It was definitely one of those weeks when all of the
seemingly-solid appointments cancelled on us. We even had a dinner
cancel on us! She called us and asked if she could give us a gift card
to Wendy's instead. We said, Sure. Why not? So we took ourselves out for
dinner. We'd been sitting down no longer than about a minute when a man
came up to us, stared hard at my name tag, then asked, "Are you
Mormons?" Yep, we sure are! It turned out his grandmother had been a
member, and he asked if he could ask us some questions when we were
done. So when we finished eating, we went and sat with him as he asked
question after question! We pretty much ended up teaching him the Plan
of Salvation and all about the restoration. We also gave him a Book of
Mormon and asked if we could call him to follow up. We probably won't
get to go teach him since he lives a million miles away in the Sand
Hills, but we can at least contact the branch up there. It was such a
cool experience, though. He was really moved by a lot of the things we
taught him, and I think it was just what he needed.
The other weird thing about this week was my mail.
See, for the last few weeks, I thought my mail was getting slow, but
whatever. After you've been out for a while, you tend to figure people
will slowly stop writing to you. But it seemed weird that Dad would stop
writing.
Yeah, that's what I said: Dad. I hadn't received a
letter from Dad practically since the end of June. But we went to our
District Meeting on Wednesday, and our district Leader said that I was
the big winner for mail! Plus a package! Our zone leaders had brought
back a ton of stuff from Omaha (forget the fact that they'd been to
Omaha several times during the last transfer and this one), and among
the stuff was my mail! (Let me explain how mail works: When you mail
something to the mission address, they paste my local address over the
mission address, then throw it back in the mail to get to me. So it
takes 2 days to get to Omaha, a day to get sorted and a new label in the
office, then another 2 to get to me out in North Platte. So, I usually
get letters a week after you write them. Or, if there's a big meeting
coming up, they will hold onto it until the meeting, and then they will
send it with the APs to the meeting, and they'll give it to you there.)
For some reason, the office hoarded my mail for the month of July, but
not all of it. See, I've received 3 letters from Scott in July, but then
one letter (from July 15) they held onto. I received no letters from
Dad, so on Wednesday, I got four letters from Dad. I also received 3
letters from Hykel, a postcard from Chellae, and a letter from my friend
Jessica. So, yeah. I was the big winner for mail, but I would have
preferred they just forward it on like usual.
So if I haven't written back to people in response
to letters, or in response to specific questions in letters, that's why!
I'm not upset, I'm just confused--how come some letters make it through
(3/4 of letters from Scott Shea, for example), but others (100% from
Dad) don't get forwarded at all? I have no idea. It made for a lot of
reading on Wednesday night, that's for sure!
So, this week has been good, but we have a trip to
Holdredge coming up, so that's a fun 100 mile (one way) drive to go to
our District Meeting this week. Keep being awesome and writing
letters--even if I don't get them until a month later! I still love
them, and I love you!
Love,
Sister Loradona May
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