Hello everyone! I hope that all of you have just been doing
wonderful. I am so sorry that I am so bad at doing a post every week, but
oh well I am a very busy missionary so that is a good thing ;). There has been
a lot that has happened so I have a lot to catch all of you up on. It has been
crazy, but good!
To start off I guess I will tell you about the crazy thing
that happened that has been pretty hard for me lately. Today it has been about
three weeks since I found out that my best friend Colt who was serving in Mexico died. It
was on Monday that we got a text from President Cutler asking us to go to the
mission home so that Sister Cutler could tell me the news. When I found
out I was really upset. I was mad and confused. I just thought about his
family and friends and how all of them must be feeling. I couldn't imagine how
hurt they must feel. Luckily this whole experience has just brought me so much
closer to my Heavenly Father. It was hard at first to want to get out and work,
but I did. Me and my companion went out and decided to do service for
others. We put on some work clothes, grabbed some rakes, and went out asking
people if we could rake their yards. Getting out and trying to help others is
what helped me to feel just a little bit better. I realized that by
turning outwards it was helping me to better get through what was
happening. I have since been able to feel my testimony of the plan of salvation
become so real to me. The atonement has played such a huge role in helping
me deal with what happened and my testimony of that has deepened. I
have been able to go out and use that strong testimony to help others. There
are days where it is still hard, but I know that I will be able to get
through. This trial has been one that has been hard to overcome, but one
that I have been able to really appreciate. I know that Colt is happy and
that he is in the spirit world preaching the gospel to those who didn't have
the opportunity to hear it. I have been able to feel the power of the atonement
and become even more like my Savior. He has been here for me every step of
the way. I know that with him I can overcome anything that will come my way!
So this past Saturday we found out about transfers. I found
out that I will be staying in Brookfield
for another 6 weeks :). Me and Sister Reed will also be staying as companions.
We have been through a lot together and so I am grateful that we will be
getting another six weeks together to get some work done and have fun. I am
also grateful that I will be with this ward a little bit longer. By the end of
this transfer I will have been with them for about 6 months!! Crazy!! That's a
third of my mission all in little Brookfield.
My heart is definitely here and so when the time comes to leave it will be very
hard. The ward members have become my family. Especially with everything that
has happened, I have been able to lean on them so much. I am hoping to just
become even closer with them as time goes on. I hope that I never forget
them! :)
These past couple weeks me and Sister Reed have been
focusing a lot on finding. We have had some interesting experiences where we
have been able to really see miracles happen with finding people who are
interested in hearing more. Not all of them want to keep meeting with us, but
that's ok. Since I have another six weeks we are hoping to find even more
people that we can teach.
I am going to be kind of random with this post, so sorry in advance.
I wanted to share a funny/cool/short experience that I had the other day. My
companion and I were in the mall teaching a lesson to this guy named Larry.
When we were done we were saying a prayer and by the time we were done saying
the prayer there was another lady standing next to us who just joined in our
prayer! She said Amen and then just walked away! I thought it was pretty
awesome :)
If any of you were wondering Alex who was just recently
baptized is doing AMAZING! She truly has just blossomed so much. She is coming
to church every Sunday and is always ready to learn. She has helped me so much
to become the kind of missionary that I want to be. Every time that she makes a
comment everyone comments on how smart and intelligent she is with her gospel
knowledge. She points out things that normally we wouldn't be thinking about.
She is just amazing and I am grateful for her. She is also just a great
missionary. She is really working with her family to help bring them the
happiness that she now has. She brings her niece to church with her every
Sunday! She is such an inspiration to everyone.
Well I should probably go now! Oh real quick though there is
one other thing that I wanted to share with all of you. Something that I have
been learning a lot about :). I have been really studying more about the spirit
and how to recognize and feel it. Something that really clicked with me is that
the spirit is anything that invites us to do good! How have I not gotten that
before?? For some reason now it finally clicked! I am just really trying to
listen better to the spirit and trying to really act on what I feel it is
telling me I need to do. I know that if I am able to learn this now it will
help me so much on my mission and also for the rest of my life. I love Preach My
Gospel because it has helped me learn so much about this. Also the Book of
Mormon is amazing.
I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful week. If
you ever have any questions for me please ask! My email and address should be
up somewhere for you to find it. I love getting letters, although I don't
always write back right away, which I am sorry about! I just love letters
though so if you want to send me anything in the mail I would be happy. I hope
you have a miracle week :)!
Love Always,
Sister Brewster <3
Being a missionary is the best. I am so excited for Robin, she is going to be a great missionary! ;)
