Hello
family!
This
week has been a week full of nothing but bugs!! So I apologize now that all of
my stories will mostly be about bugs. But I promise ya'll that you are going to
get a good laugh about all of the stories. And if not, just laugh anyways
because I have died laughing all week!
So, story number one. On Tuesday, we had some of the new sisters sleeping over at
our apartment because transfers were on Wednesday. We had 3 of the new sisters
staying with us. It was quite a party! We have a one bedroom apartment with one
bathroom and we all had to find somewhere to sleep and in the morning we had to
all be ready by 7:30... Let's just say I had to get up at 5:45 on Wednesday and
I was not to happy about it.. I like my sleep! Haha
Anyways, we pick up the new
sisters Tuesday night and Sister Sorensen is telling them all about our
cockroach problem and how she hopes that they don't get cockroaches on them in
the middle of the night. Haha they were all super worried about it. So being
the kind person that I am I reassured them that we don't have a cockroach
problem and that we hadn't seen any in weeks.. Haha I may have lied just a
little... So the next morning I get up super early and get ready and I decided
to make all of the new sisters a breakfast! Yes, you heard me right. I actually
did something for someone else besides myself! Haha I made scrambled eggs, and
pancakes and I cooked some ham! (Some member gave us this big spiral cut ham
and I finally decided to put it to good use!) as I am cooking this delicious
breakfast one of the sisters asks me what a cockroach looks like because she
has this bug on her bag.. I walked over to it and sure enough she had a
cockroach on her bag! Haha they all started screaming and I am just laughing my
head off until I realized that I was going to have to be the one to kill it...
But I managed to kill it! I then went back to cooking breakfast and I had
started putting everything on plates and in bowls on the counter when Sister
Sorensen walked passed and some how the plate of ham fell all over our dirty
kitchen floor.. Luckily none of the new sisters saw so we just scooped it up
off the floor and fed it to them! Hahaha
On
Wednesday we were able to go and teach Aelidon's daughters. We taught them
about prayer. We explained why it is important to pray and then showed them how
to pray. They were both so excited to pray so we both let them pray for us
before we left their apartment! Things are starting to look better teaching
them! They are finally understanding us more and more! If only I knew Albanian,
then this teaching stuff would be that much easier! Haha Aelidon is still not
to interested in us teaching him but he allows us to come over and teach his
girls and to talk with him. So we are slowly making progress!
So
on Thursday it was Grandma Landry's birthday! You are probably wondering who this
grandma is. She lives with the Matzke's who feed us every wed day night so we
have become very close to her! We decided that we wanted to do something for
her on her birthdays but we had nothing. So we made a card and we found some
balloons in our apartment and then we made party hats.. Haha let me tell you
how ridiculous these party hats were. We made them out of paper and then to tie
them to our heads we used dental floss! Haha we were very creative! Well we
drove over to the Matzke's and we decided we would give her her party hat and
card and then sing to her! She ended up answering the door in her bathrobe so
it was kinda awkward.. It reminded me of Christmas with Grandma Webb all over
again! Haha so we sang super quick and then left! Haha but it was fun!
I
cant remember what day of the week this next story happened on but I think it
was Thursday or Friday morning.. Anyways I usually hate having to get up and go
to the bathroom in the middle of the night because I am so scared of the dark.
I usually just try to hold it til morning. I know.. I'm such a baby! Anyways I
could not hold it any longer so I decide to go to the bathroom. Well in the
morning when I got up I went to the bathroom to find a squished dead cockroach
lying on the floor!!!! Ahhhhh!! I knew I shouldn't have gone to the bathroom! I
stepped on a cockroach in the middle of the night! I was dying! Haha never
again will I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night!! I don't even know
how I managed to step on a cockroach with out noticing! Haha
On
Friday we had weekly planning and one of the elders from the mission office had
to come by to fix some of our lights. Well really he was just changing out
lightbulbs for us.. Haha yes I am that pampered over here! Before I continue on
with my story just know ya'll are going to shake your heads at this story! Haha
Anyways he came in the afternoon and when I opened the door he says
"Sisters it was so nice of you to leave your keys in the door for
me..." Yes, we forgot to take our keys out of the door the night before...
