Dearest most wonderful family and friends,
Life as a missionary is crazy, odd, unpredictable, fun, stressful, hot, awesome, the list of adjectives to describe missionary life goes on! I don't have tons of time to email, we've been ridiculously busy today. SO yah. This will probably be shortish. Also, sorry for the mixup with some of you getting my emails and pictures and some of you not. Not sure what the deal was there. And Mom, I don't have that picture yet. Not sure how I will be getting it, but I asked Sister Graves to ask the guy that took it... so maybe next week? Maybe?
Ok. SO. A day in the life of the Nob Hill South Sisters. We wake up and do our thang, get ready and study! WE LOVE TO STUDY! SO fun. It really is. Maybe when I come home I'll be a better student.... Anyway, we learn a lot, revelation concerning investigators comes, we immerse ourselves in the scriptures and PMG and it rocks. Then we have lunch! We actually make stuff! Kind of. We just throw a bunch of random stuff together. And today we got even more food to play around with so we have some variety to spice up our lives! After lunch we get started. Most of our time is spent FINDING. My least favorite thing cause I don't like to just talk to random people but I'm definitely improving! And even Sister Rosa said I was improving just in the almost 2 weeks we've been together. :) She's the sweetest, btw. So easy to get along with. Always so happy and uplifting and I'm learning a lot from her. She's so kind and genuine to everyone, and gorgeous on the inside and out! Anyway, to find we walk around the UNM campus or ride our bikes (it's sooooo hot but we survive somehow!) and talk to random people and the like. This week we have plans to draw the plan of salvation all over the sidewalks of UNM and around Nob Hill. TONS of foot traffic. We may or may not have an actual lesson with an actual investigator at some point in the day. Then sometimes we'll go to a member's (poor college student) house (appartment) for dinner. Like 3 or 4 days out of the week. You know how young adults are! lol. Then we'll do some more finding or trying to visit a less active the president of the branch wants us to check up on or have a lesson with an investigator. The days vary, they're a little unpredictable, but things are moving right along! We'll get home sometime around 9, plan for the next day, and get ready for bed! PLanning usually consists of us being ravenous wolves and eating something (anything) while we plan and we end with the world's longest prayers for all the people we meet and teach and hope to help out in some small way. After planning we get ready for bed and sleep! I always say to Sister Rosa "I hope you dream of ____ and ____!" Last night was swimming pools full of pudding and candy falling form airplanes. She always returns it with something ridiculous for me to dream of. :)
We have a miracle investigator. She's barely 20. Cutest, littlest thing ever. We met her on the street. Had a short lesson. We invited her to say a prayer and she said "God, I hope that I can pick up where I left off with you and that these 2 girls can help me get there." WHAT! And so we've taught her like 4 times the last week that we've met her. We invited her to be baptized the first lesson. She said yes without a second thought. We invited her to read the BOM and pray to know if it's true and if Joseph Smith was a prophet. We asked her yesterday. She said "yah, it's true." Like she's always known it's true. We'll ask her to read a scripture and the way she interprets it is like 10x deeper than what even we would expect. We had her read Alma 34:32. We asked her what she thought that meant and she said, "it's just like a test or work. You have to prepare for it. Same with life. Preparing to meet God is just another daily task." WHAT! Then yesterday we were supposed to teach her but she had to cancel cause someone stole her wallet at work. SATAN! But we decided to stop by later anyway and we asked what she was up to. "I was just reading my BOM cause I was having a really rough day." WHAT! We know it's legit cause Satan is trying to get her. She's just... prepared. Thanks Heavenly Father for letting me experience teaching a PROGRESSING investigator! I have never had one of those yet. Pretty cool.
So here's a jumble of interesting experiences over the last week. Sister Rosa and I witnessed a legit gang fight. It was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen in all my life! 20 Mexican's just beating on this guy in a parking lot. I'll spare you the details. But it was awful. We were in the car stopped at a light, so we were safe. but so sad. Another crazy man started yelling at us to get away from his house after we knocked and we were backing up to leave, but he keeps talking at us and tells us all these appartments NOT to knock on... he was mad. Interesting. We meet a lot of high and drunk people... Lots of hippies and humanists... (dont know what that really is...) There's a church we drive past sometimes that says "The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints" and that's a little intriguing.... There's a car that has like little army soldier and animal toys glued all over it at the apartment complex next to ours... And that's all I can come up with off the top of my head.
Today for pday we met with the zone and had NWIII. Nerf War 3. They were gettin into it! I had this tiny little pistol. One shot. I wish I had brothers growing up so I coulda got into it too but I faked it. Lol. But it was still fun. Enjoy the picture. lol.
Yesterday's missionary broadcast was AMAZING! So yes Dad, I did get to watch it. I highly recommend the rest of you watch it too. :) Made me rethink myself as a missionary a little bit. There's TONS of work to be done apparently... haha. But really. As much as I struggle, I do have a lot of gratitude that I get to be a missionary at this time in my life and in history. I think the thing that stuck out to me the most is to have faith that there actually IS all this work to do and that the best way to have success is to LOVE people. So I'm workin on that. Go watch it!
Well family, I just olive ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As always I wish I had more time, but I do not. Life is just too crazy! Remember how much I love ya! I miss ya all so much too, but I'm not homesick. I just have many fond memories. :)
Thank ya for alllll your prayers! I know I wouldn't make it without them. :) Keep on Keepin on!!
MUCH LOVE,
Sister Hannah Marie Schieving
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