My district!
Family and Friends,
Man, I just couldn’t wait to email you
this week! It’s the highlight of my week. It’s really funny because outside of
the mission, Sundays are relaxing and Mondays are the worst. On the mission,
it’s completely opposite. Sundays are the most stressful day of the week and
Mondays are my favorite! haha.
To answer your question about if my
weeks go fast, it always depends. Some weeks drag on and on and others fly by
and its Monday again before I even know it. This week flew by especially fast.
Yeah, Elder Rasband and Elder Gong came
to Mongolia this week and we had our yearly mission conference. It was so fun
to have everyone together and to see my mtc friends again :) As we all sat in
the chapel together I was reminded at how small this mission is. Every
missionary in all of Mongolia (including couples) all fit easily into the
chapel together. There are about 85 missionaries total and about half are
Americans. We learned lots of great things and I am motivated to be a better
missionary. The transfer did happen, but I am still with sister Magleby.
Because I’m being trained, I stay with my trainer for 12 weeks instead of 6.
And I’m so happy for it. We have so much fun together :)
This week has been a little rough for me
health wise. I got strep throat this week and on top of that I got those little
sores on the back of my throat again... I was really grateful for a mission
doctor! haha. Also, on Thursday night, Sister Magleby and I got food poisoning!
We were up all night and were sick most of the day on Friday. I’ve always been
pretty tolerant to Mongolian food (there’s some stuff that I think is really
good!) but after that experience my tastes have changed. Now, I feel sick even
thinking of eating Mongolian food. And that’s really bad considering people
feed us about every night and also I’m going to be in Mongolia for the next
year and a half. haha. But despite the hardships, I have seen the Lord’s hand
in my life. I prayed so fervently that my sickness wouldn’t effect my work and
I was able to recover speedily. And let’s all be honest here, I’m a big baby
when I get sick. But this week, I was strong as ever. I only wanted to hug my
mom once or twice ;)
Yesterday, we went over to one of the
member’s house for dinner (this is the same one that I asked if we could come
over in very incoherent, broken Mongolian... haha remember that story?)
Anyways, we went over to his house and met with his family and taught a lesson
about testimony. While there, we were able to laugh and joke and speak with
each other. They all laughed at my Mongolian, but were also so patient and
willing to help me when I needed it. They filled us up with food (insisting
that we had seconds... and then thirds...) and there was lots of love felt. I’m
finally starting to loosen up a little. Before, I was also so scared that my
Mongolian wouldn’t be perfect or that people would think I’m stupid that I
didn’t speak at all. But now I’m learning that even Mongolians don’t speak
Mongolian perfectly and its better to try and fail than not try at all. So I’m
learning to be more bold :)
Well, there were a lot of more cool
things that happened this week... but I have no time to write them! Man, I wish
you all could just read my journal or something... haha. I love you all!
Love,
Sister Royal
AMY'S car wash! We walked a ways to
get that picture... haha but I mean, I had to get it!
So, this is our Chinese
investigators. Yeah, thats right. They're Chinese. He knows a little bit of
Mongolian and she knows none. But they come to church each week and are so
prepared. And President Benson gave us permission to continue teaching them!
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