Take two.
And the computer just ate my letter ‘cause I had to restart! Oh vell.
Any way, so like the last title says, I’m training! Wheee!!! It’s been so much fun, I’ve loved it, and as you can also probably see, my p-day has changed to Monday, so that’s when I’ll be emailing and all that.
So on Monday I found out that I’d be training, and Tuesday, up until the middle of Wednesday were both REALLY slow. I wanted to know who I was training and where she was from and everything, but like all the other trainers and trainees I had to wait and find out.
We all gathered in Theater 1 and looked at each other, wondering who was going to be with who and what they’d be like. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait long because I was the second one called up and told who my new companion would be.
Sister Dröge is from Germany, about two hours from Frankfort, and we are very similar personality wise. I just sent you a picture of the two of us taken this morning on the way to our assignment, which happened to be a tour that one of the Assistants and one of our Zone leaders joined in on. It was good. They helped us find ways to practice better.
She likes hugs, bread, being crazy with good friends (but they have to be good friends, otherwise we’re not comfortable being crazy…) and laughing at me, which is good because I try to make her laugh :P
Unfortunately, I’m gonna have to give more details next week, because we need to head off to Walmart, I may be able to email a bit more later because she forgot her email address and she needs to get it again.
Love ya all!!! :D
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
changes, changes, changes
Lots and lots of changes. Like transfers happening this week... and so I may not be emailing next Saturday, but we shall see....
So... I'm hearing a lot of moving things, but not anything definite.... what's going on? Becky mentioned she's moving closer to her store, Amy mentioned something about packing, is the Orem House being sold?And I just got an email from Amy saying it is. Where will I be going after my mission? So I can tell my mission president, etc. I’m guessing Georgia, but nothing’s definite, eh?
That’s the one thing that is constant in this mission: change. Like yesterday, we all were informed that there was a meeting that we all had to go to at 8:30 last night. None of us had been informed of it beforehand, except those in it, and all of us were wondering what it was going to be about, but President Holmes made a rule about no speculating, so not tooo many rumors were flying around.It turned out just to be a movie night, where we watched a movie about a young man who went through a huge trial (being really good at athletic stuff, then becoming a quadriplegic) yet he always had a good attitude. It was a good thing to watch. Then we saw a clip of Elder Worthlin’s last talk, Come What May and Love it, and both movies were really about attitude and how to have a positive/good attitude, no matter what happened. It was something that many of the sisters needed, including me to some extent. I think we all have times when we have a bad attitude and just need a little uplifting so we can see things better.
President Holmes likes throwing curve balls at us so we don’t get complacent and we are able to rely more on the spirit. Like this last transfer he called one of the sisters who’s more or less in the middle of her mission to be an Assistant to the President, which had never happened before.
So the last two days, sister Cox and I have been working on a manual for the new Zone leaders for next transfer about family search district, since both of them will be brand new… or at least new as zone leaders. I’m a little anxious to hear what will be happening and so on, and part of me can’t wait until Monday to hear what’s going on, but at the same time, I don’t want to say goodbye to the friends I have that are going home. Sister Kreiczer is going back to Hungary, and sister Ward is going back to Australia. I’m planning, sometime after my mission, to do a world trip to see all the sisters that I met and became good friends with on my mission. So far on my list I have Hungary, Australia and Switzerland, we’ll see how much it grows… I’m planning on learning at least a little of all the languages that are here on temple square… about 50ish all together.
Oh… my book of mormon broke earlier today. It was sad. The binding was already starting to give way, but now it’s really sad. I gave it to one of the senior elders to fix, so hopefully it will be all happy by tomorrow… if not I have an extra one I can use. Poor thing.
OH! I need pictures! I have ones from David and Melissa’s wedding, but I haven’t had any pictures from any one from that time, other than one from Amy. So pretty please with sugar on top?
Umm.,.. and if I haven’t answered any of your questions, please email them again, chances are I thought I answered them and didn’t realize I hadn’t.
Love ya all! I’m prayin’ for ya’ll!
Love the sister of the Durtschi of the Sarah Sort.
So... I'm hearing a lot of moving things, but not anything definite.... what's going on? Becky mentioned she's moving closer to her store, Amy mentioned something about packing, is the Orem House being sold?And I just got an email from Amy saying it is. Where will I be going after my mission? So I can tell my mission president, etc. I’m guessing Georgia, but nothing’s definite, eh?
