Words I never thought I would utter

I'm so frustrated, don't even get me started, about the mail system here! I'm just trying to send you a disk of my pics and a TINY b-day present for H, and it's the biggest ordeal of my life. I'm like, "I'll pay whatever" and i still can't get them sent. it's ridiculous, but hopefully i can figure it out by the end of this week and have them on the way.

Transfers are this week and I'm sooooo nervous! i don't want to get transferred yet! everything is JUST starting to work perfectly, but i hear a lot of missionaries, ESPECIALLY newbies, get transferred in one transfer. so we find out on Saturday. AH!

So, I'm vegatarian now.... words i never thought i would utter. I can't even spell it. but i think it's for the best. all the meat has made me sick and it's just gross anyways, so i made this decision. And guess what. The German elder, P, told me he didn't want to tell me before, but that the meat situation here.... lets just say it's totally The Jungle all over again, but nobody cares and there are no health laws... so good spiritual decision on my part... :)

I think I've told you about Agbaar, the Muslim man we are teaching. He's freaking GOLDEN and we love him! And he is always giving all of us and the branch amazing things to eat and stuff.

Last Thursday we went home and called the mission office to tell them about our flooding incident, because we had to. Before Sosyak could say anything, our AP started SCOLDING her so bad. Why? Do you remember the guy I told you about on the train? Meesha. Well we sent the pics we took of him and us with a book of Mormon and our testimonies with his address to the Elders in Petersburg to go and give to Meesha in person because he loved everything we told him about the gospel....didn't go over too well. They DIDN'T go and contact him because of the pictures... They said, "it's PORNOGRAPHY!" We were like HUH?! He didn't have a shirt on in the pics. We didn't even THINK about that, which maybe we should have, but NO man in that train had on a shirt because of the temp and because it's just the culture here! Anyways, our AP went off like we had some kind of orgy with the guy! we didn't even shake his hand! It was retarded! Then he said, "We don't teach prostitutes." and I said "Well neither do we, but I WOULD if one wanted to sincerely know about the gospel." He didn't like that very much, so I didn't mention the fact that Christ taught prostitutes. So lame. So before first transfers I already made a notorious name for myself as the Porno pic sister... Why can't i just ONCE stay under the radar? haha

The story goes on tho. So i guess they pawned Meesha's address off on some other elders who tried to go and contact him but it just wasn't working out. First, they couldn't get the door buzzer to work (you know in all the apt buildings you buzz the number at the door and then they let you up.) Well i guess they finally got in, but meesha wasn't home and he has big dogs who barked and the neighbors got mad and told them Meesha was NEVER home. I guess this happened a couple of times, so they gave up.

Then, one day they were cruising on the street and passed a man... who looked like meesha! And they called out his name... It was HIM! He was so excited they found him and has asked them back to teach him and his wife and gave them a couple ways to contact him and took a BOM and everything. Well, needless to say, the OTHER AP called back BEGGING for our forgiveness and thanking us a thousand times over. :) Had it not been for the pics, they never would have recognized him. Its a Christmas miracle! haha!

Hey, can you tell me what vitamins i need to be taking here? cuz I'm so unhealthy and i hurt. ouch. And I've stopped wearing eye makeup and i don't have any nail or toenail polish on... What have i become!?!??! (written Aug 30, 2007)