So..
Tomorrow we have this big huge Zone Conference all day, so we get to
have our P-Day today. Woot! So it's good in that I get to email you a
day early, but it sucks at the same time because I have to wait an extra
day next week. haha... but whatever. I think I'll manage...
So today is day 84. haha. I keep track in my journal. The only reason I
do that is because Randi wrote me a letter that i have to open on my
215th day. There was no way i was gonna figure out what day that was by
counting 215 days on a calender, so i'm just counting up each day in my
journal. I win.
Yesterday we were trying to find someone's house.. like a former
investigator that we called who said she wanted us to teach her again.
So we called her in the morning a couple hours before we left, but she
didn't answer, so we just decided we were gonna find it on our own. She
really lives in the middle of nowhere.. We eventually found the road she
lives on, but she lives BEHIND the road... it was weird. We had to drive
on this gravel road that was flooded over at a bunch of places, and our
car got REALLY muddy. haha. It was funny. The gravel road went right by
a pig pen too, so these pigs all lined up at the fence and watched us as
we drove. The pigs actually kinda freaked me out. Seriously.. I'm still
not a big fan of nature. Sis Blake on the other hand wanted to take one
of the pigs and cook it!!! I guess in Tonga it's a big thing to cook
whole pigs in the ground. it's like a big eventful thing to cook a
pig... haha...
On Sunday we had a Cottage Meeting at the President's house. Every
second Sunday of the month, all the missionaries that can, take their
investigators to this meeting, and its a big huge 2 hour long testimony
meeting. It's pretty awesome. However... Since all our investigators
like to cop out of things with pretty much no notice, we just ended up
getting a ride from one of the members. But yeah. It's totally super
powerful. I love Fast Sundays for the testimony's and I'm always sad
that it's not longer, but Cottage Meetings make up for that.
Also.. I've aquired a cold... blech. It totally came out of the blue
too. Saturday I woke up and sounded like a man... worse than i ever have
before. It was brutal! So now, I sound like me, but i just can't breathe
out of my nose. The frustrating thing is that they apparently dont have
Buckley's here.. so I have to deal with the gross cherry flavored cough
syrup which A) doesn't work nearly as well, and B) I've discovered that
I'd rather deal with a cough syrup that tastes like pine trees instead
of dealing with a cough syrup that TRIES to taste like something good
but fails miserably. So. Boo urns is all I've got to say about that.
Oh and Dad... Our Church meetings start at 11:30 on Sundays. It's
perfect. We have to go to Ward council at 9:30, then we usually have 45
minutes-ish to study and stuff before church actually starts. It's
pretty awesome.
I'm really excited for Clarke for applying for jobs in far away places..
Well... far ish... and Banff... aww man... I actually really miss that
place more than I thought I would.. Well... Mostly just the Branch
there. They sent me a Valentines Day card last month. I was so happy.
Everyone signed it and I thought it was pretty much the best Valentines
day gift ever. 14 Banff..... So Clarke.. I really hope you get the job
there, so i have another reason to go back and visit. haha. And they
also need all the Priesthood holders they can get. They barely have
enough to function in that Branch. Thank goodness for visitors eh?
I read Our Search for Happiness this week too! Woot!! It is such a good
book!!! I never realized that it was meant for non-members to read to
help them understand the Church better. Some missionaries here like to
take that book with them tracting, and if they feel prompted, they'll
loan out a book to someone they tract into and ask them to read it and
come back to pick it up, and for the most part people have questions for
the missionary. Pretty much that's a genious idea and I shall start to
use it.
It also snowed again here. Apparently snow twice a year is a crazy rare
thing. haha. On Friday it snowed no more than 2 inches. The night before
i guess snow was being forcasted so everyone flocked off to Walmart to
buy bread a water and stuff because i'd swear they all think its the end
of the world when it snows. School got cancelled here for 2 inches of
snow... yeesh.. it was all gone the next day anyways. Really i just
think the teachers didn't wanna have to go to work of Friday, so they
just called it off. Seriously... Southerners....
I'm also learning how NOT southern Cabot is. The more I'm here the more
i come to find out how this place is like a freak town or something. I
guess within the last 10 years, the people here have become slightly
less racist and have stopped chasing everyone that's not white out of
the town. Literally... people we being chased out of this town 10 years
ago for not being white.. it's kinda scary...But yeah... Everyone's from
somewhere else it seems, and the whole "Southern" hospitality or
attitude is completely foreign to everyone here... well they're not from
here so that's prolly why. The ward members who have come here from
Texas or places like that say that this place is weird... So yeah... I'm
apparently not getting the real feel of the South yet. Good thing I've
still got 15 months to experience it though... Crazy... I've been out
for 3 months already...
Yeah.. So I think that's all for today. I love you all very much. Thanks
for the support eh? Also remember that the Church is true. :)
-Sister Dyer *woot*
ps... did ian ever find out who gummie beared the front door?? haha...
