13 December 2010
Dearest Mum, Papa, family, and friends,
Thanks so much for the addresses! Sorry, I have a few more that I would appreciate also.
And as to the note from M, oh how I love her! I hope you emailed my address and blog back to her? But tell her I love her, and must have every detail of her marriage plans, and I must receive an announcement! Thanks!
Fun that you are able to see AE. I Love her so much! She is such a cute girl. How does she do it? Ha-ha. I am glad that you get to see her at the temple. I bet she loves that and also fun to see her . Say hi to her next time you see her for me?
No Camera yet, but I am sure it will come, and I will tell you immediately when I get it. Sorry that it takes so long! It must be because it’s electronic, or more valuable? Because Sis. P receives her parcels just fine. Oh well. Meanwhile, it will be ok.
I can’t believe you sent a parcel! I hope it wasn’t too expensive, but it will be SO appreciated. I can’t wait! Thank you SO much! And its fun, we just got a package from Sis. P’s mum (whom you would adore) and she sent us both stuff, all wrapped up. And it’s around the bitty Christmas tree in our flat that the B (G and his family) decorated and gave to us. Wonderful wonderful family.
Thank you for putting that money in my account! That’s really good of you! And wow, grandma and grandpa are wonderful! I will send them a letter. Can I just write their address on an envelope, and it will get to them? Their address looks a bit different.
We fasted yesterday for G for his interview, and he fasted as well. Good show of faith. I’ll go into that a bit later though when I go through things that happened in the week. And yes. It’s WONDERFUL that we get to stay together for the holidays. Because we just are best friends. No working at it. She’s like H, just instantly best friend status. Love her! So we are happy to be together. And it’s going to be great!
So we do cover a lot of areas. I think the furthest someone would have to drive is probably 30 minutes? But that’s way out there. And only one family of members lives in that town. But they are awesome! Ha-ha. But Evesham is pretty much in the middle of everyone.
I’m glad you liked the Christmas pictures! They were so much fun! And S is doing GREAT! When we first met him, he chained smoked the entire time we had a lesson with him. During the magical photo adventure, he only smoked twice. And then on subsequent visits since then, he hasn’t’ smoked once in front of us. And when we were working with the pictures, we spent two hours with him, on his doorstep! And so he is doing great. And he is so much happier. And he says that he wants to change his life at the new year. He has stopped doing drugs, and wants to quit smoking. And he is just happy! Or “Chuffed”! It’s really good. We see that just a little bit of love and service goes a LONG way!
We have been a bit less discouraged this week. We don’t stay discouraged for long, but it’s just when we get a lot of no’s and there just isn’t as much hope, we get sad, because we are working SO hard, and sometimes you don’t see the benefits right away. But it’s ok!
Yes! We are having an entire mission party on New Year’s Eve! We can’t wait!!! It’ll be so much fun! And there will be a talent show, and they have found me a harp to use. Ahh! So exciting! But a lot of pressure, because I won’t have practiced much beforehand. Oh well. It will be great. And sister P does interpretive dances for every talent show (they are so funny, just a joke!), and she has forced me to do it with her. We will see how that goes. Ha-ha. But it will be such a fun day! And I will take a picture with the C's. I haven’t served with them, because they serve in Wales, but they are so sweet! Amazing people.
And I can’t believe that Samuel met Sister K! CRAZY! We only spent one transfer in the mission together. She is so funny. And everyone, elders and sisters, loved her so much! She was apparently an awesome missionary!
I can’t believe that B has lice! Poor girl! It makes my head itch thinking about it. I am sad for her! Hopefully it will go away soon. Where did they pick it up from? What a bummer! I remember when I had lice. Foul. Ugh. But I do remember that papa took me to McDonalds to get a milkshake because I was a good girl while I had lice. And I was a good sport. So thanks papa!
You sound like you are so busy! When are you having the carols at our house? Invite H and A, they would still love to come, I am sure. Fun about the decorations. And the bookclub! And the progressive dinner. We have one of those with the RS this week. Should be fun!
So about our week. We saw S twice this week. And he said we could come by anytime now. When we first met him, we had to call before. He just really likes us coming. And we always read a chapter with him, and he really reads into it. And he is starting to think about coming back to church. What a good guy. He has such a hard time. But he’s so good.
We had a cool experience this week. We went out with a lady in the ward that we don’t know very well to try to find some of the less active people on our lists. So we searched for this lady, D, for the longest time. The postcode we had was wrong. And all they had was a house name, not a number. And it was foggy, and at night. And it was so cold! So we decided to knock on just one more house to see if they knew where “yew tree cottage” was, and they knew. And Diana ended up being an American lady. And she just returned from a holiday in America, where she saw all her LDS family, and she started thinking about how she should come back to church. And we invited her, and we gave her all the information, and she was so excited! She’s so nice! It just was the right place at the right time. What a cool experience for a member to experience. It was really rewarding.
G is doing great. He is still scheduled for this Saturday for his baptism. Not sure if he’s doing it or not, but he got his interview yesterday with President Ogden, and then President Ogden told him that he was ready to get baptized, he signed the forms then handed them to G and told him it’s his choice. So G is the one with the form. And last night we had dinner with the B , and he is still going back and forth. But he tried on his baptismal clothes. First time ever. So that’s good! We just are really praying and fasting for him. We feel good about it though, and we know it’s important for him. This is such an important time!
We had ward council this last week, and with the new handbook of instructions, it seems that everyone is more focused on people which was really nice! And a wonderful family in the ward, the Greaves, invited us to be with them on Christmas. So if you would please send me your Christmas schedule, so we can figure out next week when we would call, that would be great.
We had the ward Christmas party last Saturday, and the branch president and his family asked us to be in their little skit, and it was really funny. I will try to explain it to you when I have pictures of the event. Unfortunately I have no pictures from this week. Sorry!
This week has been great! We have really been trying to follow the spirit and do what we should do to find new investigators. We love our branch and our area so much, and we are so happy! Thank you for all that you do. I am so grateful for my chance to be on a mission. Best/hardest experience EVER!
All my love, heaped up, pressed down, and running over,
Sister Annie Clark
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