Hola todos,
Hermana Thorne here. No joke, this last week was a bit of a rough one honestly but really wonderful too. This is the story of a missionary. The week before my birthday was transfers and the mission office holds the mail then sends it out when they know where we are going. I have no clue where the senior sister who does the mail sent my mail from that week and she can't remember either so I have been so worried about it all week. I know that I am missing at least two birthday cards from my Mom and from Grandma and Grandpa Thorne. If you sent me something for my birthday, the reason that I have not responded is because I did not get it. I just feel sick about it but there is absolutely nothing that I can do. I have called the office to ask her several times and she said that she sent it to me the Friday before last but it never got here. At one point she was sending our mail to three different places even though I had told her that we had moved and had given her our address on three separate occasions. I have felt pretty angery about this and I don't want to be angry at a sweet, old lady who is one of my dearest friends, but I just don't know what she did with my mail. Sometimes I wonder if the Lord wants me to be REALLY, REALLY polished because these kinds of things have been happening. Maybe I shouldn't be so emotional about not getting my birthday cards but I know that there was money in a couple of them that someone had to sacrifice for and it makes me sick to thing that it is lost. The Lord will provide, He always does.
Also we have roaches. They keep coming back even though we had an exterminator come right after we moved in. At first it was like, okay...well lets kill them and maybe they won't come back. Yeah. They did. They keep coming back and it is really gross. It takes quite a bit to gross me out but this is enough. My companion hates it too, quite a bit more than me. Bugs are one of her greatest dislikes. We both just know that we will look back on this and laugh. I can just picture myself saying "Remember that one time when we lived in the ghetto of Kansas City, Kansas and we had roaches in our apartment and we laughed until we peed, and we lost 50 pounds because we were too grossed out to eat anything that we had in the apartment because maybe a roach touched it?" It will be so funny...later.
I love my new companion. I feel so much more like myself with her. It was such a miracle that she got called here because it is a Spanish speaking area and she is an English called sister. I understand how she feels so much! I was where she is nine months ago! We are great friends and we both love to work hard and to love the people with all that we have.
We are teaching this family that we have been teaching for awhile. They are black and I love them SO much. I am sending a picture of me with all of the kids. It is so funny, they love to touch my hair and I love to touch their hair. I love seeing the way that the gospel is changing their family life. They are praying as a family now and reading "The Mormon Book" as they call it. I know that they are so ready to become members and the Mom and one of the kids have a baptismal date!
The Lord sometimes allows things to happen in our lives and He never will leave us comfortless. Never forget that, and I will work on this too because I really need it! Thank you for all of your love, support, and letters. They make all of the difference!
les amo!!!
Hermana Thorne
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