Well HeLLo EveryONe!!!
Monday, December 29, 2008
35 this morning and I felt WARM
Well HeLLo EveryONe!!!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tis the Season...
Today, being Christmas, we received a phone call from Sister Black. I was thinking she would call around noonish (which happened to be my desired time of waking up). But not our missionary. 7 in the morning my father was in my room waking me up to talk to her. It was so exciting to have her on the phone. Almost like she was here. (This is said because she still was telling me what to do). My mom talked to her companion Sister Warner and heard how much they loved the mission. Anyways. I apologize for not updating the blog, I will do better!
Merry Christmas.
Love, Brittany!
Week 4
Can you believe that Christmas is already here? I can't! This week I will have offically been in the mission field one month! I am SO happy to be here at Christmas time! I truly have felt the true spirit of Christmas this year, more than ever. I love doing service and seeing the way it softens people's hearts. Especially at the time of year, I can see people are just more willing to give of themselves. Having the perspective of a missionary is so different, I love it, I feel like it's so much easier to see the good in people.
Yesterday was a crazy day. Friday & Saturday we had another huge snowstorm. Saturday night the elders (E. Pulley & E. Jolley) called us and asked if we would be shoveling peoples walks before church... HAHA we don't even have shovels and that was SO not in our plans seeing as church starts at 9am. (plus, we've only shoveled in skirts once before!) But, we said we'd go if they went with us. SO they apparently woke up way early and were shoveling at like 5am. They met us at our Ward mission Leaders house at 7am where they had already shoveled the driveway, we knocked on their door and asked to borrow shovels. Bro. Robertson thought we were crazy, his house was still sleeping, but he directed us to the garage to the shovels. We took a couple and we were off. We shoveled the Trujillos first. It was cold outside, but I figured I was just a wimpy Phx girl. We got in our cars and just then Bishop Huzzey called us and informed us that church was cancelled due to severe weather conditions! He asked what we were doing, so we told him and he said BE CAREFUL! It's -25* outside with windchill, and there is lots and LOTS of snow on the road. In that kind of weather any uncovered skin can get frostbite in 15 minutes!!!! HAHA suddenly I was VERY COLD!
I HAVE NEVER HAD CHURCH CANCELLED BEFORE! It was wierd! SO we continued shoveling: the Alcortas, the Ribbens, the Bartels, the Erbs... inbetween there I called the Robertsons and asked if they were making us breakfast! :) they said they were! haha so we ended up there. Bro. Robertson made breakfast, then we had a sacrament meeting. I love the Robertson family. They feel like my own family. Sister Robertson makes me laugh, we get along great and always laugh at the same things. They have 6 kids: Jocelyn 16, Annie 14, Brooklyn 12, Jed 8, Eliza 6, Olivia 3. I LOVE THESE KIDS! They make me miss "my kids" back home, but they fill the void well. I think that is why I was so touched during the sacrament meeting we had. The spirit was SO strong in such a humble setting in the living room with the Robertsons and us four missionaries. We had a little sunday school activity before where each of us paired up with someone else, discussed a passage from a christmas talk and then shared. The missionaries got the little kids, it was fun. Then we had the sacrament, then a testimony meeting. I cried through the whole thing.
THIS CHURCH IS SO TRUE! What a blessing it is to be able to feel the spirit so strong in a setting like that. We went aroung the room and each person took a turn, little Jed was just baptized saturday and his testimony was so powerful. I love being a member of this church and I love being here in Green Bay and getting to know people like the Robertson family. They are such a great family. Afterwards, we watched a video called The Fourth Wise Man. That was powerful too. Even though church was cancelled, I got my dose of church in for the week through those activities.
Being with that family and hearing their different life experiences & testimonies and hearing the missionaries I serve with bear their testimonies and their absolute LOVE for this work we are engaged in I just felt SO good. It was at that very moment, singing Christmas carols, sitting with Olivia, with tears in my eyes, that I thought, "This is what it is all about, right here." Sometimes I get a twinge of guilt because I feel like this with this family that is not my OWN, but then I remember that that is why I am here, to feel the blessings of the gospel and to grow close to and to have an absolute love for people I have barely known 4 weeks! This is what has strengthened my testimony THE MOST this past week.
