Another short and sweet email
this week folks! My companion is still sick, so we have been inside a lot!
Therefore I don't have too much to report!
Missionaries are a bunch of apes!
If you have had a tea appointment with your local
missionaries, you may already be nodding your heads and tossing in a healthy
dose of "amens to that". But that is not what I am talking about.
Envision with me, the following.
The well-groomed, happy, spiritual missionaries of the
Manchester zone all gathered together to be spiritually instructed and edified!
What do they talk about?!
How to be apes!
APE: Is actually an acronym that our zone leaders created to
represent the principles we will be focusing on in our work this
transfer.
How did they teach us the acronymn. Just telling us! No way!
That would be too boring! Instead they just threw peanuts at us until we
guessed the right answers! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!
All I can say is that our zone leaders are nuts (pun
intended) and are hilarious! :)
Go Beet Diggers!:
Fact! The mascot of my companion's high school is Digger
Dan. And their team is called the beet diggers! No joke!!!!
I think the reason for it was that apparently it's a really
old high school, and back then beet farms were a main source of income for the
people in that area
Random! But too funny!
Just imagine an adrenaline pumped, American football game!
People cheering, screaming and shouting "GOOOO BEET DIGGERS!!!!!"
This is the funniest thing I've ever heard, and I'm so mad
that my mascot wasn't this random! I would love to wear a beet diggers jersey!
You could probably guess what their team colours were ;)
May The Force Be With You:
Most awkward moment of my week you ask?! Well let me tell you!!
In missionary life, you learn many weird, random handshakes.
One of them is called the star trek handshake. (Shake hands making the star
trek hand signal, awkward and hard to explain via email, but that's elders for
you!!)
An elder went up to me to give me the star trek handshake
and I accidentally scratched his hand really bad. As I went to slide my hand
into his, my nail cut him all the way down his index finger. Want to see an
elder scream! Just scratch him with your girly nails! Thank goodness I didn't
break a nail ;) Serves him right for trying to get me to do weird,
awkward handshakes! :P
My New Addiction:
I am officially convinced that Archie's milkshakes on Oxford
Road are more addicting than cocaine!!! My favourite of the week is the
billionaire milkshake (a ferrero roche milkshake). Excuse me while I die and go
to heaven....fat and happy! ;)
Well I only have 3 minutes left, so I will wrap this up!
Sorry for the short email!!
Only 2 more weeks everyone! You are doing great!
Hope the time goes quickly for you and slowly for me!
Love Sister Martin
A note from her mother!
Erika's flight home arrives at 4:54 pm in Vancouver (she flies here via Frankfurt and Calgary) on Thursday, December 4th. If you live in the area, there is an open invite to come over on Friday, December 5th to see her anytime from about 6:30 pm on.
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