The Spokane Word :)

Ola todas!

Welp! I'm excited to say that I've been temporarily reassigned to serve at least one transfer in Spokane, Washington! My VISA decided to take its dandy ol' time, but it's okay because the Lord has different plans for me. I've heard some pretty incredible things about Spokane too so I'm pumped! :)

I leave this Wednesday for Washington which is super exciting! Both of my companions Sister Scott and Sister Alton are coming with me to Spokane which is super rare because people don't usually get reassigned to the same place as their comps. We're all so pumped, the Lord needs all three of us in Spokane! 

Every week we have people come do a cleaning check on each of our residencies so me and my comps left them a little surprise fort dedicated to our new reassignment (see the pic below) :)

All of the Portugal missionaries got reassigned except for our Australian sisters!

     Sister Fjeldsted to New Hampshire

     Sister Berquist to Arizona

     Elder Matthews to New York

     Elder Ingram to Oregon

     and Sister Hart and Sister Sloper left for Portugal this morning! Watch out Portugal, you're about to receive two of the sweetest sisters I've ever met! Same with New Hampshire, Arizona, New York, and Oregon; all these places are about to become so blessed by my friends!

I'm so grateful for everyone in my zone and district! They're no joke the greatest people alive. I've hated all the goodbyes so far and I'm not excited for more goodbyes. We're already planning a group Lake Powell trip so watch out for the Portuguese!

Something exciting happened this week! The general first presidency sent out a message to all Portuguese speaker sister missionaries. They decided to change our missionary tags from saying "sister" to "Irma" which means sister in Portuguese. This is a super exciting change for two reasons: 1) it's so much more personal because it's a Portuguese name and 2) we all have 4 tags now instead of two :)

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT:

This week, I was studying up on humility this week in the Book of Mormon. In 1 Nephi, chapter 2, is probably the shortest verse in the entire book haha! But I chose to look into it a little bit more this week. It says,

"And my father [Lehi] dwelt in a tent".

For those of you who don't know this story, Nephi is talking about his father Lehi who chose to leave his home in Jerusalem with his family, leaving behind all of his inheritance and riches, to travel into the wilderness because the Lord commanded him to. We know that Lehi had been a very rich man while he lived in Jerusalem because in the next chapter, it says that he had left behind gold, silver, and all manner of riches. But he chose to leave it all and follow the Lord with faith. It's safe to assume that Lehi and his family had probably lived in a nice house/setting while in Jerusalem because of their wealth. This is where this verse becomes interesting... Lehi dwelt in a tent. He left his home, with his family, and chose to follow the Lord. And he went from the highest of living to probably the lowest of living because instead of dwelling in his home, he dwelt in a tent. It's simple, but this is an amazing example of humility. Materialistic things don't matter, following the Lord with faith and obedience is the most important thing. We must humble ourselves as Lehi did and follow the Lord with meekness without worrying about the cares and materialism of the world.

I love you all! Have a great week and be safe out there!

Irma Tayler Cannon:)