We stayed in side for most of the rest of the day as we were advised to by many locals. I am new to this whole cold thing!
Corry came to Jed's baptism on Saturday and feels less anxious now about her baptism date coming up on the 12th of January. She is so great, the other day she taught ME out of the scriptures! It was so funny, she rebuked me for saying something like "that scripture always confuses me, lets move on to the next one" (we were reading in Psalms, her choice). She took time to reread it and to read scriptures before and after it and then explained it to me! ha! we were talking on the phone so I was just trying to get a meaningful verse or two out, kind of in a hurry, but I just started laughing. She is so impressive! I love her.
Diane Anthony is another woman we are teaching. She moved from Milwaukee here to Green Bay for work. She called in for a Joy to the World video, we have been teaching her ever since. She recently lost her favorite aunt, lost her job and her kids are not doing good things in their lives which stresses her out. GOODNESS! She is having a hard time. On Saturday when we taught her, I shared with her Alma 7: 11-13 whichs talks about how Christ knows EXACTLY what we're going through because he suffered it in the flesh too. We also shared with her Doctrine and Covenants 122: 7-9 and promised her that Heavenly Father is aware of her and knows her troubles and the His son Jesus Christ has felt her pain.She loved those scriptures and was going to read the Book of Mormon on her many bus trips from here to Milwaukee and then Milwaukee to Detroit for the funeral. She'll be back before New Years looking for a job. She prays often and knows her bible well, we always pray with her and she'll be attending church when she gets back. I am so impressed with her faith. We're praying for her too.
There are so many other things I could say, but mostly I feel BLESSED. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the true and living gospel of Jesus Christ here on the earth. I know that because I have felt the spirit of God witness to me and because of that I can not deny it. I love this time of year and know that thru giving of ourselves we find the Christmas spirit, which is the spirit of Christ.
Merry Christmas!
Love Sister Pamella Jo Black
Hello, sorry i didn't send an email yesterday... but i was WAY busy. So I am sending one today! :) so i don't have time for a marathon email, nor do i have a desire to type that much!!!! so here we go with the highlights from last week.
Tuesday morning we woke up and it had snowed 10 inches monday night, it was still snowing and snowed pretty much all day tuesday. 10 INCHES! It was insane, school was cancelled and everything... of course as missionaries we don't get to just take a day off so we were out and about, mostly we just made visits and we had a really intense snowball fight with the spanish elders, the elders we serve with and a woman named Carmen and her son Christian from the spanish branch. We all had lunch there and then we put our coats on and went outside. it was really fun! the snow here is so different than in utah... its so dry and hardly packs when it falls! All of our evening appointments were cancelled, of course because people in GreenBay stay INSIDE and hibernate for weather like that! sO, we went to Bishop and Sister Huzzeys house and had dinner and visited. It was good, since they have 2 children out serving I think they are really aware of us and called and just knew we might be needing a place to come for the night. I LOVE them!
Wednesday was a good day too. Some roads still hadn't been plowed so we had to plan our routes carefully, but we played volleyball with the women in the morning (I'm getting dang good PS, taylor & tatum it's on when I get home!!!) then we had interviews with President Barrett. He's great. Later that night we went to the Young Women's Christmas Party at the Huzzeys... that was really fun. It was good to meet all the YW finally.
Thursday was zone conference. I felt like I was back at the MTC! It's one whole day spent at the church in different training meetings. However, I learned so much. Since it was Zone conference we had our zone come and the Appleton zone. There were lots of us and I got to see Elders Love and Turney who were in my district at the MTC. That was great. It's fun to get to meet so many other missionaries. All of the new missionaries and the missionaries going home bear their testimonies at the end. It was so cool to hear from the missionaries that will be going home and know that in just a few short months that will be me! I want to live this time up while I have it!!! We also did a zone presentation on enduring to the end and we were to share an experience we had with that. I was able to talk about little miss Jaydie King and what a good example she was to me of enduring to the end of her trial and making the best of a bad situation. It was powerful. Its so interesting that all of the experiences we have in our lives really do prepare us for the future. I see that each and everyday as a missionary.
