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everyone make sure to date their letters to her, even if you send them through
Dear Elder!**
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLBY!!! :) Alright, I'm so much less
stressed today! I was able to figure out how to print my emails this morning
without taking any of my 1 hour to read them! So I'm good. You can totally
email me if you want, however I still prefer Dear Elders because I just love
getting mail at night!
So the good stuff:) This week was
CRAZYYY! So like now, I just am speaking like freaking crazy Thai, It's weird,
however the more I learn, the more I have to remember. If I had to liken this
unto anything, it would be like trying to drink from a fire hydrant, it just
hurts your face if you try. So Parent's your letters came today:) Except I
already wrote dad so I will have to save that for next week! I just found out
yesterday they really encourage us to only write letters on Pday even if we
have exta time or whatever. It's a bummer!
Alright!!!!! Guess what? So you
know, we have devotionals every Sunday and Tuesday. They are
always good. But this week was EXCEPTIONALLY good. Why you may ask? Okay, I will
start off with Sunday. Actually I can't remember what devotional we had
that night. But relief society we have with all of the sisters in the
conference room. Guess who spoke? None other than Janice Kapp Perry. She wrote
all those children hymns, I'm trying to be like Jesus, I belong to the Church
of Jesus Christ, I love to see the temple, A child's prayer, and As sisters in
Zion. So pretty much the best experience of my life. She had the most amazing
words on uplifting music. And freaking guess what else. She created a new song.
"The Sisters In Zion" and it's all about sister missionaries. It's to
the tune of "As Sisters in Zion". Oh what else? WE WERE THE FIRSTY
ONES TO EVER SING IT!!!! Can you imagine the tears? Everyone was crying. I only
remember the first words, "The sisters in zion are called to God's
labor" Well that is about all I remember. The last words were like,
"the heavens are open to spread his words and his truth." Something
like that, but can you imagine? The best feeling in the world is looking up in
the conference center with nothing but missionaries singing inspired hymns, ahh
makes me tear up thinking about it. OKAY NOW FOR TUESDAY.... Drum roll
pleaseeeeee!!!! ELDER RUSSEL M. NELSON!!! Whaaaaaaatttttttttttttt????
Seriously. I'm not joking, we had an apostle of the Lord come speak to us. We
like heard rumors but then, it was just real. We got there like an hour early
so we could get seats. Totally close enough to see his wicked wrinkles. Ahhhh,
I love every word he said. Just mostly talked about missionaries and converts
and said, "We aren't baptizing people to come into the church, but to
QUALIFY them for exaltation" and at the MTC I sometimes feel like it's
embeded in our brains to baptize. We are like required the first time we meet with
an investigator to baptize them and that made me stop and think about the
people of Thailand and how happy I am to be able to serve them. Our teacher
Brother Shipley was showing our class pictures of those he baptized in
Thailand, I was so moved, He is a great guy and has the best spirit I've ever
met. I love him. Well only slightly. He is good looking. hahaha. But yeah
Sister Nelson also spoke on ancestors. How I need to pray more to be lead to
those I need to teach because there are ancestors of those I need to teach on
the other side of the veil praying for me to come find them. I just thought.
Hmmmm how interesting! :))) I love the MTC!!! I never want to leave, well
yet....
So want to hear something funny?
hahaha okay. So I have been having some knarly Thai dreams lately, and I woke
myself up by talking in my sleep YELLING "I DON'T UNDERSTAND!"
hahahaha. Literally yelled it, I like woke up, and my companion sister Slaugh
was like, "What don't you understand" I was like sorry I was sleep
talking. The next morning we wake up, we're like, Oh My Gosh did that happen
last night? hahaha And to my surprise my companions were literally dreaming my
same dream. Serious Unity. No big deal, we are all that legit. Oh to answer
your question mother, no not everyone has a trio. We are the only trio in our
district and the older district has a trio and the other district that came in
with us has a trio of boys. So it's fairly common, some people just get
lucky.... I won't say who are the lucky ones :))) haha. Just kidding, I'm
loving my companions, the difference of opinions is quite awful. But we are
working on it.
So I play sand volleyball at gym. I'm
freaking good, or all the scrawns are just really bad, i'm not totally sure.
But no, gym saves my sanity. Seriously I love gym. I look forward to it and
playing volleyball with my whole district makes me happy. We have the best
times at gym. Even if it is working out. Bleh.
