Hey Y'all!!
So as you can prolly tell from the subject line this week has been confusing and CRAZY!!! But as my baby brother told me in a way awesome letter that I got this week (thanks so much for that Kev!) I always seem to find away to be positive and not get down by our situation. So no more guessing games, I'll tell you what happened.
Ha ha so my companion just read the subject line of this e-mail and she said : "so your going to tell them all about that huh?" I laughed and said well nothing else really happened this week! Ha ha so true. So anyway this is what went down. P-day last week was a blast we played slingshot paintball up in a vacant lot in Austin. We ran around shooting each other and trying to avoid stepping in the bum stool. Apparently there are a few homeless people that frequent this lot. lol SO anyway that was a blast and everything and then Tuesday came and Wednesday and things were not going so well with the work, we had a cool member present lesson with Sirenia and Aurelio but other than that we kept getting burned and stuff. On top of all of that Sis Moran was not feeling too good. By Thursday she was just out of it, not only was she hurting physically but now it was emotional too, she was frustrated and depressed. I did not know what to do and I had no clue how to help her because she would not really talk to me. So I did what my gut feeling kept telling me to do. Call President. So I called President Cutler (P-Cut as is his gangster name that we lovingly refer to him as, but not to his face) and he talked to Sister Moran. He gave her 3 choices, stay here in San Marcos with me and figure it out, Be Emergency transferred to San Antonio to stay with a sister missionary that just had surgery and would be on bed rest anyway, or go home to California. He told her that she had to sleep on it and call her in the morning. So that night was rough and she didn't feel like working but we knew if we stayed in the apartment together until bed time we would kill each other, so we called up a cool member and went over to their house and watched the sister missionary movie, "Errand of Angles" and the members fed us candy bars and popcorn- SWEET! lol Then we went home and neither of us could sleep and Moran wouldn't talk to me. Well the next morning she calls President and says that she doesn't want to end her mission laying around and she doesn't want to go home, so she will stay here. The whole time she was making this decision I was annoyed cause I thought I should have some say in it cause it effected me too. So anyway that went through and we had Friday and Saturday, normal not being able to work too much just going through the motions days and then Sunday came (yesterday) and I just couldn't take it anymore. I finally spilled it all to Sister Moran told her how I was feeling and that this not working and her not communicating with me thing was really killing me and bringing me down and I was losing my desire to work. I felt so lifeless and I hated it!!! So this time Moran picks up the phone and she calls President and says I think my companion needs me to leave, I think it would be the best thing for her. So we both took our turns talking to President and then he gave us the choice, told us to talk it over and decide with prayer whether we should stay together or if Moran would go to San Antonio and rest and the Sister who just had surgery's comp would come up and work with me. So ya we talked a lot and came to the conclusion that it would benefit both of us if we split up for like 2 weeks and then she came back and finished her last week of her mission here with me. So ya we slept on it and felt right about it, called President this morning and he then told us, I have been thinking about it too and i think you two need to stay together. We were both kinda like, What!? You told us to think about it and make a decision. But then he said it just didn't feel good to break us up and that we needed to stay together for some reason and it will make us stronger blah blah all those President type things. Ha ha so ya that is what is going on. We are now together forever to finish off the transfer, it really is only 18 days, it can't be that bad.
So ya the good thing is Moran and I really do love each other and get along it's just the whole work thing that has been hard. But we will figure it out and both be better for it!!! So in other news, on Saturday night we had a little Spanish party. Ha ha well basically it was a fellowshipping party. One of our Spanish members invited our investigators Sirenia and Aurelio to come over for some hot chocolate and stuff. So we ended up having 3 different member families from the ward and us and the investigators there! It was really great! Our ward is so awesome about fellowshipping! If Sirenia and Aurelio don't feel the love now, man they never will! lol Ok so as far as the work goes that is the only thing of interest that really happened this week. The rest is all burns and wrong addresses and sad depressing stuff that no one needs to hear about.
I know that this trial that we are going through right now is obviously for a reason. We will finish out the transfer and I will be sad to see Sister Moran go because we truly are good friends, but I will be thrilled to have a fully functioning, working, healthy companion! Ha ha
Alright well y'all have an awesome week now ya hear and I will do the same!! I will have some cool stuff to tell you next week I am sure of it! We are gonna rock San Marcos this week even if we can only work two hours a day!!!!
I love y'all so much!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Hermana Kleisler
Oh I forgot... PS I found out when my release date is, I had no clue so I asked President to check if out for me. My official release date is February 19th 2010!!!! Woah, can you believe it, only a month and a year from today and I'll be home!!! Crazy! The best part is I get to go home at the same time as all the sisters I came out with, including Bernie! Sweet!!!! Ok that's all now! Bye!!!
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