Ok so 3/4 of the way through Mom's email I realized that a) I don't
ever actually read the subject lines, which is weird...how can you miss them?
and b) I should read the subject lines haha. Oops.
I absolutely love reading your emails but I never know what to say ha...Not
too much happened that I think you would be interested in.
Oh wait, just kidding. I got my visa! President Toone called when we were
in a lesson and so we couldn't answer but we just knew that's what it was.
We're not really important enough for him to call us for anything else haha. I
was actually really sad when I first got the news, but I've been praying really
hard to be ready when I needed to leave, and I know I will be. I'm here for the
rest of the transfer, we fly out on Monday the 22nd at like 5 pm I think.
President said you'd get some emails about it. Sister Vea and Sis Jardine and
I are all going at the same time, thank goodness!!! I love them so much, and I
would not want to fly all the way to Australia by myself. We fly to LA then to
Melbourne and then PERTH!! It still doesn't feel real though. I'm pretty sure
I said this last week-but then I never remember what I already told you or what
I just thought I told you and so all of my emails are probably exactly the same!
(Pretty sure I did say that last week though...oh well)--but I LOVE the people
here. And I don't like the idea of leaving them, but I know I better get used
to it, because it'll happen a lot. Leaving the area just seems a little
different to me than leaving the country...you know? But I'm getting more
excited to go, I know that it will be great. But yeah, I'll get more details to
you guys when we learn them.
Other than that, it was a pretty slow week, I don't have any crazy stories
or anything really funny to share (I have NO clue how Addison's emails were
always so entertaining and how the craziest stuff happened to her.) Sorry I
didn't have to do any nasty cleaning projects or get bit by a racoon...Oh, I did
almost pass out, but it wasn't a big deal haha. I'm fine, I probably just
didn't drink enough water that day or something. It kind of reminded me of when
I was giving a talk and almost passed out. We were on exchanges again and
Sister Jensen and I were teaching this man in his doorway and I was testifying
of something--no clue what ha, but I just couldn't see or hear anything but I
think I kept talking and just leaned on Sister Jensen for a second. When I
stopped they both got concerned because I was so white. we ended and
everything and I went and just sat down in his front yard haha. It was really
weird, but I was fine after a minute.
Um Sister G was sick most of the week, poor thing. It was really sad.
So we were inside most of the time, but we did go on exchanges one day, and
again it was so much fun! I love biking and being around people and being able
to stop and talk to them whenever. We met the coolest people, and had some
really fun conversations. One guy who was probably in his 20s and he actually
has several friends who are on missions right now. He was just about the
happiest person I've met here.
Oh last week I almost killed my companion! Just kidding, it wouldn't have
been that bad. But we were at weekly planning meeting and she was feeling dizzy
so I said she might need to eat something, so I offered part of my granola bar
(because of course I had food.) Idk if I told you, but she's allergic to almonds
and pork. Clearly no pork in the granola bar, but she asked if it had almonds
and I said I didn't think so but I'd check. Well she didn't wait for me to
check but thought it would be fine and popped it in. I'm looking at the back of
the wrapper and it says in big bold letters that it contains almonds haha. So I
start yelling "Spit it out! Spit it out!" And yeah our zone maybe was staring
at us just a little bit. If I told you that story already, sorry!
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| Thank you Sister G for taking and posting pictures!!! Checking the mail in the rain! :) |
We had a crazy storm here as well! It was one of the days that Sister
G was sick, so we were at home, but she is from Washington and LOVES the
rain, so we went and checked the mail in it. It was so much fun! And last
night we kept getting flash flood warnings which was exciting. The rain stopped
when we got outside this morning, but there are a few trees down and the streets
are a little flooded. Mom, I totally agree, I love thunder and lightning! It's
so exciting! They have dust storms here that are pretty weird looking but I
haven't been here for a really bad one, and I don't think I will be. I've got 2
weeks left. Holy cow, I have no idea where my first transfer went.
I leave the Saturday after a big mission conference and after our
investigator gets baptized!!! He isn't doing so well physically, so keep him in
your prayers. You know how he told us which day he wanted to be baptized? Well
he gets treatments on Fridays and it really wipes him out for the whole weekend.
So we'll see how he's feeling. Also we have a lot of the lessons to get through
and he is super busy with work and he's sick the rest of the time, so this will
be an interesting week.
We are teaching another lady who has a hard time with
the Book of Mormon, but she comes to everything and calls herself a dry Mormon.
She is one of my favorite people ever. She's reading the Book of Mormon
highlighting everytime it talks about Christ or the atonement, and she's really
excited about it. She's read Jesus the Christ and she loved it, but she just
has a hard time getting into the Book of Mormon. Which is maybe just slightly
important ha. But she's making a lot of progress.
Mom I loved reading some of rachel's old emails! I was thinking that I
wished I could read her old emails all week actually ha. Can you send me the one about the bridge
and the sunset? If it's too hard to find don't worry about it. (I was reflecting on how Rebecca's emails were a LOT like Rachel's at the beginning of her mission ... so I sent her some. My questions must be the same too, since Rachel's answers fit what I'm asking Rebecca. So much so that Rebecca chose just to copy Rachel's responses .... as you can read below).
But I just copied and pasted these because it's seriously exactly what I
would say - ha.
"what picture are you using for the
plaque?? and ya just pick one [a scripture] for me I really don't care.
there are too many good ones to choose !! D&C 11:21?? and "ya just make up
stories there aren't too many good ones [for the blog] ha and they all
blend together in my mind!"
"I had some pics I wanted to send
but I forgot my camera so I will send them next week."
"So much has happened but then at the same time nothing at all.... The
days blend together. and I can't remember what I have already told you guys and
what I haven't. "
But really I'll try to send you a picture next week for the plaque and a
scripture. Love you all sooo much!!!!
I was just htinking this morning why do we expect great things to come
immediately without any work? With everything, we have to do our part first and
show Heavenly Father that it's important to us, we can't just expect things
right away. That's a huge problem these days, we can get so many things
instantly, that we forget that we need to work for things. Patience truly is a
Christlike attribute. Have a wonderful week!
this week flew by soo quickly but felt so long at the same time...that
makes absolutely no sense but I don't know how else to describe it.
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