The Missionary's Girl:Somewhere between the whirl of teen-age dates and the responsibility of matrimony, we find a lone creature called the Missionary's Girl. Kaitlen Says: Can't argue with this one.
They come in two varieties... engaged and hopefuls. They come in assorted sizes, weights, and colors, blue being the most common. Kaitlen Says: I defininatly would not say "blue" is the most common.
The missionary's girl is found at home, missing parties (Just the parties that have overzealous RM's), staying away from dances (too depressing without ??? there), paying her own way to the movies, and buying stationary by the gross. Kaitlen Says: I am not staying away from parties or other activities with friends, with or without "overzealous RM's " I often in fact don't pay my own way to movies, and the dances I have been to in the last 11 Months have been some of the funnest...ever. Also, I am a terrrrrible stationary shopper.
Missionaries love them, young girls look up to them, parents tolerate them, postmen hate them, and weekly letters support them. Kaitlen Says: Excuse me, no. My post woman loves me.
A missionary's girl is a composite. She has the appetite of a hormonally unstable 18-year-old girl, the enthusiasm of a wet noodle, the patience of Job, the persistence of a stainless steel salesman and the imagination of Scherazade. Kaitlen says: For the most part...accurate. Except I often find myself with lots of enthusiasm. It depends of the day/time of day really.
She likes letters from the mission field, invitations to his home, long distance telephone calls, items for his scrapbook, pictures of him, and other girls who are waiting (I LOVE my MGs!). Kaitlen Says: All of this is pretty true...
She isn't much for Saturday nights out on the town ; people who say, "Two years is a long time"; or “Don’t waste your time” or the classic “ so much can happen in two years” , new clothes with no one to wear them for; sad movies and music; movies with love scenes; knitting; wedding receptions; little sisters who date; calenders; and "Dear Janes." Kaitlen Says: Perhaps thee falsest statement of this poem. I love Saturday nights, I love new clothes...there are plenty of people to 'wear them for', sad movies and movies with love scenes never get old--sometimes they just take on a different meaning. Wedding receptions are so happy. I don't have little sisters... Calendars are some of my favorite things. And Dear Janes, well, I suppose I would not be too found of that, you're right.
A missionary's girl is an odd object: She can get lonesome, discouraged, and temporarily lose faith in the whole missionary system. No one else can write such cheerful letters in such a rotten mood. No one else can get such a thrill at the end of the day by the words, "Why yes, there is a letter for you." Nobody else is so early to bed and so early to rise.(More like....Nobody else is capable of writing such competent, lengthy, and entertaining letters in the wee hours of the morning.) Kaitlen Says: True, true, true...false. Not once have I ever lost faith in the missionary system. I know he is doing exactly what she should be. If anything, it has strengthened my faith in the missionary system seeing how being away from each other for these two years is changing us both for the better. Even though it is hard, we need this time. Also false: If I am in a rotten mood, Cam can always tell. No matter how I try to hide it. However...True that I do often write my emails/letters in the wee hours of the morning, but they defininately are not always competent.
A missionary's girl is virtue with no chance to be otherwise, faith with twenty-four months to wait, prudence with 69 cents in her savings account, and beauty with no one to give a darn. Kaitlen Says: There are definately chances to be otherwise, you have to choose to be otherwise. Faith in the wait is not always easy. A lot really CAN happen in two years. I have more than 69 cents in my account... I think. And beauty is not only seen by your missionary.
Yes, she is all this, but it will all be forgotten the day he receives his letter of release and, upon his arrival home she will probably utter the words she once considered trite, "It hasn't seemed like any time at all!"
Kaitlen Says: True.
They come in two varieties... engaged and hopefuls. They come in assorted sizes, weights, and colors, blue being the most common. Kaitlen Says: I defininatly would not say "blue" is the most common.
The missionary's girl is found at home, missing parties (Just the parties that have overzealous RM's), staying away from dances (too depressing without ??? there), paying her own way to the movies, and buying stationary by the gross. Kaitlen Says: I am not staying away from parties or other activities with friends, with or without "overzealous RM's " I often in fact don't pay my own way to movies, and the dances I have been to in the last 11 Months have been some of the funnest...ever. Also, I am a terrrrrible stationary shopper.
Missionaries love them, young girls look up to them, parents tolerate them, postmen hate them, and weekly letters support them. Kaitlen Says: Excuse me, no. My post woman loves me.
A missionary's girl is a composite. She has the appetite of a hormonally unstable 18-year-old girl, the enthusiasm of a wet noodle, the patience of Job, the persistence of a stainless steel salesman and the imagination of Scherazade. Kaitlen says: For the most part...accurate. Except I often find myself with lots of enthusiasm. It depends of the day/time of day really.
She likes letters from the mission field, invitations to his home, long distance telephone calls, items for his scrapbook, pictures of him, and other girls who are waiting (I LOVE my MGs!). Kaitlen Says: All of this is pretty true...
She isn't much for Saturday nights out on the town ; people who say, "Two years is a long time"; or “Don’t waste your time” or the classic “ so much can happen in two years” , new clothes with no one to wear them for; sad movies and music; movies with love scenes; knitting; wedding receptions; little sisters who date; calenders; and "Dear Janes." Kaitlen Says: Perhaps thee falsest statement of this poem. I love Saturday nights, I love new clothes...there are plenty of people to 'wear them for', sad movies and movies with love scenes never get old--sometimes they just take on a different meaning. Wedding receptions are so happy. I don't have little sisters... Calendars are some of my favorite things. And Dear Janes, well, I suppose I would not be too found of that, you're right.
A missionary's girl is an odd object: She can get lonesome, discouraged, and temporarily lose faith in the whole missionary system. No one else can write such cheerful letters in such a rotten mood. No one else can get such a thrill at the end of the day by the words, "Why yes, there is a letter for you." Nobody else is so early to bed and so early to rise.(More like....Nobody else is capable of writing such competent, lengthy, and entertaining letters in the wee hours of the morning.) Kaitlen Says: True, true, true...false. Not once have I ever lost faith in the missionary system. I know he is doing exactly what she should be. If anything, it has strengthened my faith in the missionary system seeing how being away from each other for these two years is changing us both for the better. Even though it is hard, we need this time. Also false: If I am in a rotten mood, Cam can always tell. No matter how I try to hide it. However...True that I do often write my emails/letters in the wee hours of the morning, but they defininately are not always competent.
A missionary's girl is virtue with no chance to be otherwise, faith with twenty-four months to wait, prudence with 69 cents in her savings account, and beauty with no one to give a darn. Kaitlen Says: There are definately chances to be otherwise, you have to choose to be otherwise. Faith in the wait is not always easy. A lot really CAN happen in two years. I have more than 69 cents in my account... I think. And beauty is not only seen by your missionary.
Yes, she is all this, but it will all be forgotten the day he receives his letter of release and, upon his arrival home she will probably utter the words she once considered trite, "It hasn't seemed like any time at all!"
Kaitlen Says: True.
