I finally got that kid to send me a picture of herself! - Mom
Hello and Happy Leap Day
friends and family! It's not every day you get a letter from a missionary on
February 29 but here we are with this super special letter from your favorite
New England Sister Missionary. I hope everyone has had a good past week. I know
things have been kinda crazy for those in the Chandler East Stake with the split.
It is pretty fun to say I won't be returning to the same stake I left from,
Chandler South all the way! But really, my home stake split has made me really
wish there could be a stake split here in the New Hampshire Manchester Mission
because that means more New Englanders would be accepting our Heavenly Father's
love for them! And then we could work towards a temple in Maine! But I guess
for now I'll just keep working day by day, helping who I can come closer to
Christ.
This last week was honestly pretty crazy. I feel
like that happens with any week that starts with District P-Day. And we ended
up not proselyting in our area for a day and a half because we went on exchanges
with the Portsmouth Sister Training Leaders. Sister Pankratz and Sister Evans
are both super cool and they both g home at the end of this transfer which is
crazy. I spent exchanges with Sister Pankratz and we spent most of the exchange
in Durham near University of New Hampshire (UNH) campus. Fun facts about UNH:
* UNH has a newspaper they
post on the walls of the bathroom stalls so students have to read it (you
probably don't have to ask how I know this).
* UNH has gender neutral
bathrooms (I only know this because a sign told me).
* There are at least two
alpaca farms near UNH campus.
* Everything in Lee, New
Hampshire (near UNH campus) is 250 years old.
* There's a restaurant near
campus called Polly's Pockets.
* Portsmouth is only 40
minutes from Manchester and UNH is only 30 minutes. Manchester also has it's
own extension of UNH (I learned this fact long ago)
Obviously I learned other
spiritual and missionary things while on exchange but those were just the fun
ones I'd thought I would share with you.
Sad news of the week: I'm a little sick. I had a
sore throat which started Tuesday on exchanges (sorry Sister Pankratz) and
evolved into a cold for the rest of the week. The cold itself didn't bother me,
it's more the fact that a sign of old missionary-ship is being sick enough that
you're uncomfortable but not sick enough to not go out and work. And luckily
the Lord blessed me so when we did go out Wednesday to finally proselyte in our
area again I felt fine whenever we were outside the apartment. I still drank
lots of fluids and washed my hands regularly but for the most part I felt fine
outside the apartment. Obedience definitely brings blessings.
Besides that nothing too dramatic happened this
week. It was a little more tough that even though the Swing weather is turning
more and more into actual Spring we are still having a hard time with the work.
Friday was especially hard because even though
the temperatures were in the 30's the wind was awful and it made a lot of
people grumpy. We had one lady honk at us and another guy yell at us for taking
his parking spot (we honestly didn't know it was his spot). That was pretty
rough. But all of this week has really made me try to focus on the good things
that did happen, even if they are little things like hearing Uptown Funk at
Subway or Blank Space at Dunkin Donuts. Heavenly Father is always blessing us
with tender mercies and sometimes they’re so small they could be easy to
ignore. But I know as we look for them we can always see a constant stream of
blessings.
One final blessing I would like to point out is
the blessing of technology! With the March Ensign already on the Gospel Library
App I was excited to see and read a little bit about the new Easter Initiative: Follow Him!
#hallelujah And I don't use that irreverently, that is part of the initiative!
I hope everyone is as excited as I am for March 13 when the Easter website comes
up! #hallelujah!
Love,
Sister Wright
Pictures from District PDay
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