Hola mi amigos! Y familia tambien!
This is the Sensational Hermana Smart reporting from the Center for the purpose of Training the Lord's Missionaries (a.k.a the MTC)
I guess I just feel like being silly today. Or it's the bowl of rocky road icecream with marshmellow sauce I just ate. Have I mentioned we get icecream lunch and dinner on Wednesdays and for lunch on Sundays? It is a glorious, wondrous thing. Even if I've started to kind of get sick of the food. It is all very heavy, and sometimes I don't even nearly clear my plate. I'm definately not going hungry. I heard that they actually feed us so heavy and much to put weight on the missionaries that will be going to mission with poorer food supplies. I'm not going to have that problem. Everything I've heard about Houston Texas seems to point to the probability that I will be fasting all the time because of how much I will be fed!
Speaking of eating too much. Yesterday at lunch some of the Elders in my District were talking about the cereal Marshmellow Mateys and about how many bowls each of them would eat. I found out as some were on their third bowls that they were trying to completely empty the dispencer of the cereal as some kind of goal. Others in our district saw what they were doing and got bowls as well. Once I was done with my chicken I joined in too! But I only ate one bowl, I value my innards. As a zone we successfully emptied the dispencer and were at fourty-nine bowls total. To make it an even fifty one of the Elders in my District went and got all the cereal dust and the cereal that had over flowed and ate it. He used to love that cereal, I think he's been ruined for life now. But I guess in a silly kind of way that shows what we can accomplish when we work together, eh?
Even though it snowed wonderfully for a while yesterday morning, it is now pretty much sunny every day. And now we will be out in the field for gym since the gym building is going under renovations. The old pull-out seating in there has been good and faithful for twenty-five years, but it is starting to break down and there are more missionaries than there are seats. So all that is going to get redone. And I get to go take my shoes off to play volleyball in the sandpit! Yesterday morning in gym I jumped for the ball at the net at the same time another Elder did, we collided a little but were both fine. I guess I got hit in the leg harder than I thought because it hurts to lift my knee. Nothing serious, but my companion enjoys calling me "Hermana Gimpy" while it lasts, haha! I only notice when I sit or get out of my chair, and with stairs.
Oh! And some of the letters I sent out had the wrong zipcode on it, if anyone has sent me a letter and it did not arrive and are confused, that may be the reason. The correct zipcode is on my blog but I'll re-iterate it here: instead of 84606-1793 it is 84604-1793.
Something I forgot to mention when I first got here is for the first one or two weeks we were not allowed to shake hands! Because of the flu season and our close-quarters living if there was a bug it could spread and cause a lot of problems. But then we were given the okay and hand shaking resumed. I was really happy for that! However, something else has still not been removed. There is a music ban. We cannot play any music, not even hymns! Because some missionaries abused the privlage and decided that 'Miley Cyrus' was 'uplifting' and now none of us can enjoy music except when we sing it ourselves. And even that is discouraged because others sing wordly songs! I really miss being able to ponder and listen to music in our rooms or something. I was spoiled by my Mother always playing nice music in our home.
On a happier note I have memorized part of the First Vision! The portion most usually said in the account. I would type it all here from memory but that would eat up my time! If anyone wants it send me a letter, haha!
Things are going well, I'm alternating between feeling empowered and feeling like I'm going to fail someone when they most need me. But everyone is very supportive and I don't stay down for long. It's not in my nature, and I feel that a blessing. It would be freaky if I could do everything perfectly, and I am constantly being stretched. I'm not meant to feel comforable, feeling comforable means I'm not progressing. Sometimes that fact REALLY bites, but it's the truth and I just have to deal.
Thank you again to all the lovely people who pray for me, and show their love and support by sending letters and DearElders.
~ Love Hermana Smart
This is the Sensational Hermana Smart reporting from the Center for the purpose of Training the Lord's Missionaries (a.k.a the MTC)
I guess I just feel like being silly today. Or it's the bowl of rocky road icecream with marshmellow sauce I just ate. Have I mentioned we get icecream lunch and dinner on Wednesdays and for lunch on Sundays? It is a glorious, wondrous thing. Even if I've started to kind of get sick of the food. It is all very heavy, and sometimes I don't even nearly clear my plate. I'm definately not going hungry. I heard that they actually feed us so heavy and much to put weight on the missionaries that will be going to mission with poorer food supplies. I'm not going to have that problem. Everything I've heard about Houston Texas seems to point to the probability that I will be fasting all the time because of how much I will be fed!
Speaking of eating too much. Yesterday at lunch some of the Elders in my District were talking about the cereal Marshmellow Mateys and about how many bowls each of them would eat. I found out as some were on their third bowls that they were trying to completely empty the dispencer of the cereal as some kind of goal. Others in our district saw what they were doing and got bowls as well. Once I was done with my chicken I joined in too! But I only ate one bowl, I value my innards. As a zone we successfully emptied the dispencer and were at fourty-nine bowls total. To make it an even fifty one of the Elders in my District went and got all the cereal dust and the cereal that had over flowed and ate it. He used to love that cereal, I think he's been ruined for life now. But I guess in a silly kind of way that shows what we can accomplish when we work together, eh?
Even though it snowed wonderfully for a while yesterday morning, it is now pretty much sunny every day. And now we will be out in the field for gym since the gym building is going under renovations. The old pull-out seating in there has been good and faithful for twenty-five years, but it is starting to break down and there are more missionaries than there are seats. So all that is going to get redone. And I get to go take my shoes off to play volleyball in the sandpit! Yesterday morning in gym I jumped for the ball at the net at the same time another Elder did, we collided a little but were both fine. I guess I got hit in the leg harder than I thought because it hurts to lift my knee. Nothing serious, but my companion enjoys calling me "Hermana Gimpy" while it lasts, haha! I only notice when I sit or get out of my chair, and with stairs.
Oh! And some of the letters I sent out had the wrong zipcode on it, if anyone has sent me a letter and it did not arrive and are confused, that may be the reason. The correct zipcode is on my blog but I'll re-iterate it here: instead of 84606-1793 it is 84604-1793.
Something I forgot to mention when I first got here is for the first one or two weeks we were not allowed to shake hands! Because of the flu season and our close-quarters living if there was a bug it could spread and cause a lot of problems. But then we were given the okay and hand shaking resumed. I was really happy for that! However, something else has still not been removed. There is a music ban. We cannot play any music, not even hymns! Because some missionaries abused the privlage and decided that 'Miley Cyrus' was 'uplifting' and now none of us can enjoy music except when we sing it ourselves. And even that is discouraged because others sing wordly songs! I really miss being able to ponder and listen to music in our rooms or something. I was spoiled by my Mother always playing nice music in our home.
On a happier note I have memorized part of the First Vision! The portion most usually said in the account. I would type it all here from memory but that would eat up my time! If anyone wants it send me a letter, haha!
Things are going well, I'm alternating between feeling empowered and feeling like I'm going to fail someone when they most need me. But everyone is very supportive and I don't stay down for long. It's not in my nature, and I feel that a blessing. It would be freaky if I could do everything perfectly, and I am constantly being stretched. I'm not meant to feel comforable, feeling comforable means I'm not progressing. Sometimes that fact REALLY bites, but it's the truth and I just have to deal.
Thank you again to all the lovely people who pray for me, and show their love and support by sending letters and DearElders.
~ Love Hermana Smart
I wish I had a dispenser of marshmallow cereal. :(
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