Bueno,
mi companera has been taking the count down, there's nine days till
Christmas. And we have the option of skyping or calling home. Sorry, put
I don't really want to Skype. So, yup, sorry too bad if you wanted to,
but I don't want to find a member's computer and then deal with it. And
we don't get to call to set up a time when we can call, so we have to
set it up over the e-mail, and there's today and next week then two days
after it's Christmas. I think they said that we can call either
Christmas day or Christmas eve, but I think everyone will be all over
the place on Christmas eve. From what I remember I was always finishing
the Christmas shopping, going sledding etc. on Christmas eve, so I
figure Christmas day would be best. Cause that's when everyone opens
their presents and then everyone can have a lazy day for the rest of the
day. But I don't know what time you want to do it. I would guess the
early afternoon, after the wrapping paper has been cleaned up and before
everyone starts heading out to friends or to Grandma and Grandpas. But
it's up to you. And I remember that Texas is an hour different but I
don't remember which way. I think I'm an hour ahead. Bueno, oh and we
only get 30 to 45 minutes, so if I cut it off before an hour's up that's
why, don't get offended. So yup I think that's it for the call next
week.
It's
weird having a Christmas without any snow at all. I'm missing snow. My
companion is all good with it, she's from St George and usually spends
Christmas in Hawaii anyway. (She has family in Hawaii and she was born
there, so it's not that they're into crazy vacations, it's like us going
to Idaho or Colorado). In fact, my favorite Christmas song this year is
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" It's okay, I'm not trunky, I just
wish I could have a snow ball fight for our p-day zone activity. There
was frost on the cars this morning though! that was pretty exciting!
Bueno.
OH yeah, Elder Callister came down to our mission and we got to have a
mission tour meeting with him on Friday, and then he talked in our ysa
branch yesterday. It was super awesome, like a mini general conference
and leaves you with the same problem--you learn all kinds of amazing
stuff and you're all pumped up to change the entire world, but then
there's so much that you got that you don't know where to start.
Last
Tuesday was the definition of a roller coaster day for a missionary. It
was our district leader, Elder Basset's Birthday, so we went to Kuhn's
Grill, a Mongolian restraunt for lunch and then went to district
meeting. After district meeting we stayed to do our language study. Then
we had the zone leaders bring us the keys so that we could have a
lesson with Humberto in the church that afternoon, I had a little bit of
a stress come apart, and then Hermana Stevenson, who is gluten
intolerant--majorly allergic to gluten, broke out in hives and we
discovered that khun's grill is not gluten free and gets cross
contamination really bad. She never broke into hives before and it was
all over, kinda freaking her out. But then we had our lesson with
Humberto and our member present showed up while the zone leaders left to
get her some benadrill (sorry I don't remember how to spell anything)
Then we had a pretty awesome lesson with Humberto, he prayed about
Joseph Smith and sayed that he "[felt] joyful, so it must be good" That
is what he said, so it was pretty awesome. Particularly cause my brain
was going crazy and Hermana Stevenson's skin was burning up and itching
and during the lesson her throat started closing up. Oh yes, and Elder
Bellavance (zone leader) brought the walmart bag with the benadril etc
just before we were gonna have Humberto pray. So it's just proof that
the Lord loves us. And the spirit was there regardless of the many
distractions that occurred. and that Humberto is ready even though he's
got a huge wall of a stumbling block that he has to get over.
But then it was sort of a
panic mode once Humberto and the member left, cause then there was a
ward FHE activity for the Spanish ward, but Hermana Stevenson was having
a really hard time breathing and she had hives all over her body and so
we called Sister Maluenda, but she didn't really know what to do. And
that didn't help my panic level. I was trying really hard not to show
it. Sister Wiser, one of our sister training leaders is gluten
intolerant as well and so she was on her way with her essential oils, so
we waited in the relief society room with a few of the elders there
trying to lighten the mood by talking about food, and me trying not to
freak out by marking the scripture masteries in my Spanish scriptures.
And Hermana Stevenson being absolutely amazing and not hitting anyone.
Cause I was freaking out enough to hit all the elders. I was not happy
with what they came up with to say. Particularly Elder Sanders (zone
leader) saying "okay, so do you want to drive yourself to the hospital?"
Well anyway,
hows that for a story and long e-mail? Maybe not so long. But everyone
says I only need to say that I'm alive and doing okay. So Momma and
Daddy, I'm alive and I'm doing good.
Love you all!
Hermana NJ Nielson
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