{"id":30523,"date":"2025-06-26T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2025-06-26T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:01:23","slug":"emoji-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/emoji-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Emoji time \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udcd6\ud83e\uddb8\ud83d\ude4f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30524\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000008633.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a good conversation with Mark on a video call each Monday and he is happy and busy working in the mission office, assigned to travel logistics. There are lots of train tickets to purchase and coordinate in the mission. He gets to leave the office every day to contact people and teach, and he loves living in the city and being so close to the temple. The mission office has a good atmosphere since it is a consecrated place, and he enjoys his connections with missionaries. He serves each week as the pianist in Primary in his ward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His weekly emails are basically brief statements punctuated by emojis. Here is a small collection of fun lines from his emails from the past few months:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do-si-don&#8217;t do that, elder. \ud83d\udd7a(Reflecting whether missionaries should have accepted the invitation from older ladies to join in the folk dancing at a ward activity.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m trying to make Mexican food in Danmark; it&#8217;s me against the world with their spice selection though\ud83e\uddc2\ud83e\uddc2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sisters had a baptism yesterday. I got one days notice to play music for it, but as a wise philosopher once said: &#8220;Sometimes if you do a job bad enough you don&#8217;t get asked to do it again.&#8221;\ud83d\udc05<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made pickles for our zone pday and everyone ate them. Before I got any.\ud83d\ude12 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udda5\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udcb3\u2622\ufe0f\ud83d\ude28It&#8217;s going well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With transfer news we had to hit the office for 11 hours to crank out the fastest ever travel plans\ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elder Harris moving in on Thursday\ud83d\udd76\ud83e\ude87<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alma 32 keeps coming in clutch with lessons so shout out Alma the younger. Always worth [a] read, but so is the rest of the book.\ud83e\ude87<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a good conversation with Mark on a video call each Monday and he is happy and busy working in the mission office, assigned to travel logistics. There are lots of train tickets to purchase and coordinate in the mission. He gets to leave the office every day to contact people and teach, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/emoji-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emoji time \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udcd6\ud83e\uddb8\ud83d\ude4f<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31829,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions\/31829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}