Welcome to Utah... Where I get to eat Ethiopian Food? 11/12/12
Hiiiiiiii (with some chattering teeth)
Loooooove loooove the weather outside. It is cool and the
nights get really cold. We have had some snow but it’s been specs. All of our
mountains have snow on them. It’s a pretty sight. Up north it got slammmmed. I
am soo jealous...I want to see Flagstaff!
oooo I can’t wait to see what’s inside my box! :) ...thank
you. Grandma sent me another one too. She keeps sending me things that are year
supply status... I think she thinks I’m starving around here ;) hahaha I
loooove all the goodies she puts in there though and so do my sisters :)
Stake conference sounded like it was pretty awesome!!! Lucky
you to hear from those special men of God. Elder Holland is a funny man. He was
here not too long ago.
Sister Larsen’s week:
Monday (last P-day)
Sister Anderson and I almost got rear-ended :/ soooo scary we had to pull over
and say a prayer because we didn’t. St. George drivers are craaaazy :/
Than on Tue .... So on Sunday we gave a ward our
rides/dinners list and we needed a ride for Tuesday morning at 10 am ...we got
a call Tuesday at 8 am saying we didn’t get a ride for today... Whhhaaat??
aghhh that’s really tough for us because our area is 7 miles away from where we
live. So when we don’t have rides it makes it difficult for us to get into our
area. Well last week one of our members told us we could borrow their bikes
anytime we wanted. Scoooore! So we got creative!! Stopped our studies and went
to find helmets... grabbed a senior sister missionary and asked her to take us
to our area and drop us off. For the rest of the day we got on bikes and off we
went. LET ME TELL YOU! Riding a boy bike in a skirt + wind = difficult. I
picked out a pretty great bike it was perfect for me and the seat was soft.
Sister A didn’t choose so well and her bike was messed up (didn’t find till
after riding) AND the seat was hard! So the whole time she was complaining
about her bike. I jumped off mine gave her mine and I jumped on hers. The seat
was wicked! aaagh I have been riding bikes for how long now?? I had such a hard
time but I just kept going. We went 5 hours on this bike and about 4-5 miles
around. ...we finished our day in our area and I hopped off the bike and could
NOT walk :/ my bum hurt sooo bad. We started walking home, hoping to find
someone to give us a ride back and low and behold Sister Murray drives out of
her street and sees us... she says what are you doing and why are you walking??
We said we were walking home ha-ha...she said no way Jose! Get in! .... So we
got our ride home :) ...she even bought us lunch. The Lord loves us and blesses
us :)
Thursday we got to eat dinner at the Stucki family home.
They have 8 kids from Ethiopia :) .... they cooked all day long and cooked us
authentic food! It was sooooo good! Everything is lentil based and is fulllll
of FIBER! hahahah JUST WHAT I NEED! :D it was the best meal I have had since I
have been here :)
Our area is dying down more and more each day BUT Sis Anderson
and I are still working hard to find people to teach. This week was a tough one
for me - I hit a wall (mental block) and for some reason I just wasn’t able to
function in the area. I think because I have been here for so long and have
talked to everyone that we possibly can ... I just broke down. It was a tough
moment for me and I wasn’t sure how to get out of it. I got a blessing and
everything in the blessing was just what I needed. The things that came out
were directed just at me. Now I know that’s what blessings are for, but it was
just a different kind of blessing. I know that the more and more I am out here
I will see what the Lord really wants me to do. I think day by day I can see my
purpose. I just have to push forward and not give up :)
One of investigators... he is a spoiled kid and gets
everything he wants. He only cares about himself and doesn’t care about other people’s
feelings. It’s really sad. We have been teaching him about faith and how it can
grow and how we need to take action. We asked him what are some of the things
Faith can lead us to do. We then talked
about how when we have faith it leads us to do good things for others and our
self. He then told us how he got kicked out of his class because he cussed out
his teacher for telling him not to text anymore... ooooh boy! That didn’t
really make mom happy so along with faith we added that faith leads us to be
obedient. When we are obedient we can see the good and in the end our faith
strengthens...this sounds crazy/ confusing I know... But anyways in the end we made a deal ...we
said if he stopped texting in class for the whooole day we (sis A and I) wouldn’t
wear make-up for a whole week. It’s a sacrifice and we are learning how to be
obedient. He agreed! hahaha Sis A is crazy and I can’t believe we are really
going do it! So this whole week are NOT wearing any makeup and praying that he
learns to be obedient :) haha yeeeah for
10 more min in the morning?! hahaha
Today for P-day we went hiking again in "Snow Canyon" it was a beautiful
place! Lots of red rock and lava rock :)
Well St George is
great place to be! I love being out here and I love meeting all the people.
I still never would have thought I would meet these types of
people. There are some pretty amazing people that walk in the doors of our VC.
I have talked to people from all walks of life. I talked to this lady the other
day that came from an LDS family but got into drugs and now it trying to get
her life back on track. It was really cool to hear her story and help strengthen
her for one more day. She told me she didn’t want to come in because she was
feeling bad but she knew she needed to... she kept fighting herself and finally
she said I walked in the VC because I didn’t want to let myself use.... I
wanted to stay clean for just more one day. I spent about 45min with her and
just talked... many tears were shed and in the end she walked out feeling like
she could go out and be a better her. I think this is one of the reasons why I
am here at a VC... People just come to me and I never know what to say to
them...but I listen. I listen to what they have to say and I am there for
support.
The spirit of our Heavenly Father is sooo strong and works
miracles. Anything is possible if we allow them to.
Many times prayer can feel like you’re just talking to a
wall. But I know that our Father really does listen and he will answer... we
just need to give him the time and the chance to. All He wants for us to be is happy... If we
can let go of ourselves for just a moment... we can see all that is around us.
There may be bad in the world right now... but I promise you that there is a
lot of reaaaallly good too!
Family I love you! I hope you know I pray for you always :)
Holidays are a little
weird this year buuut I know I still have a huge family around me :) Sis A and
I have SEVERAL appointments for Thanksgiving: 0 we are going to be FAT!
I don’t know where I’ll be for Christmas...Transfers are the
4th of December.
Thanksgiving we have a HUGE party at the VC :)
Mom...thank you thank you for the package :)
I love you.... like I loved riding my bike ;) hahahahaha
PS...IM GETTING A HAIR CUT TODAY!!!! :) I can’t wait!
Sister Larsen
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