So this week was
great. We had 12 lessons and we have 3 people on date for baptism in
the next 3 weeks! We are so excited! One of them, Tiarra, is getting
baptized this Saturday!! I think I mentioned her in my last email, but we are
just so excited for her! She's 15 years old and just so awesome. She
enrolled herself in seminary 3 days before she told us and just loves
the gospel so much! And we are so excited for her! The bishop got her tickets to go see
conference with her aunt up in Salt Lake and then the stake is having a
stake youth temple trip a week after that and she is going to
get to go to! She is so excited!
We are also
teaching her Aunt and cousin, Stacie and Missy. They are getting
baptized on the 28th, and her aunt Roxane is one of our recent converts that
we have in our ward, so basically we are over at their house all the
time, and it's wonderful! I love their family so much, and they are so
fun! Oh and actually Tiarra and Roxanne added me on facebook, so if
you could accept their friend requests tha would be awesome!
And it's so cool that you
got to talk to Sister Shrum! Her and Elder Shrum were the couple that
picked us up from the airport! They are so sweet and nice. And yes we
got all the paperwork done and Sister Shrum sent it out to you.
If you don't have it already then it should be getting to you soon!
Yay!! I am so excited to get my visa going again! haha
We also started teaching a
girl named Kashley this past week. She is so great! Our first lesson
we had with her we spent a lot of the time talking about her favorite
scriptures, all of which were in the Doctrine and Covenants! She has
been going to church for a couple of years but couldn't get baptized
until she was 18 because her parents wanted her to wait, but she is so
ready and so excited! And we are so excited to get to teach her!
We had a game
night this past Saturday! It was so much fun! There's a baseball field
right next to the church building and so all 5 sets of missionaries got
together and invited all our investigators and families from our wards
to play kickball! It was so great! We had a bunch of people show up!
We're hoping to keep doing it and to get more and more people each
week. It reminded me of the volleyball nights you guys used to do... do
you guys still do that?? you totally should.
And can I just tell you another
thing, I am loving New Mexico. The weather here is actually pretty
decent surprisingly! It's monsoon season (hahah yeah I know, who knew
that new mexico had a monsoon season??) and so it storms here all the
time and we get lightning storms and it's just fantastic! I don't think I
would ever move here permanantly... especially since the summers here
are apparently killer, but I am really enjoying it out
here.
But seriously, I really am
loving it here. I love being on a mission. Every now and then it hits
me that this is what I get to do for the next 16ish months (!!! can you
believe that it's already been 2 months!! ahhhhh!!!), that I really am a
missionary, and that I get to study for 4 hours a day (yes, we study
for 4 hours every morning... personal, comp, 12 week, and then lang. our
day doesn't start until after 12) and I get to teach people all the
time and it's just amazing and such a blessing. I know I've only been
out on my mishh for 2 months, but I have already changed so much from the
person that I was when I said goodbye to you all and I can't wait to see
the person that I am going to be by the end!
Ok , ahhhh i am running out
of time! Alright. Funny stories... So basically pretty much everybody
in the town of Kirtland, NM lives in a trailer. We live in a trailer...
it's a double wide and it's huge, but it's a trailer, and it's kind of
weird... But apparently it's just the thing to do here in kirtland...
but so we are kind of convinced that something is living under our
trailer/house.... and it's either a skunk or a human... We actually
almost got attacked by a skunk the other night! It was slinking around in
our yard when we pulled up for the night and we freaked out and didn't
know what to do and we ended up calling the other sisters who live with us
and told them to make sure that the door was unlocked and made a
mad squealing dash for the house.... the squealing probably wasn't the
best decision if we were trying to avoid scaring the skunk...(is that
how skunks work?? I don't know... hahha) but yeah it was terrifying. And
we are pretty sure that it lives under our house and sends it's
stink up through our vents every now and then... which as you can
imagine is just great.... and then there are all these awful
loud bangings that go on at night... so I am pretty convinced that
there's a human down there too and that they're best friends who've bonded
over making our lives miserable... hahah
I'm out of
time... I'm gonna write another letter later today so look for that!
It's gonna have all the scriptures that I enjoyed and thought were funny, in it! I love you guys and love hearing from you and can't
wait to talk to you again next week!!
-Sister Rice
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