Hey Y'all!!
So first things first I have a new companion! My new companion is Sister Dodge. She and I were in the MTC together in the same district. Think about that one for a second... yup that's right that means that we both have only been out for TWO TRANSFERS! President was either desperate or has a lot of confidence in us, I really am not sure which one yet! lol So ya I am senior companion after 3 months on the mission. What is that all about?!? lol But ya, Sister Dodge and I are NOTHING alike!!! Geez, I wish I had a picture to show you cause right there that says a lot, but I forgot my cord today so you'll have to wait till next week! But anyway, we have already had a few little rough patches in the 5 days we've been together (that's promising huh?) lol but it's all good. I think Sister Dodge is going to learn a lot about loosening up this transfer and I am going to learn a lot about patience and compromise. Fun fun!! I tell ya I am growing so much on my mission!!! Most y'all won't even think I am the same Kristi when I come home! lol
So onto the work.. we have been able to do some work as of late except for I have had a lingering sickness from last week that has kept me down a bit- so frustrating! But anyway we have been able to do a lot of finding and stuff. We taught Sirenia and Aurelio about tithing. Ha ha man you have to just picture it in your head, these two sweet little Mexicans trying to understand two white girls who only know a little bit of Spanish! ha ha but hey the spirit must be working on them cause they both came to church yesterday!!! Sweet! Together as a family they came and Diego went to Nursery-score!!!- and I think Sirenia and Aurelio liked church and felt welcomed. They left right after so I didn't get a chance to ask them what they thought but we have an appointment with them on Wednesday and sister Machuca (a member from Puerto Rico) is coming with us so that wil help and we will see where we will go from here. Hopefully marriage, but with them moving like in a few weeks, I don't know if that will happen. SO anyway we had another little sweet surprise at church yesterday- Minerva showed up! Remember her, Sister Moran and I had been teaching her, but she had backed out of 3 different baptismal dates and then she and her husband started going up to the Spanish ward in Austin. So we saw them show up at church and I asked her husband what they were doing there and he said just visiting, so I was like okay. Well then at the end of relief society Minerva comes up to me and asks when we are coming out to her house. I was all, um I dunno I can't come teach you when you are going to another ward. She said no no we are coming here now. I said fine but I still am not going to come teach you. She was like why, I said I am not coming unless you are getting baptized. She said she wants to and we will plan her baptism when we come. I kept telling her I didn't believe her and we weren't gonna come! (I guess I was playing hard to get, lol) She finally convinced me that she was serious about getting baptized this time, so I set up an appointment and I got a member to come with us, Sister Packer, and so that is this Friday- we will see what happens with that. She is ready to be baptized, she could be baptized tomorrow, it's just whether she is going to follow through with it. I told her I wouldn't believe it til I saw her actually dunked in the water! lol So ya that's what we have going on right now- all Spanish investigators! Ha ha Sister Dodge and I will be improving our Spanish quite a bit this transfer I'd say! :)
Well ya all goes well, I keep learning and growing and loving every trial and challenge because they just keep making me better! As for mail- I didn't receive a single letter this week, but I assume you all are just working on your super awesome envelopes cause you want to win the contest! lol So I hope to hear from y'all soon! I love ya all a ton and appreciate your love and support- it keeps me going! Until next time!
Much love,
Hermana Kleisler
Smiling all the While!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New Pics from San Marcos
This first one is my whole district (plus zone leaders) We had district shirts made! They are pretty cool. The symbol means baptisim and then it says or and has a skull which symbolizes die. SO it is baptize or die! Sweet sauce!! Then the sleeve says tsam and has a 5 (our district baptisimal goal for the month of January). So ya From Left to right you've got Elder Squire (my DL), Elders Sloan and Burr (the Kyle Elders- they are super sweet, we are buds!) Elder Askew (Elder Squire's comp), Sister Moran and I then on bottom our zone leaders Elders Hutchings and Rindlisbaucher and then they were training this transfer so that is their boy Elder Hansen.