That’s the one thing that is constant in this mission: change. Like yesterday, we all were informed that there was a meeting that we all had to go to at 8:30 last night. None of us had been informed of it beforehand, except those in it, and all of us were wondering what it was going to be about, but President Holmes made a rule about no speculating, so not tooo many rumors were flying around.It turned out just to be a movie night, where we watched a movie about a young man who went through a huge trial (being really good at athletic stuff, then becoming a quadriplegic) yet he always had a good attitude. It was a good thing to watch. Then we saw a clip of Elder Worthlin’s last talk, Come What May and Love it, and both movies were really about attitude and how to have a positive/good attitude, no matter what happened. It was something that many of the sisters needed, including me to some extent. I think we all have times when we have a bad attitude and just need a little uplifting so we can see things better.
President Holmes likes throwing curve balls at us so we don’t get complacent and we are able to rely more on the spirit. Like this last transfer he called one of the sisters who’s more or less in the middle of her mission to be an Assistant to the President, which had never happened before.
So the last two days, sister Cox and I have been working on a manual for the new Zone leaders for next transfer about family search district, since both of them will be brand new… or at least new as zone leaders. I’m a little anxious to hear what will be happening and so on, and part of me can’t wait until Monday to hear what’s going on, but at the same time, I don’t want to say goodbye to the friends I have that are going home. Sister Kreiczer is going back to Hungary, and sister Ward is going back to Australia. I’m planning, sometime after my mission, to do a world trip to see all the sisters that I met and became good friends with on my mission. So far on my list I have Hungary, Australia and Switzerland, we’ll see how much it grows… I’m planning on learning at least a little of all the languages that are here on temple square… about 50ish all together.
Oh… my book of mormon broke earlier today. It was sad. The binding was already starting to give way, but now it’s really sad. I gave it to one of the senior elders to fix, so hopefully it will be all happy by tomorrow… if not I have an extra one I can use. Poor thing.
OH! I need pictures! I have ones from David and Melissa’s wedding, but I haven’t had any pictures from any one from that time, other than one from Amy. So pretty please with sugar on top?
Umm.,.. and if I haven’t answered any of your questions, please email them again, chances are I thought I answered them and didn’t realize I hadn’t.
Love ya all! I’m prayin’ for ya’ll!
Love the sister of the Durtschi of the Sarah Sort.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
July 11 2009, Second to last P'Day
OOOooookkkaaaayyyy!
This week, I have realized that it’s almost the end of the transfer… again. Had things been normal, we would have found out who’s going out bound yesterday… but since they’re not, and we’re finding out during transfer conference… well a lot of people are speculating and figuring t hat not a lot of people are leaving especially since only 2 or 3 are coming back from outbound (my trainer included) and fewer are coming from the MTC than are going home… I’m kinda sad because my zone leaders are going home, so sister Cox and I have been spending as much time with them as we can, which has been kinda crazy but fun at the same time.
Just some things that I forgot to mention last time, Thank you Grandma Maren for the card and check, I did get them! I’m not sure where I put the check just now, but… I’ll find it when I clean today. Sorry I didn’t mention it with the other email…
And mom and dad asked if we ever went on exchanges with the ward members here, and we don’t. There isn’t a single ward that we belong to that we could exchange with. We’re in our own ward, all us missionaries, etc… it’s kinda cool.
Umm…Oh, I was actually able to be with my companion for the majority of the week, rather than on exchanges, it was pretty cool. But yesterday one of the sisters in our district got sick, so she had to go on exchanges, and while we were on exchanges, she planned the district meeting, and usually she’ll tell me everything, but this one she wants to be a surprise for everyone. Even the Zone leaders… It will be exciting I’m sure : )
While we were on exchanges, I was in family search, and one of the senior sisters said, “I’m the Floor Monitor(or manager)” and her husband said, “Would a slight bow be sufficient?”And one of my zone leaders said, “no, you need to kneel on the floor!”So he got down on one knee in front of his wife and said, “oh omnipotent floor manager!” It was one of the times in Family Search that make me want to stay there next transfer…
And yes, I still enjoy being the District Leader’s companion, it’s a lot of fun, and I get to learn different sister’s teaching styles a bit better than I would otherwise. It’s really cool and helping me be more flexable.
Oh mom, I ran into Dwayne Webber, he’s a director of institutes and Seminary in northern Atlanta Georgia area, and so you’ll probably run into him in August for the big thing that’s going on.
And dad… I told the ‘Sick bird’ joke that you told me one day on the way to school to my companion and she laughed and thought it was horrible. She usually writes a corny joke to the mission president in her weekly letter, and she’s planning on putting that one in the letter this week. And if every one else wants to know what the sick bird joke is… ask dad, has something to do with sick eagles… or ill eagles. :P
And I got my 'I love you' asl pin that shows that I can do ASL, but I haven't drilled a hole in my tag yet to put it there... so... I have to wait until monday to wear it
Thank you all so much for writing me when you do, I'm sorry I don't have time to reply to individual letters/emails all the time, but I do love reading them, and I try to answer specific questions as much as possible, and if I forget one week I try to write it down so I remember the week after :)
LOVE YA'll!!!
