20 December 2010
Dear mom papa and family,
So first, happy Christmas! It has been the weirdest week EVER. But first of all. Mom I can call you on Skype on Saturday. At 6:30 should be good. Thanks so much! I am excited!
No camera yet. I hope it gets there. What a pain! Sorry about that!
So this week. We had pday. We wrote Christmas cards the whole time. The WHOLE time. My word. But it was good!
Tuesday. We worked hard the whole day. We went visiting teaching with the relief society president. That was great. It was a good day. Nothing to really write home about.
Wednesday. We had a zone meeting in Gloucester. It was good! And afterward, the lovely Henry’s made us a big lunch again! They are amazing! And then, Sister Henry brought out this big bag, and they passed out stockings that they made full of goodies to each one of us! What wonderful missionaries they are! My word! We love them! That night we went to the ward relief society progressive dinner. Very fun. We got to know a lot of the less active girls who went, and it was a really good thing! We loved it.
Thursday. We were both sick. Sister P had a fever and a cold. I just had a cold. And so we stayed in all day. Man. it was rough staying in. but we made Christmas cards for the whole branch. And we read a lot of the ensigns and Book of Mormon. It was a lot of lying around. But the next day we were feeling much better. Now I am totally better. Sister P still has a cold, but she’s healing.
Friday. We had a great lesson with E. We hadn't been able to contact her for a while. So we were really excited that we were able to today. And we read from the Book of Mormon with her, and it was really good. She even gave insights. Very good. We are excited! And then that night we had a lesson with T and Ta. They are an adorable couple. In their early thirties. They have a little boy. We found them in the area book, in the formers section. We are pretty thrilled about them!
Saturday. SO MUCH SNOW! So much. G was supposed to get baptized that day. But he decided he needs more pondering time. We were sad. And I told him that he just needed to do it. And he promised that he would soon. So that's good. But we went to their house to teach him. But on the way, our car got stuck in the snow. So they had to come pick us up. Then it snowed hard the rest of the day. We were stuck at the B’s almost the whole day. And then we almost slept over, but G gave his land rover a test drive to see if he would be able to get us home safe. We ended up teaching him a good lesson, and having a whole family day with their family. It was a fun day, but it was frustrating not being able to work.
Sunday. Church was CANCELED. Crazy! The snow here is not even that bad, but because they don't get it here that much, the whole country does a stand still. It’s so weird! The cars just can't cope with it. So we were told we had to stay in all morning, until church would normally be out, and then go to work. It was a long cold day. We were banned (obviously) from using our cars. Not that we had ours to even use. That night, President Retallick and Jonathon Wharrad (branch mission leader) helped us go get the car. I have never pushed a car so much in my life! I am getting good. So yeah. It was a crazy day! We were able to go to the Wharrad's to be able to have the sacrament which was really good!
Things here are going great. Still snowing like crazy. Pray that we will be able to have the Christmas party! Mom, I got the package! It already got to the mission home and then to me. It is all around our Christmas tree. And thank you for the pears! We are so excited! Thank you thank you!!!!
I am excited to talk to you on Skype on Saturday. Hopefully we get it all figured out. Thanks for everything. Love you so so much! Happy Christmas!
Love,
Sister Annie Clark
Ps the library was closed. So we are using member’s computers, so we have less time. So sorry short email and no pictures. But I will send them all next week. Thanks so much! Love you!
No comments:
Post a Comment