everyone.
i am sick. possibly dying.
just kidding about the dying part, but serious
about the i am sick part. it started on saturday with a scratchy dry throat and
slowly progressed into a hurricane of stuffy nose, headache, cough, and
hard-to-breath-ness. and the thing is, i just really don't want to go to the
doctor (mom, i can hear your exasperated scream from here) because MODERN
MEDICINE IN TAHITI IS A JOKE. and i hate spending money for a doctor to tell me
to take "doliprane" (the french equivalent of like tylenol or
something) and it'll be fine. stupid! and my companion has suddenly switched
over into crazy macho-mom mode (i.e. "IF YOU GET OUT OF BED I'M GONNA
PUNCH YOU!" or basically just telling me what to do aaallllllll the time.)
i see that this is an expression of her love for me, which is nice. but also
suffocating. which is bad since i'm already having difficulties breathing.
ANYWAY. the point is, i'm giving in and going to see the doctor after i send
off this email.
in other news, when i'm sick, i tend to have
some pretty crazy dreams. like where somehow there's a mixture of britney
spears and the tree of life. not seeing how my brain made THAT connection, but
whatever. i can't remember if i told y'all in the last email, but i definitely
had a dream a few weeks ago that i was teaching britney spears about the law of
chastity. why i keep dreaming about britney spears? i wish i knew.
anyway anyway, this week was pretty good aside
from the whole i'm dying part. we got three new references from our members!
i'm so happy! i love member references! andrea is a single mom with three kids
and she is so dang nice and i really just love her. we had our first lesson
with her and it went really well and she talked about how she just feels good
when she goes to church and stuff and it helps her so much. and i was like yes!
it does! don't stop! we set up a family home evening with her and her
integrating member (i actually don't know how you say that in english) and it
was soooo great! matevahi is a youngin'--she's 18 and her aunt and uncle are
members are proposed the lessons to her and she said ok. not really sure about
her REAL level of interest, but the first lesson went well and she's just
really cute and i love her too. and then lahaina is also a youngin' who comes
and stays with a member family over the weekend. let me just tell you why
member references are SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE. it's because there's
an AUTOMATIC support. once we leave, they're not all alone. and things just
work better. so i'm excited to see how these investigators are going to
progress, because i love them all.
yesterday was the primary program sunday in
both of our wards. probably one of my favorite sundays of the whole year. love
seeing the kids up front because somehow they think that they can see everyone
but no one can see them. cue the funny faces, wedgie-picking, nose-picking,
crying, etc. i can just hear the silent groan going throughout the parents. so
awesome. i hope your respective primary programs were equally entertaining.
alright everybody. my body hurts, so i'm gonna
stop typing now. i think you all are just great.
love,
soeur hansen