So I'll tell you a little about my
district. We have 4 boys and 5 girls. There are me and my companions. Sister
Hughes- From Napa valley California. She attends BYU and she has a boyfriend
that's an RM that's waiting for her. So adorbs. She loves vintage things, and
she is just hilarious. We get along so well. Sister Slaugh- She is from New Jersey
and she likes to make her own jewlery and loves hanging out with her friends
and goes to BYU. Fun fact she has a cousin here right now. So sweet. Next in my
district was Sister Du Plessis (two plus three) and she loves to draw. She is
an animation major up at BYU and she is seriously the typical Hippie. It's
really funny. Sister Stack- literally my serious twin, we share clothes all the
time, she thinks my thoughts, i just look at her and I know what she is
thinking, I'm not even kidding you think I'm kidding but I'm seriously not I
love her she is provbably my favorite. Oops I don't know If I can have
favorites but seriously. She goes to BYU and had a twin sister that died so
thats really sad. She is the baby of the family, and she loves all the same
music I do. Ahhh I just love Sister Stack... Okay, next is Elder Hill. Such a
freaking weirdo! hahaha I love him though. Like during gym he took a karate
class and like does all these flips and things even though he can't nessesarily
land any of them. He carries around this velociraptor stuffed animal and
he found a fork in his pocket. We are both the tallest of the class and sit
right next to each other. It's sometimes a mess. haha We always bump elbows.
It's the worst. Oh and he got dear johned... it's been 2 weeks. She is engaged.
Awkward hahaha. Elder Windsor is his comp- He went to dixie state to play
soccer and he is really good. He has the cutest smile and just warms anyones
heart. He looks SOO much like Tyler it's not even funny. I'm serious!!! It's
scary. Except he is like 5' 4"...poor child. hahaha. Anyways then there is
Elder Passey, arguably the funniest kid I've ever met... He is like 5' 2",
freshman at BYU and he is the youngest, just turned 18 and we all treat him
like it too. Haha I love it though. He is so funny. Silent but hilarious. I
don't even know how to describe him. He has a girlfriend that's a junior in
high school, so precious. He let me read one of the letters, I was like elder
Passey I don't wantt to read this anymore hahaha. He enjoys it. Funny kid.
Elder Astle is the last, I have a hard time saying his last name because
literally i'm cussing. I'm not even joking especially in Thailand you don't
pronounce the T in his name so you are literally saying a hole. Anyways he is
the sweetest. He is our district leader and the other day he went and got mail
and I was the only one who didn't get mail.... Uhh... yeah family.... anyways
he made me a paper swan and he worked in the temple so I have that in common
with him. Yeah our disctrict is literally the best. We talk about our terrible
gas to each other and we always talk to each other. The other day during
district prayer we couldn't make it through a prayer. We were crying we were
all laughing so hard. They are litterally my family already. I can't imagine
not knowing them after 7 weeks. I think the Lord has blessed me because leaving
my family was definitely the hardest thing about coming on a mission but now
that I have another family it's really a blessing. I don't ever feel alone and
my district is literally the greatest....
So Thai is coming and going. I swear
haha. We started reading Thai which is crazy, we are the fastest Thai learning
district in the history of Thais. The Gift of tounges is real. I freak myself
out that I can speak so much Thai!!! haha. Ok, so we read Thai Hymns. It's
insane, I want to punch myself in the face. So I have a lot of thai script that
I have written down and I will send it home so you guys can see it:) Anyways,
I'm like out of Time... We have a new investigator named P Thom and he asks
some tough questions (He is Brother Shipley) It's a little nerve racking, We
had a lesson planned out and when we got into the lesson we scrapped our script
and used the spirit. It was interesting, slight train wreck, but for only
knowing thai for 2 weeks it was great.... Anywayssssssss..... Mormon Messages
have gotten me through the weeks. They are literally the best things ever. I
miss momma on sunday. I do have to say. We watched a mother's day message
and I did miss you. And I miss dad's hugs. We also watched a father one too.
Moving. Oh and Jessica totally knows my other teacher Brother Phan! hahaha.
Samm. So weird I asked him in Thai I was like... oh Hey, you know Jessica? He
was like yeah!!! She married your brother. How I understood that in Thai? I
don't know. haha anyways. I'm sending my other letters out today! I love you
all.
Oh mother. Can You possibly go to walmart and get me
a moo moo? Also another pair of crocs. Sister Tilley has them. They are called
Springi's. size 8 please:) don't take off the tags. and if you loved me a lot
to send me a clippers shirt. I would be forever greatful. I have to shows these
scrawn jazz fans that Clippers are the rulers of the NBA... Annnnd my BYU
jacket. It's chilly here in the morning. That's all:) haha don't feel obligated
to send everything! Love you much BYYEEEE
