1 December 2010
Dear mom, papa, family and friends:
Thanks for the email! How fun that Mr. Lohss wants to get together the winners. That sounds like so much fun. I wish I could do it. But alas, I cannot. But I hope AE will be able to. Tell her hi for me. And tell her she needs to write me.
And also, would you be able to get me a couple people’s addresses? The ones that I desire are N, M, and BH. Danke!
Sister P and I are SO happy that we are staying together. She is my best friend here. So great. And we came out at the same time. We were in the MTC in Provo at the same time, but I didn’t know her. But she remembers me from when I played the harp at the MTC. Funny! I don’t know who could be my next companion. We may train. Or be a follow up trainer. But it makes me nervous to train. We will have to wait and see I guess.
We go to Worcester for district meetings. We are one of the only people with cars, so we can’t have anyone else pick us up. But sometimes, when meetings are elsewhere we pick people up. Yes, we are the only missionaries in Evesham. We also cover little towns: Broadway, Bidford on Avon, Tewkesbury, Pershore, and a few others. We have a pretty big area. And our district leader and his companion are the only ones in Worcester.
Funny what papa said about us giving V a blessing. Guys have it so easy, being able to just give the blessings. Ha-ha. We had to find someone. But it was a great experience!
The Christmas photos were so much fun! I sent a couple of them to you. They were so fun to take. And it was just to get Stefan out and doing something. He is amazing. He is addicted to drugs and smoking, and the first few times we met with him he chained smoked the whole time. I don’t know how I lived through being in the room with him that first time. And when we took the pictures he was a bit stressed so he smoked a few times. But since then, every time we have gone over he hasn’t smoked once. And we were there for a few hours a couple days ago, going through the pictures with him, and he didn’t’ smoke once. He has a hard time, because he has anxiety, and so we are just helping him know that he’s loved. And we have invited him to the branch Christmas party and to church, and now he’s thinking about it. It all starts with feeling loved though.
That sounds like Sister Wanless taught a great lesson. I love that idea! Thanks so much. I love it. And if we have more notice next time, we may adopt that I love it. I think we are teaching the last Sunday of every month from now on. Wow. We are practically in the RS presidency!
This week, N couldn’t come to church. She usually works every Sunday. But we are going to try to help her with that. But a lady we met in our first few weeks here in Evesham came, her name is W, and her daughter is C came. And her daughter loved it, and I think she did too! It was great. Oh man. So it was fast and testimony meeting yesterday, and there were some really great testimonies.
This week has been absolutely FREEZING. Literally. Ice. Snow. EVERYWHERE. Gosh. We had the funniest day the other day; I have to tell you about. So we started it out with a really hard workout, which was happy. Then we went to a less active’s home to do some service. She didn’t’ answer her door, so we walked away, and we saw a guy with dreadlocks coming up the street. We went and stopped him. He said he wasn’t interested, but that we should go to number 92. We were like, really? And he was like yeah. He said he had just got kicked out of their house, and that they still have his guitar, and that we should demand cake. So we decided, why not? So we went, knocked, and asked for R, saying that M had sent us. We ended up talking, and laughing. And finding out that they know the R family really well (the branch presidents’ family). Then M got back, and him and his friend L- the son of R- played us some stuff on their guitar. It was hilarious. We asked them if we could come back, and they said yes. So then yesterday at church, we asked Sister R how she knew them, and she said that she had given their name to the missionaries many times before, and nothing has ever happened. But she has prayed for them for 2 years. Wow. The spirit guided that! So cool!
Oh, and that same day that we met them, we went to a dinner appointment closer to Worcester than Evesham, and got our car completely stuck in the ice. I got out to push, and it was like I got out on an ice skating rink. We ended up calling the men in the house of the place we were going to for dinner, and they came and moved our car, and it all worked out. But it was funny!
Anyway, it’s been a great week. We are working hard, and are exhausted but happy. Sometimes it’s hard not to get discouraged, but we are trying so hard to stay positive. We just want to bring people to the gospel so bad! Ahh!
Well, I love you so much! And thanks for the very fun informative letter. I got a fun letter from the dyer family this week, and I appreciated it so much! Thanks M, R, and B!
I love you all! Thanks for everything! I love you dearly, and hope everything is going well! I pray for you all the time. Love you so much! ,
Love, Sister Annie Clark
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