I am sorry everyone is sick! OH NO! Did Tacy have a specific animal at the zoo she adored? I am so glad you guys had fun while they were there. How was the wedding!?!? It was on my mind ALL of Saturday! I hope she liked my letter. Weird to think the next time I write her it will be Patty SPROUSE. But it suits her because Cameron suits her. I am positive she was LOVELY! You know how ravishing of a person inside and out Patty is.
DRINK THAT MILK BUD! I haven't had milk in over a week, so consume it for the both of us! Where I am living: Lawrence, Kansas. I don't know my address because my trainer is not here. (I will get to that) but I am actually serving in the UNIVERSITY WARD for KU. So that's funny. Out here we have a set of sisters and a set of Elders for every ward, so we are also covering the Lawrence Second ward, especially while everyone is gone from our ward for Christmas break (which is until January 20th) Because we serve in the University ward mainly, all of our meals have been out to eat somewhere. I have been to a pizza place where they have cream cheese instead of sauce. Sounds nasty but it is AMAZING and I have been to Chipotle twice. I miss home cooked meals. I finally had one last night, but it was spicy Chile. meeeeh.
IT IS FREEZING HERE! We had an ice storm/snow storm on Saturday and it is currently snowing right NAO (that's for bud, he can translate). I am as bundled as can be, but it is still STINKING COLD! The people in Kansas are weenies when it snows and cancelled church yesterday except for a basic hour for sacrament meeting for everyone to go to.(spoken by someone who lived in Idaho where Church is almost never canceled for snow.)
The interesting weird stuff. So my companion's name is Sister Payton. She is super chill, but nice once you get past her rather intimidating exterior. She is 20 and is already done with college. Holy cow right! (did I mention I am the oldest missionary in all of Lawrence? Because I am. Yet the newest missionary here. It's like I need a cane and a rattle at the same time) She is from Provo, but apparently her mom didn't want to live like normal Utah families so they chose to live in the "slums" of Provo and she got in the interesting crowds growing up and some of her friends died in like gang fights or something. Crazy right? So when I came on Wed the sisters were in the process of moving. so I stayed the night with them at the home of the members who they were had been living with. Then Thursday we did teach some appointments but never got the chance to move into our new apartment. So we bunked with an apt of 4 sisters 2 who were moving our because they had been a trio with them, the other two sisters are ALSO moving because their apartment is underneath pot smokers and the stink comes down through the vents. So I might have gotten high while I was sleeping. Because I smelt it while I was drifting off. But we stayed the night with them. When we FINALLY were able to move out on FRIDAY, the other sisters had to move with us because one of them, sister Delo Santos (who is not Mexican, she is actually Filipino) has started sleep walking on her mission. And steals people's stuff in the night while she sleep walks, the items are never to be found again. Most of it is her stuff, however she has taken over 120 dollars cash (60 of which was mine) while I have been here. So, they had to come stay with us because her companion could sleep through WWII, so there is no way she could catch her. Although we ALL have slept through it. I woke up enough to go "why are people moving around?" and then went back to sleep. Oops. Her sleep walking has gotten bad enough we all went to the emergency room on Saturday (because her companion, sister tapesoua-is i spelled it right- has no licence and due to sister Delo Santos' sleep walking she was told not to drive) so we had to go too. After that she was told to go home to get medical help in Utah that she can't get here. So my companion drove them to Wichita last night on the very icy roads while I am in a trio with some other sisters in our district. They are really awesome, so that's okay.
I hope that all made sense. at least kind of. My first district
Obviously we have a car, but we have a certain allotted number of miles. I don't know what it is. Due to all the DRAMA that has been going on I haven't been trained AT ALL. They keep telling me once things get back to "normal" that she will train me and such. So I just hope things will because I want to be a missionary and not someone who permanently is moving (no really, I slept at a different place 5 out of the 7 nights last week) and helping a klepto sleep walker-who, when she is awake is actually quite delightful.
