Cambios

I remember my first week here an hermana came up to me. She was a missionary who was going home like 2 weeks later. She said that there would be many really good and really bad times on my mission. But that neither of them would last too long. 

Thats turned out to be very true. There are times here of so much happiness! Almost pure bliss when everything goes perfectly and its almost too much joy to handle. And they are cut off quickly by well...just the opposite. I feel like that way today. 

Yesterday I got a call from the president. Its always a little scary to get a call from him...especially the night before cambios. He said he had a new assingment for me..one he has fasted and prayed about a lot. There is an hermana here who is almost at the end of her mission. She only has two cambios left. But in the time she has been here....its been quite the headache for president. I wont go into details. But president said that he was giving her to me as kind of her last shot. I am to teach her how to be obediant and well...be a missionary. 

I got off the phone to my crying little daughter who knew she was leaving. My time with hermana Arndt has just been too easy. Well it wasnt at first...but now it is....so obviously its time for a change. 

We went in to tell the other hermanas what had happened...I think that was the worst part. One of them started crying...and literally screaming...when she heard who was coming to be my companion. I´m a little scared. 

I woke up this morning hoping it would all just be a nightmare. But its not. We packed up my little companions bags and will send her off in the morning. 

I know I should be grateful for this opportunity to really help another missionary and to grow in my patience...but I´m not. I´m just scared and already counting the days till the next cambio. Which is totally not the right attitude. I guess I have tonight to straighten things out in my head. 

Other news...we had the all hermanas conference wednesday. It was super wonderful. I loved every min of it. I dont really feel like writing more today though. 

Have a great week!

Hermana Orchard

ps...good news is my new companion is from peru...which means I will have  absolutly no one to speak english with for a quite awhile! I´m always grateful for opportunities to grow in my spanish!