Dear Family, Friends,
and Faithful Blog Stalkers.... er I mean Followers (Ha! Ha! TayTay that was for
you),
This may or may not be
my last e-mail home as a missionary....
The last couple days
are going to be kind of nuts and I’m not really sure what is going to happen
and if we will have to opportunity to write home. Monday is the day that we get to go
visit our converts! Woot. (My mamita, Hermana Jenny, is going to be my
temporary companion!!!... I’m so excited!)... So, I thought I would make this
e-mail as “farewelly’ as I can... (even though I’m sure most of you think that
it is a “homecoming” that is coming up.... it really is more of a farewell for
me....)
News Update = My
companion is being sent home this Friday. Her tumor is progressive and there is a slight
chance that it could be the first stages of cancer... So yeah… We are both
packing to come home. The days of Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday I have NO idea where I will be, with whom I will
be, or what I will be doing.... (It’s all so mysterious!!...Ha! Ha! Ha! JK...)
Even though the last
week, my mission is not ending on how I planned... Actually, nothing of my
mission has gone how I had always imagined or planned it… all is well :)
My health situation/official
verdict is that... I have anemia. Yep,
my blood just loves being crappy!... Ha! Ha!
I’m doing better with that. I’ve
been taking iron pills the past week and about 2 days ago, I started feeling
better. (AKA, no more dizzy-ness,
tiredness, or vomiting... finally!)
Yesterday, we had zone
conference. My last official zone
conference... weird... It left me with
two feelings...
1. How sad I am to be leaving this work.... I
seriously LOVE being a missionary!! It
has been the most rewarding, most gratifying, most spiritual, most hilarious,
most scary, most crazy, hard, and ridiculous experience of my life!!! I’m sad to say goodbye to it.....but
2. I’m so excited to be a
part of missionary work as a member!!!! I’m just experiencing sooo many mixed
and crazy emotions right now. I’m pretty
sure that they are completely normal, they just make me a little crazy! Ha!
Ok guys, I have a
favor to ask of you all... So, in my group of missionaries coming home there
are lots of people, so when I get to the airport y´all have to be (first of all
on time... I don’t want to be a loser like Brandon was... Ha! Ha! Ha! JK ! I
LOVE YOU, BRANDON!!) just SOOOOO happy
to see me (definitely making a scene and what not), so that the whole airport
knows that I’m the most loved!... Yeah! (Just kidding! I don’t really care how you act, I’m going to
be balling my eyes out either way...I just wanted to be funny... ;)
Anyway.....
I’m really excited to
see you all!! I’m pretty scared too... I’m
scared and excited. It will be good
though.
Hey, so remember that
poem that I wrote in elementary school that won first place at the district/region
reflections contest? Well anyway, part
of it came into my head the other day, but I couldn’t remember all of it, so I
re-wrote what I couldn’t remember....
The theme of the
contest was, Dr. Seuss’s, “Oh, The Places You´ll Go”.... My poem goes like
this...
“Oh, The Places You´ll
Go” by a girl named Sarah Hermansen
Oh the places you’ll
go!
How you’ll be able to
grow.
Though it may be hard
at times,
Happy memories will
ring like chimes.
Easy or not you’ll be
there soon,
People you’ll meet
while watching the moon!
Laughing happily all
along the way,
And sometimes even
crying to make it through the day...
Counting all your
blessings,
Even when it’s hard.
Smiling through your
wounds’ dressings,
Yearning to explore
beyond the backyard.
Over and over so many
lessons to learn,
Unknown adventures
waiting around every turn.
Living and thriving on
just daily breath,
Looking and searching,
sometimes mourning a death.
Giving it all you’ve
got even though you still don’t know...
Oh the many more
places you still have to go.....
It seemed fitting to
share this with you all since the HUGE turning of a new page is about to happen
in my life right now....
Well, here we are, at
the end of this e-mail....
I LOVE YOU ALL SOOO
MUCH!!!!
THANK YOU ALL SOOOOOO
MUCH FOR YOU LOVE AND SUPPORT DURING MY MISSION!!!
I seriously CANNOT
thank you all enough!!! What a crazy world it is that we live in... and what a
great opportunity for growth!! No wonder
we all shouted for joy (“Special Lessons” by Elder Rasband in April 2012) when
we heard of God’s plan and the opportunity that we would be given to come to
earth!
I love Christ’s Gospel!!
I know that the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints is the only TRUE church of God. It has Christ’s true doctrines, ordinances,
and authority.
See you all soon!!
Love,
Hermana Hermansen
P.S. Brandon and
Lindsy, congrats on being parents!!!!! I’ve
heard that we can only start to understand God’s love for us when we ourselves
become parents, so enjoy that wonderful learning experience!!! I can’t wait to
meet little Ryler!!!
Here is a fun picture of Hermana Hermansen's new little nephew! Isn't he cute?!?!?!
