Week 24 - Wedding Bells and a Change of Heart

Hello loved ones!! :D

So my week! Oh this was a good week :) It was time for our 6 month temple trip!! Wednesday we were able to go to the DC temple. It was so so good. Here we live 2 hours from the temple. I don't think I could do that! I am going to have to live closer than that to a temple. It was such a blessing to be able to go. It was so peaceful there.

Next week will be transfer week. I am always excited to find out what will happen! We will know this coming Sunday!

This week there was a wedding! That was a lot of fun! The majority of the decorations have been a big thanks to us sister missionaries. It was so much fun pulling everything together!

And this past Sunday was a really good one. It was a little crazy too. We found out in Sacrament meeting that Bishop Knecht changed all of the Presidencies in the ward! Everything has been switched up. And I am really excited for the ward. 

Our Relief Society class afterward was just so real too. The lesson was on not pretending to be perfect and someone you aren't. Be who you are and be proud of it. We are daughters of God! Now the new RS president just got released from YW president. She is a young mother and there had previously been hard feelings between the Sister missionaries and her. I had only heard a few things like "Oh she doesn't like the sisters because of yada yada yada and because sister so-and-so did this" But before sacrament she came up to us sisters and apologized for anything she had done, and asked for a clean slate. We were like "of course!" and then we found out that she was the new RS president! And then at the end of RS she got up and bore her testimony. And this was one of the most humbling and sincere testimonies I feel I have ever heard. She drew on the board a big heart and said "this is what has been in my heart lately" and with tears in her eyes she wrote the words "hate, mean, anger." She shared how that had been her but that is not who she is. She then erased those words and wrote in the heart "happy, kind, faithful, strong." She shared that those are what she wants in her heart. And those are her expectations for herself as she starts this calling. I am very excited for the amazing things this ward is going to do. These people here are wonderful. And Bishop Knecht and his wife are wonderful too!

Love you all

Sister Nakata

Also I sent the picture of the cupcakes cuz i designed that :)