What is this? It's P-Day already?! My goodness, time flies when
you're having fun! I hope you are all doing amazing. First of all, I
would just like to say... HAPPY SPRING! In Montreal, anyway. The earth
is FINALLY beginning to awake, and my inner nature goddess is bursting
forth! Such an incredible feeling! The grass is green and the city is
spotted with lovely, tiny, purple flowers. I'M SO PUMPED! Hopefully the
nightmarish winter months are coming to an end. Bring on the humidity
and sweaty French-Canadian metro-dwellers! Je l'aime!
This week was CRAY CRAY (crazy). Sooo much drama in
the district! Ha okay, not really, but I've been doing a pretty good job
of offending les elders everywhere I go. So last P-Day our district was
gathering at the church to play Big Booty. ...Guess who was the biggest
(and sexiest) booty. Ha ha that's not really related to the story, but I
just wanted to remind you all of how unbelievably curvaceous I am.
ANYWAY. Sister Funny Cello and I were walking up to l'église when
suddenly we see an elder on the side of the road SANS COMPANION. And
well, you know me. I'm a busy body. So I smirk at him and I'm like,
"Elder, WHERE is your companion?" And he barks back at me, "I'm sorry,
I'm just so FRUSTRATED right now!!!" and then storms off. Being the
insensitive jerk that I am, I yell back, "Psh. Where'd you hide the
body?" As I'm laughing to myself about how funny I am, and this elder is
running off in tears, Sister Foniciello just looks at me IN HORROR.
Turns out he was legitimately in distress. My bad! The sun was in his
face! I couldn't tell, I swear. Now everyone in the district thinks I'm
just a cruel, cruel, snarky sista. No bueno. BUT! I'm learnding.
I was punished for my insensitivity a few days later
with a gnarly cold, so justice was served. Lucky for me I have the
sweetest roommates on the planet, so Sister Murdoch nursed me back to
health with fresh-baked cookies and doTerra oils. She is such a gem! I
am so blessed, and am now on the mend.
My investigators are doing well! We braved going to
see the prophetess again, and this time she wasn't hopped up on
goofballs, so our lesson actually went well. I have a feeling she's
going to become an eternal investigator, but we'll see how that goes.
We're also teaching THE SWEETEST nine-year-old boy from the ward right
now. His little sister reminds me so much of sweet little Lily when she
was a wee babe. She's excited that we're reading "The Book of Muffin"
with her big brother. So precious. Honestly, I have never met a sweeter
family in all of my life. Gaaaah! The cute families in this city are
making me baby hungry! It's a good thing I am HERE and not home at the
BYU marriage market. For now I'm going to have to settle with being a
mission mommy, but still... BABIES!
Okay, so the highlight of the week was our ward's
multicultural event that the ZL's, AP's, and Sister Foniciello and I put
together. Dang, they know how to PARTAY out here in Montreal! Our ward
is comprised of virtually every nationality on the planet, so we
seriously had diversity EXPLODE all over the cultural hall. SO FUN! We
ate exorbitant amounts of food from around the world, and the
Phillipinas, Colombians, and Hondurans all performed native dances. Sooo
culturally enlightening! I'm in love. It took us the whole afternoon to
decorate, but it was definitely worth it. My super fly ward mission
leader tried to sneak me some apostate music (non-missionary approved
music) while we were decorating. He turned on "Kryptonite" by Three
Doors Down, and so much of my childhood flooded back to me. I was like,
"Aaaaah, this is my JAM!" and I was boppin around the cultural hall with
my exacto knife having the greatest time; then the zone leaders saw
that I was quickly turning pagan, so they made us listen to EFY music
and the "Brand New Year" soundtrack. Which, to be honest, is the MOST
irreverent thing I have ever encountered. So the set up was torture, but
the PARTAY was a success! My ward is A-MAZING. The kids (and Sister
Cutler *secretly*) danced to Gangnam style. The APs caught me...whoops.
NOT ALLOWED. Still, it made me miss my peeps and prancing around the
house like a Korean with Daniel and Lil. Everyone had a great time and
we got to know the ward even better. It was one of the most perfect days
on my mission. I am so lucky to be here! It's like I'm serving in
twenty different countries. Seriously, I'm loving every minute in this
crazy town.
I hope everyone has an amazing week! SHOUT OUT to
Shannon Whiteley on her mission farewell yesterday! I heard you looked
gorgeous and gave an incredible talk! (Don't ask me who I heard that
from...;) ) You will be sensational! I'm so happy for you. The MTC is a
joke. Hang in there... Poland will be fab! So proud! Missions are the
best thing you could possibly do, trust me. :) Anyway, I hope everyone
is doing well. Thank you to my main squeeze Robin for FINALLY sending me
a letter! Took you long enough. I have yet to hear news on your mission
call. Anyway, please know that you are all loved and missed more than I
can possibly describe. BIG LOVES and HUGS!
Love,
Sister Cutler
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