Aloha family! It's transfer day today and so I have a new companion and a new P-day. So a very interesting thing has happened. I have been selected to start a new program here at the Visitors' Center that has seen great success at Temple Square. It is called Internet Proselyting. I'm not really sure exactly what it is and all I really know is that we will be teaching people online instead of in homes, but that we will have our own "investigators" that we progress all the way up to baptism. Our teaching pool is the whole wide world and it is the proselyting of the future. I'm excited to be trusted with such a huge responsibility of getting it going and successful over here in Hawaii. I have to be re-trained for 3 weeks by some people in Utah and it's going to be a long term calling....at least 3 transfers is what they are saying (which is very long term for up here in Laie). I am really grateful for this new responsibility and I know that the Lord will help us in all aspects of the work.
For the next fortunate event, my new companion is Sister DeArton :) She is the other one assigned to pilot the program here and I am soooo happy! We are really great friends already and we work very well together. It's crazy that we are companions again but very exciting.
For the next fortunate event, we are moving away from the rest of the sisters to a place that has a better internet connection so that we can work from home. That place of residence just so happens to be a brand new condo right on the beach! Haha its so crazy. Our bedroom window looks right out into the ocean. We have a backyard of grass that drops down onto the sand (not that we can touch the sand LOL), a hammock and an outside table and chairs. I will send pictures next week when we are all moved in.
I was talking to Elder Eubank (the VC Director) about everything yesterday and just saying how grateful I am and that is seems to good to be true. He just told me that there aren't very many missionaries that could be trusted with this calling or location of living and so the blessings I have received at this time are directly associated with my obedience. I don't feel like I deserve it but the Lord just asks us to be obedient in all things and He promises to bless us. I think it will be the same when we go to the Celestial Kingdom. All of the blessings we receive will be so overwhelming that we'll ask "Lord, what did I do to deserve this?" In truth, nothing we do will ever be enough to deserve the blessings that the Lord has in store for us. The only thing that is truly ours to give Him is our agency and so as we offer up a broken heart, contrite spirit, and strive to be as obedient as we can, we will see the blessings. Through Jesus Christ and His Atonement, our efforts will become perfected so that we can receive all that the Father has in store for His children.
Serving a mission in Hawaii has been a great blessing and I look forward to many great days ahead! I love you all so much and Aloha,
Sister Stringer
For the next fortunate event, my new companion is Sister DeArton :) She is the other one assigned to pilot the program here and I am soooo happy! We are really great friends already and we work very well together. It's crazy that we are companions again but very exciting.
For the next fortunate event, we are moving away from the rest of the sisters to a place that has a better internet connection so that we can work from home. That place of residence just so happens to be a brand new condo right on the beach! Haha its so crazy. Our bedroom window looks right out into the ocean. We have a backyard of grass that drops down onto the sand (not that we can touch the sand LOL), a hammock and an outside table and chairs. I will send pictures next week when we are all moved in.
I was talking to Elder Eubank (the VC Director) about everything yesterday and just saying how grateful I am and that is seems to good to be true. He just told me that there aren't very many missionaries that could be trusted with this calling or location of living and so the blessings I have received at this time are directly associated with my obedience. I don't feel like I deserve it but the Lord just asks us to be obedient in all things and He promises to bless us. I think it will be the same when we go to the Celestial Kingdom. All of the blessings we receive will be so overwhelming that we'll ask "Lord, what did I do to deserve this?" In truth, nothing we do will ever be enough to deserve the blessings that the Lord has in store for us. The only thing that is truly ours to give Him is our agency and so as we offer up a broken heart, contrite spirit, and strive to be as obedient as we can, we will see the blessings. Through Jesus Christ and His Atonement, our efforts will become perfected so that we can receive all that the Father has in store for His children.
Serving a mission in Hawaii has been a great blessing and I look forward to many great days ahead! I love you all so much and Aloha,
Sister Stringer
