5/6/2014
Hi, this Quiv-zell. Is you okay? Is you? Cause I wanted to
know.
It's Mother's Day week! Hal-leh-luh, everyone knows that for
a missionary that is one of the biggest days of the year! Because this is the
time that we can see.. so many lovely spring flowers and share poignant
motherhood themed messages with our investigators. Oh and as a side note, this
Sunday I'll be on skype at 3 or 4 Washington time, 6 or 7 Boston time. If you
(meaning my family. The rest of you should probably spend time with your own
moms) could also be on skype at that time, that would be convenient.
Also, you might not recognize me..since Christmas I've
gained 200 lbs, died my hair black, and wear heavy eye make-up and purple
lipstick everyday. My companions think I'm goth, but really I'm just depressed
about the state of the world and how much sadness there is so I like to try to
express my emotion through my appearance. I'm also putting together an album of
emo primary songs such as "Whenever I hear the song of a bat, or look at
the dark, grey sky" and "Head, shoulders, knees, and tears".
Other than that though, I'm basically the same!
This guy Ross came to church for the second time on Sunday.
We're thinking we're probably going to have to turn him over to the other
Cambodian sisters to teach, because he doesn't have any teeth and our mtc
training did not teach us how to understand a toothless Cambodian.
Brenda, our favoritest 21 year old with a 2100 year old
computer, is now on date for baptism! She wants to plan on June 7th because
that's when she graduates from her special education program and so it makes
sense to her to wait until then. We tried to push the date closer, but she
wants her grandpa to baptize her and he's been inactive for 10 years so he
probably needs the month to get re-activated before then. It seems far away,
but Brenda still wants to plan out every detail now. Thus far she's requested
that we play board games and eat fried rice with little hot dogs and eggs
cut-up in it. I'm not sure that's okay, but it's still more reasonable than her
previous requests (which have involved having Sister Walker get the priesthood
and baptize her, because she considers boys icky).
Something that happened a little while ago: we briefly
changed religions.
How this occurred: We were out knocking on doors in
January-ish, a little after 6. We knocked on a certain door behind which we
could hear some woman watching tv. As she answered the door, this was the
conversation that transpired-
WOMAN "Hi, can I help you with something?"
US "Well, we're the missionaries from The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We're out tonight looking for service
opportunities and inviting people to hear a quick message about Jesus Christ
and how His restored gospel can bless our families and bring them closer
together."
WOMAN "Okay, that would be fine.
US "Do you already have a belief in Jesus Christ? What
is your religious background?"
WOMAN "I'm Jehovah"
US "Oh, a Jehovah's Witness?"
WOMAN "No, a Jehovah's witness is someone who witnesses
Jehovah. I am Jehovah"
US "So in that case, I guess we would be Jehovah's
witnesses?"
WOMAN "Well right now, yes."
And that's the story of how we briefly became Jehovah's
Winesses. We talked to Jehovah for a little bit longer, she was an older black
woman who appeared to be schizophrenic. She ended up not being interested in
our church, because she was so busy with watching over and taking care of all
her children on the earth that she didn't have the time. Understandable. Sounds
like a big job.
Riding the Bus to the temple! We LOVE to see the temple.
God answers prayers. I've done a segment on this before, ie
when I asked to be humbled, when I asked to learn patience, etc. This was a
prayer of a different nature. I've been really missing music lately, not that
EFY music and Mo-Tab isn't great, but there's only so many times you can listen
to the same cd before you consider ignoring the warning on the q-tip box and
stabbing out your eardrums so that you don't have to hear it any more. That is
only a slight exaggeration. I told my Heavenly Father that I was having a hard
time missing my music back home (The Hush Sound and Bon Iver, anyone?). Then on
Monday, our preparation-day, we went to the mall. I was in a store looking at
some tops while my companion was in the dressing room. I suddenly became aware
of the music that was playing in the store, and started to listen more closely.
These were the lyrics:
I just wanna make-out with anybody anywhere, yeah, I
don't care.
I just wanna make-out with anybody anywhere, uh, I don't
care.
This continued for a while, then there was the bridge:
Your hair is everywhere, it looks like broken promises
and infidelity
Your hair is everywhere, but now you're with him and I
don't care so I wanna make-out with someone, anyone, anywhere
The classiest song I've ever heard. Yeah it doesn't sound
like I'm missing much. I promptly said a prayer of thanks for showing me that
there's not a lot of music coming out worth listening to anyway. Also it made
me realize that people really need the gospel in their lives so they'll have
more purposeful lives with more legitimate feelings to write songs about. So I
guess I'm okay with being a missionary for the next 5 months.
Thank you Tutu and Mom for the Easter Packages! And Tutu for
the sock package! I polished off all the candy and put on every pair of socks
at once. It was excellent.
Cambodia, the country that's only had branches and wards for
as long as it's had members, just announced that they're forming 2 stakes on
May 24th. That's a way big deal! Sister Noun is way excited, she's been out for
a year and a half now and the church has grown so much in her absence. She'll
go home to many more members and missionaries than were there when she left.
And for all my many friends from the mtc who are serving in Cambodia, this is a
big deal for them. Thailand's been open for missionaries since the 70s and only
has 1 stake. Cambodian only opened for missionaries in the mid-90s and they're
growing so fast! Maybe some of that excitement will trickle down over here
we'll start a group soon.
I've been in the WA-TAC 49 weeks, I lied when I said I'd
write you a letter last week, and the church is true here too.
-Sister McQuivey, former JW.
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