Then the other two pictures are things we saw while we were out working in the country yesterday! Ha ha we went out to do some visits and saw some horses and then that sign is on the side of a highway and we always pass it and say we should take a pic cause it is so funny! :)
Then the other two pictures are things we saw while we were out working in the country yesterday! Ha ha we went out to do some visits and saw some horses and then that sign is on the side of a highway and we always pass it and say we should take a pic cause it is so funny! :)
Podria haber sido peor (It Could Have Been Worse)
Hey Y'all!!
The above comment is what I had to keep telling myself last week! What is worse than a companion who has a random side pain that no one can diagnose? How about a comp with a random side pain no one can diagnose and also virus. What is worse than that? When that said comp gets me sick too!!! Ya so this week sister Moran caught some kind of bug and then passed right along to me! So we spent the ENTIRE week sick!!! It blew! I had a fever of 102 and was throwing up and coughing and it was just miserable!!! We were well taken care of though by our amazing ward. I had people bringing me sprite, applesauce, medicine, dinner and even Krispy Kreme donuts to help us get better! :) It is such a blessing to be in such an amazing ward and the best part is I get to stay!!! Ha ha Ya we got transfer calls last night and the good news is Kleisler stays in San Marcos! I had several members of the ward calling me this morning to find out if I was being transferred or not. They were all very relieved as was I! It is way sweet to have so many good friendships in the ward, it helps the work so much!
So as far as my new companion goes, I don't know who she is yet! I figured I prolly should explain the whole transfer process to y'all cause even if you have served a mish, every mission does it different. So this is what happens here in the TSAM. On Monday night the week of transfers we get "transfer calls" the assistants to the President call every companionship and tell each missionary whether they are staying in their area or whether they are going. So then the next day on P-day if you are going then you pack. Then on Thursday morning there is a Transfer meeting in San Antonio that all the missionaries serving in San Antonio and all the missionaries who are going home, no matter where they are serving in the mish, go to San Antonio for the meeting. At this meeting the missionaries who are leaving bear their testimonies and then the assistants to the president start calling off names and then when they call your area they tell you who the comps are and they run up to the front of the chapel and hug each other (this is particularly funny with the elders!!) and then you join your zone and sit down. Well if you are being transferred up to Austin you don't find out anything until the Austin transfer meeting. Which takes place in the afternoon up in Austin where they also call out the names. Now if you are up in Austin and you are going down to San Antonio then you don't find out who your companion is until later afternoon at the second San Antonio Transfer meeting. So ya there are three different transfer meetings, you usually only go to 1. This week I will be going to 2. I have to go down with Sister Moran to San Antonio and then come back up to Austin to find out who my companion is! So ya hope that isn't too confusing, but that's how transfers work.
Alright well, being sick and all this week we didn't work much at all so there is not much to report. We got burned a couple times yesterday so as of now we have zero progressing investigators and not really any potentials either. Well it is a great place for my new comp and I to start- from ground zero there is only one way to go- UP!!! When the AP's called they did tell me that my new comp and I are going to be little work horses and get along great! I am so excited!! I have an idea of who it's going to be, there only 16 sisters so I know all of them.
Alright well, thanks to y'all for the awesome letters this week- Kilie, C and Adam. And I had a brilliant idea yesterday for a contest!!! I am hear by setting up a "Coolest Envelope Contest" I got a way neat one from c yesterday and it sparked an idea. From Now until the end of the month y'all send me letters with the coolest envelopes you can create and then on March 2nd I will pick the awesomest one! There will be a first prize and a second prize. First prize is a special package sent to you from me! Second prize is a cool Texas merchandise item sent to you. There is also a participation prize- all who enter aka write me, will receive a super awesome letter from Hermana Kleisler!! What could be better than that!!? Ha ha So ya start sending me those letters with super cool envelops. Get creative! There is no limit to the number of envelopes you can submit! The more you send the higher your chances of winning! :) You have until the end of February to Enter the super awesome contest! :)
Ok well I had better go now! Hope y'all have an awesome week and I will tell you next week all about my new companion!! :)
Love ya much,
Hermana Kleisler
The above comment is what I had to keep telling myself last week! What is worse than a companion who has a random side pain that no one can diagnose? How about a comp with a random side pain no one can diagnose and also virus. What is worse than that? When that said comp gets me sick too!!! Ya so this week sister Moran caught some kind of bug and then passed right along to me! So we spent the ENTIRE week sick!!! It blew! I had a fever of 102 and was throwing up and coughing and it was just miserable!!! We were well taken care of though by our amazing ward. I had people bringing me sprite, applesauce, medicine, dinner and even Krispy Kreme donuts to help us get better! :) It is such a blessing to be in such an amazing ward and the best part is I get to stay!!! Ha ha Ya we got transfer calls last night and the good news is Kleisler stays in San Marcos! I had several members of the ward calling me this morning to find out if I was being transferred or not. They were all very relieved as was I! It is way sweet to have so many good friendships in the ward, it helps the work so much!
