Oh
my word. I love my mission. I am in Cedar Falls still but I have a new
companion, Sister Farnsworth. I LOVE HER SO MUCH ALREADY!!!! She is an answer
to the hope I had in my heart for another great companion. She works SO HARD
and is ready to follow the Spirit. We have had the best studies together. And
seen miracles already. Sister Monroe is now in Davenport and I will miss her. I am grateful to have Sister
Farnsworth now. Gosh: can't get over it: she's so great. the beginning of this week
I was getting really anxious to "pass on" the area to her. To make
sure I knew enough about how to get around and all the info about this place
and the people we are working with. Her energy for the work and her confidence
in teaching and feeling the Spirit is a perfect breath of fresh air
to my heart that was beginning to be worried that I didn't know enough. Plus, the
weather turned officially springtime and everyone is SOOOO happy!
We
are currently working actively with 13 people. It's CRAZY! I think in Iowa City
we had like 5. It is a challenge, but I love each of them so much that it's
literally fun to be here. (she told us about all 13! – edited
out)
……
(Sister
Farnsworth..) She is a champion. She has no sheets on her bed (we are buying
them right after this emailing) but that shows you how dedicated she is to
WORK. We have been tryign to plan a road trip to the outlying towns around CF
for 3 months now and it kept not working out. We decided today was the day and
just WENT. It was so cool. Our area expands like 2 hours East of CF (out to
Ackley if you want to Google map it) and we always end up staying here because
we have so much to do here. But we went with a list of less-actives to find
that bishop gave us, with the idea to find people along the way, so we just
headed out.
Coolest
part of the day: We get out of the car in the little town of New Hartford with
literally a dozen streets in town. we meet a guy outside and talk to him and
leave him with a mormon.org card and leave
feeling like we had TOTALLY fulfilled our purpose. We ate lunch on the TINY
highschool's bleachers and had the best talk EVER about how we had become
something truly great because of our past experiences in this world. We drove
to a street and looked for this one house: #522. There was a 520, 521, 530.
We asked a guy on the street and he didn't know. We lingered for a second,
threw our hands in the area and kept driving. For 3 minutes I had a
conversation in my head about what I was feeling. I didn't feel right about it.
I was trying to understand if the Spirit was trying to speak to me. finally I
figured "if it is the Spirit, why not?" I told Farnsworth we needed
to go back. We come
back to the street, got out. We tried one more house...and then we were able to
talk to the random guy on the street again: but this time about the gospel!!!!!
And then we turned around: HOUSE 522!!!!!!! It was completely out of order from
the rest of the street. I thought to myself: this is what I pictured myself
doing in Iowa. This was complete bliss. I felt SO light as we drove
through sunlight and cornfields with the windows down. I LOVE being here.
I love the TEENY small towns and the miracles we had there. God is
truly directing this work. I know that. With my whole heart.
Love,
Sister
Chloe Sumsion
