There are 2 Wards in Lawrence, one of the other Sisters suddenly had to go home and get back surgery = Emergency Transfers and IIIIIIII had to leave. OMG MELT DOWN. Literal. I hesitate to talk about it because I will not lie I hit a new LOW. It was really hard because Sis Hawkins is so awesome we got along so well, but I we still see each other a lot, and now we get to text each other sweet nothings so it's all good. My new comp is Sis Christenot, she is like a little small bunny that is so nice and friendly and has a very soft voice she is like an angel dove.
But seriously NICEST ever. And so funny, she LOVES to sing, loves.to.sing. always. BLESSINGS
Ok the goods.
Once upon a time I got shelac (shelaque? chelack? shelache?) nails. The sweet little Vietnamese woman punked me and replaced that with cement, so now I have granite top counters on my hands because THEY ARE STILL ON. Like not chipped. WHAT. Like apparently I just am growing these out until they are gone?? Amazing.
Sis Hawkins trained a sister from Taiwan, and she has a lot of "isms"
#1 Lip of Face (leap of faith) ((crying when I got this one LOVE.HER.))
#2 Preis-TH-ood (with a th tooth pronunciation) ((English is HARD, technically she is right it is T-H))
We have 2 Senior Sisters in our Zone, the cutest. ONE of them is CYNTHIA CROOK re-incarnated as a 65 year old woman and she is KILLIN IT! She is so spicy just like you Cynthia- so don't worry, in 25 years you are still going to be AWESOME.
Ok: went to Salvation Army again this week. ATTN I DID NOT MAKE THIS UP I REPEAT THIS IS REAL LIFE I STILL AM BAFFLED.
Thing #1- this sweet little woman who loves princesses and wears overalls was telling me how she loves to play the piano and sing ...and also speak German. And she said "you know what, I think I want to sing right now." It was towards the end of the hour and spirits were low so i said, you know what GO for it! "The sun'll come out TOmorrow..." HOW can you not join in on that song!? So i did....AND SO DID THE WHOLE ROOM. Literally fireworks were exploding in my mind, AMAZING it was so funny especially because one of the ladies in charge named MJ hates when people sing and dance (but somehow i still find myself liking her).
Thing #2- There is a 70 year old man from Iran named Manush and i love him. He gets to hand out the GOODS (aka chocolate milk and the desserts) so everyone is ESPECIALLY nice to him so it really just hits the spot when people speak to him in spanish trying to get on his good side. SO classic. "HOLA- LECHE POR FAVOR" in an even worst accent than me (imagine) and they speak REALLY LOUD BECAUSE THEY ASSUME HE CANT HEAR. it's so great.
But he is like having comedy hour when we are there so he usually makes some really funny comment to them about being 106 and having 25 children and all of us are his wives so yeah, obsessed.
Thing #3 I am still deciding whether the guy who comes in every week wearing the Grateful Dead t-shirt is terribly confused...or has the best sense of humor in the nation. Because we have now had the EXACT, exact, same conversation about his T-shirt FOUR separate times....and i'm just passed confused.
Thing #4 The cream of the crop.
PICTURE this. A very sweet man who wears magical T-shirts every time he comes in and is SO nice I want to cry and cheery comes up to us. He starts tearing up thanking us for our service, WOW nicest........but doesn't stop there.
The tears are coming faster now as he describes his dear cat, Magic, is converting to Buddhism. yes, tragic. "What can I do to bring him closer to Jesus? He needs that in his life. Maybe you could pray for my cat Magic and my other cat T.V., he just gets lonely watching Lady and the Tramp, and then my dear friend Oracle." Sis Hawkins: ok we can do that, right here? done.
She preceeds to give the greatest prayer in the history of the world, and it took EVERYTHING in me to stay focused as our dear friend starts crying like think Alyssa Kleenex commercial fake crying with the sobs and gasps but he is SERIOUS (even though there are not real tears).
THEN next random man comes up just stares at us for a realllllllllly long time.................."you guys are cool."