Friday we had dinner with the Cozzens family. They are SO cute. Bro Cozzens has been out of a job since march. He was just hired on to manage a wal mart store about an hour away from GB. SO he is only home on weekends. He has the cutest family of 6 kids ages 12 - 3 months. They are some of the most faithful people I have ever met. Can you imagine being out of a job for 10 months with 6 kids? Some people never even knew they were dealing with that. I love the Cozzens family. After dinner we went to the Carlsruhs home to teach Corry (our 17 dynamite investigator who gets baptized in early january) and a lady named Heidi who is one E. Jolley and E. Pulley's investigators. She has three small boys. Danny 6... Reese 4... Sam 2. They are so rowdy! I love them but as we watched Joy to the World the elders maintained them. It was intense, at some points I didn't think the house would still be standing thru that short video. I finally convinced Sam to sit by me and told danny if he sat still and watched the video i would have a snowball fight with him after. SO then E. Pulley just had Reese, who is most active of all!!! Ha it was a good teaching appt though. Both investigators committed to pray to know if the B.O.M. is true and and to act on the answer they receive despite what other people tell them. Heidi gets a lot of anti- mormon comments, daily. I love to teach, my testimony is always strengthened as I do! PS i held true to my promise, and we had a good snowball fight with the kids after the lesson!!
Saturday we did a LOT of service. we went to a neigborhood christmas activity at the elementary school and I passed out prizes. It was fun. Its so good for people to see us out in the public like normal people and not like mormon robots that just knock on their doors or something.
SUnday we went up to Sturgeon Bay... it's so beautiful there! look at it on the map, its a peninsula and they have great apples and cherries there! Apparently its even more beautiful in the fall. mom we'll have to go there in the fall when i get home!! We cover the branch there too. There have been missionaries there for 28 years, they just took them out a couple transfers ago bc nothing was progressing. It's so TINY. There were 5 of us in Relief society. That's what I thought church was like all over Wisconsin. Oh how I was wrong. Greenbay has really big wards with lots of children in primary and in nursery. The Young womens has at least 25 active girls. It's great. But sturgeon bay is teeny. They meet in a progressive building. SO right now they are in a phase 1 building. THe seminary building in pima is about the size of this building. when the branch gets bigger theyll add more and more until it can get up to a stake center size building. Kind of cool. The church is so amazing how well they plan EVERYTHING including how they buy land and build churches. We vistited less actives and investigators there and then stayed the night at the Seelys home. Grandma and Grandpa- they remind me of you! It made me miss you!
Monday morning we drove to Algoma, visited referrals and then came back to finish our Pday yesterday in GreenBay. We cover a lot of area and sometimes it's frusterating because I want to stay in Sturgeon Bay or Algoma and work there. The church NEEDS to grow there! We visited a really cute couple, she's 23 he's 27 who just don't attend church mostly bc he works sundays but also bc the branch is so tiny and they feel out of place being the only young ones! It would be hard for me too i think! Last night we went and made dinner with the elders at the home of the Ribbens family children. Their parents are in North Dakota with their daughter who was in a really bad accident on her way home with kids from other families in the ward from BYU Idaho for the semester. They hit black ice and rolled. It's just scary. FLY home if weather is bad. It's worth the money. THe weather is still so bad there that the parents slept in the hospital the past couple of days while jenny was there because nobody could leave the hospital. She gets to come home today. It was a really scary situation and they all should have died. SO we made dinner with the kids bc their parents were away. We made spaghetti- 1st time i've had it on a mission!!! and then we played RISK. Rocky- I played risk and I get it now!!! I can play! UGH i told everyone about my bad experience with the game of risk one christmas day. haha they all laughed. We only played it because the elders and Joey, whos 13 insisted!!!
