My companion is typing away, and has been while I read your emails. Usually I print them out then read them later when I have more time through the day, but since we’re not tooo strict on a time limit because we’re not driving any where and so don’t have to worry about making other sisters late, we’re kind of taking our time, meaning that we actually ate lunch, and did a few things before coming and doing emails. One of the things we did was go to the top of the Church Office Building (COB) and took pictures. It’s kind of weird to be able to look at my whole mission from the top of a building, all but the Beehive house which was behind us. I think we could even see Welfare Square and the Humanitarian Center, which are both parts of our mission.
So this week… um… I’m very glad we have planners, otherwise I’d forget half of what I want to type at you all, if not more than half.
I’ve been working harder on eating healthily. I don’t know if I’ve really mentioned that I’ve been working on that much, but it’s been something that I’ve been doing for the past month and a half. In that time I’ve gotten rid of about 12-15 lbs, and my companions have been very supportive. I’ve noticed, now that I have very little sugar in my diet, that when I eat sugar, like a small piece of cake, that I get a mild headache, so that has been helping me not eat sugar in large doses. Graham crackers are some of my best friends, because they taste sweet but have very little sugar compared to a lot of things.
I had my first ASL tour this transfer on Wednesday, with two people who didn’t really need it, but since they had requested the tour the day before or earlier, I gave it to them. It was fine, but directly after, sister Droege and I contacted a motor coach(huge tour).I also am starting to fill in my responsibility as the American Sign Language coordinator by talking to one of the new sisters who wants to pass off Sign Language. It will be interesting, but good.
I’m continuing to learn German, and have used it, especially on Friday when I was on exchanges because sister Dröge needed to pass off English so she could pass off German, so I welcomed some people from Germany using German and mentioned where I was from, and they said something in German that I didn’t understand until I heard Sacramento or something like that and realized they were talking about visiting California. It was pretty neat. But I still have a LONG way to go. >.>
Also on Friday we had our Zone Conference, which was excellent, we had two gentlemen who are in charge of Visitors Centers all over come and talk to us about things we can do to be better missionaries here, which was mainly by not being rote and following the spirit, plus making it personally applied to them. Meaning not being Tour Guides as some of the guests call us. We don’t say the same thing over and over again because every one is different, so we need to apply it to them personally as much as possible.
We also got to see a video that’s going to be/is in buses when people come to see temple square in big groups, and from the air port so they have an idea of what they’re getting into when they arrive so they can go and find a sister missionary when they arrive if they’re not already going to take a tour. It’s going to be a lot of fun. :D I’m kind of happy that I’ll be staying another summer, just because I’ll be able to see a portion of the effects that this video will have on how guests interact with us, and so on. You all probably won’t be able to see it just now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were on youtube in a few months…
On Sunday I got to announce ASL for the first time. Meaning that after Music and the Spoken word, we go out side of the Conference Center and speak (sign) a message saying that we have tours that they can have here on temple square in about 15 different languages at that time. So basically the English sister says, “Good morning!” and every one (meaning the other sisters) responds, “Good morning!” and she continues, “Welcome to Temple Square, we’d like to invite you to join one of our complementary tours which explains the Grounds history and Basic Beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints. Please meet your Missionary Guide after the presentation.” And I’d translate it into Sign. My last Companion, sister Cox was the one announcing in English and it was her first time too, and she was a bit nervous, so she changed it a time or two, but it’s all good.
Today we went to the temple and a thought came to mind that all the big things in life are just a bunch of little things put together. Little things make big things, so don’t let the little things that don’t matter get in the way of the little things that do matter, because if one takes over the other, then it becomes a big bad thing.
And if that doesn’t make sense… it’s okay, that’s just how my mind works sometimes :P.
Sister Droege can usually understand me when I’m joking, or when I say something in a funny way, because she has a similar sense of humor/way of speaking, which is nice, so even when we can’t communicate as well just speaking, we can normally get our point across with the tone or what naught.
Right after the temple we had to go to a Safety Training meeting, where a woman, Tracy, came and talked to us about being mindful about our surroundings, not being naïve, try to be/look confident and listen to the spirit. Basically if we feel uncomfortable, that’s when we take action, not after words. After words it’s too late. And when we listen to the spirit, we need to remember that the spirit gives Guidance, not explanation in the majority of the time.
