5/27/13
Aloooooooohhhhhhhhhaaaaa!
Aloha familia!
This week has seemed pretty long for
me too. I love all the pics you send!!!!! Alex is sooooo cute and I brag about
him to everyone! I want so bad to be able to cuddle him! Make sure to give him
a big kiss from me ok?! That picture of Alexa and Chelsea is so cute as well!
What beautiful sisters I have! I love and miss you all so much! HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TIFFANY!!!!!!! Did you get my card that I sent? I thought it was pretty
cute and all the little girls made me think of you for some reason:) So
excited to hear about Tonya and Kyle! That will be sooooo fun!!! So, thanks for
the offer for sunscreen:) I think I will be ok now though. The other day
sister Mark looked at me and said, "oh Hermana, why are you so red?!"
I told her that that is what happens when they take me out of a cubicle and
make me walk all over Laie in the blazing sun:) It is turning into a tan now
though:) I'll have to take a picture of my "mission tattoo" the
tan that comes from the sandals that they give us here:) Only in Hawaii:)
This week has been full of trying to
contact people and teaching lessons. We literally have been running from
appointment to appointment. There are a few people that we haven't been able to
meet cause we cannot catch them at home or they don't show up to their
appointments but we are still trying. We have been teaching the Marshallese the
most. Tom and Nercy in particular. It is pulling teeth to get them to show up
at church! Not because they don't want to go, but because it is at 8 in the
morning and they have such a hard time getting up that early. We got Nercy
there by arranging a ride and then calling her in the morning to make sure she
was ready. She said she enjoyed it so we will see how this pans out.
We did find out that they LOVE
"I am a child of God" I was on exchanges with sister Ogawa and we
decided to sing that for them the other day because they were so busy with
midterms and we didn't want to interrupt them too much so we just sang and
prayed and they just went on and on about how amazing that song was! Funny how
a little primary song can make such an impact.
That day with sister Ogawa was really
great too cause we got to use her car and we visited so many more people! We
went to this one house with this less active and as we were walking out it
started raining really hard. A member nearby asked if we needed a ride and I
turned and said, "no that's ok, our cow is down the road. Well, car! I
mean car!" haha, we were laughing so hard and the member just looked at us
weird and said "ok, have a good day." Sister Ogawa was like, "ok
Sister Rowley, let's go get in our cow now so we don't get wet!" :D
Sister Jones and I are really
getting along so well and it has been so good working in this area where we
have so much to do. Thankfully my sickness only lasted those two or three days.
Things at the visitor center are going well also. Problem is, since I am no
longer an online sister, I don't have as much time to contact all our
investigators! We definitely need more hours in the day! I did find out that
Kishore, one of the investigators from India that Sister Mckeever and I had
found on chat, was just baptized on Tiffany's birthday! The 25th! So exciting!
He also got the call as a Sunday School teacher and he is so happy to be a
member of the church! I also just received an email from Brandon. He is in New
Jersey now with his family and was asked by the Stake President to speak at
there Stake conference! He said that he got to bear his testimony with his
whole family there and it was such a good experience!
I am still loving this work! It is
amazing to me how I can still be learning so much! I got a chance to kind of
use my Spanish this week since they have been doing construction on our pad and
all the workers are Spanish. I was doing my language study one of the days,
reading out of the Book of Mormon when one of the workers said, "Sister,
your speaking Spanish...Why?" After that all of them started speaking to
us:) A lot of them were not members so it was kinda fun to be able to talk to
them a bit.
I love you all so much! You are all
such great examples to me and I am so grateful! I miss you all an continue to
pray for you always!
Les Quiero,
Hermana Rowley (Shayla)
Thanks so much for telling me about
Alexa's blessing! I can't wait to hear more! That is so cool! As for food that
I miss, I really miss your enchaladas but don't send those it just won't be the
same:) I'll wait till I get home for those:) The sandals I have are just fine
so no need for those. I honestly don't know what to ask for my bday! If P90X is
not too expensive, that's the only thing I could think of that I would like. I
am going to return half of those close cause I really don't need them and the
skirt is slightly tight and I don't feel good about spending that much on
something that is too small. Hopefully I will be able to go to Ross soon! I do
have a bunch of warts that I am getting sick of. I am going to look at foodland
to see if they have a remover that would be affordable but I don't know. I just
want to get rid of them. I would love any of the pictures that you have been
sending me! I put them in my book that I have here and show them off to
everyone. I love you so much mom! I miss you so much as well! Thank you for
being the best mom ever!
love, Shayla
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