This is Kate's mom. I was out of town for a week (on a cruise, therefore, Kate's cruise food title), so I am just getting this letter on the blog. ENJOY!
July 30, 2012
I feel like I have nothing else to say in this email besides
that I am jealous of your current menu of food items. Dang! O well, I guess
saving the children of God will just have to suffice it for this week.
This week was an interesting week because we had two mini missionaries this week: the Terminator and the Agent. Sister V and I had fun coming up with their names. It was interesting because we were just basically on a week long exchange. It was a bit hectic sometimes trying to plan when to meet up when I had the car and Sister V had the phone. But it all turned out great because we had a lot more time to find and a lot more time to do everything, even if it WAS crazy. Funny part though is that the Terminator kept falling asleep during studies so Sister V and I would get pots and bang them together right by her head to wake her up. :) She loved it. We laughed a lot. Really, it was a bonding experience. It was interesting though because even though we are in the world, we don't know what is going on with ANYTHING so it felt almost like the first week of the MTC again where people actually knew what was going on in the world. It was weird. I didn't like it.
So the Lady is doing AWESOME! She literally is the best person I have ever met! She is so on fire and has completed all the requirements to be baptized; we just have to finish teaching her! O man! We will be friends forever for sure and I can already see how her testimony has grown and how this is changing every aspect of her life. Every time she learns something new, she just gets so excited and says, "This is all just so exciting and I am so excited to be a part of it." O man, I couldn't have asked for a neater experience!
This week we also found, "The Wall." I'm going to call her the wall because she has spent her entire life putting up walls and not talking about anything with anyone so we are helping break them all down so she can let Christ in. The first lesson we had was Puro Espiritu. We were going to talk about the Doctrine of Christ but we ended up talking about prayer and how we can always turn to Christ. She cried through the whole thing and after we left, the Agent turned to me and just said, "Wow, that was so cool!" You are right Agent, it was amazing! The next time we went over, we talked about the Atonement and how it is available for all of us so we can let things go. I explained to her that a huge part of forgiveness that people often forget about is that we must forgive ourselves. She said that she had never thought about it like that before and I think that will really help her.
The Nanny is still on the radar but she is concerned on what parental units will think so we are kind of on the back burner for now.
The Postman has been out of town so we haven't seen him. :( Sad day.
Now for The Crew: They are NUTS! I actually wasn't in the lessons with them this week so I don't really know everything but they are funny. They gave me the nickname of Blue because of my eyes. Seriously, I don't understand the eyes thing down here. Colored eyes are HUGE. I think it is OBVIOUSLY because tons of people inUtah
Tangent: I just looked at my last email to remember what I wrote last week and found SO MANY ERRORS! I remember reading emails from missionaries before my time as a chosen one and thinking, "Really? Do you really throw grammar and reason out the window?" The answer to that question is yes. Please don't judge my lack of correct use of grammar and punctuation. I can only do so much.
I feel like I am being tested this week. The Olympics are EVERYWHERE! Luckily all our favorite members and investigators know my love of the Olympics and my desire NOT to be distracted by worldly things so they don't mention it. BUT last night one of the members that didn't know about this slight addiction I have mentioned that Michael Phelps got 4th in one of his races.... Someone should have taught him the Word of Wisdom sooner....
On that note, I have to go now. We are being super good on time today because this week was SO crazy that we are rushing home to take a nap. The priorities of a missionary. That, and we lost our mail key and the office doesn't have another so we are trying to catch the mailman so he can open it for us. Don't worry. We left him a nice note explaining the situation. I can't wait to hear what he says. :)
Love you all! Can't wait to hear from you all!
Hermana Giles
This week was an interesting week because we had two mini missionaries this week: the Terminator and the Agent. Sister V and I had fun coming up with their names. It was interesting because we were just basically on a week long exchange. It was a bit hectic sometimes trying to plan when to meet up when I had the car and Sister V had the phone. But it all turned out great because we had a lot more time to find and a lot more time to do everything, even if it WAS crazy. Funny part though is that the Terminator kept falling asleep during studies so Sister V and I would get pots and bang them together right by her head to wake her up. :) She loved it. We laughed a lot. Really, it was a bonding experience. It was interesting though because even though we are in the world, we don't know what is going on with ANYTHING so it felt almost like the first week of the MTC again where people actually knew what was going on in the world. It was weird. I didn't like it.
So the Lady is doing AWESOME! She literally is the best person I have ever met! She is so on fire and has completed all the requirements to be baptized; we just have to finish teaching her! O man! We will be friends forever for sure and I can already see how her testimony has grown and how this is changing every aspect of her life. Every time she learns something new, she just gets so excited and says, "This is all just so exciting and I am so excited to be a part of it." O man, I couldn't have asked for a neater experience!
This week we also found, "The Wall." I'm going to call her the wall because she has spent her entire life putting up walls and not talking about anything with anyone so we are helping break them all down so she can let Christ in. The first lesson we had was Puro Espiritu. We were going to talk about the Doctrine of Christ but we ended up talking about prayer and how we can always turn to Christ. She cried through the whole thing and after we left, the Agent turned to me and just said, "Wow, that was so cool!" You are right Agent, it was amazing! The next time we went over, we talked about the Atonement and how it is available for all of us so we can let things go. I explained to her that a huge part of forgiveness that people often forget about is that we must forgive ourselves. She said that she had never thought about it like that before and I think that will really help her.
The Nanny is still on the radar but she is concerned on what parental units will think so we are kind of on the back burner for now.
The Postman has been out of town so we haven't seen him. :( Sad day.
Now for The Crew: They are NUTS! I actually wasn't in the lessons with them this week so I don't really know everything but they are funny. They gave me the nickname of Blue because of my eyes. Seriously, I don't understand the eyes thing down here. Colored eyes are HUGE. I think it is OBVIOUSLY because tons of people in
Tangent: I just looked at my last email to remember what I wrote last week and found SO MANY ERRORS! I remember reading emails from missionaries before my time as a chosen one and thinking, "Really? Do you really throw grammar and reason out the window?" The answer to that question is yes. Please don't judge my lack of correct use of grammar and punctuation. I can only do so much.
I feel like I am being tested this week. The Olympics are EVERYWHERE! Luckily all our favorite members and investigators know my love of the Olympics and my desire NOT to be distracted by worldly things so they don't mention it. BUT last night one of the members that didn't know about this slight addiction I have mentioned that Michael Phelps got 4th in one of his races.... Someone should have taught him the Word of Wisdom sooner....
On that note, I have to go now. We are being super good on time today because this week was SO crazy that we are rushing home to take a nap. The priorities of a missionary. That, and we lost our mail key and the office doesn't have another so we are trying to catch the mailman so he can open it for us. Don't worry. We left him a nice note explaining the situation. I can't wait to hear what he says. :)
Love you all! Can't wait to hear from you all!
Hermana Giles
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