First week of March

I did get the package! And that's weird that the zip code was wrong... I just typed what my companion told me our address was... (but personally I think she's mildly dixlesic...) I got some mail from Alison Dixon... who else asked for my address?

That's sad that they have such misinforming shows about Mormonism. A lot of people have really weird ideas about us, and as missionaries we are supposed to clear up misunderstandings, but it's super hard. Like the otherday someone asked if we saw his picture in the paper, and we said "No, we don't read newspapers." Meaning we as missionaries, but he got really embarassed and thought it meant that Mormons couldn't read newspapers.... it's absurd!

Good luck with Jessie's meds. How much longer does Weston have on his mission? and Congrats to Manti Theater, we always rock the house.

OUAT- update. We went to someone's house last night and they were watching it... I almost died on them, I was like TURN ITOFF I CANT WATCHTHATBUTIIIIII WANNNTTTTOOOO SO BADDD *sob sob sob* and my  companion almost died of laughter. Then we spent a good deal of time talking about it, and shared a scripture with them. They are a fun family. The little boy is amazing too! He just got baptised in November and since then he has completely read the Book of Mormon and is working on it the second time, already in 3 Nephi!

Snow? haha. I read in your email from last week (that came with the package) something about flowers and I thought it was weird, we've had flowers since the day I arrived here, and it's be 80-95 degrees the past couple of weeks. :3 It's super nice. However, saturday we had a super bad lightning storm- It was still 80 degrees, and there was no rain, but lots of lightning, so we had to postpone the fishing trip. :< Everything else is going great- I'm not sure about the meds yet. My hair HATES Texas- like, usually I can shake my hair and it's dry, here, I blow dry it and it still take 3+ hours to dry, and the wind here is really dirty, so that's gross. And it rains dirt too, which is also gross. My feet..... hurt. A lot, but I'm getting used to it. My arms are also in a lot of pain thanks to all the lovely little bugs that enjoy biting me all day long....

 

In response to your last letter- you said you would like to hear more about Hosea- What did I already say? lol. We now call him Brother Jubera as he is on his way to baptism, and he is hilarious! He's been baptised into 5 different churches, but doesn't feel that he's found the complete truth in all of them. After our church we asked what he thought and he said "I've seen better, but it's good." He LOVES preisthood, and the idea that the Holy Ghost can be our constant companion is something that he really likes also. He cries whenever we talk about Joseph Smith... The only problem is- He won't stop smoking. He claims that he's not addicted, so it's not a problem, but it is... We hope to help him with that and have him baptised by the end of the month.

 

We also met an amazing Woman named Candace this week. She was hesitant to let us in the door, but her 5 year old daughter (who has the strongest spirit I have ever felt) came running up to us and said "I love you. I like you. Your church is true." So Candace let us in and she said "I've always read the Bible, but I feel like something is missing, do you know what happened to the rest of the scriptures?" So we told her about the Book of Mormon, and she said that she knows it's true. :') That is the only meeting we have had with her so far, but we get to see her again tonight, and hopefully she is still on the same page as us... Did I tell you guys the story about Anita? It's a sad story, but I don't have much time left so let me know I didn't tell you about it already and I will tell you about it next week...

 

Thank Jacob for burning the CDs. My companion loves hearing me talk about you all. Every night she asks me to tell her another story about my family, and she really enjoyed Jacob's note. (I will reply to that by hand, because I have some things to say that cannot be described with words.) She also constantly tells me that I am so good at telling stories I should be a comedian, or write a book... oh!!! Which made me think of something else that I wanted to say to Nino... You should make sure she has my right address, or find out hers and give it to me, because I have to write her!!! gah!!!

Currently we have 2 members and 1 investigator who are Bakers, and they love to make Cupcakes/Muffins and other things for us, so I'm probably going to be 700 lbs by the time you see me again- just letting you know... but I have grown the love daily excersize (I don't love the time frame, but I do love the movement....) Sundays are super hard, because we don't get to excersize, and we have six hours of church. Yesterday was especially precious to try and stay awake through it all. Daylight savings, and we had to wake up early to get people to church... bleh. Fast Sunday wasn't too bad, except my companion who rarely eats, forgot to take time at the end of the day so we could break our fast... I was pretty much dead by the time we got home.

