her own weaknesses and to see her own strengths more! It
was exactly what I needed. It's kind of hard to explain by typing it out so
sorry...
Everyone is doing pretty well. Khalil and Carlos both came
to church. Along with two less active guys and a girl we just met on campus and
invited. We have appointments with all of them this week! Which we need because
it is finals this week then summer break again. So we will need extra prayers
haha. So cool story: We have shuttles that go from campus to most of the
apartment complexes around the area. So if we can't bike we can jump on a
shuttle. I don't know if anyone is familiar with air drop but we have it on our
ipads with bluetooth. So it's kinda like snapchat a little bit. Anyway, we were
on the shuttle and this guy's airdrop popped up so we dropped him a picture that
said I am a child of God. He dropped a picture back and we did again. It was so
funny we were trying to not to laugh out loud. We talked to him when we got off
the shuttle and invited him to church. He said he just moved here and needed to
find a church! So we got him a ride and he came! Turns out he is a member!
Crazy! It was a pretty cool little miracle :)
Another cool story and my plug for member missionary work! I
sucked at being a member missionary before my mission. But I got a wedding
announcement this week that made me so happy! Travis Hammer coaches wrestling
with my dad and I met him right before I came on my mission. I was giving the
prayer at stake conference so we invited him to come with us. He did and we
went to dinner after and he really enjoyed it! He ended up learning from the
missionaries and being baptized. He is now getting sealed in the Salt Lake
temple! It is so amazing how one tiny invitation can go so far. All we have to
do is the simple invite, and the Lord takes care of the rest! (Alma 37:6) So
congrats to Travis! :) I also got Kendra and Zack's announcement this week!
Super cute! They are two of my best friends and I am so happy for them!
We also had interviews with President Berry this week! It
was good. He told me to be happy and to finish strong. You know it's soon when
even your mission president mentions going home. That was my last interview! I
love President Berry so much. He is truly inspired and cares so much about each
of us. What a blessing! I love serving the Lord right now. Sometimes it's weird
to see that other people's lives are still going and mine is kind of on pause,
but I know this is the best thing I could be doing and I wouldn't rather be
anywhere else.
Love, Sister Lowry
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