Hey family!!!
So I thought I’d share some odd or
funny stories that have happened so far while I’ve been here. Let’s start with
the first day. So as soon as you run around and get registered and meet your
district they hold this huge welcome meeting for all the new missionaries.
There were, I think, 450 missionaries that came in the same day I did. I've
been told 300-600 missionaries come in and go out every Wednesday. Anyways, the
MTC president, President Brown asked for all the sisters to stand, so we did,
and then he asked for all the sisters to stand who left boyfriends back
home.....and it was me and one other sister. There were 450 pairs of eyes
staring at us and all the Elders start making noises like booing coming from Death
Valley when the Refs make bad calls against LSU. Needless to say I was beet-red
in the face. Welcome to the MTC, we're going to call you out!
On Saturday mornings we
do our service projects and Sister Noyes and I were assigned to clean the
bathrooms on the 5th floor of a building here. We were doing our last three
bathrooms when an Elder began to walk into the Men’s restroom. I told him
someone was in there and we were almost done. Then he asked if he could use the
Women’s restroom and again I told him we were almost done if he wouldn't mind
waiting a bit. He goes, "COULD YOU JUST WAIT LIKE 30 SECONDS SO I CAN GO
TO THE BATHROOM!!!!" Crazy Elder couldn't seem to hold it. He ended up
walking away with him companion. Sister Noyes and I think he's crazy.
Sister Noyes had to go
to the doctors for a check-up this week and I have to say it was the best
experience of my life here. In the doctor’s office they have a "companion
waiting room" and guess what’s in there??!!! PUZZLES!!! So I got to sit
and do puzzles as I waited for Sister Noyes to return. When she was done I told
her to go back in because I wasn't done with the puzzle. I was working on a Lake
Powell puzzle. It wasn't very pretty but it was a puzzle :)
Mumma! Thanks for
the new cardigan. I wore it the next day with the Anthropologie
skirt that Dad gave me for my birthday. The Sister missionaries asked if you made that skirt
too, as most of my fun things you have made, and I explained that Dad bought it
for me for my birthday. So be proud Dad! All the Sisters complained and said
that if their Dads picked out a skirt for them it would be a hideous brown
tarp! Ha ha.
On Saturday I thought I would set my
alarm for 6 instead of 6:30 am so that I could get up a little earlier to make
my hair look nice for Sunday. Sunday morning I woke up at 6:00am and got to
spend the 30 minutes in the bathroom all to myself without a bajillion sisters
running in and out. I went back into our room and another Sister told me that
it was daylight savings so it’s actually 5 in the morning! So with the
intention of looking nice on Sunday I missed out on another hour of sleep, oh
well :)
This week has been downhill
as far as my health is concerned. I have a head cold that makes me sneeze like
there’s no tomorrow, have lots of snot in my nose, not sleep (which isn't
anything too new) and this morning I woke up really nauseous. Good thing its
P-day so I don't have to sit in lots of classes. I'm hoping I'll be able to catch
a nap at some point today. Last night we had a fireside from a man who is an
attorney for the church. He talked about how the Lord has a hand in really
getting the missionaries into all the countries they need to. He showed lots of
graphs. One explained that 70% of the countries in the world do not allow
religious freedom. That’s crazy! It was nice to hear a talk from a different
kind of perspective than gospel lessons all the time.
On Thursday my district
got to meet Marcel (our investigator) as Bruder Pederson (our teacher). It was
kind of like meeting a celebrity. It’s funny to see him laugh and joke around
when in our lessons he rarely gave input and was so down it was just depressing
to teach him! Today Bruder Hill, our other instructor, will be playing 5
different investigators and we will be practicing door approaches. We'll see
how this goes! We got 5 minutes to see if we can set up an appointment to meet
with them.
(Ariel was told about the LSU football game that happened over the weekend) Andre, what the heck! How does no team score a touchdown
and it be a good game? What was the score?? And yes the Elders are impressed
when I say I go to LSU. I think they're jealous ;) So what is going to happen
next with them? Will they go on to the championships??
Eli, you've got a letter coming so
look for it sometime this week! Mail takes a ridiculous long time to come and
go from here but know it’s out there :) Well meine Familie! Ich habe Sie alle
lieb und Ich bin sehr dankbar for ihnen! Thanks for all
your love :) Be good and have fun!! Catch me up on everything!
Love you,
Ariel Nell
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