I love my hoodie
I love these sisters
hello all my lovlies!! how i LOVE you all :)
i
dont have much time to email today... due to it being on TUESDAY and
all... canadians LOVE long weekends so any excuse they have they extend
the holiday... kinda fun.. but not for all us missionaries.. sorry about
that, anyways.....
SPRING IS FINALLY HERE!!! its like... actually warm
outside.. yesterday i took my shoes off and played ultimate frisbee on
the grass and my toes didnt even get cold!! it was heavenly...
sooooo
due to times sake im gonna do some bullet points of things that i have
to tell you about that happened this week... they are not necessarily in
order but just that comes to my mind..
- C and K and family did not come to church even tho they
said they would :/ and it was even when elder christopherson was here
so that was kinda a bummer BUT we had technological difficulties the
WHOLE time... and so it might have been a good thing they werent
there... but the meeting was amazing despite us only hearing half of it
(we were in the overflow chapel about 20 minutes away and we didnt get
much of the broadcast..) but we said a prayer and as soon as elder
christopherson started talking.. we got video and audio.... afterwards
it went back to just being audio,.. it was kinda neat sitting in a
chapel FULLLLLLLL of people just bowing our heads and listening to the
words of our leaders.
- N brought her cousin with her to church.. her name is C... ANNNND she wants to be baptized!! it was the cutest thing..
she just turned around at church and was like... "sister douglas... are
you an apostle???" hahahahha i was LIKE..."NOOOO.." HAHAHA and she said"
wellllllll you teach like the apostle and he was talking about being
baptized.. will you help me get baptized?"
that i can do C.. that i CAN do and will do and im SOOOOO
excited for her :):) oh she is so smart!! SHE'S READ THE WHOLE BIBLE....
NO JOKE! AND SHE'S 11!!! crazy africans!! ;)
-i got another
haircut... >:I it was against my better judgment but i still did..
cause she was a fancy hairdresser and did it for free... i look like the
lady from tron. not impressed... im not sure what to do with it.. and i
dont think ANYONE will talk to us cause i look like an alien...... but
thats not really important.. just know i prolly wont be sending pictures
for a while cause i dont want anyone important to see my hair like
this... BLECK
-we are officially bus riders now!?!? :D well only on mondays and
thursdays.. but we are going to have such fun with this adventure
everyday... so far its alot more complicated than you would think...
cause you have to schedule in time to WALK to the bus stop have a lesson
and then walk back to the bus stop and then make sure that aligns with
the bust SCHEDULE... its kinda crazy.. and then if we have to get to
certain areas of our area... we have to take 2 buses to get there and
sometimes the overlay of time is alot so we have to go tracting in
between.... which really isnt that bad.. we'll figure it out :)
-im feeling so happy... i think.. well ill explain kinda a little bit what i feel..sometimes
when
we go to lessons i can be ... the most happy person in the world..
and i like the kind of person that i am.. i am bold and out going and i
feel like i can teach well.....THEN... we leave and we go drive
somewhere else and then it HITS you like a ton of bricks how UTTERLY
exhausted you are... and so thats when im not the happiest but im
pretty good at going up down up down and being happy when i need to
be.. and PEACEFUL in the other times... but for the most part i think i
am happy and well.... and when im not i am just thoughtful and
introspective which isnt BAD..its just new for me... ACTUALLY not
really.... i would do that lots... people just SEE me as this really
outgoing crazy girl... when REALLLLLLLY im all sorts! im shy
sometimes... im quiet sometimes.. im moody like all the time and
sometimes im grumpy BUT the beauty of it all is that i have peace! i
know God loves me and im doing my BEST to share that love with everyone
so im happy with who i am....i mean i still gotta work on some things...
but im not down on myself because im flawed.
-i am amazed at how much STUFF missionaries are expected to
handle... ok not handle but is thrown at us.. like peoples lives can be
so crazy and sometimes we just think we need to SORT THEM OUT!!!
sometimes i want to scream at people and be like 'IM ONLY NINETEEEN!!!
HELLLLLOOOOO!?!?!? I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!!!" and then the spirit
quietly whispers "you dont NEED to know how to give marriage
counseling.. you dont NEED to teach them how to stop doing drugs.. or
how to help them find a house or friends or family or any of that...
TEACH THEM THE GOSPEL... the GOSPEL will help them"
and thats what im going to do for the rest of my life. i dont know
how im going to sort out most of the problems i encounter except by
living the gospel.. and i know that they will be sorted.
this is a long email for the amount of time i am short of.. wow im so impressed with myself!!!
but i gotta quick respond to some other people so this is it for me! i love you all!
the church is SO true.. it just is. its good. its great. its worth it. and i love it!
i love yoU!!
love sister douglas
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