Hey y'all!
[Summary at the very bottom cuz I know not everyone has the time or attention span to read this.]
Every Sunday night our mission meets together via zoom. We receive training, listen to advice from our leaders, and spend time together as the Raleigh North Carolina Mission.
Sometimes the meetings are more informational & sometimes they are more spiritual. Sometimes they feel like a celebration & sometimes I feel chastised.
They're one of the few consistent things in the mission. This helps me love them.
The hermanas are our next door neighbors which means almost nothing, we get to see them almost never. The first Sunday night zoom in this area they came over with cookies they had baked during the zoom. I love these sweet sisters.
Yesterday for Sunday night zoom we went to their house. (They have a house, we have the trailer.) We brought butter to their house too. I'm not entirely sure how the hermanas acquired two large bags of corn but they did. So we brought butter and then after Sunday Night Zoom we ate corn together.
This was the highlight of my week.
To gather round a table with friends is already a beautiful experience. But to each be enjoying corn absolutely dripping with butter. It was glorious.
It was so good to just have a moment with my friends. Corn is also part of Woodington culture. Outside of my trailer is just a field of corn. All the corn is taller than me now.
One time about two years ago my younger brother got taller than me. It was a sad day.
Now the corn is taller than me. I guess I'm done growing tall but I'm growing in the Spirit.
I've been learning to develop more patience. More charity. More faith. I've been really trying learn about hope. This scripture has been haunting me since the beginning of my mission.
2 nephi 31:20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
May we all feast on the scriptures the way my friends and I feasted on corn. Then, as we apply the scriptures we can have eternal life.
I love y'all more than I love corn.
Still holding to the rod,
Sister Owens
Summary: Corn is good. Friends are good. Growth is. The scriptures are good. Love u.
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