Week 30: wyoming wins

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are hopeful for the new year:) I sure made a lot of goals for 2021. The first of those is to learn how to build a fire so I can get a little more respect from the people around here HA. But truly I'm so excited to learn more about my Savior Jesus Christ this year and become more like him. I found out this week that I'm staying another transfer here in Pavillion which I'm hyped about! There are still people here that I need to meet and I guess I'm just not cowgirl enough yet to leave;)


Here's some highlights:
- Had a wonderful Christmas spent with the zone! In the afternoon, we walked through the halls of  nursing homes and sang Christmas Hymns to the people there! It was so sweet, they all opened their doors to hear us and it made them so happy.
- On Christmas Eve me and SisterJepsen went in one of the stalls of our barn and watched the Christ Child. It was so spiritual and humbling to be in a place similar to where Christ was born. 
- I got a cold, so of course I had to get a Covid test and quarantine for a few days so that was a blast!! No really haha I was dying being trapped inside.
- BUT MIRACLES  because the Sunday we were quarantined 4 of our people came to church:) 
- Met the sweetest old lady named Patty who's less active. She let us right in when we knocked on her door and she told us she'd been feeling lonely all day and we were an answer to her prayers! She's 92 years old and is incredible at the piano. So we got to listen to her play and share a sweet message with her!
- Got cussed out a few times by some grumpy cowboys who apparently "moved to Wyoming to get away from folks like you!"
- Finished the Book of Mormon again! My testimony has grown SO MUCH as I have studied and prayed about its words. I love that book.
- Went ice skating on a frozen pond with some part member families and had a fire and roasted hot dogs and LIVED THAT WYOMING LIFE!

Not gonna lie, this transfer has been hard. It's been very difficult to find new people & to help others progress and keep commitments. Soooo many times I've asked myself if I'm even doing any good here. But my guy Elder Holland helped me feel a lot better: 
"When you struggle, when you are rejected, when you're spit upon, and cast out, and made a hiss and a byword, you are standing shoulder the shoulder with the best life this world has ever known. The only pure and perfect missionary that has ever lived."

How lucky am I to get to serve beside my Savior every. single. day? He fills my heart with love and strengthens me during my toughest times. I love Him! 

Tanto Amore,
Sis Pitt













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