I'm so sorry I didn't get to send you a better letter last week. We check/write our emails with the computers in the chapel here, and last week, someone locked us out of the room where the computers are kept.
Grr.
And I didn't get a letter written and put in the mail because I went home Monday night and started puking my guts out. My cold turned out to be the flu, so it did get worse before getting better. Syster Kester and I spent all week in the apartment, me sleeping off the flu and her suffering through a migraine. Fun week. Most of my symptoms are gone now - I just can't get rid of the sore throat.
Funny you should ask about medication - that's actually the one thing I've thought of this week that I could definitely use from home. Swedes have funny ideas about medicines. They like natural cures more than real drugs. Also, they have this bizarre notion that you should still feel sick so that you'll take it easy and get more rest, so their drugs aren't as strong as ours. AND you have to buy a separate drug for every symptom. They don't have multi-symptom medicines here. Strange people. So yes, I would LOVE to have some decent drugs from home. DayQuil/NyQuil would be great, or Tussin for multiple symptoms. Some Chloroseptic throat spray would be great too. I'm also just about out of pain relievers.
The only other things I can think of that I'd really like to have are vanilla (for baking - they don't use it here), and some good hot chocolate.
I'm really excited for the pictures. Did you include Keira's TMF costume? I really want to see that one. And, yes, I'll be THRILLED to have one of those pea-coats when I get home!
To answer your question about our eternal investigator couple - as far as we can tell, they think they have less to lose if they fall away now than they would if they got baptized and then left the church. We tried to explain that they're still accountable for their knowledge, whether or not they make the covenant, and it's actually MUCH WORSE for them not to use this knowledge now that they have it. I'm confused as to why they think this falling away thing will be a problem when they've stuck with it for all these years. They've been living like members, but with none of the benefits (like the Gift of the Holy Ghost, REMISSION OF SINS, access to the Priesthood, a sealed marriage...), and we just can't seem to convince them that there's actually a better way. Frankly it blows my mind that they don't get this.
In other news: I went knocking on doors for the first time last week. (My companion and I have been too busy with teaching appointments to go tracting for new investigators since I arrived.) I actually went on splits with a pair of elders for this, which was a lot of fun. (It's probably the only time this'll ever happen. We only got permission to do so because there are no other sisters to split with in the whole northern two thirds of Sweden.) While doing this, we learned that people just react better to females for some reason. The elders couldn't believe how much more receptive people were, just because there was a sister with them. I thought it was pretty funny. I felt kind of like a good luck charm.
As for my little sister and Elder Waite - he's got better things to be doing than letting her lead him around by the nose. You can tell him not to waste one minute mooning over her. The work he's out there to do is so much more important than a silly, fickle girl. The fact is: she dumped an honorable, obedient servant of the Lord for a chump who SHOULD be in the mission field, but isn't. So she isn't worthy of him right now. And she definitely isn't worth what it could cost some soul he's been sent there to save, if he worries about her rather than the work. I love Chynna very much. But she's not good for Elder Waite, and as a fellow missionary, I really wish he'd just forget about her.
Well, I need to take a little time to write to Dad, so I guess I have to be done now.
Take care. Be good, and be happy. ;)
I love you.
~Syster Hillary Kiser
P.S. I have no idea how calling at Christmas is going to work yet. I'll ask my companion and whoever else I need to about it. I'll let you know when I know.
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