Happy and Content

A portion of a letter sent Jan. 4, 2016:

MOM GUESS WHAT. You know how I always want these fuzzy zip up pajamas? There's this lady in our ward. Lisbeth. I was with her on Christmas, I think I sent a picture. I absolutely LOVE her. So much. Yesterday we were at her house visiting her and she was going to drive us back to the train station and before we left she was like, "Wait! let me put on this new suit I got for Christmas!" And it was a zip up fuzzy pajama suit! It had legs, but not footies at the bottom. And she came out and was shaking her hips. It was so funny. And then she was like, "and look at this in case my face gets cold" and she zipped it all the way up and it was one of those things where the hood zips up in front of your face so your whole head is covered. It was so cute and hilarious. She must be my bosom friend because she has one of those pajamas. When we got out of the car at the station she rolled down the window as she drove past us and was blaring music and dancing in her car. because she knows she can't listen to it when we're with her. (it was just regular music, not spiritual). Oh, I love her.

I'm very happy and content. Here's a quote that I read this past week that I really liked by Neil A. Maxwell, "When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting we know what is best. Strange, isn't it--we who wear wristwatches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars."

I know that God has a plan and a calendar. And that everything happens when it's supposed to happen. There's a reason that I didn't go on a mission until I was 20. There's a time when these people we teach will accept the gospel whether it's when we teach them or not. I know that God loves us and that his plan is the one that's going to help us the most. 

Love, 

Syster May

First Snow!

Okay, here are pictures of where I live as requested by mom. We live in the side of a house. Which is different from the rest of the mission, they all live in apartments. Everyone is jealous of us when they find out. They're like, "wait what?? you guys have wifi???" (Yes, wifi is still a concern here..I know dad thought my struggles would end, alas, they have not) 

We use our phones a ton just to get places, google maps. It's suuuuper helpful because otherwise we would just have no idea which buses or trains to take or where to go. But everyone is jealous because we can listen to conference talks in the morning and it doesn't waste our data that we need to use google maps while we're out.

This is a panoramic so everything looks a little jenky, but this is it.  That's Syster Crawford's desk in the picture and I'm standing by mine so all you can see is the tiny corner of it in the left corner.

My desk!  Yay!  Where I spend the first 4 hours of the day.  (One of my favorite times because it's WARM)

Here's the house from the outside. I took this the first night that it snowed. So cute. The main people who live in the house are a super nice muslim couple. They saved our lives when we lost our phone. we love them. They bring us things to help us. Like a fan and a strange little humidity contraption that fills up with water. Basically our apartment is the most humid thing and the ventilation doesn't work. But I'm fine with it because it makes it way way warm. We live on the bottom, right side.