Sleepy Scorpion🦂🚫 6/1/20

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 Hi everyone! 

I hope y'all have had an amazing week! We have been pounded with miracles and blessings this week it has been incredible. Sister Lunt is just the sweetest! I am so grateful to get to learn from her and serve with her. She is a great example. 
CRAZY experience this week! I found a scorpion on my foot last night! Not. Ok. I panicked and my MVP companion killed it. But it was literally just curled up sleeping on my foot. It was terrible. I HATE scorpions. 
The thought for the week comes from my study during our mission leadership conference. My companion is the Sister training leader so they had me come and I studied based off what was being discussed and I realized something pretty cool(: 
The Assistants talked about helping others realize their potential so I started studying Elder Scott's talk "Realize your full potential". He shares a lot of thoughts about missionary work specifically and paraphrased says that every challenge of missionary work, unique as they are, help us to realize our potential. 
With that in the back of my mind I went to studying Elder Bednar's talk "Becoming a Missionary". He talked about the importance of the word becoming. Too often we get into the habit of saying were going" somewhere. Like "I'm going on a mission". Elder Bednar says that by saying that we are missing the mark. The most common question he gets asked by youth is "how do I prepare now to go on a mission?" His answer simply is "become a missionary now". His consistent repetition to our becoming lifelong missionaries along with another Sisters comment about finding joy in the work we are doing now helped me realize something profound. 
How many return missionaries do you know go and knock doors after the mission? Or street contact? For me, 0%. But how many return missionaries have a Facebook? Or send texts and make phone calls? 100%. Too often we hear missionaries refer to quarantine as 'not regular missionary work' or something were just doing until we go back outside. But with these perspectives into account, I realized that we are learning, right now, how to become lifelong missionaries, and that is such a privilege. 
If we are constantly waiting for an ending to quarantine rarely will we be motivated, but if we truly recognize what we can become right now and how blessed we are to be learning how to use the tools given for lifelong missionary work, then I think that could help us a TON. Such a cool perspective!
I love you all so much!!
Sister Callister
PS I chopped my hair WHOOP WHOOP








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