Transfer call....
So
just one hour before we got the transfer call, I read the scripture to
our investigator (Mulden, he is soooo awesome!! I'll tell you bout him
in a minute): "Trust in the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and lean
not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He
shall direct thy paths."
This is so true. Now, more than ever, I need to remember this.
I'm
no longer serving on Pohnpei. I have been transfered to Saipan. Sisters
haven't served on the island for a couple years. I will be training,
and learning Mandarin Chinese. We won't have an area, we'll get any
referrals for Chinese speakers and go teach them. Saipan is 20%
Chinese.... So TONS of people to teach. I left Pohnpei less than 3 hours
after I got the call. Talk about packing FAST!
This
is the last thing I expected. I LOVE Pohnpei, and I am going to miss it
sooo much. I feel like I was just getting a hold of the language, and
the culture, and the people. Sister Fehoko and I had so many
investigators on date. Sister Fehoko also left Sekere: She's going to
Mesihsou with Sister Russell. I hope the Elders take care of our
investigators!!
Sister Pokipala is also going to open an island to sisters: Kosrae. Sister's have never served there before.
This
transfer is totally crazy. But I know that it's what the Lord wants.
I'm not going to sugar coat it: I'm nervous. It's going to be hard. I
just barely finished training. I don't know Saipan, I don't know the
people. But what I do know, is that I went to Pohnpei for 12 weeks for a
reason. I learned a little bit of Pohnpeian for a reason. And now I am
going to Saipan for a reason. All I can do is hope and pray Heavenly
Father will give me the strength, knowledge, and faith I need to be a
tool in his hands.
So here I am on Guam, got
here at 4am this morning. My new trainee flies it tomorrow night. We fly
out to Saipan on Thursday. Then we dive in and get to work.
Ok,
enough of the transfer call. Sooo much happened this week, and I'm
afraid I don't have time to explain it all. So I'll try to sum it up
best I can.
Mulden is super
cool. I think I mentioned him in my last email. If I didn't, someone
tell me. But he's been reading all the stuff we give him and if he
could, he would baptize right now. He said (two days ago? I dunno, they
all blur together) that he is ready right now to take the Gospel to his
home island, Mortlock, which is an outer island of Chuuk. They don't
have any missionaries there right now, so that's super cool. Hopefully
the Elders will get him pamphlets and Book of Mormons to take to him.
Cartwright
wants to be baptized SO bad!! He has done a complete 180 turn around.
President wants the mission to memorize 2 Nephi 31. So one day I was
reading through it, and felt impressed to give it to Cartwright to read.
He read it, and when we came back, that's the answer he said he was
looking for. Part of the chapter that talks about the straight and
narrow path is part of a song he made up when he was really low years
ago. He said, "Lord, please take my hand and show me the straight and
narrow path to return to thee" Or something like that. He stopped
drinking Sakau and stopped smoking weed. He is so ready to be baptized. I
really hope the Elders keep up with him. He needs the strength and
support, because I know Satan will work really hard on him. Sunday he
said he almost didn't come to church because his brother offered him
weed, and it was raining a lot. But then he remembered that he wants and
needs to be around good people, who will support him. And so he kept
walking, and came to church. Super cool.
Another
big thing that happened this week is Elder Holland came. I wish I had
more time, but it was really cool to hear from him. He pounded the
pulpit a bit though, told the mission that just because we are spread
across 1.5 million square miles apart, doesn't give us the liberty to be
disobedient. We have to be self-sufficient. The Lord trusted us to come
to this mission, and so we have to show that His trust was well placed.
Forgot
to tell you that this week I was focusing on Faith. Good thing too,
that's what I needed. If I had to say one thing about faith, it'd be
faith is trusting in the Lord. It is so important. I can't begin to say
how important it is. It's so hard, but, just like Nephi said, "I have
trusted in my God, and I will trust in Him forever". I know He will not
let us down.
This week I will focus on Faith again. I think I'm gonna need it :)
All is well. I am going to miss Pohnpei, so much. Some day I will go back and visit.
Saipan, here I come.
I poakepoakekumwail. Ya'll are in my prayers.
Sister Springer
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