Hello
This week is the start of my 3rd transfer out in the field. On Saturday night I found out that Hermana Knecht and I will both be staying in Lebanon for another transfer!! We were really happy to hear that news! Listening to transfer calls is really intense, haha. We are losing Elder Alarcon, he is a good guy and he is being transferred. We are getting Elder Miller, who is a visa waiter for Argentina, but he has already been in TN for 6 months. We are excited to get to know him!
This last Thursday we had a great Zone Conference with our mission president and we got to listen to them for the last time :( They truly are amazing people and a great example to us all). The dedication their family has to the Lord is amazing and the fact that they stayed out here through Sister McKee's heath trials is incredible. They actually just released a story about her in Mormon times or something like that. President McKee gave some really good thoughts before he left. One of the things he talked about was that the only gift we can give to God is our heart and our will. God owns everything we have from our money to our talents our homes and cars. He can take away those things from us in a minute, but he does not own our will. In life we will be blessed if we are ready to go do what the Lord commands us. The McKee family is a great example of going and doing what the Lord wants them to do.
As I reflect back to before my mission, it sometimes amazes me how much I didn't understand about the church. Being on a mission has made me so aware of the things this life really holds for us and has helped me understand what things are important. Every day I am out here I grow more and more grateful for the life I have been blessed to have.
This next transfer Hermana Knecht and I really want to work on doing the best we can with the things we can control and then forget about the things we can't control. On a mission sometimes you wish that you could take people's agency away and make good choices for them, haha. You know the blessings that the Gospel will bring them, but they sometimes just can't see it. As missionaries, all we can do is be a good example to others and help them to see the blessings God has in store for them and then let them do what they want with the knowledge they receive. I can imagine this is a little taste of what being a parent will be like, haha.
I can tell that so many things I am learning here is going to bless my future family. This mission is really molding me into the woman that God wants me to be and the wife that he wants me to be. I have really been learning the skill of having patience with myself, my companion, and the Lord. I hope that I can take these skills I am learning and keep them with me the rest of my life. I know that I still have a lot more to learn in this next year of my mission and I hope that I can continue to learn how to match my actions with the Lord's will!
I am so grateful for the blessing I have to be on a mission, I would not trade the world for this experience. Even though I have been missing things at home, I would not have been able to have grown so much if I would have been home. I would hope that everyone who has the opportunity to serve a mission takes it because I can testify of the amazing experience it is.
Love
Hermana Ayre
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