WOW can I just say you are amazing! this week I definitely received a package
for my Birthday! That was so sweet of you guys! I don´t know how to say thank
you enough! It was perfect too, I have been missing orbit gum lately, the candy
is great, see the picture for the end results of the cake, and well i took the
bag of tootsie pops to a ward bon fire and all the little kids definitely mobbed
me for them! I felt like a human piñata! haha but i just wanted to say THANK YOU
SOOOOOOOOO MUCH !!! I hope that everything is going just peachy over their in
Texas! I was thinking about you guys when we had a little photo shoot the other
day on our roof so that is why i have included a little bonus pic for Ya¨ll!!!
:) also i thought i would forward you on my family letter for the week, because
just like the subjects says there is some BIG NEWS! at least for me...read on if
you would like...
But just in case i didn´t get my point accross...
THANKS AGAIN!!! you guys are GREAT!!! love ya´ll
-Hermana Alyssa Collette
Well, so I know it has only been a week since I last wrote everyone but I
just…well there is so much to tell! Changes are always a time of excitement and
suspense. All the missionaries gather around and it is almost like Christmas as
their eyes light up and they receive their new companions. I guess the exciting
news isn’t that I have a change. I am still going to be here in the capital and
will be training the nurse next change. But, anyway so today was our little
orientation day for the newbies and I had to do my lil nursing spiel in front of
like 30 people…a little nerve-wrecking….but so we do it and it´s good, the
spirit was really strong in this conference for some reason, maybe it was
because our air conditioning broke and so we all were feeling a little more
extra ¨warmth¨.
After the presentation we left the room and started to, ya know, do nursing
stuff when president came out and called Hermana Hall and I into a quick
meeting. I was a little worried because it was during the conference and you
don´t just miss that for anything because they are kinda a big deal. Anyway our
meeting…wow! it was intense. He told us, or rather called us, to learn a
language called K'ekchi. It is a very old, ancient Mayan dialect, and actually
it existed here even before Spanish did and officially now is a language!….. so
my deadline is set. Starting the first part of January until I end my mission I
will head to the real live jungle and be living much more primitively than here.
It is definitely a difficult place to live, a very hard language to learn and
speak and the most humble of people you could meet.
We will be opening new Hermana areas in some places where the elders aren’t able
to teach, and he was mentioning a lot about hygiene and just basic principles
like brushing your teeth that they are not quite living. Also he mentioned that
the church has been thinking about doing a huge welfare project for the people
there and one day have a goal to bring them electricity (but we, as
missionaries, will be blessed to have it meanwhile) and so really there is no
way to even imagine the magnitude of the work that will be a part of! It just
makes me SOOO excited to even think about! Just to give you a little taste of
the language I will be speaking….or more like trying to speak :)
Lix Pabal Li Jesucristo Reheb Laj Tiquilal Sa Roso´Jiqueb Li Cutan = The Church
of Jesús Christ of Latter Day Saints. Also if you wanna say my name in K´ekchi,
you would say Laa´in lix kole´k which actually my name kole´k means ¨saved¨ so I
guess that is pretty sweet to think about the literal saving of souls that I
will be there to do!
So….I´m not going to lie, I was a little stunned when president told us, but
honestly, i felt the spirit was very strong and i knew immediately and you could
just feel that even though he was speaking, the words were not coming from him.
I really can´t describe how powerfully the spirit hit me and then just the most
overwhelming sense of peace, and confidence that I can do it, because that is
what he wants me to do! I remember about a week ago, President Torres asked me
about if I wanted to end my mission as the nurse. I just mentioned if he could
help out my ADD a little and switch me areas or ya know it would be nice if I
could leave the capital again. But overall, I knew it had to be up to the
Revelation that he is entitled to receive for the mission. I know that this
future is totally in the hands of God and i know that my president is really and
truly and inspired servant of the Lord!
I am not sure where I will go exactly, but its way up north, in the jungle, like
a 12 hour bus ride from the capital. It´s actually not as North as when I was in
Peten, but it´s more jungle-ish and so the windy bus ride will be longer! I am
pretty excited even though I don´t really know what kinds of adventures are in
store for us! Ya know opening this area and there are a lot of things planned
for the future up there that we dont know yet, but will be laying the groundwork
for and will probably in years to come change the life of the people there.
Sounds like a slight exaggeration, but our mission President has a pretty great
vision of the work that needs to be done here.
Anyway I guess now would be a good time so put in a few Christmas
suggestions…ummm well I have my chaco sandals somewhere and I was thinking if
you would send me those…or I don´t wanna sound demanding and say buy me other
ones, but that is exactly what I need. And you see the reason is, well, when it
rains there and the streets flood, i´m just thinking my ¨attractive¨ shoes just
won´t cut it! Plus it is hotter than Hades up there and I won´t even want to
look at nylons.
I will still be hanging around the office for a bit, but just a heads up, for
when I leave because I will be out of the capital and out of easy mail and
package reception. No worries I will still be able to e-mail! so. yeah. anyhoo,
i will write more when i know more.
love you all!!! good luck and i will write more next week or whenever i can....
I am so excited for this. wow. President compared us to the hijas de mosiah!
(the daughters of mosiah) haha
well, i guess bring it on, eh?
Love you and miss you all! Have a great week!
Lix Kole´k
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