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Yesterday I was having a wierd day.  I'm still not sure what was going on but I was really stressed out and emotional and just...yeah.  Kinda crazy.  I think I consumed way too much sugar too.  Maybe that's why I had that icky i'm-not-hungry-but-my-stomach-feels-empty thing going on.  Anyway, as I settled to go to bed, I grabbed my tape recorder from my dresser and popped in a tape I made with one of my favorite mission companions.  Seeing as it was quite late (or early depending on how you look at it...) I was trying relax and let the crappy day melt away into a faded memory. 

 

This tape is so random!  I was laughing from start to finish!  Not a chuckle either, but a hearty, abdominal-workout kind of laugh (which I had to stifle so as not to wake my parents! heeh) It starts out with Elder Dang making up silly songs about forgetting to bring his pen for zone conference as we're headed there, and then a song he made up on the fly about sister missionaries.  The next chunk is mostly Sego and making up our own crazy songs about the humidity, black socks (that never get dirty and the longer you wear them the blacker they get!), and a Billy Joel song we made up our own lyrics to as a Thank-You-Gram dedicated to our mission president.  Also featured on this cassette is a behind-the-scenes audio interview on what its like to be an Hermana.  We recorded that while we waited for the phone call to find out about our transfers.  Quite funny. 

 

Probably my most favorite part is where we talked about some of the crazy people we met, some of the amazing people who's lives we got to be a part of for a brief time but will never forget, AND stories of really funny experiences we had like when bike pedals fell off our ghetto bikes in the middle of the road, or the multiple times we peed ourselves from laughing so much!  Sego just has this amazing story-telling ability, full of emotion and drama.  As she's talking I'm giggling hysterically in the background just about the whole time. 

 

Don't you wish you could listen to this?? hehe

 

Indeed, it is one of my treasured keepsakes.  I really wish I would've carried that recorder with me more often and recorded more stuff, but it brings to life some memories that will live on forever!!!