FAMILIAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sometimes I pretend that I am speaking a language and say random phrases at people walking by, becasue EVERYONE. ON. EARTH. does it.
OH so on the first day I got here, you have this little dot on your name tag that is supposed to signify to the world that you need compassion or something and EVERYONE comes attacking saying hello in whatever language you are learning and you just sit there confused like....am I supposed to respond in...what was that? Armenain?.....? It is not a quality thing.
TURNS OUT THEY ACTUALLY TELL YOU TO DO THAT! They tell everyone to "welcome" the new missionaires. THIS ACCOSTING IS ON PURPOSE!? Seriously. I feel so bad for everyone with a dot now. Especially because even if you have just been here a week everyone acts like they built the MTC and know it like the back of their hand, so even if you have a confused expression on your face for A HALF SECOND someone comes up to you on a Wednesday and will explain the layout of the entire "closed campus we now live on."
THIS WEEK HAS FLOWN BY WHAT IS HAPPENING MY WORLD IS A TIME WARP. everyone told me it would fly by but the first 3 days were so slow I couldnt comprehend it.
SUNDAY i saw aunt colette and uncle Jim BLESS THEM! made my day.
UM wow. emailing is hard. So much has happened.
Whenever I wash my hair I have started coming up with cartoon characters that I look like...some also that are not cartoons. I'm trying to get my whole Distrcit in on it but they won't participate probably afraid they will offend me BUT IT WILL HAPPEN.
The list so far:
-The Muppet that has shaggy hair that plays the guitar and is like a throw back 60s Beatle...?
-Bret Michaels from Rock of Love. GIVEN
-Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
-At some points in the day if it is still wet and i start to brush it I can begin to resemble Malfoy...which I am not actually complaining about. so.much.gel.
-Sometimes I look like a happy asian baby when i do a bun.
DISCLAIMER: this is not becasue I have a terrible haricut but actually becasue I HAVEN"T BEEN BALD SINCE I WAS IN 9th grade!?!?! So I forgot that people have to ACTUALLY dry their hair. THAT IS A THING!?!?! It's terrible
(because if I don't I wake up and it.......so.....poofy.......can't.......describe......) hahahaha actually. It's just so funny there is no comnparison I laugh at myself every morning when I wake up and see it and usually don't stop until we are leaving for class so everyone on my hall thinks I am a CRAZY person in the morning BUT IF YOU COULD JUST SEE IT
enough about the hair.
TUESDAY ELDER BALLARD CAME
another story: at the MTC they LOVE DRAMA. literally. so when you go to the devotional you have to get there 47 hours early to get a spot (becasue the MTC is now completely overmaxed out so there is not enough room ANYWHERE you even have to go early to the overflow to get a spot) anyway. we did get there early enough and then you have to wait there forever and they don't announce who is speaking on purpose. Then there are all of these security CIA looking people everywhere trying to pose as "ushers' but they are huge and scary. Everyone is like EDGE OF THEIR seat becasue they haven't had a GA here in like 5 weeks so its coming time....then the doors open and everyone instantly stood and literally this man is so small you can't even SEE him you can just hear them shuffling up to the stage beacsue everyone went INSTANTLY quiet. I just started crying for no reason becasue seeing that alone and how reverant it got in .00003 seconds was so cool. Then to add to the suspense they pause for like 30 seconds and then put up ELDER M RUSSELL BALLARD and I'm pretty sure they pay missionaries in the audience to make a HUGE gasp and then he speaks. And literally gave one of the best talks I have EVER heard. Our branch president after even said it was top 5.
He is so powerful I am AMAZED. He read from the scriptures in 3 Nephi for a solid 3 minutes and to hear him read about Christ coming and preaching about baptism was SO powerful, you KNEW, KNEEEEEW that he believed it, without any doubt you knew. He encouraged us all to be like that and to "relax! you know enough already." amazing
Oh I got called as coordinating sister which just means I needed the blessinsgs the most our of my whole zone, literally. So STORY OF THE CENTURY:
I decided to write notes to all of the new sisters mom for them to send the first night. Our teacher bro ellsworth is the most inspired man on the planet and he will always like puase mid sentence and be like "the spirit is telling me we should change....or I feel like someone needs to hear this...." AND IT IS SPOT ON EVERY TIME. so cool.
So i decided that i should try that?
So i'm writing my notes and "I felt like the spirit told me" to adderss one of the notes to both sister AND brother _____ incase the dad felt left out. RIGHT?
So i left them all blank (the names) to fill in after I met the girls.
Met them.
Assigned the names, "FELT LIKE" bro and sis should go to Sister Baird. Done. Given out. sent.
Thursdya night comes, Branch Meeting where they all introduce themselves.
Sister BARID stands up. "blah blah.....it's just me and my Mom. She adopted me when i was just a few days old so its just been me and her my whole life. We have so much fun like gilmore girls..."
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......................
mind exploded.
dead.
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN.
let me repeat.
i sent the ONE letter i addressed to a BROTHER and Sister Baird to the ONE GIRL ON THE WHOLE EARTH besides Rory Gilmore WHO ONLY HAS A MOM.
Literally I hate my life.
But whatever. I told her about it after and she KIND of laughed....which didn't help.
ATTN ATTN I LEAVE ON WEDNESDAY FOR MISSOURI AND I AM FREAKING OUT
apparently there are so many sisters going all at once rumor mill is that they are putting 2 new sisters a companions without trainers ALL OF THE TIME MY WORST NIGHTMARE PRAY FOR ME AH
but in other news I will be calling you on wednesday for .2 seconds becasue we are traveling with 38 people all going to indepndence the biggest group theyve had in the mission EVER.
its sersiouly crazy how much I have learned already. I hated the MTC and just wanted to get to the field at first and now I am FREAKING out and just want to stay here and gulp down as much of the fire hydrant they are spraying at me. BUT I CANT wah.
I love you ALL so much. I will write again in literally the blink of an eye (or maybe in a week) FROM INDE-MO AHHHHHHHHHHH
-love sister murray
Ps this letter sucks i really need to consider making an outline before i come into the computer room of DEATH it feels like the testing center in here everyone is so intense.
SHOUTOUTS
To all of my LOVELY friends who wrote me, you know who you are and i am WRITING YOU BACK RIGHT NOW
to all of you terrible friends who didnt. you ALSO knwo who you are and I am taking names! you have 3 more days to dear elder me something or else TOAST! (ahem Alexandra Lynn)
STRINGHAMS YOU ARE THE BEST the cupcakes were amaze.
MOLLY AND JENNY I literally love you so much I almost started crying when I got yours too!! They were so good and so nnice and thoughtful you are the BEST
Mom got all of your packages dont worry
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW THE NECTOR OF THE GODS GREAT HARVEST PUMPKIN CHOCOLATE CHIP BREAD FELL OUT OF THE SKY AND CAME TO ME! You didn't put a note and i am ETERNALLY GRATEFUL! also for all of the other goods in there! WHO ARE YOU YOU ARE SO NICE
ok loves.
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