our week: (in a nutshell)
tuesday 4pm- left for cauayan (3-4 hour bus ride)
that night- slept in mission home
wednesday all day- career workshop
got xrays in cauayan
left for the busstop at 5:30....
waited...
WAITED...
realized we were at the wrong spot..
7pm .. waited...
the APs told us that my companions (sister v and sister sara) need to also come down to cauauayan. but they have no phone... its with me! so we called our ward mission leader to go on a hunt for them. he finds them. tells them to head to cauayan.
we keep waiting for a bus to take us back to tuguegarao...
its now 9pm.. and the assistants keep telling us to just wait...
so we wait.
and wait.
9:30... sister perkins is now throwing up on the side of the road..
but we're still waiting...
10:30pm... the assistnats call president and guess what he says? "come on over to the mission home, they should just sleep here." hahahahah.
we head to the mission home, crash. wake up at 5 to catch a bus. head home. 30 minutes on the way.... sister clyde starts violently vomitting. her and sister howlett get off to get on a small van. we keep traveling. sister perkins is just this 6 foot 3, white ghost, looking so miserable. finally we get to tuguegaroa, shove ourselves into a tricey and get to the sister training leaders apartment to meet up with our other companions (sister saragoza and vi are still in cauayan at this point). we go back. sister perkins is still a lost cause. its now like 3pm. i let sister perkins sleep, and then my companions get home around 6.
i have no idea if this story is even followable... but just get the point that last week was just normal and bliss, and this week wasnt!!! hahhaa. we got up friday after all that stuff ^ and had splits in the sister training leaders area. came back the next day, did weekly planning, and had a great FULL DAY in our own area. it felt so great! and then on sunday sister saragoza got really sick. so yeah. this week was crazy!
anyway, this week, although messy, lots of traveling, and throwup, it was still good. i learned a LOT at the career workshop and had some time to do some reflecting of my misson and some goal setting for after the mission. it was so good to get instruction from president rahlf and to study with him and his wife 2 nights in a row in the mission home. i honestly have been so blessed as a missionary and am just soaking in everything. my companions are the best and we have so much fun together. sister sara is in her 1st 1/3 of the mission, sister vi just hit one year, and i am going home. its so fun to have us 3 together, we make a good combination :)
Man, I LOVE being a missionary. This week I really had that testified to me. I had a cool experience on one (of the many) bus rides, just talking to a 30 yr old dad with one kid. when i got on the bus, all i wanted to do was zone out and SLEEP, but when i sat down next to him, i just felt like i wanted to talk to him. i pushed that thought away for a minute, and then noticed that he leaned his head back to sleep. i selfishly thought YESSSSSS, he's gonna fall asleep! i don't need to talk to him. at this point, i am just feeling tired- not just physically but emotionally tired too. i was feeling "done" with being a missionary, and honestly felt like i didn't even have that missionary spirit with me anymore. I saw this guys face, getting ready to fall asleep, and the spirit brought to my remembrance the preisthood blessing that I got from the Assistant to the President the night before. I was having a hard time the night after the career workshop, and decided to get a blessing. in his blessing, he, surprisingly, said NOTHING of me going home. Elder Tiejan is very aware that I'm about to go home, but that is not what the spirit had him focus on. He talked completely of me in the work i am doing NOW, the work i am STILL involved in.
as i sat on this bus, his blessing replayed so clearly through my head again. I looked at this young guy, and just prayed so hard, just like i used to when i was a brand new, lost, and fresh missionary. i waited and just told heavenly father that YES i wanted to talk to him. All of a sudden, he got a text. he opened his eyes, read the text, and put his phone away, getting ready to resume position! i thought NOOO this is my chance. I then just talked to him.
And we talked for a good hour. And the spirit was there. I felt that missionary spirit 100 percent again, and felt a love for the work that i hadn't felt the past 48 hours.
I really know God is good and His spirit is available at anytime, its usually just waiting on us.
I love this life I'm in right now, and am excited for another great week. Excited to see you all next week!!!
-Sister Hafen
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