Happy Easter Greene Branch!
Thank you for the Easter box and notes! It totally
brightened my day to hear from all of you :)
I will send a letter soon!
Love,
Sister Duenas
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| Happy Easter! <3 Sister Duenas <notice the Star Trek hand greeting...lol. And the funny looking stuffed animal is a teddy bear dressed as the Easter Bunny> |
Dear Mom,
Oh my
goodness, I have no idea how you can come up with so many different questions
week after week! Haha. Well,
I guess you do work for the (blank) so it makes sense 8P
I love the
(Greene) Branch chili cook off! OF
COURSE YOU WON!! Mwah-hahahaha! That’s my Mom – takin’ over the world with her
awesome cookin’ :)
Poor Sister
Missionary though, not liking chili
<Note: the Sister Missionaries and
the Elders in the Greene Branch were the chili judges, and one of the Sister
Missionaries does not like chili, but she was a trooper having to taste 12-13
different chili’s>.
They don’t
have ‘Linger Longers’ out here in Oregon. They have only one church activity
each quarter.
<Note: ‘Linger Longers’ is an
activity that the Greene Branch (in New York) holds every 3rd Sunday
of the month after church that is basically a dish-to-pass. It builds unity and strengthens relationships in the Branch.>
Advice:
Daikon= icky, coulda asked me that. People are very health conscious out here
in Oregon. I have had: humus, daikon, squash, no butter, coconut, cherry,
bananas, no meat soup or sandwiches, etc.
<Note: Sister Duenas has eaten
many of these foods before, but apparently they are served quite frequently in
Oregon, and she does not enjoy cherries>.
Dinners here are the same members for the most part every month. We usually have a full dinner week and the next maybe 2 or 3 and then it's full again.
Sister West and I are going to start having dodgeball tournaments every other Saturday for all 10 and up. We will see how it goes. Our first one is May 10th.
<Note: Sister Duenas' last companion (Sister Clove) was transferred to Medford on 04/21/2014. Her new companion is Sister West.>
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| Sister West and Sister Duenas |
We have
interviews with President Young after every Zone Conference, so every other
transfer. The interview with President Young is a time for us to discuss things
with him and ask him questions as opposed to the other way around (him
questioning us).
As a
missionary, we must be well-rounded in all of our skills. There is a person out
here who collects things and then has a HUGE yard sale. This person recycles
the copper found in wire, but stripping the wire. That is how I learned to
strip wire :)
This last
district Meeting we talked a lot about goals and keeping ourselves accountable
to them.
I loved the
Faith & Repentance (Relief Society) lesson too! In Grants Pass, Sister
Nielsen and I taught it. It went great! There was lots of participation and
learning.
Yes, I am
excited about my 6-month anniversary (of being a missionary) :) Now, I technically
have just a year left on my mission. In terms of 6-month periods, it is so
short!
We try to do
1 hour of tracting every day, but usually it is just 3-4 hours a week since we have
a lot of people (potentials, investigators and less actives) to visit.
The University
of Oregon is in the Young Single Adult area, so we don’t tract there. I haven’t
run into my cousin yet though
<Note: Sister Duenas has a 2nd cousin who lives in Eugene
and is not LDS and she has never met him>
My Atonement talk was pretty choppy
and all over the place, but I’m glad you liked it nonetheless.
Love you,
Sister Duenas
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