Hola mis amigos y mi familia!
So first
off, I'm so so sorry I didn't write last week!!! I spent a good deal of
time catching up on individual emails and ran out of time for this big
party. My apologies fam. I love you all. To make up for it you're going
to get this get this very scatterbrained email (scatter-brained? Ugh
hyphens):
So last Sunday we went to the park
for a lesson and the people we were teaching didn't show 😞 . As we were
about to turn back around home this older gent said "hey! Are you
Mormons?" To which we said "that's a name we're known by!" and then he
started to tell us about how he studied a bunch of religions and found
"the secret of the universe in a TED talk" and how he could "control his
body with his spirit behind his mind with cosmologic physics."🤷🏼♀️
He would randomly say Bible references and we would look them up and
read them and he would smile oddly and nod his head and ask if we got
the hidden meaning. At one point when I was reading, one word (one!) was
not how he remembered it and he claims that we're weren't using the KJV
because it wasn't "Shakespearean" enough. This pal was very confusing.
Turns out his name is Weed. Kids, don't do Weed in the park. You'll
walk away very confused.
The rest of the week
has not been as confusing as Weed 😅 My new favorite discovery is this
Japanese version of the dollar store called Daiso. Friends, I love
random Japanese stuff! It's low key an obsession. LOVE IT. Guess what
Daiso is filled with? Cheap Japanese stuff. It's amazing. 10/10 would
reccomend. Definitely spent too much time and money in there. I love
that my mission has lots Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican stores. It's
amazing!
Pioneer day was this week! Woot woot! I
forgot for a moment that California doesn't celebrate the best holiday
ever, which was kinda sad... Thankfully, I live with a bunch of Utah
girls who know what's up and we made German pancakes and went out to eat
and had our own little celebration! It was awesome! I am so thankful
for my ancestors. I owe much to those who came before me. They are our
ministering angels.
Fun news: we're now part
time biking! It's a party. We gonna be ripped. 💪Saturday we biked 30
miles! We sore. That was partly because we had a lot of lessons, which
be bueno! But it was also partly because we wanted to go eat out annnnnd
we got lost a little. We good though! There's also lots of fun
discoveries on bikes like boxes of of free grapefruit and dead peacocks.
In
other fun news, I have surgery on the Friday! I had to get a Covid test
today and will be quarantined from now until then. We gotta stay in our
room and do the missionary thang. It's a good thing Sister Sintz and I
are pals! 😉 I also had fun blood work. Woot! Anyone who knows me well
knows that I haaaaastttteeee going to the doctor... or medical
things.... Not a fan. But I did it!! Please be proud of me. 😉
Um
also guess what? I've been out for two months. 2 months! 1/9 of the
mish. 11.11% done. Wow. The biggest miracle of my mission so far (of
which there have been many!) is the help I've been given with
homesickness. I have felt literal strength and comfort. There are so
many tender mercies and miracles. I testify that Christ knows us on the
most personal, intimate, and perfect level. He knows us and loves is in a
way we can't even comprehend. You are loved and known.
Love you! Your emails and prayers are appreciated. Thank you for being wonderful people!
God bless! Hurrah for Israel!
-Sister Schramm 💕
Quotes of the week:
"Hello Elders!"-random fam at Walmart
"This is why we have a following distance."-Sister Sintz, after I ran into her on my bike
"As your Zone Leaders, we are proud. As bad people, we are sad."-ZLs
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