July 14th TRANSFERS

July 14, 2014
TRANSFERS! I'm staying in the blessed land of Brantford :) And Sister Hansen is going to Oshawa!! She's going to love it there. Sister Fisher is going to be my new companion!! She's so incredible!! She's from Figi :) So I'm excited to work with her.


This week was a good one! We met with Racquel and Paul yesterday and that was the first time in two weeks. We had walked to their house and it was a super hot day so they gave us ice cream sandwiches and water as we read the Book of Mormon with them! Then they drove us to our next appointment in Paul's 50 year old Studebaker! It was sweet! I love them so much!


We also had interviews this week so President Clayton could get to know all the missionaries. It was combined with our Zone Training meeting and it was fantastic! The Clayton's showed us a slideshow of their family and introduced themselves before getting into the interviews and instructions. When President Clayton started the interviews Sister Clayton instructed and she started off with us teaching her how to say "hello" in as many languages as we know! Because this mission is a melting pot, we came up with tons!! Then she talked about three main points: 1) Begin with the end in mind 2) Empowered and authorized people 3) A successful missionary. It was so good! Sister Clayton was born to be a missionary! And you can tell that she just loves it so much!


We went on three exchanges this week. Two were back to back, Friday and Saturday. I was in London for both of them. Both are bus areas and it was SO fun to get back on a bus!! I missed it a lot! The first day was July 11, so it was 7/11 and there were free slurpees at 7-11, so guess what we got during our lunch hour? Yup :) Slurpees. It was about 36 degrees Celsius the next day and we were walking for about 7 or 8 hours that day! I got a pretty nice sunburn! Welcome to summer in Ontario!


2 Nephi 4 will always be one of my top 10 favorite chapters of scripture, and I read it this week. Verse 34 stood out to me. "cursed is he that...maketh flesh his arm." I remember reading somewhere that in the scriptures, an arm represents strength or power. So when it talks about "God making bear His arm" it means He is going to show forth His power. So when I read this verse with that insight in mind, it made more sense to me. When we make flesh (human, carnal, mortal) our power, we won't get far if we get anywhere at all. But when we rely on the power of God, that is when we become free. I know that is a true principle. There were a few days this week that I knew I was using strength beyond my own even just to walk. I have seen too many miracles and had too many witnesses to deny this power. It's real and absolute.


I hope you all have a great week!
Love and Prayers, Sister Felix
"We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues." -Thomas S. Monson


Here are pictures of Paul and Racquel and the Studebaker!
And I'm not looking at the camera on the other one because I was driving :) Valid excuse.