Haha I am getting blonder and blonder out here! I'm just glad that no one got
me in the middle of the night! We live in a kinda scary apartment complex so I
guess the Lord really does watch out for the missionaries and keep them safe!
Haha I'm so glad for all of your prayers because apparently I need all the
prayers I can get!
On
Friday I officially fell off of my bike for the first time.. Haha I was riding
down the side walk and my skirt kept coming up so I was trying to adjust it and
let's just say some how I managed to ride off of the side walk and couldn't get
back on and then I lost balance and I had to abandon bike and I am screaming
and laughing.. Let's just say it was quite a scene! Haha lesson learned, don't
try to adjust your skirt while riding.. Just let it come up and fix it at a
stop! Haha I usually try to wear my sort of flowy dresses while biking so that
they don't get caught on anything while I ride.. I'm not sure how smart this is
because I am pretty sure all of Mandarin had gotten a good view up my skirt by
now! Oh well, Haha thank goodness for biker shorts!
We
were not able to have a lesson with Heidi this week. She said some things came
up and she could not meet with us because she had been under so much stress
with her husband not finding a job and a few other things.. Well we decided to
make her some cookies and bring by and that was such a good idea! We were
finally able to meet her husband Sokol. He is so nice and has such great faith
and knows the Book of Mormon is true. He told us how Heidi just got her wisdom
teeth out and that we could come back and see her in a few days. So keep
praying for Heidi! We are hoping to get her baptized this month!!
I
got a package on Saturday from Carolyn!! She sent me "Power of Everyday Missionaries"! I loved it! Thanks so much Carolyn! You are the best! And then
she had her friend Sherri buy some chocolate and give to me! Awe, it made my
whole week!!! So thank you! :)
So
my next story takes place on Sunday and today. It is a two part story! So
Sunday we come home from church and I have just been so stinkin' tired this past
week. I can't seem to catch up on my sleep and I am always feeling so wore out
and tired. I think it might be my blood pressure but I have no way of checking
it so I'm hoping it is good..I've been starting to get my chest pains again
like before when I kinda went crazy but I'm hoping it will all just go away
real soon! Anyways, I get home from church and decide I really need a
nap. So instead of eating lunch I take a nap. Well when I wake up I swear I see
something big and black on the floor but when I look again it's gone and
nothing is there. Well I don't think much of it and I go out and start praying
and have my personal study and I thought I saw something again. Well by now I
just think I am so tired that I'm seeing things. We start having our companionship
prayer and when I am finished saying it and open my eyes I find a lizard
sitting right next to me!!!! Hahaha I'm sure you can imagine exactly what I
did, I start screaming and jumping on the chair for protection! Haha Sister
Sorensen and I decide that we have to catch it somehow but we are not entirely
sure how to catch it. So, we get a mason jar and put some corn in it hoping
that it would be lured into our jar by the corn.. Haha that did nothing! So we
just pretend it is not in the apartment and go back to studying. Well later
that night we get home and I am still so paranoid about this lizard! How am I
going to sleep? What if it climbs into bed with me during the night? Who is
going to save me when it does? Haha I was so stressed about the lizard I had to
pray that it wouldn't climb into bed with me! I felt like I was 5! I'm glad to
say that we managed to sleep the whole night without any lizards getting into
my bed! Well we wake up and we can't find the lizard. So I am in the bathroom
when all the sudden Sister Sorensen says there is a small cockroach by the
sliding door and she needs me to catch it! Haha so I go out and catch it and we
decide that we are just going to forget about the lizard because he is probably
gone and we will exercise in our apartment today. When we exercise in our
apartment I usually do it in my pajamas and don't bother to put shoes or a bra
on because I don't usually break a sweat or do anything to need those things.
Well I'm lying on the floor and about to do some sit ups when all of the sudden Sister Sorensen jumps up and starts screaming and can't manage to say anything. I instantly think "oh no, the lizard is back!" So as I jump up
screaming (let me remind you that we exercise at 6:30 am... I'm sure all the neighbors
love us!) I realize that nothing is on the floor.. By this point Sister
Sorensen manages to say, " in your hair!!" I'm jumping, screaming,
crying, and now flicking my hair to get it out when all the sudden a giant
cockroach falls out of my hair and onto the carpet!! This was seriously the
biggest cockroach I have ever seen! It was like the size of 2 quarters next to
each other! By this point I am having the biggest panic attack ever and somehow
I managed to get my church shoes on and I'm out the door! Haha we then decide
that we are too scared to go in and face the cockroach so we will just exercise
outside for the rest of the time. Bad idea! I am in my pajamas with bed head
and no bra on and in church shoes! Haha I felt so dumb because everyone leaves
for work at this time and they all drove past us as we are walking outside!