Well thank you, so are you.....but why?
"Well........(dramatic pause)......I'm Oracle." (we just prayed for him)
Well nice to meet you--
**This part is rated PG-13 but I'll edit**
Oracle explains to us his thoughts on life. Us being "Ecclesiastaries" (hm?)
Well, we all have a right to be here, the fact that you are here means you are a fighter! We were all in a ______ and we swam around and then it was a RACE to who could make it to the egg first. And who won? YOU did. (Magic cat man is now sobbing with joy)
"yeah, I can read your minds. (pats head) see what I did there? READ. YOUR. MINDS. ALL of you."
(Sis H) "Really? what am i thinking?"
You're thinking I should leave.
No actually I was still thinking about that SHOCKINGLY graphic analogy you just shared ORACLE.
WHAT THE.
I could not look at Sister Christenot for one more second or I was going to lose it, tears were in my eyes, her face was PURE. SHOCK. one of the greatest moments of my life.
What can i say? Spreadin' the gospel like it ain't no thang!...................................
NOW tracting nightmare 2013: knock on a door, no one comes, there are 2 peep holes, one at like waist high and I'm thinking "how cute, one for a little kid in case he wants to see! what a fun family, they must want the gospel." no one answers!
Move on, knock, AT THE SAME MOMENT both people open the door, first new door young college kid, and as i turn in slow motion expecting a precious little child........NO. Woman in a WHEEL CHAIR who looks like she might kill me. AHHH. Ran back over to her, who was NOT a sweet innocent child using the small peep hole. And she almost slammed my hand in the door when I said hello. TERRORIST.
Lastly a miracle.
First day I was tranferred I was silently freaking out but we had an appoitnment that night. (first one EVER). His name is Troy he is a big black man in his 50's who is the nicest ever and loves to talk gospel. He had read the intro to the BoM and had so many questions. We taught him and it was AMAZE and he invited us to meet again on Saturday.
He met us at a coffee shop, seems harmless.
Imagine, EVERY. DISTRACTION. EVER. We walk into a room (luckily empty) that is COVERED with writing, imagine Sammy's but x1,00000000000. Every inch is covered with college kid humor and slogans and names and expicits AH. Terrifying.
Then there is music blasting. and we're like whaa....? Seriously they need to consider implementing this environment into the MTC because I had to exercise EVERY OUNCE of concentration I had and prayed 3 million times that I would concentrate on Troy and his needs. WOW. We had the most amazing lesson on the whole earth, I brought up SO many random things totally brought on by the Spirit because I was SO focused. i know that would not have happened if we had met somewhere else becuase I wouldn't have been so determined to listen. The Lord works in mysterious ways but wow how He loves us!
Family I love you SOOO much. I have never really shared my testimony with you all but I KNOW that the Lord loves each and every one of us. It is truly amazing how well He knows us. The mission is so hard but so rewarding but so confusing all at once, but I have grown so much in just 1 month than I have in maybe my whole life! I am so grateful for this gospel, and i am so grateful for this random computer at the Library that has somehow switched me into italics. And on that emphatic note I leave you.
Everything seems more peaceful and calm in italics. I hate it.
Fare - thee- well.
SIS MURRAY
EVEN CAPITALS SUCK. dang it.
SHOUTOUTS: SUMSIONS OMG YOU ARE PFATING!! that was the greatest letter ever received THANK YOU SO MUCH! BEN- the SECOND you get your call you better write me a letter SO EXCITED for you!
JEN- WHAT THE HECK! loved your package SO nice, and OF COURSE i loved the princess brush. favorite.
Timmer/Alyssa- I can not WAIT for my Jmurr Curr package, i laughed at loud when i read that. LITERAL lolz.
Jonathonaka Boss - I just found a dear elder i never opened from you so the Alma scripture was referring to you not writing me....but now doesnt apply because you HAD written me, writing you back today!!
LOVE YOU ALL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR LETTERS - they seriously make my hour/day/week/month
PS IS KENDEL ALIVE!?!?!?!?
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