Today it dropped from 41* in our underground parking to -6* in about 5 minutes in our car as we drove out of the pking garage. -6*, everyday i say at LEAST once "Why do people LIVE here???!! It warmed up to -2* now. SO WARM!!! haha Actually though, with all my layers and gloves it's not too bad at all!!!
I love you all! I love being a missionary. Each day is a miracle out here! Love Sister Pamella Jo Black
Monday, December 8, 2008
Week 2 in the Field!
After that fiasco we went to the church for the YSA Christmas party. i feel like all i do as a missionary (especially at christmas time!!!) is eat! and everyone these days is serving ham! I HATE HAM!!! but they had pasta salad and mashed potatoes so i was fine. Lots of inactives and a few investigators came. Some had to travel really far since the YSA program here covers lots of land. ps did you know that we are the largest land mission in the united states? yep. we are. (MY HAND HURTS! THIS IS THE LONGEST EMAIL EVER! i am so so Sorry. goodness. you'd think i don;t get to talk to people or something! haha maybe grandpa is on to something with that vow of silence talk) We played bingo, i filled my card out wrong, the only one in a room full of people... bro torbenson proceeded to call that to EVERYONES attention!!!! haha lame. I won some cute baskets for my apt though... then we watched the 1st presidency christmas devotional. Did you all get to watch it? It was SO good! The robertsons came for that part and little olivia came and sat next to me. so cute. I loved the devotional. It helps so much to remind you of what christmas is ALL about! its about sharing with others something you have... that they need.. whether it be a meal, a batch of cookies or a gift! If you didn't get to watch it watch it on the internet or see when it replays on the BYU channel. it was so good for me to hear. Being a missioanry i really get to do a LOT of service. it truly does make me SO happy. Are you guys doing the 12 days of christmas again? You should!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Update through pictures...
time for the unveiling of baby girl black ! (mission lingo is super wierd, when you train someone you are considered their "kid". The person that trained your trainor is your "grandmother". so wierd. freaks me out. haha but before i got here she referred to me as baby girl black)
ENJOY !
1...s.barrett, s.warner, s.black, & president barrett ! us and the mission pres and his wife.i love them too! they are great!
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2...i LOVE the barretts !
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3...s.hood & her daughters & grandaughters ! sis hood is in the middle in red, she trained both sisters in green who now are training sis murray and I! yeah! i feel like i know sis hood bc sis warner talks about her ALL the time. sis warner has only been out 3mos. sis hood was her trainor and only companion before me. sis hood went home the day after thanksgiving.
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4....nana hood, my baby girl & me !
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5...s.black & i with diantha & whitney on exchanges ! this is when diantha (brwn hair) and i went on exchanges and met JO
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6...our crazy ZL's elders jolley & pulley ! elders i spoke in sacrament with... love them
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7...s.black & i @ service @ the botanical gardens !
gma- i got my package today! thankyou thankyou! i loved hearing everyone! A. tammie is still a brat, gpa gave me a play by play! my dad thinks i threw away the turkey suringes things for deep frying the turkey, i didn't hear from rocky at all and ya.... it was a crazy house! it made my day! i can't wait for more! i will send you one soon too! lvoe sis black
Monday, December 1, 2008
you gotta ALWAYS feed the missionaries
Your LIttle missionary girl
Friday, November 28, 2008
News from a Packer
Oh steph... before I forget. I flew in to Milwaukee on Tuesday and the first thing we did was go downtown and talk to people/ sing hymns in one of the parks (Milwaukee has parks EVERYWHERE! I love it) decorated for Christmas by the elementary school. It was so fun. But my mission President said that someday i will have to go to White Fish Bay bc it is the cutest little community! Isn't that where you looked? I am almost sure that it is! I am so in love with the architecture here steph. It is beautiful.