Haha so back to the cockroach and lizard, we get done exercising and we go back
inside. We check the apartment and the cockroach is gone and no lizard. So we
start getting ready and we then have our personal study and then we start
companionship study when we realize that the cockroach is lying dead on the
floor of the kitchen. We assume that the lizard ate it! So we are all happy
until the lizard comes out again! Haha we decide that we are not going to be
able to focus until we catch or kill the lizard! I had become attached to
this lizard, I named him Lizzy the Lizard! Haha so we get our large kitchen
pots and decide we will catch Lizzy! I wish someone could have been recording
us because we were throwing pots all over the room screaming and hoping some
how we would catch the lizard! At one point I managed to catch it by it's tail
under the front tire of sister sorensens bike! I thought I was doing so good
until it made its tail fall if and took off running towards me! Hahaha well
about an hour later we had destroyed our apartment, chairs were everywhere pots
and bowls all over the floor and we still had not caught the lizard... We
finally decide that we are wasting p-day on this stupid lizard and we need to
start cleaning. So as we are cleaning Sister Sorensen manages to trap half of
it under a pot on the carpet. We are both freaking out not knowing how to catch
it all the way under the pot so we decide we have to find something to kill it
with! I found some dish soap and we killed it with that! I felt so bad!! Poor
little Lzzy the Lizard! After that we had a funeral for it as we flushed it
down the toilet. We each said something nice about the lizard! Haha it made for
a pretty exciting day!
Well
that is basically all of my stories! Nothing has really happened this week..
I'm looking forward to hearing from ya'll! I'm sorry I only had bug stories for
you this week. I hope as you read them that ya'll will get a good laugh just
picturing me trying to kill bugs and lizards and having a cockroach in my hair!
No one told me that I would have to deal with this many bugs on my mission!
Haha
I
honestly never realized how hard a mission would be until I actually got out
here and started doing the work! People always told me it would be hard but you
never really understand how hard until your doing it. I go through my phases
every week of wanting to just come home because I know how much easier things
would be. I could just start working and dating and life would be great! Every
time I start to want to come home I pray to Heavenly Father for that help and
strength to make it through this! Well this week I was praying and asking
Heavenly Father if this is really for me because it is so hard and so hot and
some days I'm just super miserable. I asked him to please give me an answer
because I needed help! Well after I said my prayer Sister Sorensen says to
me"let me read you your random scripture for the day." She randomly
opens up to Alma 39:16 and it says "and now, my daughter Olivia, this was
the ministry unto which ye were called, to declare these glad tidings unto this
people, to prepare their minds; or rather that salvation might come unto them,
that they may prepare the minds of their children to hear the word at the time
of his coming." Wow! I was speechless! Heavenly Father truly does hear and
answer our prayers and I know that when you need that comfort and answer in
your life he really gives it to you! I have never had a stronger testimony of
the power of prayer until my mission! I pray like 30 times a day. I love being
able to just talk to my Heavenly Father and tell him all about my day and how I
am feeling and ask questions and see guidance. I know that if you will do these
things and do them with a sincere heart he really will answer your prayers
because he loves you that much! Another thing that I always tell myself when
things get hard is our mission motto.. "I love tuff things, I'm the first
to do tuff things, I do tuff things first, I LOVE being a missionary!" It
always seems to help me refocus and get back to work! I hope ya'll can learn to
love tuff things and know that Heavenly Father gives us trials in our lives to
help us grow and exercise faith in Him as well as Jesus Christ! And when you do
those things and you make it through your trial you really do become so much
closer to Him! I know the Lord will never give us any trial or struggle that we
can't handle. And through the Lord we can handle anything! I leave these
things with you in the name of Jesus Christ amen.
I
hope ya'll have a wonderful week camping and enjoying summer! I hope it doesn't
rain on ya'll! It pours rain here every day! I love you all and pray for each
and everyone of you every day!
Love,
Sister
Webb :)
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