First
thing's first, I am going to ask that someone (I don't care who it is
okay just someone) send me a full report of the weather in Arizona,
because I thought I knew how it was but YEAH NO.
Everyone's like "it's so dry, always dry, sizzling heat, dry dry dry..."
LIARS. It is so humid right now. And it all started with the Haboob...
Yes, that is a word. Haboob. I was in the middle of a
thundering, raging haboob this week. I just can't stop typing that word.
Haboob. It's such a weird word. Anyway...what is a "haboob," you might
ask? Well, imagine that you're outside picnicking on a beautiful 3rd of
July, the sky is blue, the grass is green, when suddenly Mexico decides
to kick up some sand and BOOM THE HABOOB IS UPON YOU. These Haboobs hop
the border, man. Huge dust storms! My companion and I were biking to a
coordination meeting, and we get this text from the City of Tempe saying
that an "urgent warning" is being sent to everyone about an incoming
dust storm. It's like...how'd you get my number, Tempe?!? Anyway, we
thought we could make it, so we kept biking. Out in the horizon, we can
see this cloud of dust. It's getting bigger and bigger, so we just start
peddling faster and faster...logic...anyway, we get outside of a CVS
and decide to call it good, with the branches flying around us and the
traffic lights flickering and whatnot. (Mom, do not have a heart
attack.)
So we chilled out in CVS for a good hour. It was
actually pretty lame, but at least we didn't have any other plans than
this meeting...which ended up getting cancelled. The other sisters came
to our rescue when it was safe, and we went home. It was raining a bit
(which is the second time on my mission that I have felt any other type
of weather other than skin-melting-hot) and there were some SWEET
lightning storms over yonder.
But since then it has been SUPER HUMID. Apparently Arizona has a monsoon season?! AND it's over 105 degrees every day?
So
I guess we're in for a lot of these haboobs this month. That's what
I've been told. I like humidity, but I just started getting used to
doing my hair...bummer.
The other girls in our apartment reported bedbugs in
their room, so we all had to throw our things into plastic bags
(everything everything everything in plastic bags) and desert our
apartment for five hours so that it could get sprayed down. That was an
adventure! And I just finished unpacking...ayayay! But that's okay, it
was actually kind of fun. But now I have a lot of plastic bags with
clothes in them.
It was also the Fourth of July! All missionaries were required to be inside at 5pm
and stay there for the rest of the night. We partied hard! (We colored
with crayons.) (All night.) (Actually, we played a game called "The
Duck." It's a game that Andrew Massamini and I made up in Physics class,
you draw a duck on a piece of paper, one person's job is to the kill
the duck and the other person's job is to protect the duck, you can draw
anything you want, you take turns, and it requires imagination. Also
it's a really dumb game but it's SUPER entertaining. We were all four
really into it.) (Missionaries have the most fun. I swear.)
Also, remember how I told you all that we show that
"Because of Him" video a lot? And I told you about some of the responses
we would get. Then we eradicated this problem by telling the people to
actually READ the WORDS, not just look at the PICTURES...well, it's been
working perfectly. Then, the other day, I forgot to tell them to read
the words. I was like..."nah. it's okay. they'll get it." So then at the
end I asked the man what he understood from the video, what called his
attention and he says: "...I like...how it showed that we went to the
moon.......because....it's true....we did."
I just stared at him. I was like...no. No. No.
NonononononoNONONO. So I just sat and waited for him to say something
more. And he just sat there like that was it, but then he sensed that I
was waiting for something else, so he thinks, and says, "and...Jesus---"
and I'm like "YES. SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS CHRIST. GOOD JOB. THAT'S WHAT
I'M LOOKING FOR!!!!" and just pretended he didn't say anything about
astronauts.
This week was a good week as far as la obra is
concerned. Nothing too big to report, but we came across a few really
good people who we think can progress really well! Hermana Johnson is
slowly forgetting about the Spanish, and I keep telling her to just let
it go as much as possible, because that's the only way she will ever get
better! But I know that's hard, trust me, I lived it. But I still love
training, and I hope I get to do it again and again! :)
I love you all so much! Also, I thought I'd add that
in the room next to me right now are a group of 15 old women having a
lesson on how to use Facebook.
I LOVE YOU SO
MUCH KEEP READING AND PRAYING PLEASE. And go to church. I don't care
what your excuse is. Quit your job and go to church. 1 Nephi 3:7
#lookitup
LOVE, Hermana Thomas
PS: update on the TB...it's all good. :)
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