Lynnwood in the spring
Querida Familia y Amigos,
First of all, I have to share the best thing ever that I got today from my younger brother, Kelton:
"I kind of sort of got my mission call. Y by kind of sort of I mean I did. I got called to the Chile Concepción South mission. I leave July 15 and I get to go to the Mexico MTC as well. So yeah it's pretty exciting. Also there are pingüinos in my mission. That is especially cool."
I cannot express how excited I am. (: He's going to be an awesome missionary. And he'll be speaking Spanish. BEST LANGUAGE EVER. (:
This week was good. We tracted a lot, but it was good. But we also dropped Yuliet. ); I'm sooo sad. I love Yuliet sooo much. ): She's my favorite sassy pants Cuban. Hermana Webb and I decided that after dropping someone, we need an hour of mourning time. We're going to tell President and explain to him that teaching in Spanish is so much different that English. Yes, in English, you love your investigators, but when you teach in Spanish, you love them at a deeper level, all the way to the core. It's like charity, the pure love of Christ. You develop more charity when you speak Spanish, so when you drop someone, it's UNREASONABLE to expect that you'll be able to go touch doors (tocar puertas means knock doors, but tocar also means to touch) and be super happy when you've just dropped someone you care so much about. Al lyou want to do after that is stop by the store on the way to the apartment to by ice cream and brownies, then cry into said ice cream and brownies for the rest of the night while you engordarse. Sorry, there's not really a good English for that. Engordarse is to make yourself fat, and in English, it doesn't sound as good.
Haha, so, I want to share my side of something, then what Hermana Webb sent in her email. So, yesterday, for lunch, I decided I wanted pancakes (hey, I heard those "Oh, no"s. Have more faith in me!). Never before in my life have I made pancakes. So I follow the recipe on the box and heat up the pan before I put anything in it (the housing coordinators have been making a big deal out of that). The pancake mix seems thicker than I've ever seen my mom or dads (or even brothers'), but I figure because I followed the recipe of the box, it'd be okay.
I have never had such disgusting pancakes in my life. I didn't know it was possible to have burnt raw pancakes. So gross.
So this is Hermana Webb's account:
And I also learned that sometimes Heavenly Father puts you in people's lives to bless them for a variety of reasons. For example, Hermana Miller's cooking skills are...well less than par. Haha. She tried to make pancakes yesterday and I walk into the kitchen to see all this smoke and this black, fat glob of dough that somewhat resembled a pancake sitting in the pan. Hahahaha. Oh man. So the next day, I made sure to teach her how to make some delicious golden-brown pancakes without almost burning the apartment down. So that was our cooking adventure of the week!
Ha ha. Ha. Yeah...
But! We had a... super cool? Is that appropriate? I don't know. We had an experience last night. We went over to visit the Lopez familia, and they were having the glummest fiesta I have ever seen. There was plenty of drinking (we haven't gotten to the Word of Wisdom yet), but no laughing, not even talking. Carlos and a lot of men are drinking out on the porch (it's a covered porch, luckily. It was raining cats and dogs), and he tells us that we can go on in and talk to Maria. So we go in (after I, of course, make a fool out of myself be trying to make some jokes), and as we close the door, we freeze. We see Maria, Gloria, and a lot of other women sitting around the table. All the lights are out (except the tv's on, sound off, to distract the kids), and there's a candle lit in the middle of the table. Everyone here looks super sad, and some of them are drinking, too.
Hermana Webb and I's first thought? Exorcism. I don't know why, I've never even heard about anyone performing an exorcism on my mission.
Thankfully, no. But sadly, Carlos' dad passed away. ): So after a minute of sitting with them around the table, and Maria telling them that we 'come to read the Bible with her children' and we speak Spanish, they called the men inside, and then we all stand as one of them says a prayer, then we sit again, and we're invited to share a message. Obviously, we skip ahead to the plan of salvation. It was really cool to see the respect that they all had for us. Not for me, Karolina Miller. Not for my adorable companion, McKenzie Webb. But for Hermana Miller and Hermana Webb, representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ. This reminds me of some verses in Alma;
Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as we, since the world began; yea, and my joy is carried away, even unto boasting in my God; for he has all power, all wisdom, and all understanding; he comprehendeth all things, and he is a merciful Being, even unto salvation, to those who will repent and believe on his name.
Now if this is boasting, even so will I boast; for this is my life and my light, my joy and my salvation, and my redemption from everlasting wo. Yea, blessed is the name of my God, who has been mindful of this people, who are a branch of the tree of Israel, and has been lost from its body in a strange land; yea, I say, blessed be the name of my God, who has been mindful of us, wanderers in a strange land.
I know this is the true church with the plenitude of the Gospel of Jesus Christ restored on the earth again. There is nothing I would rather be doing with my time than to share this beloved gospel with los que me rodean. Those that surround me? I encourage and invite you all to share this as well. I love you all!
Hermana Miller
1. I bought these all the same day. That makes me Mexican right?
2. Narnia!
3. Valentines Day! (:
Fat man eating a sandwich, or cute satyr playing his pipes?
El Plan de Salvacion. With a cupcake?
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