To: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021
Subject: Happy Saturday
Hey!
How are you? How was your zone conference this last
week? Did you get to connect with all the other Elders you know and have
a good time? Anything you learned or took away you want to share? I
imagine they are all working through the transition of 'new' and
definitely different from home too. Do they have any good insights for
you that you can apply in your world to make your mission better?
How
is your companion this week? Do you guys do a weekly planning meeting?
If so, what does that look like for you and how does that look with your
ami's you are working with? Did you one ami accept the date for baptism
that you guys put out or still waiting? I imagine that would be hard
for me. Knowing the good of the Gospel and how easily attained it can be
only to have someone question it (even though you know that they know).
Probably just another reason that I didn't serve a mission. My patience
would have been a killer for me!
This week was good here.
Nothing really major. The weeks are starting to seem a little similar in
that way if I am being totally honest. :) Brooklyn had a dental
appointment and that was a freaking NIGHTMARE. Holy cow. Rodney's office
was the most inefficient ever and I was so super cranky by the time we
left. From there we headed to Herriman City for Brooklyn's passport.
That is tricky with a biological parent who is deceased but we figured
it out and now we just wait for the approval and her booklet to arrive.
Add the frustration of the dentist and then the frustration of the mess
created with biological parent madness and by the time I got home I
could have driven myself to drink! It seemed like a lot at the time but
now a few days later, not that big of a deal and I am just fine.
Wednesday
after Brookyln was on her way to school Tyler and I were in the kitchen
and we were talking about what the day looked like. Neither of us had
much that was really too pressing so he suggested that we tackle the
room at the bottom of the stairs and just get it all done and cleaned
out for good. At the time I felt like this would be a good thing and I
was all for it. It was just about 8am and there was no way (in my mind
at least) that it would take us too long to get through it all. Boy was I
wrong! Holy cow. We had stuff all sprawled out in Kaitlyn's room, in
your guys' bathroom, in the small hallway, in the family room, and even
on the grass outside in the backyard. There was stuff literally
EVERYWHERE and I could not believe the sheer amount of stuff that had
been packed in there. It felt like our own version of Hoarders. It was
seriously so embarassing.
We went to the Home Depot and
got new storage totes, we loaded a literal crap ton into the enclosed
trailer that Tyler took to the DI on Thursday, then loaded the trailer
again with all of the garbage that Tyler took to the dump, and man does
it feel so good to have this room taken back! I am looking for the
perfect container or tall dresser to store all of my Elf on the Shelf
stuff (there is so much...I literally had no idea how my collection has
grown) but other than that, it looks like a whole new room. And you can
move around and find stuff! Ha.
Yesterday we headed to the
cabin for the Relief Society Overnighter. I won't lie. I was good with
the Millers coming and I don't know too much about Tyler Girsberger but
Kylie is fun so I was okay with them too. The Thornell's though??? Dude,
the anxiety was REAL and now that I am home and have spent the last 24
hours with them....I am so good not doing that again anytime soon. They
are both so freaking weird! I don't know how really to describe it
really. But wow. Other than the weird, it was nice to just visit and get
to know everyone a little better. Everyone seems to really love the
cabin and they make themselves more than comfortable which is good but I
was planning on being home by 12 or 1pm today. That sure didn't happen.
They didn't even leave themselves until like 2! Tyler and I got bedding
all washed and dryed, we will go put Christmas stuff on the weekend of
Thanksgiving, we got the madness of the kitchen mess all cleaned up, and
then closed the door and came home. I think we were both ready to just
be done. We stayed up until 1am and I was wide awake by 5:15am. My body
just knows that regardless of what time I go to bed my wakeup is early.
So I showered and went out and made some hot cocoa and got stuff ready
for when breakfast was going to be prepped. In all, it was a good thing
and I am glad I did it but I sure don't think I need to do anything like
that again anytime soon.
Our Christmas lights were supposed
to be installed this weekend but they didn't arrive. I think *think*
part of me is ready to get Christmas out. We have new carpet being
installed in the basement on the 29th so I probably need to hold off on
decorating for now rather than add to the madness of removing all the
furniture. But, we will see what the week holds and where I can spend my
time. We have a presidency meeting on Wednesday, a holiday Relief
Society dinner on Friday, and then the company holiday dinner on
Saturday. I tried to bail on the work one but Tyler says we should
really be there. :/
I thought for sure this week it would
snow at least at the cabin but it actually ended up being really pretty
days each day. Cold but pretty. The sun was shining and while I was
laying on the hammock with Tyler for a bit today it was just warm enough
(I was wearing my puffy coat) that my eyes got a little heavy and I
could have easily taken a nap. I won't complain too much for now because
I am glad that snow is not a factor in all of life at the moment.
I
can't wait to be able to hear how your week was and how things are
going today. I hope you have a great day at church and that you are able
to feel the presence of the Lord and His spirit touch your heart that
will encourage a bump in your activity this next week. :) I think of you
always and am so dang proud of all you are doing. You really are one of
my 3 most proudest moments in my whole world. I love you more than you
will ever know. Keep up the great work and know that I am here if you
need anything.
I love you for forever and for always, to the moon and back
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