I feel like the grinch...
Okayyyy this week was WILD!! Especially Friday, which was
just a crazy day. So I should probably mention, I am still in the good
old U. S. of A. Haha, Maryland gets me for a whole nother week. (Is the
word nother even a word? It's not another, and it's not other. It's just
a whole nother. Who knows? Probably everyone but me.) Anyway so
essentially in order to get to Uruguay, I needed a negative covid
result, or they wouldn't let me on the plane. So I had all my stuff
packed and ready, was supposed to get my email with my covid results the
night before at around 4pm. It got to 5:30 and they still weren't
there, so I called someone, who told me to stop worrying haha. So I did
in fact NOT stop worrying and then I woke up the next morning and they
still were not there. So then I just got ready to leave still, and was
about to head to the airport and no email had come through. So I talked
to the mission office, and they said to go to the airport, wait there
until there was 2 hours left before my flight left, and then get on the
plane if the email came, and just leave if it didn't. So we made a stop
at chick fil a, and then headed to the airport, where we waited in the
parking garage for an hour until it was about an hour and a half till my
plane left, and finally headed back home. Right as we walked back into
our apartment, my email came through. Which honestly is comedic. By then
we were half an hour away from the airport with half an hour until my
flight left, so I just sat there, looking at a cute little "negative" on
the bed I vowed I would never see again. Haha, so then what happened
after is wild too, but that's a whole long story. Essentially we had
people calling us left and right, giving us all sorts of info, telling
me I could leave on Sunday, and I needed to get a covid test, and then
after I got two covid tests, I was told I would be able to leave this
next Friday. So chaotic honestly. Then at sports night and church
literally everyone came up to me saying "I thought you were gone!" Lucky
for them, they can't get rid of me. Haha, even my mission president
called after he got an email for my new itinerary and said "Sister Allen
I thought you already left" and I said oops sorry president. So
honestly that was just the most chaotic day of my life, and now we get
to go back and do it again next Friday!! Except hopefully it'll end with
me on a plane. So if anyone wants a bit of de ja vu, T-minus 4 DAYS
UNTIL I LEAVE FOR URUGUAY!!!!!!! woo woo!!
Okay,
now a million other things happened this week, including transfers, so
we lost Sister Winder, which is honestly just depressing cause me and
her throughout the couple months we were together literally became the
exact same person. It was a little bit scary. From saying the exact same
thing at the same time, to having the exact same voice according to
every person we meet, to starting to look the same, it was a lil weird
but also my favorite thing ever. I'm gonna miss that girl. She's so
chaotic. BUT!! We got a new comp, Sister Williams!! And she is just the
cutest ever so this next week is gonna be a party with Sister Weight (my
comp from day one) and Sister Williams.
I feel like the grinch...For
a little mini "things that made me laugh" we have Alan and Andrew at
the top of the list. We try to call Alan every night, and this week we
tried to meet with him, but it was raining so we just called that night
and had a lesson over the phone. We read in the little kid Book of
Mormon with all the pictures (because he has a hard time understanding
the regular Book of Mormon, which is okay cause me too buddy) and I
literally cannot keep a straight face every time. He can read perfectly
well, he gets all the words, except for the peoples names. Doesn't
matter how short or long they are, every time he gets to a name it's
like his brain does a keyboard smash. Literally Moroni was just
Mfjdhsjsdjcu and then he was Malcom and then he was Morongoloni and then
he was Mormon-i and then then was Marmageddon like honestly we were on
the phone just WHEEZING and I had to read next and I was struggling to
read cause I was laughing so hard and then Alan was like "hey are you
okay" which made me laugh harder, anyway so I'm a horrible missionary
but in my defense, I have no defense. That is all. Gahahaha it was
awesome. Also, in the middle of sacrament meeting, Andrew leans back and
sighs REALLY loud and goes (also very loud) "I feel like the grinch".
Was he grumpy? Was it the way he was sitting? Was it something else
entirely? The world my never know. I didnt feel it appropriate to say
"hey Andrew please elaborate on that" in the middle of someone's
heartfelt testimony. But do I wish I did? Yeah, a little bit.
As
for a spiritual thought, I've had a ton of people ask me if I'm okay,
which has made me think. Because of course I'm okay! Some people never
get to their original assignments, some people have to wait more than a
year. Some people have like, I dunno, actual hard things in life. And if
the Lord needed me to be spending this week in Uruguay, I'd be there.
Of course I'm a little sad, mostly because I was literally traveling to
summer and I had to come back and put a coat on, BUT the song "I'll go
where you want me to go" has never hit so hard as this week. That song
is a banger. Because if I'm still here, there has got to be a reason for
it, someone's life I need to touch. So I might as well reach out to
every single person I can this week. I guess in short, my spiritual
thought is that everything happens for a reason. God is in control. And
not the whip snapping drill sergeant kind of control, the fatherly
parent kind of control. The one where He gives you everything He
possibly can in order for you to succeed. The kind of control where
sometimes you don't learn everything, because that thing could be too
hard or too heavy or you just don't need to know it right now. The kind
of control where you are given gifts because you worked hard, and gifts
just because He loves you. The kind of control that you can lean on and
put your trust in, siempre siempre siempre. Because no matter how
faithful you are to Him, He always is faithful to you. He's always been
pretty dang faithful to me, so why would I doubt Him now?
Sorry for the wacky email but thanks for all your prayers!! Yall are my favorite people ever. Love ya!!!
- Hermana Allen
