Sister Meservy’s Letter from August 18, 2014
Subject: “I have fruit snacks“
it is fun for everyone.
you laugh, you cry,
you’re born, you die.
And sometimes you swat a lot of flies.
Missionary work is rad,
But sometimes I sure miss my dad.
I laugh, I cry,
I fall, but I try.
Sometimes I miss chick-fil-a fries.
Missionary work is great,
I’m almost always running late,
I laugh, I cry.
Tears of joy.
My companions have to dry my eyes.
Oh missionary work is fun.
It’s loads of fun for everyone.
Okay. Let’s see how fast I can tell you about the BEST WEEK EVER! 🙂
We were eating at our Ward Mission Leaders house this week. This sums up his awesome family. He scheduled dinner for when his wife had just got home from a week at girls camp. We all sat down to dinner. With their crazy rad kids. And bare foot brother rippy says, “I just stepped on a hot dog.” We weren’t even eating hot dogs. 😉
Anyway. Good times.
We found a mouse in our house. Well… we’ve been hearing it for quite some time now, but we found it’s whole and it’s…. mouse droppings…. So we set up a nice mouse trap yesterday and I closed it on my hand like 5 times while we were putting the peanut butter on it. Let’s just say the last time hurt the worst and I have a blood blister on my PINKY. I’m not the mouse we were trying to catch.
Yesterday we were coming inside at the end of the day and we’d been running around, unable to talk to any new people. When I saw a woman walking outside. SO we quickly set our loads of stuff down in the house and ran outside. I started chasing after her, calmly, and Sister Huffaker said, “Do you have a Book of Mormon.” Not wanting to lose the woman I kept walking towards her and said, “No.” Then looked down at my hand and said, ” But I have fruit snacks.”
Needless to say, there’s a reason they teach us to share Book of Mormons. 🙂 Couldn’t even get her to stop.
Having Sister Rasmussen with Sister Huffaker and I this week has been one of the biggest tender mercies of my mission! 🙂 I think I have laughed, cried, and repented more this week than ever before. I LOVE ALL THAT MY MISSION IS TEACHING ME. I know with all my heart that Heavenly Father wants me to have joy. Sister Rasmussen is the perfect example of that.
Sister Huffaker has shown us a great example of Meekness this week as well. 🙂 When Sister R and I are absolutely crazy she tries to help us stay professional, but loves us despite our weaknesses. You wouldn’t think she was the youngest one of the bunch. 😉 The three of us have so much fun together though. We all want to work, and we all love the people around us and love each other. Sister Huffaker helps us be unified and come together as one. She is just amazing.
I am so grateful for BOTH OF THEM. 🙂 I’ve been so lucky on my mission. Ugh. It’s the best.
We were teaching a recent convert this week who has been out of town for 3 weeks. Turns out he got into some trouble with the word of wisdom again. We showed up and he was drinking some Iced tea. Luckily, that mistake was in ignorance though, because he had 3 more glasses ready for us. He is a little bit stubborn, but so is Sister Huffaker. She asked him for his glass of tea, and poured it over the deck…. Just had to eliminate the temptation. Then I opened my Book of Mormon, and this is the verse I randomly turned to and read aloud, “but men drink damnation to their own souls” Mosiah 3:18.
Haha. We all had a good laugh about it and then had a great lesson on the blessings of keeping the commandments.
It’s been a great week. I may have been crazy… but I’ve been working hard and I am so grateful for this time. I know that Heavenly Father loves me so much. I am grateful for the Atonement.
I love y’all!
Love,
Sister Meservy
PS: I tickled Sister Rasmussen in the Bishops office. I told the Bishops kids that Sister Huffaker digs holes in the back yard, like a dog. And I was in a quad for a day. 🙂 not just a trio. Good Week.