So just as soon as we got out of the meeting, we had a tour with three gentlemen. One of them, both sister Dröge and I didn’t feel comfortable about, so we mentioned it to the elder there and the security guy there, and had someone shadow us. Two sisters kept an eye on him and helped us in our first stop when he kept on interrupting us. He wasn’t malicious as near as I could tell, just couldn’t control himself from saying what was on his mind in the moment it was exactly on his mind. He said we were both good girls before the tour started, and during the tour he interrupted a time or two, mostly talking to sister Dröge, saying, “It’s okay, you can just say what you want to say.” Etc. It was a bit weird, but we did our best to give the information and keep the spirit there, and be polite to the man. We started on to our next stop, and normally we would intermingle with the people, but because we were both feeling a bit uncomfortable, we stuck together. When we got to our second stop, the Tabernacle, we went one way, and he didn’t follow, so the sisters that were following us went to him and made sure everything would be alright (apparently when the organist started playing, he bolted towards the organ, and one of the sisters went after him.) then had the security guys help him out.
Sister Droege and I continued our tour and it was very good overall, because the two gentlemen saw how patient we were with the other guy, they wanted to learn more, so they referred themselves. It was rather nice.
Directly after that, sister Droege passed off German, so now she can take German tours! YAY!
Lots of love to you all!
Thank you so much for your emails! I'd love to get pictures of all ya'all in the mail so I can carry you around with me ;)
Love youuuu!!!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Pictures from the end of Last Transfer
Sister Sarah sent me these few pictures from the end of last transfer. She didn't give me much to go on in terms of labeling, but enjoy!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Yay missionary Work :D
OOOOOOOOKaaaaaaaay!
I can’t believe it’s already our second p-day! It doesn’t seem like it’s been all that long, and yet at the same time it’s like it’s been 3 or 4 weeks instead of just 2 and a half.
So Just today we had a lot of crazy things, but cool things, happen. We had a tour, which we thought was at 10:00, but it was really at 10:15. The 10:00 tour got 4 people, and we got 16 people for our 10:15 tour, it was crazy! But it was so much fun! We had the Zone Leaders following our tour to see how we’d progressed as a companionship, and they found a lot of good things about our tour, and had a hard time finding things for us to improve! YAY companionship unity!
So the second thing, after giving a tour to a couple of grandparents, and their 8 year old Baptist grand daughter, we (sister Dröge and I) walked past a man that we both recognized. We looked back and both said at the same time, “I know him” Then we looked at each other and asked how the other knew him. We come to find out, after he recognized us and came back to talk to us, that he taught my good friend David Byars back in California when he was on a mission, and that currently, he was dating one of sister Dröge’s friends back in Germany. It was entirely insane. But cool at the same time. It’s a small world in Temple Square…
Okay, so now going back through the rest of my week. On Tuesday, we (north and south Zones) went to Big Cottonwood Canyon and had a game time and BBQ. It was a lot of fun. Extended and Cover zones went on Thursday, which was fun for us who stayed on Temple Square. And that was tons of fun, minus the sunburn that I got on the back of my pasty white legs, and neck. It wasn’t too bad, and it was all a ton of fun. Unfortunately, it made both sister Dröge and I a little out of it for a while since it was so hot and we didn’t drink as much as we should have… bad sister missionaries… :P
The next day, Wednesday, President Holmes put on a breakfast which consisted of Cinnamon Rolls and juice, which was good, but I was glad I ate before hand so I didn’t over do it on the sugar.I also had my president’s Interview, and after words I went and talked to the Assistants to figure out what on earth I’m supposed to be doing as ASL language coordinator, so that helped get things more or less organized in my brain.We also had our first Zone/ District meeting, which was good. This transfer they’re combining the two just because there are a LOT of people on Temple Square and we’re all needed on the square as much as possible.
So since Extended and Cover zones were at Big Cottonwoood Canyon on Thursday, We had a fun schedule. We had family search for 4 hours in the morning, just like my old schedule used to be, but then sister Dröge wasn’t feeling well, so she had to go rest, then after she rested and felt better we had an hour or so together before we went on half-day district leader exchanges.
On Friday, we went on full day exchanges, but this time sister Dröge was with the district leader, and I was with the district leader’s companion, and we had 3 tours, one right after the other. It was a little insane. Our first one was fairly big, but the last two only had two people each in them.
That was also the day I ran into one of Stephen’s old neighbors from Syracuse. Coleen Davis. She recognized the name and we got talking, and found out that they had lived just down the street. Do you remember her, Stephen or Carolyn?
