Hey y'all!
[Summary at the very bottom cuz I know not everyone has the time or attention span to read this.]
Once upon a time there were four young sister missionaries living together in a city called Goldsboro located in the North Carolina Raleigh mission. Each Sister had different traits, origins, and cultures.
The first, Sister Jones, was very stylish and fun. She came from Seattle Washington and she's a triplet. Before her mission she was a ballroom dancer at BYU. She is trendy, friendly and fun. She is easy to laugh with.
The second, Sister Colasurdo, no one quite knows how to say her name. She's been nicknamed Sister French though her name is Italian. She too is stylish. She loves cheese and if she eats gluten she may suffer for weeks after just one crumb that touched a crumb of gluten. (Celiac is real and it's bad.) She is bold and loving and open and honest. A diligent disciple.
Thirdly, Sister Tingey, she recently came to the mission from a historical site where she had to wear pioneer dresses everyday, where she wasn't allowed to have braided hair so that people would be less likely to see her and think ah yes Mormons and polygamy. Sister Tingey is a Sister of great style and of great love. She has charity and can easily identify the miracles we are blessed with. She's a delight.
Finally is Sister Owens. You know her. She's a hoot and a half.
Each of these Sisters have a few wonderful common traits. Each are hard working, loving, missionaries. Each have their own challenges and each strive to do their best and to become better each day. You may notice I mention their styles and that is because we all wear clothes. We love clothes, an appropriate amount.
Alas, here the challenge comes in. We four, together face the great and terrible adversity of not having a functioning dryer. It's been weeks.
The lack of dryer paired with the humidity leads to some woes.
But we four are facing it very bravely. We begin now to understand the Law of Consecration and have been borrowing one another's clothes.
The four of us through this unique challenge have become more unified, more united.
While not having a dryer is tough, we know that like Joseph Smith in Liberty jail, “[our] afflictions shall be but a small moment,” indeed the Lord has said, “My [daughters], peace be unto th[ine] soul[s].” (Doctrine & Covenants 121:7)
We will look forward in faith and in wet clothes as we go about the work of salvation!
“Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ [even if all ye have is wet clothes], having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life [and dry clothes, eventually].”
(2 Nephi 31:20)
And so we press forward with a steadfastness in Christ and in our wet clothes.
Still holding to the rod,
Sister Owens
(Also featuring, Sister Jones, Sister Colasurdo, & Sister Tingey)
Summary: The whole email is me being melodramatic about not having a dryer.
Here's the link to my mission pictures album:
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