I was in Cleveland this past weekend for a "Girl's Weekend" with Sharon, Heather and Susan S. I had such a nice, nice time, I felt like I was dreaming - we arrived on Friday afternoon, I was served good wine (there IS something about "You get what you pay for" and wine) and had a massage. Ahh. Somewhere in that evening, in that state of relaxing conversation, Sharon was telling us how she had been wrangling with either staying in the Spanish cong. or going back to an English cong. She and her husband had been in Spanish for 9 years, but he died last year, and she didn't know if she could continue going to Spanish without him, the reminders of him being gone were there every meeting . . .
She talked with a brother about it - I think she said her C.O. - and he said to her, "Would the hole that you would be leaving in the congregation be bigger than the hole you would be filling in the new congregation?" He told her that they needed brothers and sisters with years of history and experience in the truth, and now that her husband was gone, she was the person with the most years of experience in the truth in the congregation. . . that they needed her. She has decided to stay for now.
She says after 9 years it is still hard - she says she has to be very, very diligent in her personal study because there is still so much at the meetings she doesn't get - but that her comprehension of the language continues to get better - she says she'll plateau for a while and will feel like she isn't getting anywhere, and then she will grow with it. I add this comment for the both of you, Shonda and Julie.
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