Happy September 30th at 10:45 PM
It has been a great month serving and smiling!
Interfaith: I got my own desk!!! you guys have no idea how
excited this made me. okay so it's not "mine" it is an extra one for
volunteers but I have room to work and that makes me happy! I have been doing
lots of updating paperwork, organizing and beautifying excel sheets. Things are
starting to pick up, and you can tell that the holidays are approaching!
NEW ASSIGNMENT
Habitat for Humanity Restore: YAY I am so happy to be
serving with Habitat for Humanity again! this time around I am in their restore
in escondido! The first week was mostly me just trying to prove to all the guys
that work there that yes I can lift things and yes I know how to use a tape
measure but now we are groovy, and this last week they got 2 truckloads of
brand new furniture so our job the whole time was to put it all together, and
I found it so fun (so call me for all your furniture making needs haha)!
Temple: It has been as beautiful as ever, from clear blue
skies to perfect "toy story" clouds I love it. Wednesday was my last
day serving there for a while (and sadly got sick and had to leave early)
because the temple is going to be closed for the next 6 weeks for some
renovations.
Family History: We are in a bit of a waiting game for a
short bit, we finished our "yes or no" project and are about to start
a new project! 2 Ladies from Salt Lake came and thanked us for what we did and
shared with us all about the new one that we will hopefully be starting this
week?!
Institute: New semester means new subject and we are
studying eternal families. Every week I learn so much and am always inspired to
change in one way or another to try to be more like christ! The main thing that
we learned the first week of class is that what we learn at institute is all to
help and prepare us to be mothers and fathers. And I love remembering that each
class, that what I am learning matters to me, and to my family and friends now
and in the future.
Old Town: Okay i am starting to look forward to this
assignment more and more every week. I love seeing so many people and talking
with them. The past few weeks I have been in Casa de Estudillo and Seeley
Stables. School groups are back so things are also picking up at this
assignment. One thing I love is meeting members of the Church from all over and
it is super funny how it ALWAYS happens. They will come up and say something
like "oh so they have people from the church in the museums" and i
will say "yeah i am a volunteer through the church" then they ask
about my name tag, I explain service missions, I ask them where they are from
(90% of the time its Utah), and finally I have to ask to confirm "so
are you a member" haha its pretty funny how no one just comes and says
that they are a member right off the bat.
Camp Wildwood: YOU GUYS I am having CWW withdrawals. I went
from being there 2x a week to not at all this month which makes me super sad.
Not really sure why we weren't up there the previous weeks but one week we got
to help serve in another way helping clear out furniture in the old San Diego
Family History Center making room for the SD mission office.
Other:
We had mission conference yesterday and it was so fun! we
had a couple come and talk to us about the power of hymns and we all went in
the choir seats while the sister taught us about notes and symbols in the book/
what they mean, as we learned to sing hymn #128 (which i now love). Not going
to lie our mission right now is pretty small, we barely take up 1/5 of the
chapel and the opening hymn was quietly sang. But as we learned about the
importance of hymns and as about 10 missionaries got to share with us their
favorite hymn and we all sang them together, you could feel the strength, power
and spirit of all of us being united together as the San Diego Service Mission.
Just wanted ya'll to know that I love this gospel and I love
this church! I know that this is the true church of Jesus Christ and was
restored through Joseph Smith. I know that he was a prophet of God just like
the prophets in the bible and I know that Russell M. Nelson is the living
modern prophet on the earth today, that all of the guidance and council he
gives is for all of us directly from God. I am so grateful for prophets and
their apostles through time to be able to learn from them. And I cannot wait
for General Conference this weekend to hear from our living prophets and
apostles on the earth today and hear there sermons on what God wants us to
hear!
If you have no idea what General conference is or have never
seen it and want to here a link all about it:
<3
Sister Owsley
1. friendly competition while waiting after moving furniture
(clearly see who is cheat i mean winning;)
2. put together all these benches and can now do it without
instructions
3. Sister Dotter experiencing for the first time being
surrounded by paparazzi at old town
4. Last Canes run with sister Caudill before she moved
5. temple.....blue skies......perfect (oh and adam)
