Ya, 3 years of language just looks better on your application, it's not
required- so yay for Jenna dropping it! Ms Angela is the best and I love her-
please tell her I said so!!!
I am currently sending KK all of my good luck vibes for her tryouts. And
I'll send the rest to Jenna next week :) Volleyball is pretty sweet- I think
I'm gonna come back a true playa cuz I'm working on my skillz out here! I'm not
too shabby according to Sister Brown!!! I miss sports in HS though, those were
the good ole days- cherish em girls!!! Way to go Camrie and Haley- I love those girls/their families :D We got a
good group of ppl out there in CO. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE ITS BEEN 26 YEARS!!!!! WOWEE! Have a
fantastic time celebrating that!
My week was pretty much amazing. I don't really remember any of it except
for this weekend though, so bear with me in this letter!
I know we did service at one point- we pulled weeds for a member in their
huge 10x4 garden. That was a little hot and sweaty, but we got oatmeal chocolate
chip cookies so whatever. It was worth it.
We also visited the squirrel man's house and he showed us a super sketch
video. We were having a good lesson and he goes "lemme pull up the beginning of
this video on Netflix, it's about a Mormon missionary who's really an axe
murderer but the beginning is so real!" and Sister Brown and I turned to each
other like "whaaaaaaa?????". Anyways we were like 'nah. don't. please leave it
off.' but he pulled it up anyways, and just on the opening credits you could
feel the Spirit leave. We got such a bad feeling, and both of us were
holding up BoMs so we didn't have to look at the screen and we were trying to
bring the Spirit back but the movie is sooo sketch. It was horrible. Long story
short, we left in like 2 seconds. Like bye, we out. We are not about dat
life.
COOL STORY: We went to an apartment complex that you have to use buzzers to
get in!!!!! I'm really in the east coast!!! I was sooooo excited! The people
living there were probably creeped out, but whatever. It was cool!
COOLER STORY: We've started up a Friday night sports night for our ward! We
let everyone know about it and we tell them all to bring their friends too so we
got a huge turnout last week! A lot of less actives and recent converts came and
it was just an awesome night! Yay for using sports to bring people to the
gospel!
COOLEST STORY: I went to the temple on Saturday! I went inside NYC! I went
through the Lincoln Tunnel! I walked the streets of NYC! It was fantastic!
You're just driving along in NY and trying to avoid death-by-taxi-drivers when
all the sudden- BAM- the temple! It's just right there on the corner next to
Central Park and the Lincoln Center. It's wonderful. You walk inside and the
sounds just fade. It's so quiet in there. In the session I actually forgot I was
in NY for a while. It's so beautiful too! The inside, it is just gorgeous stained
glass and marble and silver and gold and clean and pure and white and celestial.
I loved it! I learned so many new things this trip too! I don't know if it was
just because its my first time in the mission field, or because the thing that's
sometimes switched in the temple was new and everything about it was amazing
(like the others, but I understood so much more this time). Idk, but whatever
the reason, so much was clarified and expounded upon and built upon on this
trip. I love it! The blessings of the temple are endless. I love thinking about the
covenants we make there and the blessings that God will give us for following
the gospel and doing as He commands. As President Monson said "Always have the
temple in your sights!". There is no better place to be. There is
no place more holy on earth. You have to get there. It is
SO amazing.
After the temple we went to Maplewood where S. Brown's Recent Converts are
from. It's straight up hood. It's awesome. I loved the people she introduced me
too, they're all so real there.
Yesterday was S.Brown's bday, so we celebrated that at the Cardoso's. She's
so sweet. She made 2 cakes and got presents and everything- some for me too! We
love her so much, and she's really going through a hard time right now- so if
y'all could pray for her that'd be wonderful! I know
that S.Brown and I are both here for her. It's crazy to realize your purpose out here. I love these people so much,
and it really breaks my heart when they are hurting. S.Brown and I's eyes are
soooo puffy this morning from last night.
Anyways, that's basically all I got this week! Sorry for the shortness of
the letter, my brain is so fried right now! I can't remember what happened on
Friday, let alone Tues. Hopefully next weeks will be better! I love you
all!!!
Stay Jersey Strong.
Love,
Sister McAllister
PS My bishop is going to Denver today...not jealous at all.
PPS I wrote this and didn't know where it could fit logically in my letter
(#Spock) so here: Some things you need to know about Jersey: they take their
pizza VERY seriously, sometimes there are 5 pizza parlors on one block, you pay
AFTER you eat anywhere, sometimes in order to turn left you must FIRST turn
right, left turn lanes seldom exist, 2 lane roads don't exist unless you're on
the parkway, you can't turn right on a red light, the majority of cop cars are
undercover, no one likes wearing clothes apparently
#ShortsThatAreBasicallyUnderwear, if you're not going 20 over- you're slow,
ain't nobody got time for nothin, bus stops exist every 50ft, there are large
communities of Jewish people, there are Catholic high schools in every town,
there are lots of Hindus with cool clothes, little dogs are the only dogs,
foreign-accent interpretation is a survival skill, tolls are life, ceiling
lights don't exist #LampsEverywhere, sink disposals are a foreign concept, what
is AC that's not a swamp cooler?, people would rather have a cool car than a
nice house, if you smile at the cashier they ask "why you so happy? I didn't do
nothin for ya...", if you're nice to strangers you're basically an alien from
the depths of space, parallel parking is the only way to park, and I apparently
have an accent.
Their temple group
Sis. Brown's bday dinner
One of the 1st military pocket sized BoM dated 1943
Avenger socks for $3
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