This week has been...pretttyyy
uneventful. Our Norweigians in our branch have left us, so now the Sweeds,
Danes, and Norweigians have left and there's only the Dutch. We're next! Two
weeks! Tomorrow we get more Sweeds and more Dutch, but these Dutch are going to
Suriname. We have two of those right now. They leave next week.
Sydney, or now known as Sister
Williams, came in on wednesday and I got the pleasure of seeing her cute face.
And taking a picture with it. With her camera, though, so...yaya!
Anyway. Let's see. This past week
has been crazy fast. They just keep getting faster. And you want to know what's
crazy? My release date from missionary service is October 28 2014. Today
officially makes me 1 month down, 17 to go. CRAZY. I feel like I'm wasting
time! But there's still so much to learn and so much to take in, so I will
chill out (even tjillen, as the Dutch say) and just do all I can to make myself
as ready as can be for my trainer that I'll be meeting in TWO WEEKS.
On Sunday, we watched Sister
Monson's funeral. :( How sweet. I am so thankful for the Plan of
Salvation and for knowing that the end of mortality is not the end of life. I
love the comfort we can find in even the most sorrowful times and I am thankful
for how thin the veil gets when we have that much pain. I'm thankful for
Christ's atonement, knowing full well that He decended all the pains and sins
and sorrows of life and has overcome them all, even the world, that we too can
overcome trials and tribulations through Him, our Savior and Redeemer. I am
thankful that Christ suffered alone so that we never have to and I
find comfort in knowing that every trial we must face is necessary for our
salvation. Christ suffered the most pain of all and He was the only begotten of
the Father. The nail wounds in His hands and feet are evidence that pain
happens to even the pure and perfect and that trails are not evidence that God
doesn't love us (I got that from Jeffery R Holland, so...yeah he's a genius.) I
love this gospel. I love my nametag that puts my family's name and Christ's
name engraved the grandest so that I never forget who I'm representing. And I'm
thankful for learning dutch, even though my english has been suffering because
of it.
I love the gift of tongues. I can
gage how present and strong the spirit is in a lesson according to how well I
can find words. Those days that I can say everything I want to and it all comes
smoothly--those are the days that blow my mind. It's awesome.
I really love dutch.
In Relief Society on Sunday, the
first councilor in the relief society presidency was supposed to come talk to
us. Yep, she never showed up...so I hope she's okay.
I seriously never get time to think
so I dont have a lot else to report about what else happened this past week. I
can remember what I did today. ----laundry. Hurrah for clean clothes. Can I get
an Amen?
OH! I got a letter from my girl
Sister Nordgren last week. It was a prank letter. Glitter all up in
everything. What up. Finally gettin back what I've been dishing
out. And I love it. My companion/district? Not so crazy about it. But
I think it's hilarious. Please send prank letters. I got another one
today from Sister Hendricks. Confetti in that one. I love sister
missionaries.
Here is a quick overview of my
district sisters/roomies:
Zus Schwab: she sings a mean
alto line. She is hilarious. She wants to be a elementary school teacher and
believe you me, she would be fantastic. She's kind of like me in that she is
like a 6 year old in a 20 year old's body. She has an awesome relationship with
her scriptures and she lights up my life.
Zus Aston: Pretty quiet, but really
funny and sweet when she talks. Just about the cutest sister missionary. she's
pretty small. She just turned 19 in March. She's just wonderful and I'm
thankful for her and her perspective.
Zus Nelson: Pretty much the nicest
person ever. First week I said I thought I forgot socks and she gave me one of
her pairs. She's given me cute skirts because she's the sweetest. Always
smiles. always happy. Always positive like I want to be. Always cute outfits.
And she's passionate about the work which is refreshing.
Zus Aldous: A world traveller. She's
been to 22 countries and she's fluent in German (so this dutch thing is a walk
in the park for her. she just needs to add more phlegm. She is pretty tiny.
She's 21 and she's so sweet and postivie and she with Nelson is a Sister
Training leader for the branch. So Perfect, they make the best team.
and then we have my comp, Zus
Western: She's beautiful. She is graduated from college with a degree in
neuropsychology (so look out we have a genius here) and she is fairly quiet (so
you can imagine how much she loves her companion) and she sings like an angel.
We sing together and it's magical. She has a beautiful smile (perfect teeth
without braces or cavities ever. how do you do that?) and...she's actually
pretty funny so we laugh a lot. I love laughing, so that's good. OH, and she's
way popular and gets like 12 letters a day.
Look out Belgium/Netherlands, we're
coming for you. We gon find you. and you can run and tell that, homeboy.
(10 points to anyone who understands that reference)
That's my week and my district.
I would say write me...but that
hasn't proved effective in the past. Hahaha
Love you
xoxo
Zuster Hoff
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