Winslow Week Thirteen

Actual phone call on Saturday morning:
Me: Hi! This is the sister missionaries!
Person in our ward: Hello. Did you say you like salad?
Me: ... Yes...
Person: Wonderful. Well we've got a bunch of lettuce for you. Come by the house and pick it up sometime today.
Me: Okay!
Then like 4 hours later we went to their house and they literally had 4 giant bags of lettuce... Good thing I do like my salad! And good thing we have more sisters we can share them with! 

Hello, friends!! I really don't know what to write about this week other than that it was great and it was long!

Probably one of the highlights was going on exchanges with my pal, Sister Smith. I just love her a lot and we had so much fun together on Saturday. One thing I will be eternally grateful for about my mission is just the opportunity it has given me to get to know a lot of people on a deeper level. It's the greatest ever! I have made so many life-long friends and I LOVE it. Sister Smith was in the MTC with me and I've looked up to her since Day 1. She's taught me a lot about seeing people for who they can become and trusting in the Lord's timing. She's amazing. So Saturday was great. :)

I have been thinking a TON about obedience this week because I was asked to give a training on it at our mission leadership council tomorrow. Something I've come to learn is that it will do us little good to be obedient if our hearts aren't in it. The kind of obedience that Christ is asking us for when He tells us, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15), is the kind that requires our whole souls. That's the kind of obedience that Jesus Himself showed in Gethsemane when He said, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt" (Matthew 26:39). Jesus gave His whole heart and His whole soul to Heavenly Father when He said "Thy will be done". That kind of obedience isn't just an act of faith. It is absolute trust and absolute love. I want to have so much love for my Savior and my Father in Heaven that I no longer question what they ask me to do. It's easy to be selectively obedient, but when we get to the point in our discipleship that we can tell God, "If you say it, I will do it", I feel that we have accomplished something great. No, we will never be perfect; we're only human. But do you get what I'm saying? God looks on the heart and I want to have a heart that is always ready and willing to follow where He leads me. And when my heart is hard and I'm stubborn and I make the mistake to try and go my own way, I am thankful that I do have a perfectly patient Savior who can help me back up.

I know Jesus Christ lives and I love Him.

So much love,
Sister Bohman