Week 10 - August 10

Home is where the spirit is 

Hey ya'll!!!  I been fixin' to tell you all about this week!! (Sorry, just trying to lock in my inner southern lol!) 

Hearing the way people talk down here is so much fun, except when they are missing so much teeth you can't understand a word they're saying. But seriously I love the people here, and would not be mad if I came home with a little southern accent.

Speaking of teeth...I may have gotten in a fight with my comp and knocked her tooth out...Just kiddingggg!!! Sister Henry is actually a champ. She randomly had her front tooth just fall out on Saturday, and she still put in the effort to make it to our lesson 20 minutes later and then proselyte the rest of the night. Ya, kinda crazy. We are not really sure how that happened buuuut...pray for her that she can get a new tooth out here on the mish! Today for pday we are going to be on the hunt for a good dentist.

Some sad news of the week is that we had to take our two friends off date. One of them possibly because...well...let's hope and pray he is still alive. In all serisousness, he is either ghosting us reallllll good, or he actually might have passed away from some health problems #prayersupforbobby

Some other news of the week...my family is moving! Only after two months of me leaving they realized how much empty space they have now with me gone lol. So next December I'll be coming home to a different house! Don't worry though, for all my friends back home, we are still staying in the ward.

Yesterday at church was amazing. Not only Sacrament Meeting, but the Lord helped bring four friends to church for the third week in a row! Miracles!

Something that was talked about in the meeting that has been on my mind recently is this: No matter where you go in the world, you can always feel at home because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

No matter how different the culture, people, food or places are...there is one thing that never changes, and that is the Gospel. As I have been out on my mission for a couple of months now, I've been pondering how is it that I feel at home even though I am far away from everything that I know to be home. I have realized that I feel at home because I have the Holy Ghost with me. The Spirit is what helps me feel at home no matter where I am because it witnesses of my Heavenly Father and Savior. They are my true and divine home. How comforting to know that as we are baptized we can receive this gift of the Holy Ghost, and always feel at home no matter where we are or what circumstance we are in!!! I invite you all to do everything you can to invite the Holy Ghost more in your life, so you can feel at home, as well as feel comfort, peace, and guidance more abundantly in your life! 

I love you all!!!! So much!!!!!

Sister Ekins