Hi family!!!! I miss you so much! This is a really interesting transfer. I don't know if my companion and I are getting along or if we just have periodic stalemates. President and Sister Gonzalez came and talked to us last Sunday and that helped for a few days. I'm learning how to get along better I guess. I can't give correction unless it's absolutely necessary, if she says anything I have to do better (she doesn't give suggestions) I just smile and nod and if the district leader or zone leaders call at night I have to talk to them because she'll just hang up if she's too tired. If there's anything we need to do last minute after nightly planning I just do it. The only person she wholeheartedly takes advice from is her boyfriend/fiance who she writes to almost every day. Everybody in the ward loves her. She's perfectly friendly to everyone we visit. She knows the gospel and always knows exactly how to "rescue" the investigators when I ask a question that "makes them feel stupid." And with my hair, I wish she would put it some other way than "You need to change." Don't get me wrong, we have fun times. I can make her laugh really hard. We joke, we can work together but I just have to be careful.
Oh, I had a favor. Could you send me some church CDs? We can listen to music by church members that invites the spirit. I have a few that I've gleaned from companions but it would be nice to have something different.
I'm sorry, I really don't mean to vent at you. I'm really doing ok. I love you all so much! Mom, you'd better take care of yourself! I wish I was there to help you. I hope everything turns out ok with your knee. Oh, I was going to tell you, I found my first gray hair this week. The things a mission does to you. Either that or I'm just getting old. I'm taking "senior companion" to heart. Or...head? :-) James, I am SO excited for you! Keep writing and let me know of all your BYU adventures.
Hi everybody! Well some exciting things happened this week. I taught my companion how to ride a bicycle. No, she had never ridden one before. She learned in all of 30 min and we were biking all the next day. That's what you get for running out of miles on the car at the end of the month. Also Saturday my companion gave me a haircut. She doesn't ask if I want my hair cut. She asks me where my scissors are. Then after she cuts it she says "Oh, I don't know what I'm doing, by the way. But it's not like you can do anything about it now." So now I've got bangs. That's all she did. I know nothing about hair so I don't know if it looks good or not. She also tells me I can't tuck it behind my ear and I can't put it back in a ponytail like I've done almost every day for who knows how long. I'll learn I guess.
The Spanish is coming along, bit by bit. I'm understanding more and more. It depends on how tired I am sometimes.
I remembered a quote this week, I can't remember who said it though. It's highly optimistic. "Everything will be better in the end. If it's not better, it's not the end." That's a good way at looking at life. We are used to fairy-tale stories that have a beginning and an end. We expect that happy end to come and stay forever. That's the thing, there is no end. We are here on this earth to prepare to meet God (Alma 34:32) and if we do what we need to do, we will be able to live happily EVER AFTER with Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and our families forever. There will be no closing of the curtain, no ending credits. It's a concept that is really hard as human beings to comprehend. We are so used to time. But if you take things in an eternal perspective life looks a lot different. Know that trials are not the end, a bad day is not the end, even death is not the end. Heavenly Father has such blessings planned for us if we just keep going in faith, repenting and enduring, keeping the covenants you made at baptism. Keep up the faith everybody! Hope everyone has a wonderful week! Thank you for your prayers and support!
Hermana Evans
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