June 18, 2012
Holy cow! Your week sounds NUTS! Trek one week and high
adventure/girls camp the next! WOW! I bet it will be nice to get everything
over with though. But Dave will probably go through a withdrawal if you don't
go camping for the rest of the summer. I can only imagine. And yay for Old
Blue's birthday. I have NO idea how he keeps running but good for him! He is
such a trooper! (Old Blue is our 40 year old boat, held together with lots of
love and memories).
The Clark 's house seems
cool! Is it just me or do houses just keep getting bigger and bigger? I think
they do for sure!
So yesterday at church was amazing because we were sitting
in Relief Society in the Spanish ward (usually we are in the English sacrament
meeting at this time but C____, Mo____s' wife, was teaching the lesson) and I
was just listening to her stories and the awesome lesson about missionary work
and it hit me that I was sitting in Relief Society and listening to Spanish and
understanding. It was so cool!!! And I do all my studies in the mornings in
Spanish and it literally blows my mind! A year ago from right now my mission
was just an after thought and now I am here, in McAllen , TX
C____'s lesson was great though! She was super nervous about
it but she did great! We have been helping her out all week with resources. It
was about having excitement to share the gospel and she talked about how the
members have helped with her husband's conversion and how one day, his family
asked him if he wanted coffee and he said nope. I'm a Mormon now. And she was
scared that they were going to get mad then realized that she needs to be proud
to be Mormon, not try to hide it. VERY cool! I loved that lesson. But the even
cooler part, and I don't know if I told you this, you know how we have talked
about plans for picking me up or coming back or what not? Well, it has been
decided. We are coming back at the beginning of June, just after Annie gets
done with school. Why this time of heat in Texas ? Because that is when Mo____ and C____ are getting sealed! AND WE GET TO GO!!!!! I am so happy for them! And wow. Just
so cool!
We are working a lot with getting everyone current temple
recommends. Getting a temple down here is HUGE, so current temple recommends mean
a lot!
We had another fun experience this morning. So we clean our
car at 6:30 every Monday morning and today, as we were cleaning, we saw
Ph______. (Background: Ph______ is the man that goes through our garbage in the
mornings.) Sister VanDyke is a soda addict so we have cans EVERYWHERE so
we decided that we would go put all the cans in a bag to give to him, along
with a wonderful pass a long card. So just imagine this: two missionaries in
their pajamas, (me in blue shorts and a pink shirt that is practically a dress
with my hair on top of my head, and Sister VanDyke in a similar such outfit)
contacting a man digging for cans in our garbage. I wish we
would have gotten a picture. Anyway, he is a Jehovah's Witness and super not interested,
but it made for a good story.
In other news...We have 9 baptismal dates right now. I would
love to explain them all to you but they are all so interconnected and dramatic
that I would need a flow chart, so I will stick to one. (We actually are going
to create a flow chart for coordination tomorrow. I'll take pictures.) Our one
special story is Pr_____! If you remember from my emails in January, she is
the girlfriend of a member and is just super cute. She just got scared right
before her baptism. Well, she has been coming to church since then and has
recently decided to get baptized! Her boyfriend is in California until July 2nd so she is going to
get baptized on July 8th! We are super excited.
O and this week our Zone Leaders told us that every time we
set a B.D. to tell them so they could tell the zone so everyone has been
texting them but we write funny things like so and so wants to get a new name
by taking upon them the name of Christ on July whatever. Anywho, it has turned
into an animal so I bet they stop it soon. O well. We also had to text them
"Mr. Clean" once our apartments were clean this morning. O
well, what can ya do with 19-21 year old boys. :)
I love you all and I will talk to you soon! I hope you get
my package soon!
Kate
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