Mom- this is where all our TLC and HGTV shows are filmed... i am convinced. so great. people love their pets here. I am so SO sick of cats and dogs... every house has at least one... except my favorite investigators- the huntleys. beth the mom is so proper... no pets for her.. too dirty! hallelugiah!
k so thanksgiving am, which was my first whole day here in GB, we went to do service at a turkey trot like the one Reg and I ran in 2 years ago. We passed out t-shirts, it was great. I didn't know my mission would be this fun. WE DO TONS OF SERVICE, i love it. we met 2 potential investigators there who were volunteering too. in WI all the kids have to have 24 hrs of comm service to graduate HS. Zerick, yes Zerick (17), and his mom wendy were doing service to meet his hrs. We're going to recruit them to do some svc with us at the botanical gardens coming up bc he needs more svc. After that we went and visited our investigators and less actives and then went to the brundickies for dinner. thanksgiving dinner! it was great. they are an amazing family. they have a daughter at byu. we watched the movie sons of provo with them and then played catch phrase and apples to apples. it was a good day. I thought of home though! How did thanksgiving go with BOTH sides of the family all together? good? tell me how it went! YOu're off the hook for a long time now right mom?
After dinner we went to the huntleys for pie and hot chocolate (coffee is HUGE HERE! they all love it, but since we're missionaries they gave us Hot chocolate) . it was good to meet their family. they are investigators who have a STRONG methodist background. they love us though. beth's parents were there. they love me! :) haha jk we'll get them though. they just need to be mormon. the spirit dwells in their home, she is a great mom and he's a great dad. I am excited for them.
TATUM HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON THE 1st!!! I love you!!!
We are also big on the University of Wisconsin Greenbay Campus. it is so fun to be on a college campus. they know NOTHING of mormons. we are doing a booth here called mormon myth busters next week where people can put questions in a box then holding a seminar to answer the questions and have dinner. I am excited. We get to do lots of creative things like that.
We work with the elders a lot which is fun. OUr ward has 2 sets of missionaries. us and the elders. we get east of the fox river and they get west. but we still do lots with them and sometimes team up teaching families with both of us. I love our elders.
Oh i saw elder goldman on wednesday during transfers, he went home today. he loved it here and they love him. good kid. it was fun to see someone i knew.
This morning was the wards Football turkey bowl, they do it the day after. sis warner and i went and played. yes i played. crazy i know. it was SO Fun. and the huntleys came (the dad, and 3 sons: 19, 12, 5)! they got to meet more men and boys and have fun. I did well. lets just leave it at that, and i have some bruises! from 2 hand TOUCH!!! crazy!
Football is HUGE here. HUGE! every kid plays! Go Packers! seriously it is out of control. K i know i have rambled and rambled but i was so excited to email. life is SO good for me! I love WI! I could live here! The people are all so nice and so great! the weather is cold... but bearable for now. Everyone that hears I am from phx just laughs.our apt has 2 bedrooms and 2 baths.. so we each have our own bathroom.. SO NICE and then a study and our room. a big closet too :)
SEND ALL MY STUFF TO THIS ADDRESS FROM NOW ON!
Sister Black
2970 Mossy Oak Circle #85
Greenbay, WI 54311
mom- did you send my box throught the USPS?? let me know... SOON. EMAIL ME! EMAIL ME EMAIL ME! I will check this again on monday!!!
Right now i am on the UWGB campus. k i know this was all over the place. i will do a better job on monday. but its great here. great. ps i played football today, just in sweats and a long sleeve shirt. be proud be proud!
Brittany, I love you SO much! Happy 19!! you are the best! really you are! you have a card on it's way! i cannot believe you are almost out of your teens. feel old? he hee. thanks for being my blogwatcher! I hear you did a great job with the design of it! thanks a million! keep mom sane!
Dad i love you! where are my 2 a day dearelders? i'm dying here!!! will you be sure to email me at this address and tell me how you sent my box, please? and just one dearelder every day will work (or every two days at the VERY LEAST!) you all take turns! everyone write me a different day! I like getting mail everyday! am i a brat? maybe, but you know you like it.
