To start off the letter light, I will share the
Sister Cramer-isms of the week:
I have made an unintentional habit of sitting on
pastries. Two weeks ago a sat on sister Payton's Cupcake that I left in
my seat in the car (I was holding it while she drove) and then on valentine's
day I sat on my purple frosted sugar cookie and had purple frosting all over my
rear for the rest of the day. At least it was on my coat and not my skirt
I suppose. and so you know, the things I sit on are not leaving too big of
messes on my rear. So no big deal. I wiped the frosting off of my coat so it's
no problem.
It was SUPER cold when we went tracting on V-day
and our poor little toesies lost all feeling! So, when we went in our car to
call our district leader in excitement that we actually found a new
investigator, my feet were so cold I put my mittens on them. It TOTALLY
WORKED THOUGH! Sister Payton was laughing for forever and wrote about it
in her thankful journal. which makes me smile.
Sister Payton says that she doesn't pay
attention to her backer (the person who is watching her back up) while she is backing, so I have challenged myself to see what dance moves I can get away
with while I am the one backing the car, without her noticing. So far, I
have done the Macarena 3 times and the YMCA once. muwhahaha.
NOW FOR THE GOOD STUFF:
So, we realized last week that all of our investigators
went down the dump. We used to have plenty, and suddenly we had none. And
our new district leader told us to go tracting, which I was okay with because I
need practice, but sister Payton HATES it with a passion. So, coming to
do so was a slow and hesitant crawl. Not to mention, we had zone training
on Thursday where a BUNCH of new rules were instigated including that sister
missionaries are not allowed to teach men, even if we have another woman with
us and elders are not allowed to teach women even with another man with them.
Which put a damper on our spirits because most people who want to talk to
us are...men. And Kansas
And this week, when we started out with no investigators and no hope to
make any success, we now have 3 new investigators! granted, two of them are
boys and we are meeting with both of them tonight with the elders present to
hand them off, but it is a start. Another is this woman Loraine who we
tracted into, sort of. We were tracting and she was outside smoking and Sister
Payton made fast friends with her, so she actually seeming interested in the
plan of salvation and was really excited to learn more. It is so great!
And then, when we were super worried last night we wouldn't meet standard
of teaching 3 lessons with a member with us for that week (our weeks span from Monday to Sunday before we report) right after dinner a former investigator who
we had been trying to contact and he was always busy texted us we could come
see him right then. SO we hopped in the car and found a member right away
(which NEVER happens) and sped over to the hotel to teach him. So yes, we
taught a boy in a hotel. But he works at the front desk and we had a girl with
us. Not as sketchy as it sounds.
He is super funny but we are worried the elders
will hate him because the elders we have in our ward are very bull headed and
argue a LOT. During correlation this past week they got in a 30 minute argument with our ward mission leader about how they don't want to do what he
asks them do to, when it is a duty our mission president told all the ward
mission leader that missionaries are happy to do! (helping with home teaching)
and this investigator likes to ask a lot of strange questions, but if you humor
him it totally works! Like he told us he thinks God is an alien. So we asked
him what he considers an alien to be, and he said not of this world. So then we
agreed. But it's just stuff like that we are worried they will just start
arguing with him. I dunno, we will see.
The funny story for this week:
On Valentine’s Day, we naturally had no dinner
because this week we were being fed by the university ward. And I would
hope all the students had a date! Also,
our dinner apts. cancelled almost every night this past week. aughh.
So, we hadn't had dinner but we showed up to this dinner that the scouts
put on every year on V-day for the couples so they can save up for scout camp. Super
smart if you ask me. And we just showed up for service and to help with
dishes. But they found out we hadn't had dinner, and has us eat at the
dinner. In the gym where there were tables set for two, and it was a
candle lit dinner. It was super funny, us and all the couples. Except our
whole district was there. We kept giggling while we ate salad. The
little scouts were so cute though! they were our waiters, and got Sister Payton’s
chair for her (I wouldn't let them take mine, I am too stubborn) and were super
polite! I thought it was great, just weird. The food was good though.
One more funny story I almost forgot! On V-day! So I guess the elders have fight club
where they wrestle or something, I dunno, I think it's weird, every morning
from 6-7. And we wanted to hear attack them for valentines day! SO, we called
them and told them we decided we needed to feel equal to them and the sisters
of Lawrence
But we never intended to do that. We just wanted
to know how long it was so we could heart attack them! It still makes me
laugh when I think about what they imagined. So there we were, in all
black outside their apartment at 6:30 in the morning, putting hearts on their
door, and we could hear EVERYTHING that was going on! Including grunting,
people calling time and when an elder was thrown against the wall and the whole
wall shook while Sister Payton was standing next to it! We think they heard us
too. because then they called the other sisters (who were outside the complex
putting hearts on their car) and we could hear the voice mail they left, which
was talking about how they didn't think we were doing fight club! But in a
song. So I freaked out, finished with the hearts and DASHED out of there. Unfortunately,
I didn't notice the blinds were open and they saw us (they live in the
basement) running past. Sister Payton made eye contact with them. oops
So, I guess that's it for this week. I
know that as we pray with real intent, heavenly father answers prayers! and he
loves all of us very much
love, Sister Robyn Cramer
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