New Zone, New Companion, Less sun, and same room

I think that about summs it up :D


I'm in a new zone. It's kind of weird. I've never been in this zone before. I've been in Extended the most (3 transfers), Cover the second(2), South once, and now I'm in a zone that wasn't even a zone before I went outbound. It's called Chat. Chat is a zone where we talk with people online/on the phone and teach them, just like we would outbound. Except we don't see them face to face or get to sit with them at church, etc. I was able to talk with two of our investigators for the first time this morning, and they're both amazing! SO ready, but they live in South Africa and there is a Train strike t here, and it's extremely difficult for them to get to church. They haven't been able to get there, yet, but they're doing everything they can to. Our finding is downstairs on computers talking to people who come on mormon.org or call to talk to a missionary.

It's really fun! We get ALL sorts there. Every kind of person goes there, from the very interested, to the argumentative, thankfully we have something that helps us if they're being vulger, or wasting our time, and so on.

So I'm teaching people again, but I still have time to contact on the square, and so far we have had a lot of miracles. We got our first referral yesterday, just from walking outside, and talking to someone who was on his way in, and taking him around. I'm still getting used to not being on the square as much, and being in chat, as it's only my second day there and it's p-day. I'm learning a LOT from my companion.

My companion is Sister Carlisle from Virginia/most places in the US/Born in Brazil. We've been around each other a lot on the mission, which was why I was somewhat surprised when we found out we'd be companions. This is only the second time I've been companions with someone I know well from the mission, the first time was with sister Fellmann. It's been a lot of fun so far! We communicate well, and I don't think we'll have an awkward week. We may have to work through things, but that's normal. We won't have a hard time talking, so that's nice :D.

Sister Droege (The sister I Trained) came back to Temple Square yesterday. I was SO excited! Still am! I haven't seen her in 4 transfers... about 5 months? I think?

I was in the hallway between the kitchen and the lounge downstairs in the South when I saw her come through the door. She saw me and screamed, I saw her and screamed, and we ran towards each other and gave each other a huge hug.

Sister Packer, one of the sisters, commented that she could hear that we saw each other on Temple Square all the way at the apartments. I laughed when she said that. We were just so excited to see each other!

It's so good to have the outbound sisters back, it's like a part of temple square was missing and now it's back.

Speaking of outbound, there are none going out this transfer. Because of changes in the mission, President has decided that during the busiest months, he wouldn't send sisters out. I'm guessing that he won't send anyone outbound next transfer either, but you never know, God does what he wants, and President listens to him, thank goodness.


I love you all SO much!

You're amazing!

LOVE!

~Sister Sarah