Hello hello! Its transfer week and byebye royal oaks its been fun!! Love these weird people here
Im here in Salem 1st area (still in Keizer Zone) its literally just the area right next to royal! Im with sister shirley and shes this is her second transfer so technically im training her (idk who thought that was a good idea )
Shes very awesome tho!
(Sister beauchat is training in royal oaks so prayers up to her haha)
Butttt last few days in Royal oaks went like this —
Tuesday – saw many little miracles! I saw this random less actives name and told my comp to call him and he was super happy to hear from us and later texted us and said he usually doesn’t answer unknown numbers but felt he should, and he said now he’s going to start coming back to church!!!!
Wednesday was so sad! Had to say goodbye to some people well only like 3 lol but we went and said bye to ryan and bina and glory, it was so sad 🙁 they have just been such a blessing in my first 2 transfers of my mission! Bina said a prayer for us and it was just a super special experience hearing her pray for us! They kept being like are you ever going to come back and i was like oh my ya just to see yall! Anywho im going to miss them so much
Thursday was transfer day! And it was such a long day but its been hard because all i know is royal oaks so now im kind of going into everything not knowing anything and i dont know how to like best help becasue i dont know this area you know but im still driving which is fun! And the Willamette river goes all through this area and we go do our morning calls and studies there so thats pretty but makes me want a fishin pole and i want to catch some fish lol
Oh my glory also they have the cutest church building here!!! I have a pic of it in my photos! Its so darling i love it
Friday started the day off strong lol then we had a member lunch at a lil mexican restaurant and my comp has celiac and turns out she ate some gluten we didn’t realize and then a few hours later she just got more and more ill then she was like bout to barf and i said not in the car so i skirt skirted my way over to the church and kicked the elders out and she sat on the baño floor while i called our member to cancel dinner then the elders to come back for a priesthood blessing then a member to help with the blessing then the elders to tell them to wait anywho i was like cooking it up and then she got a blessing and we came home and i cleaned and read the scriptures lol
Saturday was good and busy im just trying to figure out what im doing again lol
Sunday had church, this actually a good ward too!
Met some people that lived in Loma Rica for a lot of years! The Fuentes’ so thats cool got to talk about a lot of people who we both knew!
Its also fun because one of the elders we ward share with was my first district leader elder wagner so its fun 🙂
Gratitudes
– royal oaks i miss it
– Sleep!! Been sleeping like a rock recently
– Rain! Its been raining a bit again 🙂
– The Willamette river!!! I love seeing it everyday
– BYU winning (shoutout )
I’ve been thinking a lot about our covenants at baptism. The one that has been standing out is take upon the name of Christ. And sometimes i feel like it can be easy to just hide it, easy to just live a life not fully taking upon the name of Christ. And a scripture i read recently said, “Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ?” And this made me think, why, why would I be ashamed, Christ loves us so much that He died for us! We need to take His name upon us because He took our name upon the cross and gives us the opportunity to be made clean, to live with God again, and to be resurrected! So this next week make an effort to more fully take upon the name of Christ in your life!
Well… i love you all bye
– sister martin
