#9
Hello family!
How are you all?? I hope life is treating you great! Tell Quincy I say to get feeling better and that I love her! How is Colin and Vickie?? It sounds like everything is going very well 🙂 This week has been great! Lots of hard work, good times, fun people, mean people, laughter, learning experiences, and everything else. I guess that is every week though…
1-What is something fun you are planning to do, or have done for p-day? Like visit a tourist sight?
1. WE PLAYED BEACH VOLLEYBALL TODAY! SO that was way fun 🙂 Welp. I think we will visit a tourist site eventually. Our P-days have been really cray cray lately. We go get ice cream every P-day!
2-Are there any fruits on the island you have never seen before?
2. They have passion fruit! Which is delicious. We make juice out of it! Also they have something called bread fruit here. I have not tried it but I want to! It’s more like a vegetable.. I hear it tastes like a potato!
3-Have you eaten anything unusual?Â
3. I ate “coo coo” which I think I told you about… It just mushy stuff! Honestly I am not sure what it is…. And we eat “doubles” which are burrito type things! They are great!
4-How long does it rain, when it rains? Is it a few minutes, or a few hours?
4.It usually rains whenever the sky feels like it. It’ll rain for a while and then stop! It hasn’t rained for a while! Also that “tropical storm” never happened!!! It basically just rained like any other day…
5-How do you handle someone who is not nice? Does it happen?
5. Yes please. We have run into quite a few mean people! You just keep that missionary smile on your face and be very professional. Most of the people are very nice. A lot of them are a little too friendly……………… BUT either way I just try to be very professional and don’t show that I am scared or anything like that. It’s not that bad to deal with people!
6-Do you check in with the other missionaries often? Daily? Weekly?
6. Yeah yeah! We have nightly calls so we talk to the Zone or District leaders every night. And see them a couple of times a week! But we are so far from anyone else. I have no idea what happens on the other islands…. But I am very close with the people serving in Barbados! 🙂
7-Is the island hilly, mountainous, or not so much?
7. The island isn’t too hilly! It’s very flat compared to other islands. We drive a lot. I wish we walked more!!
8-Favorite scripture or lesson learned this week?
8. HMMMM…. My favorite scripture of this week is 1 Nephi 4:6 [And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do.] Sometimes we don’t know how something is going to work out but we just know that it will with the Lords help. Also something I have realizing is humility. I thought I was humble until I got here. We work so hard all day and we really do have great numbers for our mission and sometimes I get caught up in that we worked so hard and that is why we have these people. Which is true but we are just instruments in the Lords hands. All I need to do is not let ourselves get in the way. So I must be obedient and stay worthy of having the spirit with me all of the time. I can see the Lord in my life and in the lives of the people here. It blows my mind! This is the Lords work, not mine or any of the missionaries. The Lord provides a way!
Ok so more news…. This is week is transfer week! And I am… *drum roll please* STAYING where i am WITH SISTER T.! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 I am so happy.
Funny Story: So we were teaching this guy C. and his porch was pretty busted up (just like all of the porches here) SO I didn’t think much of it. Alright so I am right in the middle if teaching and I shift my weight over to one leg………… WHEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN……………………
There is more to tell but I don’t have much time!!! Love, Sister Emily
Oh my goodness! I could just see Emily busting through the floor of the porch- and then trying not to laugh, although she was hurt. Then I could hear her fun voice call back “Sorry I busted your porch!”
What a great testimony she has of the Lord guiding her. She is awesome!