24 September, 2012

[Calvin replied to my email this week. His email wouldn't make too much sense if I didn't include at least some of my email, so I'll leave parts of it in.]

So, this has been a great week. We have a baptism coming up on the 29th of september!!!!!!!! So, this is an exciting week for us. 

Oh, I wanted to tell you all that the feeding the missionaries every chance you could, well it worked. I have been well fed here. Chapel Hill is known Zone wide for being one of the best for feeding missionaries. Literally, every week we have 4-5 dinner appointments, and all the food is SPECTACULAR! And we get dessert every night, so my stomach is bulging out worse than ever, so it worked, I'm being fed well, don't worry. I havent stepped on the scale in awhile, that's how scared I am that I have gained weight. 

Oh! and Hatian food is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! just saying. 

So, on to responding to your email!

Dear Calvin,
  I am home from church today. I had another one of those episodes where I was thinking gibberish (although I think when I had the first one before you left on your mission I was hearing
gibberish) this morning. [My mind was putting words together like "squirrel history books."] It was kind of freaky.

Kind of like Quebecquoi? Lol, the people of Quebec are infamous for their breaking ALL the rules of French

Bay lolo, J'ai un flat tire, et un crack dans mon windshield. Yes. But I haven't run into any REAL Quebecquoi, Just Haitian French, which is really nice. Hatian people are the BEST. Anyways, tangent moment. 

 Tuesday the girls didn't have

practice, which was nice. So we stopped on the way home and let Toby out and made sure he was snug before we came home and waited out the storm. [We had a severe thunderstorm warning and were under a tornado watch] Miranda was freaking out, watching
out all the windows, but it was just fine.

We had a crazy weather day up here a while back, there were wall clouds, which were amazing! I got pictures. which I can't send because I have no time to buy Canadian stamps. Sorry. 

  Friday was the 75th Anniversary of the day "The Hobbit" was published so someone posted on facebook that it was "Second Breakfast at 11am." Miranda took an apple to school so that at
11am (or close to that time) she could walk by Chantal's study hall and throw the apple in the doorway and yell "second breakfast" kind of like in "The Fellowship of the Ring" when Strider
throws the apples at Pip and Merry? Chantal forgot the $3 she was supposed to give to someone for the tie dye shirts for Powder Puff Football for Homecoming, so I had to take it in to her. I
brought along some m&ms for [one of the women at school] (like I always do) and an apple, just in case Miranda had forgotten. After I gave [her] the candy (she laughed) I explained about the
money and I asked if I could take it to Chantal and I explained about the second breakfast apple. She thought that was really funny "Oh I have to see this! Let me go with you!" Of course
Chantal wasn't in her study hall, she had gotten a pass to go somewhere ELSE! So we had to track her down! And Miranda had remembered the apple, and the teacher's door was closed when
we got there, so I couldn't throw the apple at her, so all the dramatic fun was sucked out of it *sigh* oh well *frowny face*

No second breakfast?!?!?!?!? Well, that reminds me of the time me and my companion helped [a man] move in. I don't know how we got there conversationally, but all the sudden we are quoting Smeagol in the Smeagol voice, and making up this crazy story about how they downloaded the ring onto the internet, and Smeagol is trying to get it back, and my companion is looking at us like " oh my gosh, they have LOST IT!!!!" Lots of fun, and [the man] is awesome, he was the ward mission leader in his last ward, so he knows the ZL's because they are in his ward, anyways, so he loves missionaries, and he is this German guy, who speaks Mandarin and served his mission in England and is married to a South Korean woman who doesn't speak Mandarin, and they both met in Bejing? or Hong Kong? anyways, they are awesome. [He] has the BEST accent in the world. It is this beautiful German accent, and he is a big Sci-fi buff. He is pretty awesome! anyways, after an even bigger tangent moment....

  So that brings us to today and I'm home with this freaky migraine. It's almost 12:30 and I should get lunch started. I thought I'd make Lentil Shepherd's Pie

Yuck

 

- since you're the only one who
really doesn't like it and you're not here so we can eat it Yay!

  Anyway, lots of love and hugs. I'll try to get this package to you this week - this package I've been trying to mail to you for the past 3 weeks. It's not much really, just some little things
Sophie made for you in nursery.

I Cannot wait!!!!!! 

It's been getting cold here, and I thought about your winter things like your coat that was on the list of things that you needed. It must be getting cold up
there at night. Do we need to send you the money for your down coat and boots and gloves and stuff? Let us know okay?

I'll probably go shopping soon, but IDK. 

The mission home has a missionary free store, so I may get lots of things that way, no idea, I'll have to see.  

Love you!
Study your scriptures and Preach My Gospel!
Pray fervently!
Watch out for squirrel history books *giggle*
Love and hugs,
MoMM 

P.S.  When we were in town on Thursday we got gas at the station by BCC. Sophie said, "We have to go to school to get Calvin! We have to go to the beewding to get Calvin!" I asked her
"Where is Calvin?" She replied "Calvin is there [pointing to the mechanical building, or perhaps the library] in that beewding! We have to go get him." The I said, "No, you know where Calvin
is, where is he?" "Calvin is in Ottawa working on a paper." "No, Sophie, what is Calvin doing in Ottawa?" She said "Calvin is in Ottawa telling people about Heavenly Father."
  When we got to the game on Friday, Sophie had fallen asleep in the car on the way down. She saw the football players on the field inside the track and she exclaimed "Calvin! Hi Calvin!
Calvin, we see you play football!" I figured that she had just woken up, so she must be a little confused so I said, "Sophie, Calvin's not playing football," and I asked her "Where is Calvin?" She
replied, "Calvin is in Canada working on a paper." I said, "No, you know what Calvin is doing in Canada, what's he doing?" She replied "Calvin is in Ottawa teaching people about Jesus." Then
she was waving at the football players and cupping her mouth and yelling "Hi football players! Calvin is in Ottawa! Hi football players! Calvin is in Canada! We go watch the game! Calvin is in
Ottawa!" So even though she wasn't very old when you played football, she STILL remembers that you played!! And every time we go by BCC she says "We have to go get Calvin at school."

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Sophie! That is so funny!!! I can't wait to see her again!!!!! 

Anyways, I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
sorry this letter was a bit crazier, or less grammerically correct than others, but I was going for speed. 

Love you!!!!
Calvin