MY
FAMILY!!!
2/9/15
Mondays
don't come often enough! I love getting to hear from you all and hear
that you're doing okay. They also never give me enough time to give
really good replies or to send you all the news about
what's going on out here. I think we need to talk to President Monson
about this ;).
Well
this week has really tested my patience. Our house has decided to
have a mind of it's own because our lights turn on and off when ever
they feel like it. We'll be in the kitchen making
dinner and the lights will turn off, so we have to wiggle the light
switch a couple times before the light will come back on. We've tried
changing the light bulb and everything, but that didn't help. Then
last night the light kept coming back on even though the switch
was down... weird. Also my companion and I have been having an
interesting(?) time with each other. We are definitely Not best
friends. And we both know that. Sometimes she will be very short
with me and I have to grit my teeth and take it. And sometimes I
even get that way with her too. I still have about 6 or 7 weeks left
until I'll be done with training, and then I will most likely receive
a new companion. So hopefully we figure out our differences by then
or that we can just hold out and keep our peace with each other
until one of us gets transferred. We do have some good times
though, not every minute with each other is awful. When she lets
loose and gets goofy in the car or at home we really have fun joking
and laughing together. Sometimes we will sing really loud and
off tune in the car, or we'll randomly stop to take pictures with
each other. Also we are making friends with people in the ward, and
we always have fun and get along when we are with them. Also, the
other day we had been having a REALLY bad day and people had been
especially mean to us, so when we got home I started cooking dinner,
and Sister Villegas decided to make a fort! Yes a fort. She
rearranged the furniture and brought out blankets and pillows. So we
ate our dinner and watched "Legacy" in our fort. :)
Last
Preparation day a less active family (The Flippos) took us and
another set of sisters, out ice skating! It was SO much
fun!!! I actually was getting pretty good at it by the time we left.
But I did fall... a lot. I also took Sister Villegas down with
me one time, that was pretty funny :). And since it was a
Monday, we were the only ones there besides one other guy. Even
though it was really fun I have been paying for it since then. I
pulled a muscle or something in my shoulder trying to catch myself
one of the times I feel. I bruised my tailbone pretty good. And
we thought I had broken my hand, because it was bruised really
and it hurt to move it. But I iced it and it feels okay now so I
guess it's fine :).
I've
also decided that I'm going a bit more crazy each day.
This whole last week I've gone crazy every time I've seen a dog. I'll
sit there and pet them at dinner appointments and hold them in
my lap during member lessons. Heck I even pet a random dog that
came running up to us when we got out of the car. I miss having pets.
One of the members here really likes dogs, especially Labradors, so
we spent a good 15 minutes talking dog talk and I loved it! :)
The
people that we get to work with and teach are really starting to love
and trust us more. They all want to spend our P-days with us and have
fun with us. There is one in particular who has decided to "adopt"
me. Her name is Renaye, and she is crazy! She is a recent convert and
is a super crazy black lady :). She has renamed me "Jan"
off of the Brady Bunch. And she cooks us food every time we go to her
house, she also makes us these little bead friendship bracelets. They
also get after us if we don't wear gloves, a hat, a coat and a scarf
everywhere we go. So we keep those in the car at all times to put on
right before any lesson with her. We had told her a story the other
day about some people who had been incredibly rude to us. She was
very upset that anyone would be mean to us, so she made us come to
her house, and she cooked us lunch and cried about how we were just
so nice that no one should ever be mean to us. She's awesome :).
There
are also people here that are not nice to us at all. We went to the
house of a family that hadn't been to church in a while, and when
they answered the door they blew up at us big time! They started
yelling at us and told us they hate the Mormons and if we were Mormon
they wanted us to leave. The husband was screaming at us and I
thought for sure that he would come out of the house, I was really
scared. But Sister Villegas kept trying to talk to them and told them
that we could help them get their records removed, but they wouldn't
listen, so finally we left. It sucks how many people there are like
that here.
Friday
we didn't get to do much of anything. We had a zone conference where
we all got in trouble for the way we use planners, so they tried to
teach us the proper way to do it. We were also informed that a new
rule in the mission is that we can no longer use a pen with certain
things. The rules here are weird. But when the meeting was over we
went out to lunch, and that was a bad idea. I either got food
poisoning or a 24 hour stomach bug thing, because we barely made it
home in time for me to through up. So we ended up spending the rest
of the day in the apartment, and that sucks because the things I
would normally do at home, like watch movies, I can't do out here.
But by the next day I was feeling better, so we were able to go back
to work.
We
have this cool Sister Training Conference thing coming up on Tuesday.
I have no idea what it is for or what we will be doing, but it's
different from what we normally do so I'm excited for it. We also
have to host some Sisters from North Carolina, but it will only be
for a day and night.
Well
I'm out of time, I wish I could tell you more... maybe next time. I
love you all and hope everything is going good at home and that
you have a really fun Valentines day!
Love
Sister
(Amanda) MacKay
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