hi everyone,
i'm titling this email "sister hansen laments" because I'M SAD. my district is gone--i said bye to the last half of them this morning at 4 am, which indicates two things: i'm tired, and i'm all alone. well, i'm not all alone. now i'm just paired with the other solo sisters in my zone. who are just such special spirit daughters of god and i'm determined to love the crap out of them by the time i leave the mtc but that has yet to happen. actually, i thought i was just going to get lumped with the new sister coming into our zone tomorrow, but at branch council on sunday, my branch presidency informed me that i was getting placed with the sister that's having some big drama in her district in the hopes that i will be a (and i quote) "calming influence." and i was like branch president says whaa? basically i'm getting assigned to be a babysitter, so this will be fun. the sister that i'm getting paired with is...well...let's just say she has one of the strongest personalities i've ever encountered IN MY LIFE. she prides herself on speaking her mind because it's her culture or whatever, but really i think it's just an excuse for her to be tactless and rude. and she presents all of her opinions as hard facts and refuses to let other people have differing ideas. it's really really adorable.
can you tell i miss sister sandoval? saying bye to her was really hard. saying bye to my district was really hard in general, especially since literally EVERY PERSON in my zone thinks it's suuuucchhhhh a funny joke to be like "oh yeah sister hansen, you realize that by the time YOU leave, 3/4 of these people will already be gone! ha ha haaa!" and i'm like oh man, is that joke STILL funny for you guys? it's definitely still funny for me, even after the 40th time! no really! tell me again! did you all coordinate this, or are you all just in the possession of such uncanny senses of humor? oh i can't even stand it. you slay me. all of you.
cough. i'm not bitter.
anyway, i can honestly say that i love every person in my district. we had some really rough patches, and i can't say that i loved everyone all the time, but i can pretty confidently assert that we had some miracles occur during the mtc in the way that we all grew together so much and by the end of our time, EVERYONE was sad to say goodbye. so let me just tell you--prayers work. if you want to love someone, and you work hard enough to get there, god will help make up the rest. so i guess i'll be putting that to the test again in these next two weeks. it's my goal to be sad to leave my dear new companion by the end of my time here.
yesterday a returned sister missionary who served in tahiti came to talk to me during one of my class times about her experiences--it was sooo cool! except i'm kind of freaked out now because she told me that she got proposed to like...15 times on her mission, by members and investigators, married and single. she was like "yeaaaah because you're american and you have an accent, you instantly become about 40 times more attractive than you ever thought you might have been. so basically....any friendly interaction that you have with a male under the age of 40, he'll fall in love with you. and if you're really nice to them, they'll think you're in love with them." she advised me to NEVER let any of them play the guitar for me. i was laughing, but also kind of peeing my pants. so am i just not supposed to talk to people? haha. i don't know. i'm exaggerating a little, but actually not that much. it will be interesting though. it was way cool to hear all her stories though, and it just made me even more antsy. the other day, sister sandoval and i were talking, and she was like, "you do realize that when you came into the mtc 9 weeks ago, you had no idea how to speak tahitian. and now you're teaching 45 minute lessons in tahitian all by yourself." and i was like huh i think you're right. THE GIFT OF TONGUES IS REAL, PEOPLE.
oh yeah, i had to go to in-field orientation (which is basically like what all the departing missionaries have to go to the few days before they leave, i had to go with my district even though i'm not leaving yet). it was pretty boring. some of it was cool though. i mostly just drew cartoons throughout it, because i'm 6 years old. at least they were pertinent to what was being discussed, although i would be lying if i denied that one of them was me walking up to a guillotine. whoopsie.
i wish i had more exciting things to report this week. mostly i'm just tired and depressed right now because i was suuuuuuuuperrrrr disobedient last night and went to bed at midnight (don't judge, haters) and then got up at 3:30 to help ss get ready, and then went to bed at 4;30, then got back up at 6:30. and mostly i'm just sad my district is gone and i'm all alone without my friendz. guhhhh making new friendsssss nooooo funnnnnn.....whatever. this is so whiney, so i'm gonna leave now. i still love everyone quite a bit, and miss y'all bunches and bunches. hopefully this email doesn't make you want to go eat your feelings or anything. i'm still happy and excited about being a missionary. i'm just REALLY ready to fly over the ocean to my pretty little islands. okiloveyoubye!!
love,
soeur hansen
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