WEEK 17 🇺🇲 I'M GONNA BE A MOM

Howdy hoodlums!! So glad It's the day I get to talk to all my favorite people! 📸: https://photos.app.goo.gl/h2MunHpv7FBt582w8 Okie doke, it's lowkey been a really hard week for me and lots of depresso mode things, (such as we have have quite literally no friends to teach) i've worked very hard to try and stay positive and some little birdie told me "we have to choose our hard", soooo.....i'm choosing not to see the hard. Instead, I'll share the good I saw this week, cause no one likes sad things (I don't), plus there's always good eveywhere!!! 🥳🥳 To start off.... 🤑TRANSFER NEWS 🤑 ☆ Alrighty guys.... ya girl Sister Coon is stayin another 6 weeks in Monett.....TRAINING!!! WHAT!! You already know I will be making this a fun transfer for my new daughter!! Sister Nielsen is leaving me quite literally for the next town over in Granby to be an STL (we're in the same stake haha)....ya thats right she's a grandmother now! Im actually so excited! Just a wee bit nervy but the lords got me and I had a good trainer so it checks out. WISH ME LUCK!! Prayers are very much appreciated. Like seriously please, imma need all the help I can get. We have 21 Sisters and 5 new Elders coming in....HOLY! They said by September our mission is gonna be almost 50% new missionaries. So amazing all these missionaries wanting to serve!! Love to see it!! ☆ MERICA DAY!! 🇺🇲🦅💥🎆 RAHHH I love america bro! Our ward had a pancake breakfast and it was bombbb. I got to talk to mi familia WOOO! Sister Nielsen and I needed some uplifting because we both got major FOMO so we stopped to get ourselves some bussaluss ice cream cones 🤩 best idea ever. Later that night the Christensens (our senior missionary couple) had us over for dinner and it just felt like I was at home and I loved every second of it. I will be visiting them fs when I get home. After that we had stopped by the park, where the town does a big festival with a band, food, activities, and I think some carnival rides. We watched the fireworks!!! It was LITTTT Agh I love it so much!! God is so good for blessing us with the 3 F's. - Freedom - Food - Fireworks!! 🎆 ☆ IT RAINED!! We got absolutely drenched but it was the best thing of my entire life! ☆ Sister Nielsens day of Birth!! Woooo My ginger queen turned 20 this week! I love her bro, literally blessed to have her as my trainer 🩷 I love you my mountain climbing, gluten intolerant, bee loving baddie! ☆ MLC-R: I love me a good mission leadership council review because A. Spiritual power boost, B. CHICKFILA and C. I get to see My mission buddies!! Yayayay I love the amazing friends I have made being here. Our district, MOJO zone, and just everywhere! It's a party frrr 😛 ☆ The Cassville Elders in our district brought me an entire box of rice crispie treats 😭 speakin to my big back heart, made my day ☆ I lowkey was ill....I was very much unwell. Its ok I slept it off. I think. 💃🕺YOLO This day was a fun one hahah after teaching our new member about the sacrament, we got in the car and I just started balling my eyes out for about 3 hours because I love Jesus 😂 ya...idk fun times tho. (Poor Sister Nielsen didn't know how to act). If you know me, I don't cry that often, so this whole emotions thing is a new one for me. ☆ I read many... many... many...scriptures and conference talks. Ya girl needed some spiritual upliftment.... the lord always knows best what to say, so where better to go!! ☆ I've found so much joy through our members. Genuinely, they are the best ever. We have had a member meal pretty much every night for the last 3 and a half weeks!! So we've been able to build up the members, but really, they've been building us up more than they know. God blessed me with angel of members for my first area!! Bless up 🙏 That's it!! Now time for the goods... 🎸Jammin for you/me 🎸 1. Free bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. Latch - Leona, albino loan 3. Fortunate son - Creedence Clearwater revival 4. Unwritten - Natasha bedingfield 5. Chicken fried - zac brown band 6. No more tears - Ozzy Osborn Top banger 👌 - Everybody wants to rule the world - tears for fears 🦅 TIME FOR JESUS 🦅 This talk gave me some hope and helped me to realize the true importance of being a missionary. It reminded me why I am here and who I do it for. You know enough october 2008 Elder Neil L. Anderson To start, These are some of my favorite parts of his talk, Elder Anderson talks about: “Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. “Fear and faith cannot coexist in our hearts at the same time. In our days of difficulty, we choose the road of faith. Jesus said, “Be not afraid, only believe.” “You don’t know everything, but you know enough!” Elder Anderson shared a story about a new missionary preparing to head back home. The missionary had learning disorders, a challenging childhood, and an unstable home life. He doubted his ability to speak a new language or even to be an effective missionary. The Elder goes onto say “ I dont even know if god loves me” Elder Anderson had a forceful feeling of the spirit: “ He does know I love him. He knows it” He then goes on to reassure the missionary, “ I must correct you on one thing: God loves you, you know he does.” The Missionary apologized saying, “i do know God Loves me; I know it” He continued on with his mission. That missionary didn’t know everything… but he knew enough. The simple knowledge we have that our Heavenly Father loves us is enough. That is what gave him the power to keep going. These last few months I felt like this missionary. Especially this week. I've Felt like I don't know enough of the Gospel. I doubted myself, feeling ineffective. No….clock that crap bro. The truth of it all is…I know I have a loving Heavenly Father and I am his daughter. I have a loving Savior who bore all my sins, who knows me and has felt all I have felt. I am able to live eternally with my family in his celestial home. That I have never doubted of my Heavenly Father. I don't know eveything…. But I know enough. Be not afraid, only believe! To be true Disciples of Jesus Christ, the good never comes without the hard. We choose our hard. We may never know everything, It comes step by step, line upon line. Having faith in the divine love of our Heavenly Father: “ with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19: 26) Trust in him. Know that you are a child of God. He is aware of each and every one of us, how we learn, who we are, and what we can handle. You know enough. God knows YOU. He will help you!! He never leaves our side, giving us strength. “ [God] giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.” (Isahiah 40: 29) “ For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” (Isaiah 41:13) With God's love, you are enough. He gives us the power and love to do all things. Keep loving. Keep living. Keep trying, and keep looking for joy in the hard! Later!! Sister Coon ✌️ 🩷