Wokay! Not much time! Ah!
This week has been busy and good. Really random things made it good, methinks. For instance every Tuesday we get up at 5:50 and go do service, and this week the 4 Hermanas in my room were assigned to do floors! So! We got someone to mop and then took turns strapping cloth to our shoes and skating around, making up weird songs. So. Good. Just so you all know, I am building a sick set of abs because I laugh too much. Ahh yes.
Starting this week I've decided to make it a goal to memorize 50 Spanish vocab words a week. This means, dear friends, that I will have around 3500 extra ones memorized by the time I get home. WHATS UP.
We got a new teacher because Hermana Murillo's 3 years of working at the MTC are up and they only let you have 3 :( I was devestated. Our new teacher served her mission in Panama and her name is Hermana Graham. She's really nice...but doesn't seem to think we're as funny as we think we are. Lame. She also has really good consonants in her accent but then her vowels are flat. It's strange...and highly entertaining to listen to for all the wrong reasons.
I have an announcement! I have written another song while at the MTC. I was sitting studying one morning and then it popped in my head so I went to a piano really fast, jotted it down, and here it is. I'm stoked to record it when I get home after a while. It'll be rill nice. Keenan suggested I name it "Let's start again, shall we?" and I rather like it.
And I may tell all my bones
To stand aside; Awake my soul!
Await the day and shed the pain
The past can be so cold
An unforgiving pace of time
It's about time I changed my mind
Lay to waste the days of grey
Before we grow too old
Be not far from me
Be not thou far from me
And every day we're waging war
Do you know what you're fighting for?
This week has been busy and good. Really random things made it good, methinks. For instance every Tuesday we get up at 5:50 and go do service, and this week the 4 Hermanas in my room were assigned to do floors! So! We got someone to mop and then took turns strapping cloth to our shoes and skating around, making up weird songs. So. Good. Just so you all know, I am building a sick set of abs because I laugh too much. Ahh yes.
Starting this week I've decided to make it a goal to memorize 50 Spanish vocab words a week. This means, dear friends, that I will have around 3500 extra ones memorized by the time I get home. WHATS UP.
We got a new teacher because Hermana Murillo's 3 years of working at the MTC are up and they only let you have 3 :( I was devestated. Our new teacher served her mission in Panama and her name is Hermana Graham. She's really nice...but doesn't seem to think we're as funny as we think we are. Lame. She also has really good consonants in her accent but then her vowels are flat. It's strange...and highly entertaining to listen to for all the wrong reasons.
I have an announcement! I have written another song while at the MTC. I was sitting studying one morning and then it popped in my head so I went to a piano really fast, jotted it down, and here it is. I'm stoked to record it when I get home after a while. It'll be rill nice. Keenan suggested I name it "Let's start again, shall we?" and I rather like it.
And I may tell all my bones
To stand aside; Awake my soul!
Await the day and shed the pain
The past can be so cold
An unforgiving pace of time
It's about time I changed my mind
Lay to waste the days of grey
Before we grow too old
Be not far from me
Be not thou far from me
And every day we're waging war
Do you know what you're fighting for?
For truth, for hope, for strength to cope
To make it one more day
In this, you're not the only one
We fight until the night is done
Though scars and tears may paint the years
There is no other way
Be not far from me
Be not thou far from me
Perfect love casteth out all fear
I am not afraid
I got a letter from Emily DeKam yesterday saying that my album helped her through finals week and it absolutely made my life. SO HAPPY to hear things like that! I hope that at least while I'm gone the songs I've written will make their way to people who need them. One of these days I'll pick it back up and record some more. I love that feeling.
Ok so you're probably wondering what my theme-ish has been this week or at least what has been concocting in this brain o' mine. Basically, I've been thinking about how downright cool it is that everything in the gospel has ties to the natural world. Faith is like a seed, etc. This week I was wondering why it is so many people know of Christ and know they should have faith to "pick up their cross" and become more of who He would want them to be...and yet just don't do it. Why are so many people afraid of doing what's right? Well, it's the same reason we're afraid of exercise programs and diets. We know very well that they will make us healthier. We know with full hearts what it is we need to do- lose weight, eat healthier, build stronger muscles, etc. But it's not easy! It's actually really hard! Having faith and becoming a better person every day is hard too, you know? It takes effort and it takes swallowing a lot of pride. Fiona Apple has a line in one of her songs that says, "I could swallow the sea to wash down all this pride." Sounds about right to me.
Every year we make News Years Resolutions and every year there are people (I would venture to say the majority of us) who just let those resolutions drop. When are we going to take care of ourselves for real? Spend less money? Eat healthier? Run every day? Pray and read scriptures every day? If you are reading this and think you could honestly tell me that you don't feel the need to do any of those things I would be interested to hear it. We all do. So...what are we doing?
I hope this week is wonderful for everyone! I'll write again in a week (or sooner if you wrote me a letter cause I'll be writing responses today!)
Love,
Hermana Ray
To make it one more day
In this, you're not the only one
We fight until the night is done
Though scars and tears may paint the years
There is no other way
Be not far from me
Be not thou far from me
Perfect love casteth out all fear
I am not afraid
I got a letter from Emily DeKam yesterday saying that my album helped her through finals week and it absolutely made my life. SO HAPPY to hear things like that! I hope that at least while I'm gone the songs I've written will make their way to people who need them. One of these days I'll pick it back up and record some more. I love that feeling.
Ok so you're probably wondering what my theme-ish has been this week or at least what has been concocting in this brain o' mine. Basically, I've been thinking about how downright cool it is that everything in the gospel has ties to the natural world. Faith is like a seed, etc. This week I was wondering why it is so many people know of Christ and know they should have faith to "pick up their cross" and become more of who He would want them to be...and yet just don't do it. Why are so many people afraid of doing what's right? Well, it's the same reason we're afraid of exercise programs and diets. We know very well that they will make us healthier. We know with full hearts what it is we need to do- lose weight, eat healthier, build stronger muscles, etc. But it's not easy! It's actually really hard! Having faith and becoming a better person every day is hard too, you know? It takes effort and it takes swallowing a lot of pride. Fiona Apple has a line in one of her songs that says, "I could swallow the sea to wash down all this pride." Sounds about right to me.
Every year we make News Years Resolutions and every year there are people (I would venture to say the majority of us) who just let those resolutions drop. When are we going to take care of ourselves for real? Spend less money? Eat healthier? Run every day? Pray and read scriptures every day? If you are reading this and think you could honestly tell me that you don't feel the need to do any of those things I would be interested to hear it. We all do. So...what are we doing?
I hope this week is wonderful for everyone! I'll write again in a week (or sooner if you wrote me a letter cause I'll be writing responses today!)
Love,
Hermana Ray
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