WHAT ?!?!?! I'm in New Mexico?! It's crazy!!
The first night i got here we met the mission president and his wife. they are the nicest people i have met! they are just soo awesome!
The first night i got here we met the mission president and his wife. they are the nicest people i have met! they are just soo awesome!
We had lunch and then we
had some training. it was so hard to try and not fall asleep on the couches!
but then during the day they were like "ok we have some missionaries close
by, you are going to go out with them and talk to people and place a book of
Mormon.!" WHAT?!?! so i went out and the first person we talked
to, the Sister with me did it just to kind of show me. then we went up to another
person and the Sister was saying all these great things and then she looked to
me to say something, and i just blanked, i was just looking at the person we
were talking to and i said nothing...so the other Sister kept going! HAHAHA it
was kinda funny!
They had a ton of different missionaries over i was
able to see my friend Elder Gardner! that was crazy! It's the best feeling ever
to see someone you know! ahh its great! Then the next day was transfers and we
got our new companions.
i was also able to see Elder Yates! That was way crazy! i saw
him and i almost said " HEY CODY!!!" haha its really weird calling
him elder yates! and then while i was there i was also saw Elder MacKay.
Not sure if i spelled his name right.
I'm serving in the Rio Rancho NM area and my companion's name is Sister Baker from Washington state!
First off, i am
going to be sooo in shape because we have to ride up hill on desert roads in
skirts while this insane wind is pushing against us! its pretty hard!
the first lesson i taught here was a guy named Dennis who I'm guessing had a real great
time at Woodstock and hears voices in his head! so that was fun! it
really was, there is like this excitement of sitting down and sharing the gospel
with people!
The members here are awesome! they are like family, people have us
over for dinner every night! so that's awesome! My first meal here was green chili pizza! YUM! its soooo good! but not all the food is good, one night we
had a member cooks us like pig skin/fat soup...that was a hard meal to get
down. The ward mission leaders name is brother Lockard! and he reminds me
of dad! he is always saying dad jokes and is just awesome!
My companion...is
usually pretty good. but these past couple of days have been kind of hard. Whe ever we see someone on the street she always makes me go talk to them because
she said she's too scared to talk to them. and she's 21 and went to BYU for 3 years.
i have kinda gotten the impression that she doesn't like learning from people
who are younger than her. We had had a question about something, so I told her
to call our District leader who is almost done with his mission, and she just
was like "no he doesn't know anything". She is always talking about her
old companion who was 23 and how great she was and how much she misses her. I'm starting to think that i might be here to teach her. but I'm not sure. oh and
something else that is really hard is when people ask where I'm from and i say Utah- if they are a member, they know where West Jordan is and ask me if i know
people -if they aren't a member, or even some members do this, they just ignore
more give me this look like "Oooohh... Utah..." they roll their eyes,
its annoying, and Sister Baker bags on Utah a lot too, so that bugs me, but
whatever!
Its been pretty hard, but
just like the Beatles " Its getting better all the time!" the first
few days i REALLY missed home and wanted to come home. but the ward here really
is like family. they love the missionaries! so that's good! oh also last night
we went to visit a member and....SHE HAD A VIOLIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so she is
letting me borrow it and i got to play it today! that was fun! oh and people
here have NO grass and NO side walks and NO roads, hahah! its very different not
a lot of green. Its really dry too! Ill put on lotion, and then 2 seconds
later I'm putting on more lotion! but its been a good week! Thank you for all
the love and prayers!
I LOOOVE YOU!!!!!!
With love, from me to
you,
Sister Markus :)
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