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I love being a missionary for weeks like this. Miracles haven't ceased, oh by the way we have a new investigator named Miracle. So much of life is good. Even with my runny nose (I blame Elder Rasmussen because he was sick first but forgive him because he's going home to Nashville this week) life is good.
Last Monday, the four KL branch missionaries decided to be cultured and we went to the Islamic Arts Museum. It was SO cool, but I think the gift shop was my favorite part. I love gift shops haha. For Tuesday's district meeting, Elder Ferguson made us play survivor with water balloons, and I just wanted to brag and say Sister Parcell and I won the water balloon toss while the elders got soaked.
Zone conference was this week, I will never get sick of jalan-jalaning to Singapore to see old friends. Ipoh, JB/Melacca, KL, and Sabah zones were there. I was grateful to hear the departing testimonies of some incredible missionaries I served with, Elders Fabiano, Toney, Robinson, Ung Cranford, and Rasmussen. I got to see a ton of Elders from my group and they're tearing it up. I got to see Sister LeBaron and Sister Bourgeois (who are serving in Singapore), plus so many other friends I made along the way. That reminds me, we saw Dorothy, our security guard from the complex we used to live at. When we saw her, we dropped everything and ran to give her a hug. The first night Sister Parcell and I got to the hotel, we collapsed on our beds and I said to her, "We have so many amazing friends here."
This was the most inspiring zone conference for me. It seemed like all the talks and trainings were for me personally, even though I know all missionaries need to hear things like that. I always walk away from zone conferences a better missionary, but this time, I WANTED to be better. "It's easier to run a mission than it is to inspire one." We were all asked to write talks on repentance. We need to live it so we can teach it. Repentance is an incredible gift, and throughout the week, I thought about how The Book of Mormon helped me understand repentance and the Atonement. I am convicted and converted to this gospel because of repentance, and because of Jesus Christ.
Elder Plazier is going to be an apostle. He gave a motivating talk on missionary work, and likened it to players on a team (perfect for the world cup). What stuck out to me was when he said, "Always, always, always be motivated by the why." Championship teams are motivated, championship missionaries are motivated by their testimony of Christ. "Follow this champion." Elder Hunsaker has grown up SO much from when he was my district leader in Singapore. It wasn't as hard to say goodbye to these wonderful missionaries as I tought it would be. President Mains talked to us about the Atonement, and he said, "It's carried me." It was weird to think that even near-perfect, inspired men like President Mains need the Atonement too. We all do.
Because of Him, right? Everything I am is because of Him.
By the way, how beautiful upon the industrial part of Stampin, Kuching, are the feet of she that bringeth good tidings of good? I'm going back to Kuching! I'm grateful because I biked through there with Sister LeBaron a couple months ago. Sad to leave KL, but grateful for my time here. Over and out.
-Sister Wynn
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