Missionary Letter #13 (December 29, 2010)

so sis g kept having problems with her debit card and it not working, for like a month and a half, and she got permission to call home and call her bank in hawaii and everything, and we could only call them at like 10 at night because of the time difference and so finally they were like, "okay, go check and see if it works at an atm" and so we called the zone leaders to ask if we could go to check her card. so anyway, on monday sis g could finally go shopping!

we had boxing day off on sunday as well. so we had another christmas sacrament meeting. and guess what happened? a fair amount of people were out of town, so before it started someone came up to the front and was like, "can anyone play the piano?" so of course i raise my hand. (of course?? i never did that at home.) anyway, so got to play for them! i've been practicing hymns though between lessons, i'm so much better at playing them! yay. we were singing number 211, which like no one ever sings, and so basically no one knew it, and a member of the bishopric came up in the MIDDLE of the song and was like, "could you stop right there, that sounds terrible." haha! so then he was like, "could you at least TRY to look happy while your singing? that sounds awful." and then all these members of the congregation started to break out and be like, "we don't know the tune! if we could sing it to a different tune we could--" "we don't know it!" and finally someone was like, "number 201! let's sing joy to the world!" i was cracking up! all these english people just discussing all of this. and i just stopped playing and listened, and then when she said that i just turned back around and started playing. hahaha! it was hilarious.

our heating went out on monday morning, and they have to wait for shops to open again next week because guess what? england tries to make every excuse to take time off work. haha! so we have to wait for the shops to open so the landlord can order a part and then we have to wait for the part to come in. so we have an electric heater, which we all sit next to, and then we're okay at night and he's bringing a space heater. but for some reason there's enough hot water for one person to take a shower a day. so i had taken a shower on saturday, and then i didn't get a chance again until this morning!! and now i probably won't shower til saturday. so that's not too fun. we drink a lot of tea now and bring our duvets down while we study and eat and everything.

love you all so much!