I love being a missionary. this is the greatest mission EVER!! I love it here. We are so.... NORMAL. don't know much else how to put it. love it. k I will talk to you all later. hope thanksgiving went great. and your birthday mom.
Steph, sorry i know your messages get all jumbled in here, but just wanted to do one big one today... I won't always do this. but tell the childrens hi for me and that i love them~ especially my little Edawg. haha umm so EMAIL me or write me or whatever, but what's your story? Give me the scoop. and don't be ridiculous and go all missionary on me. haha just WRite me! i am having withdrawals.
K I love ALL of you! hey rocky! hey grandma! I am about due for another pedicure!! and manicure for that matter, last time i painted my nails was with Layners in the mtc... to match my toes! hhaaha gma- we're gettin one the minute i come off the plane! haha it's too cold for my toes to ever show now! i wear tights and leg warmers everyday... pretty cute! i love leg warmers.
k random... i know. i am really going now!! i lvoe you all! bye!!
Ps the church is true and missionary work makes me SO happy. I love it!
PSS Hi Chandler and Brady! How are you elders!? I know i know... mass emails suck. i have a lot to say to everyone though... get over it! I love being a missionary though. this is the LIFE!!! you two are both bad about this lately. write me punks!!!
oh and mom and dad... you are going to love coming back and visiting with me. this place is so SO beautiful! and i get to go to chicago a few times to go to the temple!!! yeah!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Call...
Let me tell you how I woke up: My grandma is shaking me awake, my mom is walking around crying talking on the phone. My grandma keeps saying, "Where is your cell phone? Call your dad." Well, I am thinking: "Pam is sick, hurt, needs help."
NO, she got to call because she is getting on the plane and leaving to Wisconsin today. Oh my goodness. I was half awake calling my dad giving him a phone number. I love me mom so much. She is brilliant, but she asked while I was giving the phone number, "Is dad going to call Pamella?" "No mom. He said, 'Nahh, I am good.' Of course he is going to call!"
So it was a quite a morning in the Black house. It was so nice to talk to Sister Black. Although, she did raise her voice to me and tell me to hold on. Not a missionary quality. And my mother hogged the phone, so I got to talk to her for like a second. She told my mom "Knock it off mom, stop crying."
Sister Black loves the MTC, she said it was like home. And we asked her if she was excited to go to Milwaukee. She said yes, but then said it was hard to explain what it was like but told us funny stories about the Elders. All the Elders have girlfriends, and that makes them all laugh.
Sister Black said, "Thanks Sister Lee for writing her! (I believe that the correct name... sorry if its wrong.) And thanks for all my letters! I love when I get letters! So write write write write. Why doesn't Stephanie e-mail me?"
Haha, so she asked for pictures. Please send her happy uplifting pictures.
My mom's birthday is tomorrow, and I worry that no present can top this call.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
your little missionary girl
HI Family!!!
Well once again the time is ticking down, 26 minutes to write this! only right now it's only 6:24AM! Ya I know! Crazy! Today, tuesday, is Pday and the best time to do laundry is early... at like 6. so that's what we do! I just don't talk to anyone til about 8. I think it is for the greater good. I think all the girls finally get me... i'm not mad, i just don't want to talk to you this early! :) I tried to smile but that ends up looking painful so i stopped.
Before I get in to the heart of things... what's with the mail system? HA i think it takes my hand written letters almost a week to get to you!!! that's ridiculous!! I send letters out on tuesday on you all get them on saturday. Maybe they don't pick up mail from the mtc everyday? that's wierd. I don't know, but i figured it would take only a day or two.
Well I GOT MY FLIGHT PLANS ON FRIDAY!!! Yeah! YOu want to know what they are? well i can't tell you!! HAHA chill out mom yes i can. Here they are: Depart november 25th from SLC at 9:24 on flight 584 to Denver with frontier Airlines arriving at 10:50. Then our connecting flight in denver is flight 370 at 11:30 arriving in Milwaukee at 2:43 also with frontier!! Isn't that exciting? I leave the MTC a week from today! I can't believe it! I don't want to leave this little bubble where I get to learn and everyone is so helpful and everything is geared to help me!! but I will and I will love it i am sure! There are four people in my flight group, I am the travel leader... aka I babysit the elders and make sure they don't do anything stupid. I am already prepping them for the flight. But they are convinced they will sit behind me and kick my seat the whole way! in that case they will die!
