NC Members are Wonderful!!

Sorry I didn't post anything last week. I was supposed to post pictures from Christmas, but with the holidays I didn't get around to it. So this is this week's email & I will post the Christmas pictures afterwards. This comes from the email to the Mission President:
I will start with one from this weekend. As Sister B and I began to regain health, we were blessed with many exchanges with ward members willing to serve us. We had a few "blank" spots in the day and we didn't have the car this week. If it would have been a usual week, we would have geared up for the cold weather and either walked or biked. Because of our ongoing illness, we had to humble ourselves and rely on others more. It truly was a humbling experience. We kindly and graciously asked different ward members that we felt inspired about if they had an hour or two to go on exchanges with us. From Friday at 2pm until Saturday evening at 8pm, we went on visits with 9 wonderful women from Relief Society. I'm confident that there could have been more willing to serve as well. We filled the weekend with meaningful contacts, lessons, all while staying warm and hopefully blessing the lives of the ward members. It was incredible to see how much the Lord blessed us for our pure desires. He knew we wanted to work after being cooped up for so long and he allowed us to do it in a miraculous way.

Another miracle of the week was how Sister B and I received many compliments about our teaching unity. It was amazing to hear. It was not simply because of the kind compliment, but it went a lot deeper than that. Sister B and I both received Priesthood blessings last week when she was sick. I received one of comfort and counsel and she received one of healing. In her blessing, she was promised miraculous blessings that I later found myself wanting to hear such amazing things for myself as well. I felt selfish and ungrateful for my blessing, and I tried to understand the will of the Lord in the whole situation. One specific thing I remember being said in the blessing was that Sister B and I would be able to teach in unity together. Looking back, I am able to realize that the promises made in my blessing were specifically what I needed. I am working to compare myself to others less. This was a fantastic lesson that the Lord helped me learn. I'm so grateful to be able to get feedback from members of the ward as we try to gain super-trust, and also from the Lord. I am learning to align my will more fully with His.