SURPRISE!! I Have a New Companion

Wow, it's been a week. Let me take you back to the very beginning (a very good place to start). So here I was Monday afternoon Nerf Gun in my hand, war paint on my face (our Nerf wars are very intense here in the Nampa mission) when Sister Black comes running to me with her phone and tells me that President wants to talk to me. It doesn't matter if you are the best missionary in the field or the downright worst, whenever you hear you have a call from President you break out in a sweat. So I awkwardly grab the phone and ran into an empty room and say "Hello?". He then proceeds to tell me that this new sister was coming into the mission on Wednesday and that I was going to be her new companion. Of course, my first thought was "yea I'm so excited" but then I realized "THE TRIO IS DEAD!" It's quite depressing actually. Trio life is awesome. You can go anywhere, you can see anyone, and life is just pretty entertaining. The great news though is that I still am living with Sister Black and Pace, so I’m sure we will still have many good adventures together.

So on Wednesday, I left the mission (dah dah dah daaaaaahhhh) to go to the Boise Airport to pick up Sister Robertson. That was a fun time. i got to meet a bunch of families who had their daughters and sons coming home from their missions. They were all so excited and I cried literally EVERY TIME they came through the gates. Oh goodness, I'm going to be a wreck when I come home. Sister Robertson's flight was also way delayed so I was companion-less for like two hours. I thought I was going to die. I was so glad when she finally showed up. 

Sister Robertson is the sweetest person in the world. The reason why she awkwardly came in the middle of a transfer is because she was assigned to serve a mini-mission before. She has now been out for about 4 months and she is so amazing at missionary work. We are going to baptize nations, my friends. (not really but we are gonna work really hard and I'm excited). 

Another great thing that happened this week is we had Elder Natrice come and speak to our mission. He is amazing and taught us so many things. After the big surprise of me being emergency transferred, you would think that I would get a break for a while hahaha but no. So while we were eating lunch, President came over and pulled me aside (the sweating again ensued) and he told me that Elder Natrice wanted to interview me. Apparently wherever he goes out into the mission field, he chooses a couple missionaries and just talks to them and councils them on what they need to do in their life. Wow so that was neat. I talked with him and his wife for about 20 minutes. I told them about my life and they told me about theirs and then Elder Natrice proceeded to promise me blessings if I would do certain things. It was amazing and if any of you know me I was definitely in a puddle of tears. He is just a very inspired man and he knew exactly what I needed to hear to calm my fears.

So now with two huge surprises, surely you would think "Sister Aase there just can not be anymore" but alas I have not even told you the best one. After we got home from Elder Natrice's amazing meeting, the phone rang and immediately I started sweating because I just assumed it was President, but it wasn't this time hooray. It was this man who told us his girlfriend wanted to take the missionary lessons. Dah. That never happens. So we went over there and she is golden. Like really golden. Her name is Bekkah and we are so excited to teach her. 

So yes, long crazy busy exciting shocking week, but I have loved it. I know that my Heavenly Father knows and loves each of us perfectly. He knew that I needed to be with Sister Robertson and He knew that I needed to meet Bekkah and He definitely knew I needed to be uplifted by Elder Natrice this week. I promise He loves us, and I promise He knows us, and I promise that through the inspired and holy scriptures we can learn to love and know Him too. 

Sister Aase