Be happy n all that!
This week, I have realized that it’s almost the end of the transfer… again. Had things been normal, we would have found out who’s going out bound yesterday… but since they’re not, and we’re finding out during transfer conference… well a lot of people are speculating and figuring t hat not a lot of people are leaving especially since only 2 or 3 are coming back from outbound (my trainer included) and fewer are coming from the MTC than are going home… I’m kinda sad because my zone leaders are going home, so sister Cox and I have been spending as much time with them as we can, which has been kinda crazy but fun at the same time.
Just some things that I forgot to mention last time, Thank you Grandma Maren for the card and check, I did get them! I’m not sure where I put the check just now, but… I’ll find it when I clean today. Sorry I didn’t mention it with the other email…
And mom and dad asked if we ever went on exchanges with the ward members here, and we don’t. There isn’t a single ward that we belong to that we could exchange with. We’re in our own ward, all us missionaries, etc… it’s kinda cool.
Umm…Oh, I was actually able to be with my companion for the majority of the week, rather than on exchanges, it was pretty cool. But yesterday one of the sisters in our district got sick, so she had to go on exchanges, and while we were on exchanges, she planned the district meeting, and usually she’ll tell me everything, but this one she wants to be a surprise for everyone. Even the Zone leaders… It will be exciting I’m sure : )
While we were on exchanges, I was in family search, and one of the senior sisters said, “I’m the Floor Monitor(or manager)” and her husband said, “Would a slight bow be sufficient?”And one of my zone leaders said, “no, you need to kneel on the floor!”So he got down on one knee in front of his wife and said, “oh omnipotent floor manager!” It was one of the times in Family Search that make me want to stay there next transfer…
And yes, I still enjoy being the District Leader’s companion, it’s a lot of fun, and I get to learn different sister’s teaching styles a bit better than I would otherwise. It’s really cool and helping me be more flexable.
Oh mom, I ran into Dwayne Webber, he’s a director of institutes and Seminary in northern Atlanta Georgia area, and so you’ll probably run into him in August for the big thing that’s going on.
And dad… I told the ‘Sick bird’ joke that you told me one day on the way to school to my companion and she laughed and thought it was horrible. She usually writes a corny joke to the mission president in her weekly letter, and she’s planning on putting that one in the letter this week. And if every one else wants to know what the sick bird joke is… ask dad, has something to do with sick eagles… or ill eagles. :P
And I got my 'I love you' asl pin that shows that I can do ASL, but I haven't drilled a hole in my tag yet to put it there... so... I have to wait until monday to wear it
Thank you all so much for writing me when you do, I'm sorry I don't have time to reply to individual letters/emails all the time, but I do love reading them, and I try to answer specific questions as much as possible, and if I forget one week I try to write it down so I remember the week after :)
LOVE YA'll!!!
Be happy n all that!
Monday, July 6, 2009
July 6, The Forth and so on
So this week has been craaaazy. Currently I'm on my lunch break, so hopefully I can write everything that I want to write, because time is short.
As is usual for me this transfer, this week was full of exchanges, one of which was with sister Leota, and while we were giving a tour in the beehive house, two people appeared at the end of our tour that we weren't expecting. Normally the people who want a tour are told to wait for 10 minutes after a tour has started so they're not too huge and us poor sisters have a chance to actually teach something, so we were both confused as to why they were there. i was in front at that time and sister Leota was in the back, we went upstairs to the Long Hall (which can be seen from two different doors) and sister Leota was the one in front and talking. I noticed the two going to the other side of the long hall and went to ask if they were on our tour. They said no. So I informed them, very kindly, that they needed to either be on our tour, or on a tour with another set of sister missionaries, because they are not allowed in the house alone.
Not only is it a big house and confusing at times, but it also has a ton of old things that are rather priceless that we don't want to have disappear.I found out later that she was a returned missionary who had gone to temple square, and wanted to show her boy around (I'm not sure if he was her boyfriend, fiancé or what.) and she should have known better, especially in the summer when there are so many people who come.In any case, that was kind of cool because I could tell I was getting comfortable enough with the rules, etc, that I was able to get a back bone and tell them that it wasn’t okay.