SO i have written a whole lot of nothing so far... sorry it's early, i will hand write letters later today, after a much needed nap...
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO IS SO DILLIGENTLY WRITING ME!!! I am such a lucky girl to have such good friends and family. I have gotten at LEAST one letter a day. yesterday i got 10! Most of those were the NIENIE dialogues... but I still love hearing from you all. Keep it up! dearelder goes to my mission,,, doesn't it?
I Got 2 packages in one day last week... cinomman rolls(i know that is not spelled right, but deal with it? ok... I ONLY HAVE 14 minuteS!!!) haha the funny thing is i think the elders only use like 10 min on email. they don't understand why i get so nervous... haha i am longwinded... as just demonstrated. ok so ya those ROLLS were SO good! are so good! I still have some. ALl of us in my hall have had some. AND Grandma and grandpa!... thanks for the protein bars... they are saving my life here! now i can just take one to the cafeteria and spare myself of the intersting entree... like yesterday- enchiladas... i was so excited ya they had velveeta or nacho cheese or something in the middle... i am so NOT a fan. I miss my homemade tamales and mexican food!! for sure. Just food for thought... please send all heavy packages to wisconsin... i have to make my luggage meet the weight requirements.... thank you! I love you guys! i feel loved ... the elders feel abandoned with one or two letters a week when I get 20!! I love to hear about your day to day life! It keeps me going!!
OK ... so everyone who has written me.. i am so sorry i can not write you all back! Missionary life is SO busy! Every second is planned. but I have heard from ALyssa Badertscher! she is a favorite for sure! Alyssa you'd love a mission! Sister Stork! that was such a pleasant surprise! and Cami King! thanks cami!! let your kids write me! i'd love that!
DId you all get the pics i sent yet? well we took more on sunday and will take more this week... when i am in WI i will send my chip home so you can post pics on my blog. i have lots of chips so that will work great. BRITT WHERE IS MY IPOD?? i love your letters too ps. you ramble on in your letter just like in real life. and i laugh. out loud usually because of your ridiculousness! don't get offended. its good. haha i let sis baldwin a sister read your letters all the time. she thinks you're funny too. anyways I feel like i have taken a vow of silence!! PLEASE have it waiting for me in WI! thanks princess...
Grandma and Grandpa, I am handwriting you a letter today but i lvoe you guys... AH 3 minutes. this is ridiculous I am going to get an ulcer!! haaha I got the letter about sophie and chloe! i miss them! A LOT! write me sarah!!! I LVOE YOU ALL.. k I LOVE you all!! MISs you and think of you EVERY DAY! THIS GOSPEL IS ALL ABOUT FAMILIES... they are forever!!! thank goodness!!!
love your little missionary girl!!
SIS pamella jo black!!
write me emails too!!! I didn't have any in the inbox!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Grab a pen and paper!
Sister Pamella Jo Black
MTC mailbox #266
WI-MIL 1125
2005 N. 900 E
Provo, Utah 84604-1793
She leaves the MTC on November 25.
Then you can send all letters to:
Sister Pamella Jo Black
Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission
5651 Broad St.
Greendale, WI 53129-1889
And you can send all packages to:
Sister Pamella Jo Black
Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission
5651 Broad St. Ste 1
Greendale, WI 53129-1889
Thanks everyone for keeping in touch with little Pammy-Poo. I'll make sure to keep you all up to date with her travels here.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
She Speaks!
this is so nerve wracking! I have 23 minutes and 35 seconds to write this email with a little red timer that counts down at the top of the screen!!! AH, don't worry it won't be like this in the field! Man, so SO much has happened here in the past 6 days! I feel like i have been here for 6 months, seriously. I hear that in the mtc days pass like weeks and weeks pass like days! Its so so true!
