Email from Motra Bezas - 9/4/14

Here are snippets and pieces of Motra Bezas's email from this week....

Dear Family,

Alright, this week is going to be interesting. I forget to mention that we print off our emails after we get out of the temple and so today when I came to print them off, none of the family had written me. (We've now learned as a family to write an email the night before her p-day, rather than the morning of!) So I just printed off ones that had. So I wasn't at all prepared to reply to any of the questions you all may have. I wrote you a good letter and am planning on sending that today so be on the look out for that. (We received that letter a few days later, and it will be posted above this one.)

Most of my stories I covered in my letter but I do have a good one that I saved just for email.

The Finish missionaries left us this past Monday. It was one of the saddest things I went through so far. I became so close to all of them. Last week though they did In-Field Orientation and found out that all of them got their visas but the solo sister. So she is still here. Let me remind you that this is the first time ever in history with the MTC that Finnish Consulate didn't get to a visa.

I know though that this was meant to happen. Whatever the reason I am not sure on that part, but I know that God wouldn't have had this happen to her unless it was for the growth of someone in someway. I told her that, and she agreed.

This is just background story for what happened. We got back from the temple, and she was requested right away at the Travel Office. They told her that she was to leave in two hours. So all us sisters helped her pack and had her bags weighted and were good. So then we headed over to the travel office to get a picture. Then she found out that she was not going to be leaving until - at the soonest Monday - due to her mission president being out of the country to welcome her. This was yet again another rejection.

I, even myself, wasn't sure what to think - besides that God knows best and that there is a reason she is being held back.

So now just 20 minutes ago, I was talking with her as we were doing laundry, when she told me they gave her NEW flight plans... scheduled for Monday... this is her fourth set of plans she has received. I try to imagine what I would do if I were in her shoes, and I honestly don't know how I would react to that! She says that it will be an adventure for her.

Things are going well here. The language is coming, and I'm learning more and more everyday. We have been the past few days starting to review. I can't believe it! We have now finished learning all the new concepts, and now we are putting them in real use.

It is honestly weird to think that in about two or so weeks we will getting our own flight plans. I've been here for 5 weeks. That is sooooo crazy to me. But I know that the Lord is here for me as I go throughout this big adventure I am on.

Something that I've really seen this week is how much God loves me completely and that He knows me and my name and knows my strengths and weaknesses. God is our loving Heavenly Father and we are his Spirit Children. I know this without a shadow of a doubt. :)

The purpose of why I am here is to have people gain their own personal connection with God and their Savior Jesus Christ. I can't wait for the day when I go and touch lives with Jesus Christ's great light and love to all those that I come in contact with. I love you all so much! Thank you again for all your words of wisdom and comfort. They mean the world!

Love, Motra Bezas!