Did you get my letter?!? Mother! I can't believe you're an alcoholic!?! Haha, wooooooow. Not cool that someone would spread that around. Some people... eyeroll. I hope you know that I am still sending pictures and look forward to your emails and mail EVERY WEEK. It is refreshing. Keep it coming, please! Preach it, sister! Keep up the Book of Mormon reading. I'm in Alma 61 right now. It's amazing how much I'm learning and how it all really applies to our day. I need to write the bishop back... he just sent me another letter. It's in my hands right now, but I haven't read it yet.
This week was super good! We got 15 LTMs (lessons with members present) this week and it has been probably the busiest week on my mission. It's true what they say! Work, work, work, there is no satisfactory substitute! When we are working every minute, having shorter lessons and picking up member after member, there's no time to think about, "oh, I said that wrong" or, "oh, I suck.." Just work, work, work and not giving Satan any time to slip in. As a result, I've also been the most tired! It's a blessing, though. Oh, tomorrow is my 1/3rd mark. And 3 months from now is my half mark. Time is flying by. Sister Veazey and I are going to celebrate together because it's her 1/3rd mark, too! It's nice having a companion who has the same time as me, because my other 2 companions were on the verge of going home. Not only did they give all their stuff to me, (which is why I have new clothes, btw. Perks of being a murderer. hehe) but hearing about them going home sometimes got me a little distracted. Sister Veazey is super cool. She was only in the MTC for 2 weeks because she studied Spanish before, but she's super humble and easy to get along with. She's also super against "flirting" with the elders, which is a huge blessing, because I'm against that as well. Some sisters....not so much. Haha. No time for hanging out with other missionaries. Work!
Mom was telling me about how she read in Mosiah, and it reminded me of an article I read by elder Bednar about the Atonement. In the scriptures we read of so many righteous men and women who rely on God to give them strength. In this talk, Bednar says, "we shouldn't pray for our circumstances to change, but we should pray for the strength to change our circumstances." I love that because all of these great examples that we read from the Book of Mormon and the Bible pray for this strength, according to their faith in Jesus Christ. They never pray asking for God to make their lives easier, they pray for STRENGTH, so that they can bear their trials with hope and happiness. That's how we can use the power of the Atonement in our lives. When we can not get over our trials on our own - as imperfect as we are - we can turn to our savior, Jesus Christ and rely on them to help us through this life, as long as we're willing to do our part. The talk is called, "the enabling power of the atonement." I think I'll mail it to you guys. :)
We had a funny experience this week in the home of a part member/less active family. The husband is a less active and his wife is a non-member. They are super nice and we were about to say a prayer when the Hermana's drunk cousin came in the room. He started touching sister Veazey's arm and being super creepy and during sister Veazey's prayer, he grabbed her arm and started stroking it up and down. Then he tried to hug her when we left. When we left, the Hermana apologized like 5 times! Haha. I gave him a dirty look and so I think he was scared of me. I think I scare people a lot... I got super upset one time when I was with sister Holland because I felt like a lot of people wouldn't take me seriously because they don't look me in the eyes when I'm talking to them sometimes. She told me she thinks it's because I intimidate people. Hispanic people can tend to be gossipy and Sis. Holland told me she's noticed that some people act intimidated by me because they know they can't mess with me. I don't know if that's true, but it made me feel kinda cool. Oh, I don't think I told you guys yet, but sister Andher (Anders, I spelled her name wrong before) admitted that she's scared of me. Apparently I remind her of her older daughter...this one time I guess I raised my eyebrow a certain way in the middle of her babbling and she about jumped ten feet. I don't know what I did, but I guess my face scared her...? Haha. Anyway...
I love you all very much and I will send pictures, I promise! I hope you will send me my skirts and what the poop shirt and memory card (with pictures from home!) soon!
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