I'm leavin today
Well this week has been a rollercoaster! I love Freeport so much. I've
felt like I'm having a farewell all over again!! Everyone is too good
and I'm so happy I got to be here for the holidays because this place
feels like it's own little home to me, and I am sad to leave but I'll
be back.
Christmas was amazing, so many blessings we received and had the
chance to see other people receive as well. The members of Freeport
definitely look out for each other and their missionaries. Everyone
has been here so long it is like family. For Christmas a lot of the
kids from families that still live here came and spent Christmas in
Freeport and then sang in the Christmas program. It was beautiful and
nice to see the chapel so full :)
Normally I would write a long list of the things I'll miss for
Freeport but I think if I do that now I'll cry so I'm not going to.
There are so many funny and crazy and beautiful quirks to this town
but the thing I will miss the most is the people. The grannies and the
Christian rappers and the farmers and all the people we see walking
the streets all the time. The people who tell us god bless and shout
from their porches and the ones that let us right in and the ones that
open their door an inch and the ones who are staring at us out of a
sliver of their blinds as soon as we pull up to the street. And the
WARD MEMBERS. SISTER CORBETT.???? Oh man.. Holy cow. Just everyone
really. They don't even know me but I will miss them all! And that is
what a mission is about. The people. We are to serve God with all our
heart might mind and strength and when you are in the service of your
fellow being you are only in the service of your God. There was a
quote I read by c.s. Lewis about how charity is only charity if it
inconveniences you or prevents you from doing something. In the
question of how much should we give to people the only safe answer is
to give more than we can spare. You know what I am just going to find
the quote really quick, ok here "I am afraid the only safe rule is to
give more than we can spare. … If our charities do not at all pinch or
hamper us, … they are too small. There ought to be things we should
like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes
them." We show our love for Heavenly Father and for his Son by giving
them something of inconvenience or that stops us from doing something
we would want to do. Whether it be 18 months or 24 or 10% of your
income or obedience to a commandment you struggle with or your whole
entire life and will given to God. I can't remember if I talked about
this last week so I will talk about it now. Our mission president
invited each of us to think of a gift that we could give away to our
Savior the Christmas (or New Years;) season something that we can
promise him to either stop or start doing. God so loved the world that
He gave his only Begotten Son, what can we give to him?
I love you ALL and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
Sister Madsen
PS I am going to Galesburg in Peoria and serving with Sister Wallace ✌🏼
This sums up our companionship.
Udderly Adorable
Sister Merkle who I love and sister Corbett with her favorite Christmas gift
Well this week has been a rollercoaster! I love Freeport so much. I've
felt like I'm having a farewell all over again!! Everyone is too good
and I'm so happy I got to be here for the holidays because this place
feels like it's own little home to me, and I am sad to leave but I'll
be back.
Christmas was amazing, so many blessings we received and had the
chance to see other people receive as well. The members of Freeport
definitely look out for each other and their missionaries. Everyone
has been here so long it is like family. For Christmas a lot of the
kids from families that still live here came and spent Christmas in
Freeport and then sang in the Christmas program. It was beautiful and
nice to see the chapel so full :)
Normally I would write a long list of the things I'll miss for
Freeport but I think if I do that now I'll cry so I'm not going to.
There are so many funny and crazy and beautiful quirks to this town
but the thing I will miss the most is the people. The grannies and the
Christian rappers and the farmers and all the people we see walking
the streets all the time. The people who tell us god bless and shout
from their porches and the ones that let us right in and the ones that
open their door an inch and the ones who are staring at us out of a
sliver of their blinds as soon as we pull up to the street. And the
WARD MEMBERS. SISTER CORBETT.???? Oh man.. Holy cow. Just everyone
really. They don't even know me but I will miss them all! And that is
what a mission is about. The people. We are to serve God with all our
heart might mind and strength and when you are in the service of your
fellow being you are only in the service of your God. There was a
quote I read by c.s. Lewis about how charity is only charity if it
inconveniences you or prevents you from doing something. In the
question of how much should we give to people the only safe answer is
to give more than we can spare. You know what I am just going to find
the quote really quick, ok here "I am afraid the only safe rule is to
give more than we can spare. … If our charities do not at all pinch or
hamper us, … they are too small. There ought to be things we should
like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes
them." We show our love for Heavenly Father and for his Son by giving
them something of inconvenience or that stops us from doing something
we would want to do. Whether it be 18 months or 24 or 10% of your
income or obedience to a commandment you struggle with or your whole
entire life and will given to God. I can't remember if I talked about
this last week so I will talk about it now. Our mission president
invited each of us to think of a gift that we could give away to our
Savior the Christmas (or New Years;) season something that we can
promise him to either stop or start doing. God so loved the world that
He gave his only Begotten Son, what can we give to him?
I love you ALL and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
Sister Madsen
PS I am going to Galesburg in Peoria and serving with Sister Wallace ✌🏼
This sums up our companionship.
Udderly Adorable
Sister Merkle who I love and sister Corbett with her favorite Christmas gift
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