I was in the mission home Tuesday night, ate and slept there. They are nice but I can tell they are confused about what to do with a person like me. I have been told I am no longer allowed to sneeze or laugh, except on p day because my laugh and sneeze scare the spirit away. Which sucks. But oh well. That applies to me, not everyone, FYI. So when I laugh I cover my mouth and practically suffocate myself every time. I will figure it out. But they are nice. Although I can tell Sister Bell the Mission Pres.'s wife, think I am unladylike. *shrug* .
My bedding was here when I arrived, so BOOM. It has been nice and snugly. By the way, one of the sisters has a stuffed duck, I WANT STANLEY! Please? Pretty Please?
We will be spending Christmas with a family called the Richie's? Apparently they claimed ALL the missionaries in Lawrence. Oh and I just found out we will be calling home at 1 pm on wed. And if not we will let you know? idk we will see.
Anyone can SEND me emails, I just can't guarantee I will have time to respond to them because I take about an hour to write out the one to the family to make sure I tell as much as I can. Yet I still always forget stuff. So, keep that in mind. Feel free to give my email to Patty, Steven and stephers( Stephanie) tho. I want to hear from them!
I have not had a chance to do anything with tea due to this MADNESS. it's insane. I don't feel good because I ate the spicy chili yesterday, augggggh. It was good, but so hot.
A few things Steven would appreciate: I accidentally flung one of my socks into a toilet bowl at church while I was changing for volleyball. Needless to say, I played volleyball with only one sock on. And then I saw it still in the bathroom the next day. Oops. We crank our church music UP in the car, so we are hard core sister missionaries. You don't want to mess with us. And one of them is actually a rap song! About bringing people to Jesus. One of our investigators knits and he made my companion a scarf. So that's how hard core we are. We have knitting investigators who make us things. BOOM. And we ALL talk in British accents when we are by ourselves. They all liked my cockney accent. Thank you my fair lady for teaching it to me.
The music rules here are weird. They changed it to be "easier" which made it harder for me. instead of hymns and Motab it has to be any music about Jesus by active church members. Which means my Mozart and orchestra music and others that are HYMNS but not by members are no good. :( But we also have song with more of a beat! so that's nice. I wish I had brought the Forgotten Carols now. And that i brought CD's for the car. Oh well. A lot of sisters have WAY more clothes than me and a carry on case, which i don't have. I now wish I hadn't followed the clothing guidelines so closely, but oh well. there was no way to know. And I miss Stanley my bear.
So I challenged a guy to baptism on Thursday, that is James. He is the guy who knit sister Payton a scarf. he said he wants to finish the Book of Mormon and know for himself first. It wasn't so bad to get rejected. I thought being a missionary would be like "oh man, this is weird I am a missionary now" but it feels so NATURAL. Like this is just what I am supposed to be doing. In my temporary trio we went and knocked on doors yesterday. We didn't make any new buds, but it was a good experience. We found a poor lost kitten int he snow, who had a collar and is clearly an indoor cat, but we knocked all over and couldn't find her home! we finally took her to cat loving members who will look after her till they find her home. We couldn't leave her outside, she would have froze to literal death.
I can't think of what else to say. I can't wait till I get all moved in to my apt and we do real missionary work. that will be nice. Apparently the Mission president assigned some sisters here, who were at first, called to Spanish speaking. My companion is one of them. And my Spanish is better than hers...and I only know the very basics. The hermana from Spain who is Spanish speaking who I traveled with said I have a good accent. YEA! although no se' mucho espanol.
I keep falling asleep while I teach people. And they notice. It is freaking me out! It's not like I am not paying attention or I don't care. I just get so sleepy and it's warm and no matter how much I try to fight it my blinks become further and further apart! I am an awful missionary. Who falls asleep while they teach people? me, that's who. The most heartless, awful missionary out there. But it's not like I ever have a chance to catch up on sleep, so I don't know how to fix it!
I hope all is well and you all get better. the zoo pictures were HILLARIOUS! made me giggle. Patty looked BEAUTIFUL! Why did she dye her hair back to brown She was staying strong for so long! NO PATTY NO! although she looked great. :) YAY THE DOCTOR CAME TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD! hahaha
Love you all!. Stay warm, enjoy the sunshine because I don't have that chance and MERRY CHRISTMAS! I wish I knew my address.
LOVE
SISTER ROBYN CRAMER
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