What's shakin Aiken (Dec 11, 2023)

Ok we are gonna start off with transfer news because there is A LOT of change! Soooo sadly I had to leave sis babby, I'm gonna miss her and Charleston and nexton and all the other missionaries over there!! Butttt my new companion is Sister Ray and she is the cutest!!! We served around eachother at the very beginning of my mission! Now for the changes besides companion.... I get to be a sister training leader, we have two wards that we are over, we have both car and bikes anddd we are "technically" the social media STLs. Soooo like a ton of new stuff I get to do and learn and I am so so nervous but so excited!! Anyways that's the big life update, here's some highlights from the week!! -at least once a day we got to see sis Carter and Stirling, ahhh they are the best -went caroling with their district lol -said goodbye to sis Carter :( -met a family in the new ward that used to live in the same house as my aunt and uncle, super random but shoutout Courtney and Josh!! -met addy and Stephen and their fam!! They are amazing and have such a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon! They also came to church on sunday!! -had two ward Christmas parties!! - met another person who is related to someone back home, mind blown!! Ok so this week I read a talk titled, "Broken things to Mend" by Elder Holland! At the very end he shares a poem and this poem is something I felt like I needed to share! In Nazareth, the narrow road, That tires the feet and steals the breath, Passes the place where once abode The Carpenter of Nazareth. And up and down the dusty way The village folk would often wend; And on the bench, beside Him, lay Their broken things for Him to mend. The maiden with the doll she broke, The woman with the broken chair, The man with broken plough, or yoke, Said, “Can you mend it, Carpenter?” And each received the thing he sought, In yoke, or plough, or chair, or doll; The broken thing which each had brought Returned again a perfect whole. So, up the hill the long years through, With heavy step and wistful eye, The burdened souls their way pursue, Uttering each the plaintive cry: “O Carpenter of Nazareth, This heart, that’s broken past repair, This life, that’s shattered nigh to death, Oh, can You mend them, Carpenter?” And by His kind and ready hand, His own sweet life is woven through Our broken lives, until they stand A New Creation—“all things new.” “The shattered [substance] of [the] heart, Desire, ambition, hope, and faith, Mould Thou into the perfect part, O, Carpenter of Nazareth!” Christ is our carpenter. He fixes our broken pieces and makes them new. We carry them to him and allow him to work in our lives and that's when we can be healed! My favorite name for Christ right now is "The Healer". He is my healer, he is yours! ♡/ sis jolley Quotes: "Que la fetch." -elder vaivaka "Enequivecoly fetching bus" -elder vaivaka "That one guy who stood there in silence and didnt do anything, pontius pilate, ya that guy is a piece of work." -random yw "channel your inner fabio" -ward mission leader Pics 📸 https://photos.app.goo.gl/Gg8ekE7nauEZTXrv8 1. be real of the week 2. Said goodbye to the trujillo fam ❤️ 3. Said goodbye to Zhyasia ♡ 4. The district 5. Lockington and Carter! 6. Last 0.5 with Carter 🥺 7. Sister Ray!!!! 8. Said goodbye to Babby:( 🫶🏼