June 24, 2013

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013

Oh mom! It's so great to hear from you! How are you doing? Thanks so much for sending so many packages! That's really really nice of you. I sent home a package today with pictures in it! The plane to Hawaii is leaving tonight so you should get the package this week or next!!! Everything is good here. I still have a breakdown every now and then, but I am still Lisa Crane so what do we all expect? haha. I bought a ukulele today! I'm gonna learn and become a real RiMajol! It was a good week. I've been reading Jesus The Christ. Man, is that book awesome or what? I have to read it with a dictionary though because that guy uses such big words haha. I really love it though. I've only read about 50 pages so far. I've really seen how important agency is and how certain things we do limit our agency and can also limit other's agencies and those are really the worst sins. Also, how detrimental pride is and how it really was the first sin. I really like learning. I don't think I really knew that about myself before this. Well I think I did, but I was always distracted by other things. Now I have all this time to learn and study with no distractions. It's nice. And even though the only focus I have right now is the mission there are so many little things that come off of that that you end up focusing on a million things in relation to the mission. Does that make sense? haha but it's good. You should really go teaching with the missionaries. It makes a big difference to have a member there. The language is going okay. Understanding people is really hard, but I know I'll get there one day. I think the main thing I need to do is to be calm and stop freaking out. that's the inspiration I always get. So I know I'm supposed to do this. Did I tell you about what I read in Matthew? Well I was reading about Christ suffering in the garden and he goes to see his disciples and they're asleep and he says something like, "what, you couldn't stay up with me for 1 hour?" How crazy is it to think that Christ was suffering for the sins of the world, and they just fell asleep? I thought about that with myself. If I quit or was a crappy missionary how horrible would it feel to hear the Savior say "What, you couldn't stay up with me for 18 months?" Horrible!! I know that I can do this. Heavenly Father wouldn't tell me to go on a mission if this wasn't right. I can stay up for 15 more months. that's nothing compared to what the Savior did for us. Gosh! I love personal study! I hate language study, but I love personal haha. I got your dear elder and dad's letter! It was so great to hear from you two! I sent home with the package but it was so cool I gotta tell it again! Our investigator W is really awesome. She read about 8 chapters of the Book of Mormon and explained them to us almost perfectly! It was awesome! Most people when you commit them to read and pray either don't do it or read a little. She is so great! She is really in tune with the spirit and gets answers to everything we ask her to pray about. We really need to find her a friend at church and then she'll be set. the problem here isn't getting people to get baptized and to get a testimony. It's all about helping them stay active. They don't feel like they have any friends so they stop coming or they fall back into Word of Wisdom or Law of Chastity problems. A got baptized on Saturday! that was really awesome! But get this. That punk has lice! I'm so scared I'm going to get it because she's always hugging me and jumping all over me, but so far so good. haha Oh and I have some more gray hairs. Only like two in the front of my head by my face. Should I leave them or pull them out?? I'm gonna look like Stacy London!! Oh and whenever we eat coconuts people do all the work for us and we just enjoy haha. It's pretty nice. I love you so much!!