🔸️🔸️🔸️ 2/17/20

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 Hello everyone! 

What a GREAT week!! We saw miracles every single day. We knocked a ton of doors (which is still not my favorite thing) but now have 5 new people to teach! We also set a goal to teach the Restoration 200 times as a mission and ended the weekend with 241! It was so cool. We taught 5 of those in a day😊
We also did some biking this week and had a ton of contacts through that. It has been fun to diversify what we do; to bike one day and walk another. We meet a TON of people! Valentines day was also a blast! A younger couple had us over and we had the best dinner! They smoked brisket for 14 hours, made homemade smoked mac and cheese and homemade cornbread. Then bought us an entire platter of chip cookies! 
We also got to go to the temple as a zone! Is was the BEST!. I absolutely love my mission. The people here are incredible. My companion is the absolute best! She has pushed me in every way and has helped me continue to try and become the missionary God needs me to be. She is awesome! 
This week I was reading a past email from when my grandparents served their mission in Durban, South Africa. My Tutu (grandma😊) was working on growing peppers outside their home and related an interesting analogy. In that Spring, she planted 3 green pepper plants in the front yard in full sun and four in the back mixed around in different areas. After months she reflected on the results. 1 plant in the back produced incredible shiny green peppers, the nicest she had ever seen. The other 3 in the back were doing fairly well producing 1 or 2 peppers at a time, but the 3 in the front yard were producing absolutely nothing. They were in what could be considered the best circumstances, yet yielded no fruit. Then she asked a thought provoking question, "How can you spend the whole growing season doing nothing?"
This made me reflect on my mission and the reality of this being "my growing season". I am in exactly the place the Lord needs me, fully in front with access to the power of the Spirit (full sun), but I have the choice to allow growth to happen. God cannot and will not force my growth. As she spent the whole season nourishing these plants so does God nourish me, but will I accept and apply that nourishment? That is my choice. So when the mission gets hard or stressful, I think of this quote, "there is no growth in the comfort zone and there is no comfort in the growth zone". How true that is! But, regardless I am grateful for ALL the experiences this growth season is bringing me. I know that God desires me to reach my full potential and I am grateful for this time to keep striving to submit my will to Gods that I might be 'a more worthy instrument in His hands'.
I love you all so much!
Sister Callister 





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