Hi mom and dad!
Happy cinco de mayo!
Okay mom, hold your horses, everything will work out for mother's day don't worry. Like I said before, I will be skyping you. I will probably call you on sunday just to make sure I have the skype name and everything. I don't know if we're skyping at the same time or not but just know that I only have 40 minutes to do the skype call soooo.... make sure you have everything that you want to say to me! Because it's not a lot of time! We'll probably skype around 4ish, which is 5 your time I think. I hope that works out! If not, we'll figure something out but, it won't be exactly at 4, so if I'm not calling you by then, don't freak out! We'll eventually get to chat :) I'm super excited!!!
My back has been so much better this week! I readjusted the car seat to I sit further back now and I think that's relieved a lot of stress on my back. I've been trying to sit and sleep differently too so hopefully it will continue on not hurting!
Yes, I can still get pics, Yes I still love getting them, keep them coming! I also love all of the hand written letters I am getting, please keep them coming!
I love getting conference talks. It gives me something a little more to study in personal study or just some thing to read at lunch time. I think as a missionary, because I don't really have anything to do while I eat except well... eat, I read the nutrition facts on what I'm eating... I know so many random facts about how many grams of sodium are in a bowl of cereal and what not... yeah, real interesting so please, send letters, talks, quotes, stories, anything! I love them all!
I see my mission president maybe 2 or 3 times a month. It's pretty rare though. We actually get a new one at the end of July I think.
So this week, the dad who had the brain surgery accepted baptism for the 17th or may!!!! He is an incredible person. Yesterday, he was taking his family to church when he remembered that he forgot to take his nausea medicine (because the radiation he's doing makes him really sick) So he went home to get his medicine, threw up, and still came to church with his whole family. That's dedication right there. And the even cooler part is that his 8 year old son, Kevin, came up to me after the 2 hour of church and said 'so when can I get baptized? I'm 8, I wanna get baptized.' It made my heart so happy!!! But, because we just had an incredible miracle happen.. I have a feeling that these next 2 weeks are going to be extremely difficult. The adversary really likes to make all the worst things happen right before someone gets baptized... and that effects the missionaries too.. aye.
Earlier this week when we were on our bikes, we rode by a man on the side of the rode and I stopped and simply said 'Hi how are you? How's your day going?' in a very normal manner. It looked like he didn't hear me and so I said again 'How's it going?' and the guy got in my face and said 'Are you retarded?! Because the way that you're talking to strangers is just retarded.' To be honest, it made me cry a little bit. I didn't realize how sensitive I was. I thought I had gotten over it, but I guess not. I knew that it wasn't my fault that he was probably having a bad day or something but, whatever, I hope that guy has a better day. I'm just not used to being yelled at like that.
I mean, my companion and I, we're pretty cute girls! Even if people reject us, they do it in a really nice way. Anyways, I'm just going to have to get a tougher skin I guess. I wanted to say something to that man but after he yelled at me I just couldn't speak. I literally just stood there with my mouth hanging open. I wanted to say something but I just couldn't. Maybe that was for the better, maybe if I would have said something more the situation would have escalated into something nasty. But let me tell you, serving a mission is great but it really takes a toll on you, both physically and mentally.
My companion and I also pretty much committed another one of our investigators, Paola, to baptism on may 31. IT was our 3rd time asking her to be baptized and she said 'yes, but let me think about the date' So she's really opening up! We took a member over to her house for a lesson and he gave her a priesthood blessing because she's really struggling right now with life in general. And he said in the blessing 'know that God will not abandon you' and she said that right when he said that, she was thinking 'God don't abandon me' She said that happened twice in her prayer where the guy said exactly what she was thinking. The Spirit is such a powerful thing. So, she's going to get baptized soon too!!!
It got up to almost 100 degrees this week.... I about died. Thankfully the temp went down a bit but man, I'm going to die in the summer.... I'm trying to train myself to like the heat because I'm going to have to deal with it for 2 summers here... hurray.
Alrighty, I better peace out, it's time to go shopping for groceries! Hurray! I hope you have a wonderful week! And remember, the next time that we talk, it will be on skype! Woooo!!!! So excited! Alrighty, take care, love you so much and adios!
Love Hermana Poulsen
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