I went to my first ASL language meeting… it was interesting. One of t he sisters, who’s the youngest (in mission terms) here that knows ASL, seems to not like working with sisters whom she thinks don’t know ASL as well as she does… so I’m not really looking forward to working with her, but I’ll survive, especially with a lot of prayer and patience. I’m very thankful, however, that another sister passed off ASL. She’s really nice and hopefully all will work out
On Saturday (my p-day) we weren’t able to email, so we went home and did some random things while we waited for other sisters to get ready, and so on. Sister Cox, the zone leaders and another district leader and her companion and I all went to a farm “wheeler farm” I think is what it’s called, and wandered around for a bit taking pictures, etc (which I don’t personally have because I accidentally erased them from my sd card… long story ) Then we went to walmart, where sister Cox bought a huge bubble wand in the form of a sword, and some water balloons, while sisters Ward and Kreiczer bought red and blue paint… and I bought an outfit for 6 dollars.We went home and I changed into the outfit and put our groceries away while sister Cox filled up the water balloons, then we went to the grassy area between the apartments, and met with a portion of our zone and had a mini-water fight accompanied by a paint fight. It was SO much fun. Our arms were covered with paint, and basically everywhere else. After that we rinsed off (kept the paint on our shirts etc, because that was the point of it.) and went to a park where we played some more games and had a picknick.
Today, just before I got on to do emails, I had my first Temple Square ASL tour. It was looong… about an hour and a half. It was mostly members, which made it interesting because they were mostly there for their one friend who was investigating. So they’d fall behind and I’d have to go back and get their attention, then continue the tour. They wanted to see everything they could, when I thought I was done with the tour, I took them to two more buildings, which was fine, but I was running out of things to say and didn’t want to overload the poor guy, especially since ASL was his second language, and he knew mainly BSL (British Sign Language, which is COMPLETELY different.) so a few of his friends had to interpret for me and vice versa so we could understand one another better.
Overall it’s been good :) But now I need to eat something before we go to the beehive house for several hours.
Love ya all!!
Be good n all that! I'll try to write more next week :)
As is usual for me this transfer, this week was full of exchanges, one of which was with sister Leota, and while we were giving a tour in the beehive house, two people appeared at the end of our tour that we weren't expecting. Normally the people who want a tour are told to wait for 10 minutes after a tour has started so they're not too huge and us poor sisters have a chance to actually teach something, so we were both confused as to why they were there. i was in front at that time and sister Leota was in the back, we went upstairs to the Long Hall (which can be seen from two different doors) and sister Leota was the one in front and talking. I noticed the two going to the other side of the long hall and went to ask if they were on our tour. They said no. So I informed them, very kindly, that they needed to either be on our tour, or on a tour with another set of sister missionaries, because they are not allowed in the house alone.
Not only is it a big house and confusing at times, but it also has a ton of old things that are rather priceless that we don't want to have disappear.I found out later that she was a returned missionary who had gone to temple square, and wanted to show her boy around (I'm not sure if he was her boyfriend, fiancé or what.) and she should have known better, especially in the summer when there are so many people who come.In any case, that was kind of cool because I could tell I was getting comfortable enough with the rules, etc, that I was able to get a back bone and tell them that it wasn’t okay.
I went to my first ASL language meeting… it was interesting. One of t he sisters, who’s the youngest (in mission terms) here that knows ASL, seems to not like working with sisters whom she thinks don’t know ASL as well as she does… so I’m not really looking forward to working with her, but I’ll survive, especially with a lot of prayer and patience. I’m very thankful, however, that another sister passed off ASL. She’s really nice and hopefully all will work out
On Saturday (my p-day) we weren’t able to email, so we went home and did some random things while we waited for other sisters to get ready, and so on. Sister Cox, the zone leaders and another district leader and her companion and I all went to a farm “wheeler farm” I think is what it’s called, and wandered around for a bit taking pictures, etc (which I don’t personally have because I accidentally erased them from my sd card… long story ) Then we went to walmart, where sister Cox bought a huge bubble wand in the form of a sword, and some water balloons, while sisters Ward and Kreiczer bought red and blue paint… and I bought an outfit for 6 dollars.We went home and I changed into the outfit and put our groceries away while sister Cox filled up the water balloons, then we went to the grassy area between the apartments, and met with a portion of our zone and had a mini-water fight accompanied by a paint fight. It was SO much fun. Our arms were covered with paint, and basically everywhere else. After that we rinsed off (kept the paint on our shirts etc, because that was the point of it.) and went to a park where we played some more games and had a picknick.
Today, just before I got on to do emails, I had my first Temple Square ASL tour. It was looong… about an hour and a half. It was mostly members, which made it interesting because they were mostly there for their one friend who was investigating. So they’d fall behind and I’d have to go back and get their attention, then continue the tour. They wanted to see everything they could, when I thought I was done with the tour, I took them to two more buildings, which was fine, but I was running out of things to say and didn’t want to overload the poor guy, especially since ASL was his second language, and he knew mainly BSL (British Sign Language, which is COMPLETELY different.) so a few of his friends had to interpret for me and vice versa so we could understand one another better.
Overall it’s been good :) But now I need to eat something before we go to the beehive house for several hours.
Love ya all!!
Be good n all that! I'll try to write more next week :)
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