November 6, 2012

Dear Family,

This past week has solidified the fact that by serving a mission, I am in a bubble from the rest of the world. Fist of all, the hurricane here wasn't much of a hurricane in this part of New York. We had some high-ish winds and lost our power from 7:30 p.m. Monday to 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, but there wasn't any mass destruction. Here we were thinking the storm wasn't all it was hyped up to be until Tuesday we went to dinner at the bishops and he told us that New York City is practically under water?! And as for election stuff, we obviously have no clue what's going on. I wonder how long it will take for me to find out who won. Ha ha oh well, I like being in the NYRM bubble ;-)

So daylight savings time in New York? I HATE IT!! It's seriously the most terrible thing ever! It gets dark here at like 5:30 now! It's insane! Apparently by the end of December it will be getting dark closer to 4. Boo! Ha ha oh well, I'll get over it.

So this week has been a pretty good one. The sites have been super slow as a result of the hurricane, so we've had a lot of time to chat on Mormon.org, do online proselyting work and study study study! I started reading "Jesus The Christ" this week during downtime at the sites and during meal times. So far I really like it. It's pretty dense writing and I have my dictionary handy, but I really like it. One of the senior elders saw me reading it yesterday and told me that he reads it every year before Christmas and that he guesses he better get started. He reads it so fast! At the rate I'm reading it I'll be lucky to get it done before my birthday! ha ha

On a happy note, we got to go to the temple on Wednesday with the site missionaries. They had to split us in to two sessions, so since we live closer than a lot of the other sisters to the temple, we went to the 7:30 p.m. session. The temple is so awesome! It was a really neat experience to look around the room and see that I knew and love literally every person that was in the room with me. It was a little slice of heaven! And what a great way to spend our Halloween.

Anyway, I'm about out of time for this week. I feel like Heavenly Father is placing investigators in our path that are stretching us Spiritually, and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to grow. I know without a doubt that the Spirit is with us every step of the way. Through the hard times and the extremely happy ones, I LOVE being a missionary!

Love you all times a million! Thanks for all the love and support!

Love,

Sister Butters