So as far as my new companion goes, I don't know who she is yet! I figured I prolly should explain the whole transfer process to y'all cause even if you have served a mish, every mission does it different. So this is what happens here in the TSAM. On Monday night the week of transfers we get "transfer calls" the assistants to the President call every companionship and tell each missionary whether they are staying in their area or whether they are going. So then the next day on P-day if you are going then you pack. Then on Thursday morning there is a Transfer meeting in San Antonio that all the missionaries serving in San Antonio and all the missionaries who are going home, no matter where they are serving in the mish, go to San Antonio for the meeting. At this meeting the missionaries who are leaving bear their testimonies and then the assistants to the president start calling off names and then when they call your area they tell you who the comps are and they run up to the front of the chapel and hug each other (this is particularly funny with the elders!!) and then you join your zone and sit down. Well if you are being transferred up to Austin you don't find out anything until the Austin transfer meeting. Which takes place in the afternoon up in Austin where they also call out the names. Now if you are up in Austin and you are going down to San Antonio then you don't find out who your companion is until later afternoon at the second San Antonio Transfer meeting. So ya there are three different transfer meetings, you usually only go to 1. This week I will be going to 2. I have to go down with Sister Moran to San Antonio and then come back up to Austin to find out who my companion is! So ya hope that isn't too confusing, but that's how transfers work.
Alright well, being sick and all this week we didn't work much at all so there is not much to report. We got burned a couple times yesterday so as of now we have zero progressing investigators and not really any potentials either. Well it is a great place for my new comp and I to start- from ground zero there is only one way to go- UP!!! When the AP's called they did tell me that my new comp and I are going to be little work horses and get along great! I am so excited!! I have an idea of who it's going to be, there only 16 sisters so I know all of them.
Alright well, thanks to y'all for the awesome letters this week- Kilie, C and Adam. And I had a brilliant idea yesterday for a contest!!! I am hear by setting up a "Coolest Envelope Contest" I got a way neat one from c yesterday and it sparked an idea. From Now until the end of the month y'all send me letters with the coolest envelopes you can create and then on March 2nd I will pick the awesomest one! There will be a first prize and a second prize. First prize is a special package sent to you from me! Second prize is a cool Texas merchandise item sent to you. There is also a participation prize- all who enter aka write me, will receive a super awesome letter from Hermana Kleisler!! What could be better than that!!? Ha ha So ya start sending me those letters with super cool envelops. Get creative! There is no limit to the number of envelopes you can submit! The more you send the higher your chances of winning! :) You have until the end of February to Enter the super awesome contest! :)
Ok well I had better go now! Hope y'all have an awesome week and I will tell you next week all about my new companion!! :)
Love ya much,
Hermana Kleisler
Monday, January 26, 2009
Pics from San Marcos
The first pic is a real life sighting that I serve in the boonies! LOL! We were driving up this road and saw this sign and just started laughing! So then we got out and took a picture next to it and bunch of dogs (friendly ones) ran over and started licking us and smelling us. Crazy stuff out in the country of Texas, anyone want a pig?
The missionaries of San Marcos and their new Fossil watches
Me on my BIG bed!! I added the extra mattress that was just leaning against the wall to my bed. SO now it is huge!! And oh so comfy! I have to jump to get up on it! he hee, I love my bed!!! :)
The missionaries of San Marcos and their new Fossil watches
Me on my BIG bed!! I added the extra mattress that was just leaning against the wall to my bed. SO now it is huge!! And oh so comfy! I have to jump to get up on it! he hee, I love my bed!!! :)
Texas is my Home!
Howdy Y'all!
