Have
I Done Any Good?
Family Dearest!! Oct. 13, 2014
Happy Monday! I hope that your week has been
fantastically wonderful! I seriously feel like I hardly even remember
mine. I'll never be able to catch up with how fast time is flying!!
It is getting pretty chilly up here fast, and members have been saying they've
seen signs that we're going to get snow soon....(please be wrong,
please)!! We'll just have to wait and see!
There were a bunch of things that happened this week, all
starting out with driving down to the mission home to stay the night on Monday!
:) We had our new missionary training meeting Tuesday, and it was so much
fun! I loved being able to see all the awesome missionaries there and feel the
motivating and renewing power of the Spirit! Training this time around
has been less stressful, I feel like, and Sister Maxwell is just the
bomb! She knows so much about the gospel,and I feel like I'm learning
much more from her than she's learning from me. We get along really well,
and we've already made some great memories! So, the drive back after the
meeting, we went through Franconia Notch, and it was beautiful!! Can I
just say, I love New England! :)
This week we've been able to see some great miracles with members.
We've been having regular meetings with the bishop, which has been super
helpful! We had dinner at his house this past week, and it was pure
entertainment the whole time. I just love their family, they seriously
have the wittiest children I've ever known! Anyways, we've been able to
meet more less-active members this week, one who came to Young Women's and two
who showed up at Sacrament meeting! :) It was so great to meet them, and
we're going to start meeting with one of them! I've definitely seen how
important it is to work with members as I've been serving in this ward.
They have such strong desires to do missionary work, and they've been reaching
out and serving a lot of different people, which has been awesome! We
really wouldn't be able to do effective work without them! Another cool
thing was that we had a mini-mission with Whitney!! :) Whitney has been
working on her mission papers for a while and is going to get her call
hopefully soon. She is just totally awesome, and we had a great
time! She stayed the night with us Thursday and went out with us all of Friday!
It was super fun, and we got to go to far out places in our area we hadn't been
able to work in too much and met some great people! She is such a huge
help to us, and totally the greatest ward missionary ever (also, the first ward
missionary I've ever got to work with :))!! Being able to serve with the
incredible members in New England has been one of my favorite parts of being a
missionary!
Saturday and Sunday were such great days in a lot of
different ways. I've never met so many people that speak so many
languages other than English in my life!! It was pretty much like the
whole world decided to go on vacation to Littleton, NH this weekend :)
Best thing ever! Every other person we talked to could only manage to get
out the word 'tourist' before continuing on, it was too fantastic! :)
But, what was even better was that we were able to do a lot of service!!
We helped with a project the Red Cross did to help educate people about house
fires, which can happen super easily in these beautiful, but old New England
houses with their wood stoves and such. It was a lot of fun running
around leaving fliers on houses door to door with the members in our bright
yellow 'helping hands' pennies :) Dream come true, I've always wanted to
wear one of those things!! It made me happy to be able to help! And
after that, we helped Sister Davis, a member who has been having health problem
after health problem come up, clean and start to unpack her house. She
was so grateful we came, and she was a lot happier when we left than when we
got there. What I loved was how everything about Saturday tied into
church on Sunday. Fast and testimony meeting was amazing. There
really are a lot of trials many members in the ward are working through right
now, but the love and support they all give to each other is so strong, it is
incredible! Then, in Relief Society we talked all about love and
service. Service was a big theme I saw throughout General Conference, and
I've definitely gained a testimony of it this past week, and really, my whole
mission. I love being able to help others who need a helping hand!
What a great example the Savior has set for us! It humbles me and brings the
purest kind of joy I've ever felt. Being able to serve God by serving His
children is a wonderful opportunity, and I want to make sure I take every
chance I get to be able to do acts of charity in any way I can for the rest of
my life :)
Well, I hope that you all have a great week! Love you
so much!
"First observe, then
serve!" -Linda K. Burton
Sister Bergeson :)
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