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| Stopped at a park for a little fun time before an appt. |
I know it’s been a while about me talking about my mission
but my second companion has been on my mind and the difference she has made in
my life. The blessings she was in so many ways so here goes a mission Monday on
my second companion: my “greenie buster.”
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| Our Golden investigator! Most PRECIOUS experience! |
CheyAnn Ross! What a wonderful companion. I actually had the
privilege of having her as my companion twice but first she was my greenie
buster. She was the perfect one for me. Let me explain a few things about Ross.
If I could only pick two words to describe her I would say classy and
confident. I have never met anyone that fits that classification better. Her
confidence is the best kind too because she isn’t really effected by what
others think and she isn’t cocky and self-idling. –In my opinion those that are
confident in that way aren’t really truly confident because they are making up
for something. Anyway she is so classy too. I can’t talk her up enough about
how amazing she was. And being me- very UNclassy and very unconfident she was
what made my world change and many paradigms shift.
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| A girl we thought was already a member- yet another GOLDEN With amazing ward support. |
Being a greenie I thought I knew way too much and my trainer
was awesome and we were OBEDIENT! I had a skewed way of thinking and going to
my new area I thought it would be the same. Now I am not saying we weren’t
obedient but it was different. I remember writing home at the very beginning
saying how nervous I was for the area and companion because it wasn’t going as
I thought it should be. (Man I was so naive.) Ross being her confident self
taught me one of the most valuable things I have held on to since. I don’t know
if I can explain it well but I will try.
CheyAnn had a good relationship with God. I saw it. She emanated
it. The Spirit was there even though I thought we weren’t doing things the ‘right’
way. I realized that people can see things differently and it didn’t make them
wrong and I was right. If she was good with God and I was good with God even
though we did things differently or saw things differently then who am I to
judge that she should do it the way I think its right. (Is this making any
sense?) It helped me realize even more the dumb part of judgment on others. I
have been able to apply this thought process a lot and it has been a great way
of not judging anyone-in any circumstance-whether they are in the gospel or
not.
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| P-day having fun looking at the crazy DI clothes |
Well not the best explanation but it will do. I became very
dependent on Ross which I am sure was HARD to deal with. I was learning, it was
a new way of thinking and I fell in love with how she was, so different than I
and so amazing. I remember also realizing how Utah bubble I was in as we shared
experiences and as I taught. In lessons I would constantly refer to things as
if everyone knows certain lingo, saying the stake or ward is doing…. (and many more things I never really knew people wouldn't know what I was talking about) Ross would have to
take up my slack and explain what I was talking about because I would use too
much lingo and verbage that most didn’t know.
We had lots of fun and I learned a heck of a ton. (that’s a
lot) I know more that she was sent to me than the other way around. The next
few companions I will get back to but at one point I had a break down. I had my
mini Gethsemane and then I got news I was being transferred to none else than
Ross. I was ecstatic-other than leaving one of my favorite areas-I knew for a
certain things were going to get better.
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| P-day with elders hiking! |
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| Service shoveling snow |
Up to Great Falls I went to ‘kill her off’- it was her last
transfer and I got to be her companion. She was sick in this part of her
mission. Many doctors’ appointments but man she was still determined as ever.
Though I was more of a seasoned missionary I fell back to a little too much of
dependency. I KNOW I wasn’t as easy as I could have been looking back. I was
still a little broken from the area before. My confidence was shot, my heart
heavy, dealing with MANY emotions, and I needed to be built up again. Who else
better than someone who is so naturally confident, happy, and great at helping
me out? No one. She built me up and helped me see my worth. I sometimes wish I wasn’t
as hard as I know I was for her. I was the one getting all the gain and I
drained her. So I can’t thank her enough, for merely being her amazing self.
Also for being the one to give so much and take so little. I hope one day she
knows the great change she has made in me. I have come to cherish those
memories.
Disclaimer: I make myself seem like a lame
companion. We had
a lot of fun times, good memories, golden investigator, times where the Spirit
was SO strong, worked hard, loved many and have times of talking I wouldn’t
trade for the world. I just realized later the person I was and the person I
changed into with my time with her. Sure love you CheyAnn (Ross) Prestidge
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| Our great falls amazing view we got! |
