Hey Mom & Dad!
Surprise, since its Thanksgiving and transfer week, we got to have p-day on Monday instead of Tuesday. It’s just for this week though.
This week has been pretty good, busy but good. Just a lot of the same. :)
How is it in Texas? Having fun?
How’s life at home? It’s really cold here. It snowed yesterday and today, and apparently it never ever snows here. So church was cancelled after sacrament meeting. Just my luck, because I was speaking. I had to speak on President Monson’s talk "I will not fail thee nor forsake thee." Grandma saved me when I had to speak. She sent me some talks and one was perfect for my speaking assignment.
The day before we had been at the Ward Mission leaders house helping him with some stuff and all of his kids were saying if they got snow that church would be cancelled, and it was, but not until after I had to speak.
Teaching lessons and doing service is tiring, but it’s a good tiring. Feel like I could just lay down and go to sleep right now.
Missionary life is tiring and a little stressful. Well, it’s not that anything is specifically stressful. Just everything is a little stressful and it just adds up such as:
Not surprising, I don’t like contacting or tracting but we have to do it and so I do try to do it. However, my companion won’t do it because she doesn’t like to do it either. So we only get 3 new contacts for the week, then the District Leader gets in trouble with the Zone Leaders.
Also our investigators won’t come to church because it is too early, and they won’t stop doing drugs, and I don’t know what to teach and my companion doesn’t seem to know what she’s doing either, and she won’t stop flirting, which is annoying and a billion other little things.
It’s all very tiring. Most of the time a very good tiring and contrary to my complaining I still love being a missionary. I can certainly see why they worry about depression and forgetting about the world outside of missionary work. You don’t need to add that stress to an already busy life.
Yes, we now have Thanksgiving dinner. We kept being asked if we had dinner and at the time we didn't, so we would say no. Now we have like 3 dinners. All I really want to do though is nap. :)
For P-day today we are going into town to some stores with the Elders looking for New Mexico Christmas presents :)
I get to stay in Belen for at least another transfer. Almost all of the missionaries in my district are staying.
I got the oranges! They are great! Thank you! The box was huge!!! There were so many oranges in that box :)
Love you!
Em
December 3 Letter
Hi Mom & Dad!
Sounds like your Thanksgiving was fun! My Thanksgiving was pretty good. We did end up having 3 dinners, which was a bit much, but it was fun getting to know the members of the ward.
The ward here is doing a cookie invite thing where we are splitting into groups and going around to in-actives to deliver invites/cookies. So the missionaries are going in one group. Not sure how well it will work out, seeing as most of those people are either moved or are in-active for a reason. But oh well, should make for an interesting night.
This week was really really long, my companion seems to be really having trouble with a lot of things. I'm trying to be patient, but I mostly just get frustrated. Especially when she starts being mean.
We got to help someone move this week. It was a huge project that took more than one whole day. It was a nonmember and both of the Elders were helping along with us. I really appreciated it when one of the Elders told me that he was really glad that I knew how to work and had the ambition to do so. Because my companion was off goofing around with one of the teenagers and wasn't really helping at all. So that was the high point of my week, with my companion being immature and difficult.
If I send some really really hot New Mexico food that I have to eat almost every day, would you eat it? :) Be expecting some awesome New Mexican food.
Question from Mom - Do you need anything? What do you want for Christmas? So do you get cash to buy groceries? How much do you get?
Answer from Emily - We get $130 a month for everything. Usually I can make it until the last week of the month before running out, but this month will be tight because of Christmas, and we have practically no meals so far.
If you could get me some more mascara, that would be great! Also if dad would be willing to figure out a way to get some of the Mormon messages on a DVD or a couple DVDs. There are some that you can buy, and we use them all the time, but there are dozens of other ones that we would love to be able to use in lessons. Also, I would love a copy of the new Johnny Lingo. And some other church produced movies :) That would be awesome!
This is completely normal for new mexico. Most of the roads are dirt, so my companion, who was driving, decided to go down one. It was definitely an adventure. There was quite literally nothing. The road was really worn, it was driven on all of the time by trucks, and some of the tracks looked really fresh, like from earlier that day. But there was miles and miles and miles of nothing. Finally we came across a makeshift shooting range. But we decided to turn around after we couldn't see anything anywhere.
Well, these pictures basically describe our area of New Mexico! :)
It really is very pretty out here. The locals all hate it. They call it the "Land of Entrapment" instead of the "Land of Enchantment." But I think it is pretty!
Mom told Emily that the cats say "hello." Emily responded, I haven’t seen many cats, but way way way too many dogs. Nasty loud mean dogs.
Love you!
Em
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