SO... I have seen so many people i know here: Cara Shumway from ea, Bryna's little bro elder haymore, elder beus (bro beus's son! from ea) he was in my efy group, LAYNE, a girl that was michelles friend at byu- jacyln or sis hardcastle is my roommate, neighbors, people in my ward, people from ea, you name it! I love it here. I feel like I am at home! Living on 9th east, having Y mountain as my backdrop and hearing the roar from the stadium last saturday at the last home football game!
That being said missionaries live in a bubble... and I LIKE IT ALOT> we don't know anything that is going on! It's kind of nice! Except, I long to know what is going on in everyones lives, yesterday I got 8 letters. the elders in our district (they are the ones that pick up mail) said i was a brat for ever complaining about not getting mail! But i love to hear about day to day things... good job mom, dad and brittany! I feel like i am sitting right next to you when i read your letters! I love it! I read some parts out loud, like moms email to britt about her paper or dad and the manure and grass seed saga.. you know flies... scare the relatives away not smell SO good story! i loved it! will the grass be ready for thanks giving? MOm i love the work update! how is everyone? Is rebecca feeling better? Anna's wedding plans?
I am finally adjusting to having a companion EVERYWHERE I GO! at first i was so annoyed... but it wasn't her fault she had to come to me to the bathroom every HOUR since i drink so much water! haha also i am a freak about my nametag like i was about my cell phone: case in point i always forget it and am searching for it. i sometimes sleep with it on! I will be wierd when i get home. Prepare me a companion and a nametag! ps: i know this isn't relevant but i sleep with my thatcher bunny every night! haha all the girls make fun of me. I just don't care!!! haha i like it.
what is grandma's email? look up top. did i send it to the right address? let me know. if not please forward this to her and anyone else and then send me an email with their addresses. britt,., is yours right? i can only check this once a week for 30 minutes so while at the mtc I will only be writing one email! AH 11 minutes to go. haha this is insane. i hate timers!
Speaking of timers my stupid fossil watch isn't working again. I wore it upside down after gym yesterday and then dropped it in the shower in an effort to take it off and now the second hand only moves for a few seconds then stops. DUMB and i have to have a watch bc they don't believe in clocks here at the mtc. they don't want you to know you are spending 14 hours of your day in a desk in a classroom with the same four walls and only 1 window! haha it's true. 14 hours. but i am learning SOOO much. I love it here!
Mail is so great here! i love to get a piece everyday! i save it to read at night! encourage everyone to right me! I love love lvoe getting mail!!! Britt get on my roommates and friends! i need them!
mom will you send me the rest of my shirts either here or to WI? I need some more color in my life... but i am a dang cute missionary~ everyone always tells me that! haha we did good shopping.
I printed pics that I will send you soon... with my watch. they are still being printed. please send that watch back asap. without it or a CELL PHONE (which i still crave!!! and look for sometimes!) i don't know the time AT ALL!!!!
britt please forward me all my emails from my hotmail acct! thanks and you can post part of this email on facebook if you'd like! and on my blog of course!!!
Can you send me my ipod and little dock? I am dying without music! i need all the efy music so it has a beat!!!
my days are long here but my stamina is getting better! i crave studying now!!!
Can you send my pearls to me??
mom we got sack lunches today on pday so we didn't have to get dresses to go into the cafeteria and we had ding dongs ... i thought of you!!
if this doesn't make sense it's bc i have no time!! i love you guys!! WRITE ME. one minute!!! ah. bye!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
SHE IS GONE!
Pamella reported to the MTC today.
We are so happy she is finally there,. Pamella was going nuts just waiting, and I think we said goodbye everyday for a week.... So its finally here! Get out your pen and paper!
Make sure to send her all your love! Here is her MTC address:
Sister Pamella Jo Black
MTC mailbox #266
WI-MIL 1125
2005 N. 900 E
Provo, Utah 84604-1793
She can receive mail here until November 25.
-brittany