so i shall start with the milagro of the mission....really nothing will ever beat the happiness that came from this moment.....well you guys remember angela? the recent convert. k shes like my favorite ever first of all. our last lesson she recounted her baptism from her point of view for us. (see previous email for her story about her baptism if you forgot) but it was so precious to hear her talk about how she felt when we all said that prayer together how she just changed right in that moment. and she really did cause you could see this light in her after the prayer was over that she didnt have before. anyways thats not the miracle part. after our lessons that we have with her she ALWAYS feeds us bikinis. like you dont understand when the words queréis bikinis leaves her mouth magic happens. she has changed my life with these bikinis. so we found out that our apartment was supposed to ahve a toaster oven and it doesnt.... well i talked the distribution elder into letting us buy a bikini maker for the apartment instead of a toaster over. and he went for it. our piso has a bikini maker. and now all day everyday i just eat bikinis. bikinis. i owe angela my life. and get this here is the best part....so today i met some elders that i had never met before. they have been serving in the north and just came down for a meeting in the office. and they asked me about the bikini maker.... im known as the hermana that got the bikini maker for the hospitalet piso. im proud of the legacy ive left in the barcelona spain mission.
now that you all know about the best decsion ive ever made...let me tell you about my worst. more like the worst day of my life that i still regret and still get panic attacks thinking back on. im just not sure if im going to be able to tell you about it becuase that means i will have to relive it.. but i will proceed to sacrifice my well being to tell you about it. my goodness im so nice. so lately ive been needing a hair cut bad. and i know i needed one but i was just too nervous to do it. like you know my hair is important to me and i have no trust with any hair cutter person here and i dont even know hair cutting terms in spanish so really the odds were just not looking up for a haircut...ive just been making excuses to not do it. so thursday we were walking down the street to our cita that we had. and we get a phone call from them....welp shocker. they fired on us. so our back up plans were to go down to a piso place to find a new piso for us. (thats another story....we were told we needed to find a new piso by the end of the month otherwise we will have no place to live....do you know how hard it is to find a piso with no direction?? we have no leads and the end of the month is on thursday...i might be homeless) anyways so that was our plan but there it was a haircutting place right in front of us that had an oferta for only thursdays (lucky me it was thursday) hna dalton took that as a sign that i had to go get my haircut cause if i didnt take it then my excuses would jsut keep building up. and i knew she was right so i did it. i cut my hair. i had a slight panic attack while it was happening....and it continues everytime i have looked in the mirror since then. one side is longer than the other side and then i have this chunk that it longer than the rest. im done reliving it now...i cant think about it anymore. however to make up for my fuglyness i bought a really cool pair of glasses. they are purple. (see attached pictures) heres my reasoning....the more stuff covering your face the prettier you are. i just needed something that drew attention to itself so people looked at that instead of my haircut. these glasses are pretty much the coolest things ive ever bought.
friday we had zone conference..... yeahhhhhhhhh. it was at the huge stake center in barc with the hospitalet zone (my zone) and the barcelona zone. we knew we were headed in the right direction to the stake center when we saw that pass along cards had been crumbled up on the floor of the metro....it was a sign that other missionaries had recently been there) oh and a plus about zone conference was that taking the metro really early in the morning like that they gave you a free newspaper and there might have been pictures of cristiano ronaldo in it. i cut them out and saved them. but it was he hinkleys last zone conference. actually now that i think of it, that was probably the last time im ever going to see them. but let me tell you the best part ever about zone conference.....free food. FREE DOMINOS PIZZA. cant say no to that one. so after the conference was over we said goodbye to the hinckleys and they left. and then hna dalton, hna stephenson, hna eyre. and i all realized that there were left overs from lunch still sitting in the chapel. we dubbed it free for all. we filled our purses with brownies, cookies, water bottles, and then we took a box of pizza and ran before anyone told us otherwise. you dont need to worry though it all got home safely.