So first off, I hope I didn't scare y'all last week, everyone wrote me kinda concerned. Ha ha don't worry about me! I am fine!! I am learning and growing. These trials stretch me and make me better all the while! I truly have learned a lot these past two transfers, I actually made a list of blessings I have received through the trials these past few months and the list is a pretty darn good one! I am so grateful for y'alls love and support! Thanks to mom and dad for the boxof awesomeness!!!!! Thanks gma for the custom jewelry. Thanks C, Adam, Lindsey Layton (that is so weird to type, lol) and Elder Yarrington for the letters!! :)
So as for this week we did get to work a decent amount. We spent some time at the apartment but it wasn't too bad. While we were out working this week we had some fun/cool/weird/exciting experiences. We always get a mix! lol So first off our investigators Sirenia and Aurelio, well they aren't so much progressing right now, they are kinda in a stand still, we have taught them pretty much everything, only a few more little things left, but they are not sure now if they are moving to Mexico or what and so they don't want to get married right now. That kind fo makes everything else not possible. They also have not been able to come to church again with work and stuff. So ya, they are not dropped as of now, but they are not progressing. We will see what happens. The cool thing is Aurelio was telling us how much he loves what we are teaching him and that he knows it is true and he has so much peace in his life now. He said he knows the Book of Mormon is true. Then sweet little Sirenia (she is seriously tiny, like 4 foot something) is always embarrassed to say the prayer but she will do it and the other night she said a beautiful prayer thanking heavenly father for sending these two angels to come and teach them and help them learn and grow. It was way cool!!! It was almost too sweet to be true so when we left their apartment I turned to sister Moran and checked to make sure I translated the Spanish right! ha ha Ya so they are way awesome and even though they might not join the church right now they will some day and their lives have changed so much! It is so neat to see the changes that have taken place in them!!! On to other things, we got a new investigator who is way SWEET! The Elders in Kyle (city to the north of us that is also in our district) met this guy who lives here in San Marcos but was up in Kyle doing something adn anyway they got to talking and this guy, derrick, is way interested in learning more. His brother joined the church when he was a senior in high school and he went on a mission and so now he's back and lives in Idaho and has been e-mailing Derrick about the church. We taught Derrick last week adn have another apt tomorrow with him! He is way cool!!!! So ya, that's exciting! Hey so Kev I have similar experiences to your being burned with a member present all the time. This week though the members felt bad for us and took us to get smoothies- sweet! :) So a funny thing that happened this week- we were out in down town SAN Marcos trying to find people on the streets to talk to cause we have to talk to at least 10 people on the street every day outside of our knocking time. So anyway downtown is the only place where people are usually on the streets. Well as we were walking around someone yelled at us "HEY GIRLS COME HERE!" So we turned around and there was a guy motioning for us to coem towards him. Well we looked around and there was a lot of people around so we figured it would be ok to go closer. SO we did and he told us he had found our website and sent for some missionaries to come but he lives up in Austin and they haven't come yet. Well we asked him if he had any questions we could answer for him. He said yes, I'd love to talk but I am meeting some friends at Valentino's (Pizza place across the street) why don't you come with. Hna MORAN and I exchanged glances and decided to go with him. SO we went and his two buds had already started on a pitcher of beer and he joined them and we sat and talked about the gospel as they drank. It sure was an interesting teaching experience!!! But anyway things are good here in Texas! Transfers are next Thursday!!! I am pretty positive I will be staying here and getting a new companion. I am excited!!! So ya our p-day is on Tuesday when it's transfer week, so y'all here from me then! Until then, have a great week!!
Lov Y'all!
