Hello Hello!! :)
Doth Mother Knowest Thou Wearest Her Drapes? okay, that was random.
Sometimes random quotes come into my mind, like yesterday during lunch with the
elders. One of the elders was trying to describe one of the Macedonian elders
and said "He has red hair." and then I took that moment and said
"and a hand-me-down robe, you must be a Weasley."
#tenpointsforgryffndor
Okay, anyways. haha. :) So this past week has been a super eventful week,
so here are some highlights.
I faced one of my fears and got a haircut. I got side bangs. It was one of
my fears because the person I went to speaks no english what so ever and I
don't know the hair cut vocabularly in Albanian. I was freaking out a little as
she was cutting it cause she had to blend the bangs in with the rest of the
hair so it didn't look repulsive so a little more got cut in the front, but i
was satisfied with it. plus it was only like 3 euros. Hot dog!
We got a lot of snow this week!! It has been so much fun!! :) We got more
last night and it is absolutely gorgeous!!! :D
You know that moment when you are trying to be funny at no one laughs? It's
the worse. But, when you are trying to be funny or you aren't even trying to be
funny and people think you are hilarious? Yeah, best feeling ever. Well Tuesday
night we went to our recent convert's house. The dad, he has a mustache thing
(I think that's what it is called) the long hairs above the upper lip, and he
has curly white hair. Well, it occured to me that he looked like Albert
Einstein. So I told him that on Tuesday night. He laughed so hard!!! haha, it
was awesome!!
So a lot of the members when teaching them the commandment to not take the
Lord's name in Vain, it doesn't always click. We were at the church and one of
the members took the Lord's name in vain and I just looked at the member and I
said "Bill. Don't say that word. Say fat instead." Bill: "fat?
Really sister zollinger?" ME: "Yes, it works. Try it." Oh and
btw his name really isn't Bill, that's not an albanian or kosovarian name. But
moving on... on Tuesday this week he came to english class. After english class
I realized he still had a pant sticker on his pants so i told him and he just
looked down and was like "oh my fat!" haha!! I laughed so hard! I
gave him a high five and was like "it's awesome isn't it?" he agreed.
haha.
For institute we tried making a building out of raw pasta without talking
to our team. It was hard! The competition was to see who could make the highest
one... well... it was difficult. The girls team won by the way... i got weird
looks from some of the members because as I was using the tape to tape the
pasta together I had a strategy (the same strategy I did whenever I put cookies
down on the cookie sheets) 2 for me, one for them, 2 for me, one for them. I
guess people here don't snack on raw pasta... who woulda thunked.
This week while street contacting there was a little dog that walked past
with it's owner. I was just staring at it (it was like 2 feet infront of me)
and I was thinking "oh how cute. it's a quiet dog too." but then
right when this dog was infront of me it turned and just barked at me. How
rude. ;) It scared me so bad! I jumped. and I just went
"ooooohhhhhhh" in a high voice and my companion is sortof scared of
dogs so she screamed and jumped back. The elders on the other side of the
street sure did get a kick out it. We were all laughing so hard about it.
But honestly, it was such a small dog. That sneaky sneaky dog. I'm pretty sure
my guardian angels were just laughing so hard... ha, cheap entertainment for
them.
Saturday we played futbol. One of the elder's investigators is hilarious.
He is loud. haha. playing soccer he calls my companion "sister!" and
he calls me "teacher". I don't know why, but he does. So we were all
on the same team and as we were playing you'd randomly hear "oh sister,
you missed..." or " oh sister! way to go!" and for some reason
when he speaks english it is in a mexican accent or spanish accent, domethene
that when he says sister or teacher it reminds me of nacho libre.
So yesterday sister and I were in a room in the church doing some studies
before a meeting, and the Elders just opened the door and made a weird noise
and they scared me so bad. I am going to get my revenge on them this
week.
So in the first week of december I cut up some oranges and put it in the
kettle with some water and cinnamon so that the house could smell like
christmas. The problem is that I forgot that I had it in the kettle. And in the
middle of last week I lifted the lid of the kettle and saw a lot of white stuff
and thought "oh cool! why is there sugar in here" but then I saw some
green stuff and realized the white stuff was really fuzzy... yeah, it was sick
nasty mold. maybe I'll use that to get revenge on the elders. ;) just joking. I
have a heart. That kettle is going straight to the garbage. blah.
This week I learned the importance of attitude. This past week I think has
been the hardest week of my mission. Especially in the aspect of teaching
people. 3 of our investigators dropped us, and we went two almost three days
without having one lesson. It isn't that we didn't have any lessons planned, we
did. But all of the lessons got prished (cancelled). One day after our fourth
lesson of that day got prished I had had about enough. I sat down on a chair,
looking over my shoulder to the ground and said "IT'S JUST CAUSE YOU
DON'T HAVE A BODY ISN'T IT SATAN, YOU FATHEAD." Stupid satan. That next
day tender mercies happened. President Weidmann sends out a text every morning
to all of us and his text was talking about going through hard times. It was
amazing. That day we also had weekly planning. Me and Sister Riley talked to
each other about how we aren't going to get down on ourselves. Because that
would just make Satan happy to get discouraged and we ain't doing that. So that
day we made it a goal to try and to be so positive and optimistic. Like really
positive and optimistic. We had street contacting that day. The coolest thing
happened, because we talked to these two girls, and they were interested in the
Book of Mormon and learning more. I asked them if they had time right then to
go to the church for a lesson, and they said yes! Sister Riley and I were so
excited and happy! That was such a tender mercy from the Lord! The lesson went
really well with them and they are now our new investigators. That to me was a
blessing and a way of Heavenly Father telling us that it's okay, to keep moving
forward. I feel like that happened because we decided that day to be as happy
as we could and to not let our selves get discouraged. That is one thing that I
have learned since being a missionary is how real the Enabling Power of the
Atonement is. The Atonement helps and enables us every single day. It helped me
so much this past week. We are able to look back on hard times with gratitude
in our hearts and a smile on our faces Because of Him. Because of Christ's
atonement. It describes in perfectly in Alma 7: 11-12. That is the reason for
happiness, peace, love, and all that is good in the world. It is Because of our
Savoir Jesus Christ. It is because He is the Gift. I testify that Christ does
live. He is our Savoir and our Big Brother. I pray that we all will accept Him
and His Atonement and let It into our lives. Because by doing this we will stop
existing and we will start living. Christ lives and loves you. He is the Gift
and everything is possible Because of Him. I so testify in the name of Jesus
Christ, amen.
Have a wonderful week! Smile lots and serve lots!
Love,
Motra Zollinger
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