so we started out this transfer focusing on the ward members. like passing by, getting to know the ward leaders, trying to give them all animo to share the gospel with others. becuase the best referencias are member referencias. and we have seen a lot of miracles in finding new investigators that way. our investigator fatima came about that way. fatima drives me NUTS. and heres why....so her husband is an active memer and shes an active non member. her husband called us up one day to see if we could come over to explain something to her so we went. we went thinking that she is a member. shes at church every week and participates in class and stuff so in my mind i just assumed she was a member. but we went over and found out that she wasnt. i was shocked. and we found out shes never met with the missionaries or anything. and heres why she drives me nuts. she knows everything. she answers her own questions she answers questions in class. like i swear she knows more than i do about the gospel. but she wont apply any of it. however she did pray about a baptisimal date and told us the navidades. its a start but six months......i really just want to push her in the font. she feeds us though every single lesson. im starting to realize all the lessons and people that i love teaching are the ones that always feed us. oh my heffer. anyways thats one of the people we are working with right now. she has the cutest daughter too. shes four.
i have found some pretty good outlets too within the rules of the mission handbook.
1. trigo....its my new favorite kind of cereal. like its kind of actally turned into an addiction. i thought it was only a spain thing cause i have never seen it before but apparently its called smacks in the us...i was a little upset that it took me 21 years to discover this.
2. sudoku. i found a book of 100 puzzles in the chino across the street. only 70 centimos!!!!!!!!
3. a plus for you...creative letter writing. wait till you see the letter that im working on today. im really excited for you to get it. its got cut out pictures and everything and some hand drawn pictures. and some lucky people may be perhaps getting some locks of hair that were chopped off this week (yes i did pick up the left over peices off the floor when i was done so i could send them home)
4. and last but not least my new favorite pair of purple glasses that i got. while yes i did buy them for the purpose of the haircut i do like the fact that they make me different. (who ever reads this email and sees the attached pictures im going to need you to email me a yay or a nay for the glasses. im just curious on opinions)
things have gotten so much better between me and dalton. we hashed it out and ever since then things have actually been great! we can even joke about everything now. and i actually learned a lot from it and from my little moment of patheticness. the mission ive decided it breaks you. like literally breaks you further than you ever thought possible then pushes you a little more gives you one or two kicks but then it builds you back up into something that you didnt know you could be and teaches you things that you wouldnt have learned otherwise....love, forgiveness, patience, hope, faith, knowledge, literally everything. all these christlike attributes come from trails if you push forward through them. and heres been the topic of conversation between the four of us hermanas in the piso....personality colors. apparently there is this book that you answer all these questions and it tells you your personality color...hermana dalton has read the book so she explained all the colors and what they are. shes super good at discerning peoples personalitys...like its creepily intriguing. there are four options...yellow, red, blue, and white. im a yellow blue. and then we continued to personality color the characters in harry potter and twilight and the hunger games. seriously so interesting. ive made so many insights to my personality with this information. and dont worry ive color typed all of you and then went as far as figuring out the color type of what my future husband needs to be.
okay and listen to how funny this would have been....one of our recent converts angelo had an accident at work and was in the hospital. since the hospital is out of our area we had to get permission to go. and let me tell you leaving the area is like the funnest thing ever. its like going on a field trip so i was super stoked for this. plus it was to a hospital. i love hospitals. but basically angelo shatterd his arm and hes sitting there telling us how he has no bone anymore that his arm is just an iron rod now. so i wanted so badly to sing the iron rod is the word of god to start out our lesson. hahahahahahah how funny would that have been. i just crack myself up sometimes. hes really upset and sad about his arm though so i thought it would have been too soon and too much. but really people it doesnt get better than that..the iron rod is the word of god like now his arm is the word of god. (i feel like lush will appreciate this one)
so our new mission president and his wife come on friday. guess which sisters they picked to take out hermana pace proselyiting her very first day....hermana dalton and i. out of all the sisters in the mission im not quite sure why that responsiblity had to fall on us. im nervous for her to see me in action...this will either make or break her expectations. too. much. pressure.
and today was the last letter we had to write to president hinckley like that he will ever read from us so guess what i wrote. MAY THE ODDS BE OVER IN YOUR FAVOR PRESIDENTE. LOVE HERMANA OSLUND.
k well im going to go attach the pictures now.
i love you all.
miss you all.
thanks for TODOS.
LOVE MICHAEL ANN
k my picture uploading isnt working.....sorry but you cant see my cool glasses now....maybe next week.
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