fam,
bob dont worry about the email. i can ALWAYS give you the
benefit of the doubt with writing and emailing. and i got the email just before
i got off and i was able to print it off. it was a lovely one, too! for pday we
went with my wonderful friend cynthia (sister creed's daughter) to a little
nature walk with the elders along a river. we visited an abandoned mill, too!
it was great!!
the fall out here is so beautiful! really, everywhere we go
is grand! we dont really have much of any city type stuff in our area, which i
dont mind. but all of it is great. most places we drive feels like we are
driving the alpine loop, except maybe a bit less steep. oh it is wonderful!!!
thank you so much for taking care of fotis. i love that
little man. i can just see him doing the swimming around and then freeze- float
to the bottom thing. hahaha what a guy. :)
i can just see you and bum working together with the spook
business. so cute! you guys are wonderful. i do know what you mean with the
whole team work thing. i think as missionaries we call that kind of stuff being
"equally yoked". it really is wonderful when you can be honestly
equally yoked with someone. not just moving at the same pace in the same
direction, but equal.
i am so happy about my bums employment!! everything you said
about it sounds great! i hope they treat him well and that he enjoys it :) go
sayum!!
the nice long paragraph about milo, ray-gun, me and scott
was pretty precious. thank you for that :)
that made me laugh to read about me and jade. that woman is
so funny! she wrote me a few weeks ago and the whole thing was a hoot!
this week was a good one. there is one story that i must
tell you about right away. on wedensday, s mayle and i were walking around
penacook doing some missionary work. we talked about the exchange that we just
got back from and how we can help the ward and all this different stuff.
she expressed that she wanted to practice talking to me as if i was a stranger
so that she felt more prepared in real life. i was happy about that, so i ran
ahead of her and started walking back in her direction as if i was a stranger
passing her on the street. haha, it was a bit of a fail because she didnt get
it right away, so i ended up running back and forth a few times :) but we did
start talking. it was pretty fun. i tried real hard to act the way i would
imagine myself to act if i didnt have the gospel. we talked for a few minutes
and we got on the topic of prayer and she taught me how to pray. it was nice :)
at this point it was dark and i could see a man walking towards us. so i yelled
"hello sir" to him. as we got closer, he stopped and talked to us! it
was great :) we talked for a while and it was great when the conversation
provided s mayle to teach him how to pray!! oh it was great. she taught him
indeed, and later in the same conversation, i was able to recite joseph smith's
first vision. oh man! the spirit was there and we were all happy.
he was
getting a little chilly, so i suggested we start walking. he lived close by, so
he stopped into his place to grab his wallet and we went to mcdonalds to get
some hot chocolate. can you believe it he payed for all of us! as we sat in
mcdonals, we had a really warm and respectful conversation. my favorite part
was when he asked both of us to share something we believe and why it is
meaningful to us. as we walked back towards his neighborhood, we noticed it was
just about 9:00 and we were probs 45-1 hour walking distance away from our
home. luckily he lives right by a member of the church, so we called them.
brother melby and his mom came out, met our new friend (who we call brother
matt) and gave s mayle and i a ride home. as we parted ways with bro matt, he
said he would see us at church on sunday! me and s mayle were so happy! we just
witnessed a miracle and it was sweet! i love divine intervention.
on the way
home, bro melby's mom was so sweet. she couldnt believe we were out so late and
that we didnt have a car. (we have a car, we just didnt need it that day.) i am worried about
you! be careful! hahaha oh she was a loving mom indeed. really though, we
careful and we are safe.. or so we thought!!! as we came up to the street we
live on, we saw 3 bears run from our yard to our neighbors!! oh man it was
great!! bro melby drove up and shined his lights on them. they were so cute!
one ran off pretty fast but the other two were like... teenage cubs! ah!!!! it
was adorable. they climbed on the trees and romped around and went back in the
bushes. oh i loved it. sigh. a perfect day.
oh hey, so speaking of exchanges. i love them!! i was with s
bowns this time and she is just a gem. her and her companion, s bickel, work so
hard and love so much! they are always striving to be obedient. i hope their
parents know how wonderful those sisters are. they are such a blessing to the
mission and to everyone they know. s bowns and i taught early morning seminary
(emphasis on the early) this week. we taught 1 nephi 18. at one point laman and
lemuel make some bad decisions. we wanted to emphasize to the class that
because of their decisions, everyone suffered through the storm and being lost
in verse 13. i have been thinking about that a lot. it really is true that when
we make decisions, it effects others around us, even if we dont realize it. we
can effect others (maybe even unknowingly) in a negative way, but it is also
important to remember that our good choices can and will and do effect others
(sometimes without us knowing) in a positive way. it is hard to always remember
that, but we really do need to keep in mind that our actions arent just for
ourselves. man. no wonder jesus taught us to be examples.
last night we went to visit our friend up the road who is a
quaker. he is a good guy. very articulate. we read from the book of mormon with
him, anyway, when we were done, it was 9:00. as we walked out the door, there
it was!!! the 3 bears!! and they were angry!! hahaha just kidding :) but
really, there was a skunk! oh he was such a cute skink, too! mosly white with a
black tail and black markings. how to i know he had a black tail? because it
was sticking straight up!! man oh man! we startled a skunk. and yes i thought
he was cute, and i still do, and yes i am curious what it takes to get a skunk
to spray, but i am NOT curious enough to find out first hand. so i immediately
pushed s mayle back into the door that was about to close and i said "let
me in, let me in!" hahaha it was pretty funny really. :) but everything
turned out well and as far as i know, no one got sprayed.
well, it has been lovely chatting with your for this little
while. i hope you all continue to be happy and wonderful. i love all of you and
i hope you continue to do cool things like find tarantulas and raise cute kids
and make train cars spooky.
i love you!
love, sister lani buxton :)
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