FIRST AND FOREMOST: foremost? GAGE! the word SWAGGERHOUNDISH. Yes. I FULLY support that new invention. I USE. IT. ALL. THE. TIME. obsessed. writing you back TODAY.
I made a new rule I am NOT reading emails until AFTER I email, because then I come up with 1,000 more things to say and no space. OHHHK. (thank you for all the love ps)
this week = CRAY.TOWN. (which sounds more funny in my mind because Sis Hawkins old area was called RAYTown so yeah IM PUNNY OHHHK.)
Every time I back a car I just think of the Mayhem commercial when he's the "blindspot" and just yells "You're good!" and they smash into a car. ITS SO FUNNY. So I always get back in the car laughing and Sis Christenot just makes these huge eyes like "what the." So now I started coming up with every way possible to freak her out when backing. Ideas are welcome.
AN IMPORTANT FACT I FORGOT: the Cat Man from last week--UPDATES! So his cat Magic...still really investigating the Buddhists (saddest) BUT the goot news is:
-he only has 2 legs.
-but his owner is now making him a cat wheelchair and walker so HAVE NO FEAR. He also said because of our prayer Magic WILL walk again. Bless him.
Ok. Dinner appointment. Best in the land. This family is bombDIGGity. The Flakes. They made us their delicacy called "Big Sandwhich." Imagine my horror when we hadn't eaten all day because we forgot to bring a lunch and they come out with A GIANT DELI SANDWHICH. *remember that i hate these.
BUUUTTTTTT I can't even believe I am WRITING this. But I ate it (all together didn't pick apart the pieces and eat it separately) and i LIKED it 467836!!!!as;kdjgh aqwiryh w;gh sle;kjf
I know.
I even bought stuff to make a VERSION of it today. I KNOW. #blessings
Ok so at the Flakes. They have this beautiful little creature named French Fry. It is a guinea pig and it looks like a cartoon and it is freaky.
SO obviously they asked me to hold it.
Then cutest-child-award 3 yr-old (JACK GEORGE- you still are cutest child award, this young chap is mere second place) named Miles comes out and shows me his new instrument. A recorder. And asked if it would be alright if he did a little performance. OBviously YES.
Preceeds to play the most beautiful arrangement of random notes and its just REALLY LOUD and he is a very accomplished musician because he has owned this red recorder for 4 hours now.
All of this while I am holding foreign object French Fry.
He finsihes, it was REALLY LOUD but really great. Someone takes away French Fry.
Getting up to leave.
Look down.
Hmm....little beans have somehow gotten on my skirt. Weird...did we have beans....?.... those are NOT LITTLE BEANS THAT IS POO! Poo. poo. GUINEA PIG STYLE.
Summary: Cutest-child-award concert scared creepy guinea pig, and IIIIII was holding it. BLESSINGS
We met LITERALLY the most awesome woman in the world. Did I tell you? her name is Nang and she is like 4 foot nothing and is SO funny, is writing a huge disertation so is only awake at night and so really losing it in the day time running off no sleep she is SUCH A PARTY. Anyway she always insists we take random gifts from her = SOMEONE PLEASE LOOK UP MYLO (Milo?) we may or may not have just broken the Word of Wisdom. But she was so persistant. And it smelled like Hot Chocolate so we took a leap of faith and went with it. But she served it in tea cups...with all of the workings of tea....
I REPEAT DO NOT FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE. Bad. Children no don't do this.
but she is awesome we love her and her crazy husband James who is real time hick. They have had every pair of missionaries to ever serve in Lawrence over, they just love missionaries, ZERO desire to hear the gospel, but love missionaries.
I LEARNED SOMETHING AMAZING: if you stay quiet people feel so awkward. and it is AWESOME! Yes, we are making people feel awkward ON PURPOSE! Like this concept JUST barely clicked in my mind. BECAUSE they end up spilling stuff out that they had ZERO INTENTION OF SHARING WITH US! it's amazing. And happened like 40 time this week. Because now with our investigators we have moved past the first lesson (which I am still "passing off")
So we show up to one appt (Troy-awesome black man who I WILL BAPTIZE (or someone will do that part for me because WHATS UP ASKED HIM TO BE BAPTIZED FIRST LESSON AND HE SAID MAYBE! holla.) anyway we were teaching lesson 3. Whelp, HOLY GHOST'n it because I am still novice. Which meant I just stayed silent for a reeeeeeeallly long time.