Hermana Kleisler
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
So first off, I hope I didn't scare y'all last week, everyone wrote me kinda concerned. Ha ha don't worry about me! I am fine!! I am learning and growing. These trials stretch me and make me better all the while! I truly have learned a lot these past two transfers, I actually made a list of blessings I have received through the trials these past few months and the list is a pretty darn good one! I am so grateful for y'alls love and support! Thanks to mom and dad for the boxof awesomeness!!!!! Thanks gma for the custom jewelry. Thanks C, Adam, Lindsey Layton (that is so weird to type, lol) and Elder Yarrington for the letters!! :)
So as for this week we did get to work a decent amount. We spent some time at the apartment but it wasn't too bad. While we were out working this week we had some fun/cool/weird/exciting experiences. We always get a mix! lol So first off our investigators Sirenia and Aurelio, well they aren't so much progressing right now, they are kinda in a stand still, we have taught them pretty much everything, only a few more little things left, but they are not sure now if they are moving to Mexico or what and so they don't want to get married right now. That kind fo makes everything else not possible. They also have not been able to come to church again with work and stuff. So ya, they are not dropped as of now, but they are not progressing. We will see what happens. The cool thing is Aurelio was telling us how much he loves what we are teaching him and that he knows it is true and he has so much peace in his life now. He said he knows the Book of Mormon is true. Then sweet little Sirenia (she is seriously tiny, like 4 foot something) is always embarrassed to say the prayer but she will do it and the other night she said a beautiful prayer thanking heavenly father for sending these two angels to come and teach them and help them learn and grow. It was way cool!!! It was almost too sweet to be true so when we left their apartment I turned to sister Moran and checked to make sure I translated the Spanish right! ha ha Ya so they are way awesome and even though they might not join the church right now they will some day and their lives have changed so much! It is so neat to see the changes that have taken place in them!!! On to other things, we got a new investigator who is way SWEET! The Elders in Kyle (city to the north of us that is also in our district) met this guy who lives here in San Marcos but was up in Kyle doing something adn anyway they got to talking and this guy, derrick, is way interested in learning more. His brother joined the church when he was a senior in high school and he went on a mission and so now he's back and lives in Idaho and has been e-mailing Derrick about the church. We taught Derrick last week adn have another apt tomorrow with him! He is way cool!!!! So ya, that's exciting! Hey so Kev I have similar experiences to your being burned with a member present all the time. This week though the members felt bad for us and took us to get smoothies- sweet! :) So a funny thing that happened this week- we were out in down town SAN Marcos trying to find people on the streets to talk to cause we have to talk to at least 10 people on the street every day outside of our knocking time. So anyway downtown is the only place where people are usually on the streets. Well as we were walking around someone yelled at us "HEY GIRLS COME HERE!" So we turned around and there was a guy motioning for us to coem towards him. Well we looked around and there was a lot of people around so we figured it would be ok to go closer. SO we did and he told us he had found our website and sent for some missionaries to come but he lives up in Austin and they haven't come yet. Well we asked him if he had any questions we could answer for him. He said yes, I'd love to talk but I am meeting some friends at Valentino's (Pizza place across the street) why don't you come with. Hna MORAN and I exchanged glances and decided to go with him. SO we went and his two buds had already started on a pitcher of beer and he joined them and we sat and talked about the gospel as they drank. It sure was an interesting teaching experience!!! But anyway things are good here in Texas! Transfers are next Thursday!!! I am pretty positive I will be staying here and getting a new companion. I am excited!!! So ya our p-day is on Tuesday when it's transfer week, so y'all here from me then! Until then, have a great week!!
Lov Y'all!
Hermana Kleisler
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Monday, January 19, 2009
Hermana Kleisler Pics
Hermana Kleisler and Hermana Moran in front of the San Antonio Temple on a rainy day
"Me feeling very much at home in my kindergarten teacher ways- reading a story to some members kids at their house"
"Me wearing the t-shirt that some of the young women made for me! It is so cool and it glows in the dark!!! Ha ha These girls are so awesome, the back has my name on it and the front has all kinds of random things including a b-ball on the stomach cause one of the girls hit me in the belly with the ball! It was funny, so next to the ball is an arrow and it says ouch! Then it says things like San Marcos represents. Man I love my ward!!!"
"Me feeling very much at home in my kindergarten teacher ways- reading a story to some members kids at their house"
"Me wearing the t-shirt that some of the young women made for me! It is so cool and it glows in the dark!!! Ha ha These girls are so awesome, the back has my name on it and the front has all kinds of random things including a b-ball on the stomach cause one of the girls hit me in the belly with the ball! It was funny, so next to the ball is an arrow and it says ouch! Then it says things like San Marcos represents. Man I love my ward!!!"
Emergency Transfer? Oh wait..um...what... Together Forever
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!!!
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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