mom, the food is
good.... sometimes healthy sometimes not. Its waaaaaay less processed
and with way less alinio (whats the word? condiments, spices, extra
yummy crap) than in the U.S. but yeah.... they eat a toooon of bread and
scone type things here.... my face is growing a little bit. Bummer.
Foods I really miss? just anything american I guess. Except mac and
cheese they sell that in the american section here :) Mom could you send
me the recipe we have for making rolls? (my companion wants it :) )
Pictures
Hna Bowman and Kyrstin complete one year
Baptisms for the Dead with Recent Convert
Visiting the Indoor Jungle
an awesome picture of a ruin that there is in bolivia that spencer w
kimball translated when he visited bolvia, it has a really cool story
As far as extending goes..... I still don{t know.
Its crazy because idk if pres would let me go home at the same time as
Mal, he already told me he didn{t want to do that but Im gonna see if I
can get him to let me. Because if I can yep 100 percent extending for a
month. If I cant.... idk. its like I feel good about extending for one
minute and then bad the next. Suuuuper back and forth like crazy. but
when I think and pray about one month and coming back with mal I feel
SOOOOO good. Soo.... we will see if I can convince president. If not we
will see what I do. 2 more weeks isnt a big deal to me but the change in
feelings that I have about it is. so..... we will see. Its like I would
love to be here just a bit longer. but I also miss and love america and
my family so dang much when I think about extending. But yeah.... im a
bit torn. mom and dad. If I dont extend what can I do in the month
before mal gets back to keep me busy?
So. This week we did a looooooooot of things as you
can see in all of the pictures. It ws fun to complete a year, we ate a
yummy ice cream cake that hna orton made us and we took crazy jumping
pictures haha it was fun. Mom. I still don{t have the package but don{t
worry I would assume it'll be here this week because they probably picked
it up from they office by my old sector last district class.
So transfers are this week. We will see what
happens. Im a little scared heres why: 16 hermanas are leaving and we
are receiving like 10 more. So for the first time ever lots will be
training (because only like 6 or 7 hnas have come after me in the whole
year Ive been here so barely anyone here with 16 months in the mission
and below has trained) and I heard a rumor that now president is gonna
put STLs together in companionships which would be crazy because we've
been hearing that forever but they said that for real that might happen
this transfer, and also president said he might take a companionship out
of sotero del rio. Soooo..... its pretty likely that this change will
be affecting me.... and it could be a drastic change.... we will see.
Well. I honestly don{t have a ton of time to talk
but it was a SUUUPER great week. I completed a year, went to the temple
to see nancy do baptisms, had some awesome experiences, and today we
went to a "jungle inside a building" type of thing that was an
adventure!
One lesson though that I learned that I also want
any of you boys reading this (especially you Spencer, Alex, Jake, and
Nik) to learn is about the importance of selfless service as priesthood
holders. I was honestly really dissapointed this week with what I saw in
many priesthood holders and very impressed with others. We planned
with one of the members to go give our investigator a blessing and last
minute the night before he said he couldn{t because his daughter was
coming over for sunday dinner, so we called others and they had
firesides and other meetings to go to, others didnt want to have to haul
their little kid with them, others had family stuff, and others just
said they were too busy... (and we passed by and saw through the window
that they were watching the soccer game) We called like every single
member of the ward and those that answered all gave excuses (some of
them legitimate, some of them not so much) We were really sad to see how
unwilling many were to take 10 minutes out of their time to help with
missionary work and give a blessing to someone in need. FINALLY we found
the last person on our ward list and he said "Yes!! When do you need
me?" It was great to find at least one person willing to fulfill his
priesthood duty. It really made me sad to see that the very people who
in church practically praise the priesthood that they hold arent even
willing to fulfill their duties. Im sure many said no thinking that
someone else would do it, or that for someone else it would be much more
convenient than for themselves. But boys. When called upon to serve, if
it is physically possible for you do... DO IT. Selfless service isnt
just for the times when it is convenient, I think more often than not
the opportunities for such service come in the least convenient moments
of all. I just wanted to say thanks to those of you that were willing to
help me or others at times when you had other things going on and you
had to sacrifice a bit. Thanks dad for always being such a wonderful
example of service. I know its like never convenient because you always
have a million things to do, but it made me so happy thinking back and
never having heard you say no, even though you always have to leave to
fulfill your responsibilities I was always grateful for it. Thanks Nik
for that time you came over at 3 in the morning to give me a blessing
when I was sick at college. I know that was like THE WORST time that I
couldve possibly called but man all those things make such a
difference.
Well Im out of time. Chau!
Hna Millett
Pictures
Hna Bowman and Kyrstin complete one year
Baptisms for the Dead with Recent Convert
Visiting the Indoor Jungle
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