Times up, but I would love to say more... I'll write again next week~ Love you! Bye.

-Sister Sanders

Happy Last week of February

No Email this week? Wow, now I'm not going to know what to say...

Though I did get your card, and that was nice, at least now I know that you got my address... and hopefully soon some more people will write me *hint hint STRONG NUDGE NUDGE* I'm feeling kinda lonely, my companion litterally spends a few hours every week writing letters and I'm just sitting here wishing I knew peoples addresses... By the way, did you ever tell Dad how to contact me? I haven't heard from him either...

That's weird that my letter never came through, but at the same time it makes sense. The letter I wrote the first day here was one that the President mandated we write home, he was going to send it with a picture of us to the parents, and since there are 35 new missionaries in the Texas Dallas Mission, it is possible that he just hasn't got it sent yet... *sigh* I wish I remember what I wrote because then I could just say it here again.

Yep... So.. Just talking about life now huh? 27 minutes and a blank mind, this should be great. I told you we live in a mansion right? It's gorgeous, and it has a beautiful view for the back yard, we live right on the edge of Lake Ray Hubbard, so every morning as I eat my breakfast I get to watch the sun rise over the rippling water, and through a couple of trees. It is sooo beautiful! I just want to stay here forever! Seriously, if the water were clean enough that it would be sanitary/legal to swim in, this would be my dream home. The dog that lives with us is named Ajacks! (Like earth-version of Prince Charming's dog when he was married to earth-version of King Midas's daughter from OUAT! Wow, how sad is it that I can remember the dog's name, but not the people...)  The cats are Lefty and Poncho. They are really cute, but they are super shy, and I don't have any time to spend trying to get them to like me- Always running past yelling "YOU'RE SUCH A CUTE KITTY CAT-- BYE!" Last night I had a bad dream about Twinky and how he was mad at me for abandoning him.....

 

I finally heard a real Texas accent. We went a bit into the country(it was still in our area, but not someplace we go often) to meet the family of one of our investigators. It made me so happy to hear him talking, and the father was laughing at my foolishness. Currently, we are trying to get him to sign the permission slip for his son- Devin to be baptised. It's something that Devin really wants, but the father doesn't trust Mormons. He does however find it amusing to watch two young girls try to do things that they don't know how to do, so he's agreed to go fishing with us this weekend. We plan to build a relationship with him before we try asking him to sign the papers again.

 

We have yet to see an armadillo, because we are super busy teaching all the time, seriously, it's crazy how much we do, we start right off the bat at 10AM and teach straight to 9:30 every night. The missionary schedual says that we are allowed to take an hour break for Lunch, extra study (and we are even allowed to take naps at this time...) but for us, we take about 3 Minutes to toss something from the frige to the microwave and then we have to run off to another lesson. I'm glad that the work is moving so quickly here, and that we have so many people who are ready and willing to listen to the word of God, but at the same time, I kind of want a break. The only break I get is on Preparation Day. Glorious, wonderful preparation day..... The problem with that though is that I'm so used to being super busy that when I do get a break, I'm easily bored and I want to go out and teach. Today I took a 3 hour nap while my companion cut her hair and wrote letters and learned a new song on the piano... I have this problem where I want to do everything, or I want to do nothing.

 

OH!!! If you haven't sent my package yet, could you also add to it my Selah CD? Last time I had it was in the CD player in the kitchen, I wanted to bring it with me, so I was listening to it to make sure it still worked and was 100% mission aproved, but then I forgot to bring it... Also any of my other instumental CDs or church CDs would be great. My companion loves music, so she wants to listen to it all the time, but the variety of her music is limited... But if you've already sent it that's alright too, don't worry yourself too much over it.

 

Tell Soapy congrats on his mission call. .

 

I love you. I hope you are feeling alright, and doing good. How goes the indexing? And FHE? Everyone reading your scriptures every day? You should, they are great!

 

Seriously though, tell people to write me already. I always write back.

Love Always,

Sister Sanders.