Past point of uncomfortable.....
Into phase of *at what point does this become too long of silence and into no recovery zone we just walk out with it still silent* and he asked this GOLDEN question, led into some awesome stuff about organization of the Church. COMMITTED TO come to church.
But then we got SNOWED IN. so he couldnt come cause Church was cancelled. ALL the same. A commitment. #winning
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT WE GOT 14 feet of snow in ONE NIGHT. No one could drive ANYWHERE. THE WHOLE TOWN SHUT DOWN.
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Proof.
But literally, the Snow Day yesterday. We couldn't leave our house and I was really nervous that I was going to go CRAZY. but it was the exact opposite. I had one of the most productive study sessions of my LIFE. I studied LITERALLY ALL DAY fron the Ensign. This magazine is the THANG. Wow. I can't believe it has been around my whole life and I never touched it. (oops accidental confession)
UM. EVERYONE GO LOOK AT IT.
Read the Article "The Savior Mission and Ministry" or something. STUDY this. not just read it. There are a million scripture references so those alone will take you like 147 hours (yes if James Franco had this acrtle he probably wouldn't have cut off his arm) but SERIOUSLY I was so touched by it.
Also, as I am PERUSING through I came across this amazing picture with an article, oh, who is the article written by? NONE OTHER THAN MY LONDON DIRECTORS! GO YOU SEELYs!! (Grace write that on the fb wall, I'm SURE someone already has!) IT was also SO amazing, I love them so much ESPECIALLY for including some artwork from the London National Gallery. Tender.
But really, I had one of the most spiritual experience of my life yesterday studying, I felt so close to the Savior, we watched the Testaments (Dad remember when we accidentally found ourselves at the premiere??) which I thought was so cheesy all along and WOW. That movie is powerful. At the end when the man stands before the Savior and he calls him by name and heals his blindness, Sis Yates was like (we are all in TEARS) "how would that feel to stand before Him and say, "no, I never doubted you." WOW. That has stuck with me in my heart ever since, and has become the theme of my mission, No I never doubted you!" It can, has, and will, apply to SO many experience I have had thus far and I am going to have.
I am SO excited to continue serving here in Lawrence. The work is really starting to pick up and we have big things happening this week I'll have to tell you about next time.
LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Love sis murrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrray
PICS: (for Alyssa so she knows Im alive)
1- This is our (old) house COVERED in snow! amazing. .......................
2- whats up YouTubers! (Markell, stolen from Jar. can't help it.) This is me, wearing a trash bag, vacuming a replica of a garden tomb with a Ghost Buster machine. NBD.
3- Me and dear Sis Hawkins. MATCHING at Zone Conference. #blessedchild
4- me and new comp Sis Christenot #sweetangel
5- Me and my lesbian mom trainers OOPS i get one appropriate comment a week. Sis Park is on the right she just left back home on Friday. (I am their baby, get it? I KNOW so missionary help me.)
6- THIS IS A SUNRISE NOT A SUNSET!! I KNOOOOW. no this will not or EVER will become a thing. but it was amazing. one for the books.
7- Me in my Arabian Palace aka my new room (Sis C against the wall- downsized from Wildflower BUT they let us roam the whole house so its ok but my knook closet NOT ok.)
SHOUT OUTS
BRYSONS got your amazing bundle of joy letters WRITING BACK
DAD JayHawk suckers = SUCCESS everyone loves them ROCK CHALK GO JAYHAWK (LITERALLY can someone find out what the heck that even means, every time i "suck" up to someone and throw out a random go jayhawks the response is always "rock chalk". It makes no sense, but I am now throwing it out left and right becuase it seems to be some sort of code word for "friendliness".
KENDEL YOURE ALIVE you look freezing. that sucks for you.
JONTHON- dont quit your job. but also do because then I wont be the only worthless one to put in my 2
weeks notice on my first day of work. JOKES (but seriously quit so you can go to the beach with cute boy PRIORITIES as Chris Nash always said "you can retake the class but you can't relive the party")
SPEAKING of Chris Nash - WRITE ME YOU WEENIE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT AREAS YOU SERVED IN IM DYING
DON VITo and JAYCI- got your letters LOVED the one that came in a credit card bill pre addressed envelope GO don vito writing you back today
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