dear people,
thank you for the emails. i always love hearing them. i am so happy
about bum graduating.
all the mission calls are so wonderful to hear! i am glad you got to meet a
couple of my rm friends. i worked with both scott and spencer, although you
might know that by now. i think the spencer that you were thinking of is
spencer donaldson. he is in arizona and he just left in... august i think.
dad,
thank you for the wonderful experiences you shared with me. i think about a
garden, or you know, vineyard, and i think about all the work that goes into
it. there are so many stages that go into gardening. you have to clear a place
for it, prepare the dirt for it, plant the seeds, water, sunshine, weed, wait,
wait, water, etc.. then there is the harvest. it all takes time, but i know that
no matter what part the lord calls me to do, i will magnify it with a
thankful heart. i am blessed to do any part of his work and i am honored that
he would trust me with any of it. with reminds me of one of my favorite
scriptures- alma 28:14.
thank you bob for the fun updates and stories! so fun to read.
so this
week i went on my first exchange as a sister training leader! i have never been
out of my own area for an exchange before so it was fun :) i went to brunswick,
maine. the sister i was with has only been out for 7 weeks and she is training
already! wow! what an amazing sister. i really enjoyed my time with her. we
both learned a lot and grew to love each other more. one of the people we
stopped by was a sweet old woman named juanita :) she is a returning member of
the church who has her eye set on going to the temple with her husband someday.
oh she was cute. we read some of the book of mormon with her. she told us about
her husbands new diet and that she was stuggling to accomodate. it was so sweet.
i told her that i am a vegetarian and she said "you are? what do you make
to eat!?" hahahah it was so cute and funny. i definitely felt impressed to
tell her your contact info. i am so glad that she used it. she has a sweet
spirit. thank you so much for helping her. i know she appreciates it.
so while i was on the exchange, sister cloward had to go to the doctor
to get tested for appendicitis! ah! is that how that is spelled? that poor
sister. she woke up 2 different nights with the worst pain. (and this girl
knows pain.. she has a serious history in that department) she was all curled
up and crying and oh, it was just so sad. but she is feeling good right now. we
are just waiting to hear back from the doctor. poor sister.
so when i got back from the exchange, i had a box waiting for me!
sister cloward saw the 30 meals in one day sticker and she was excited for it
to be food! hahaha :) "just imagine.. 30 meals in one day!" hahaha
she is great.
i really could not believe same sent me a box of presents for HIS
birthday! my goodness! what a sweetie! hahah :) the presents really are
wonderful. i love the snowboarding pass. that silly boy. i dont know what the
blue round thing with the sticky feet and the number is though. :) but i do
love the presents and it is a perfect gift :) thank you so much bum. i am very
thankful for you :)
the rest of this week was great. we are having so much fun together
and so many gerat times lay ahead of us. we get along so well. you wouldnt
believe how spiritual and prepared s cloward is. she is great.
ok i have to tell you a story. so last week at the library there was
this man probs in his 50's that we kept bumping into. he is maybe 2 inches
taller than me. he had pot belly, fisherman hat, and glasses with the
sunglasses attached that can open up horizontally. is this
making sense? he was friendly and stuff. i didnt do anything missionary-like
with him. didnt even give him a pass along card. silly sister buxton. i
regretted that for the rest of the week. well. this week when i came in, i saw
him again. so i went over to him to talk to him. we talked for a few minutes
and i could see that the conversation wasnt going too much of anywhere; he is
pretty wrapped up in incorrect details.. he was talking pretty loud. people
were looking at us. the librarian finally came over and asked if he was
bothering me. i told him we could talk later. he gave me is contact info and
left. bout 10 minutes later he came and sat by me. possibly 5 inches too close.
he grabbed a piece of paper and stared writing. the librarian came over again
and asked if he was bothering me. he got all offended and stuff. it was silly. i
told her it was ok. i told him that she was just looking out for me. sheesh.
she left. he gave me a paper that said- "are you interested in morotcycles?
would you like to got for a ride sometime?" hahahahahhaha oh my heavens
what a silly man! oh gosh. so. so. so funny.
oh. sister cloward really really wants pictures of me wearing bandannas
and also of my mohawk. i know we have some of the bandannas. i truly fear that
there are none of my mohawk. please send them if they exist :) thank you
well family, i can tell you are praying for me because i am happy,
loving the work, and i can feel the lord strengthening me. alma 26:12.
let me know if there anything i can do to better serve you or be a
better daughter, sister, aunt, missionary. i love you all very much!
thank you!
love, sister wanay buxton!
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