On Saturday I learned a little Dutch, how to say Thank You (Dankavel) and you’re welcome (Alstublieft) Wich kind of means ‘there you go’ or ‘here you go’ or something like that.I’m also trying to learn German still…
On Sunday, we had a tour which didn’t happen since everyone was going to Music and the Spoken Word, but we did get a German Tour because none of the other German sisters were available, and we were right there, so sister Dröge gave her 2nd german tour. Her first was when I was on half day exchanges with our district leader. It was cool. We also started figuring out some of the more funny things about temple square that we’re going to write about after our missions, like how the plant next to the buttons in the Tabernacle likes to try and eat us whenever we go to assist in the Acoustic Demonstration (you all will have to come and hear that if you haven’t already, and it will make more sense if it doesn’t now), and how when contacting a Chinese Motorcoach (huge tour) we feel like we’re herding Cats. (they like to stop and take pictures about every 5 steps… and one tour group we contacted was rude and made the sister giving the Mandarin tour cry. She’s a great sister, so she’s okay now.)
Sister Dröge and I have been getting to know each other better, and we’re finding even more things that are alike than we had before. We are very similar in a lot of ways, in addition to what I said last week, she also likes to write ( I think I mention that she likes to draw people, etc) and… yeah. It’s fun. :D
Thank you all for your emails, and stuffs, and thank you Amy for the package, I did get it, and I wrote you… but I haven’t sent that letter yet, so I’ll have to try and send it today, along with a few other things : )
Oh, and if any one has an extra cord that connects from the camera to the computer it would be greatly appreciated… I’m pretty sure there are some in the house in Orem, but… yeah. :D
I’m excited for Jared’s baptism coming up! Who’s going to Baptize him? You’ll have to let me know how all of this goes with the moving and packing and stuff like that!
Lots of love n stuff n stuff!
~sister of the Sarah Sort.
I can’t believe it’s already our second p-day! It doesn’t seem like it’s been all that long, and yet at the same time it’s like it’s been 3 or 4 weeks instead of just 2 and a half.
So Just today we had a lot of crazy things, but cool things, happen. We had a tour, which we thought was at 10:00, but it was really at 10:15. The 10:00 tour got 4 people, and we got 16 people for our 10:15 tour, it was crazy! But it was so much fun! We had the Zone Leaders following our tour to see how we’d progressed as a companionship, and they found a lot of good things about our tour, and had a hard time finding things for us to improve! YAY companionship unity!
So the second thing, after giving a tour to a couple of grandparents, and their 8 year old Baptist grand daughter, we (sister Dröge and I) walked past a man that we both recognized. We looked back and both said at the same time, “I know him” Then we looked at each other and asked how the other knew him. We come to find out, after he recognized us and came back to talk to us, that he taught my good friend David Byars back in California when he was on a mission, and that currently, he was dating one of sister Dröge’s friends back in Germany. It was entirely insane. But cool at the same time. It’s a small world in Temple Square…
Okay, so now going back through the rest of my week. On Tuesday, we (north and south Zones) went to Big Cottonwood Canyon and had a game time and BBQ. It was a lot of fun. Extended and Cover zones went on Thursday, which was fun for us who stayed on Temple Square. And that was tons of fun, minus the sunburn that I got on the back of my pasty white legs, and neck. It wasn’t too bad, and it was all a ton of fun. Unfortunately, it made both sister Dröge and I a little out of it for a while since it was so hot and we didn’t drink as much as we should have… bad sister missionaries… :P
The next day, Wednesday, President Holmes put on a breakfast which consisted of Cinnamon Rolls and juice, which was good, but I was glad I ate before hand so I didn’t over do it on the sugar.I also had my president’s Interview, and after words I went and talked to the Assistants to figure out what on earth I’m supposed to be doing as ASL language coordinator, so that helped get things more or less organized in my brain.We also had our first Zone/ District meeting, which was good. This transfer they’re combining the two just because there are a LOT of people on Temple Square and we’re all needed on the square as much as possible.
So since Extended and Cover zones were at Big Cottonwoood Canyon on Thursday, We had a fun schedule. We had family search for 4 hours in the morning, just like my old schedule used to be, but then sister Dröge wasn’t feeling well, so she had to go rest, then after she rested and felt better we had an hour or so together before we went on half-day district leader exchanges.
On Friday, we went on full day exchanges, but this time sister Dröge was with the district leader, and I was with the district leader’s companion, and we had 3 tours, one right after the other. It was a little insane. Our first one was fairly big, but the last two only had two people each in them.
That was also the day I ran into one of Stephen’s old neighbors from Syracuse. Coleen Davis. She recognized the name and we got talking, and found out that they had lived just down the street. Do you remember her, Stephen or Carolyn?
On Saturday I learned a little Dutch, how to say Thank You (Dankavel) and you’re welcome (Alstublieft) Wich kind of means ‘there you go’ or ‘here you go’ or something like that.I’m also trying to learn German still…
On Sunday, we had a tour which didn’t happen since everyone was going to Music and the Spoken Word, but we did get a German Tour because none of the other German sisters were available, and we were right there, so sister Dröge gave her 2nd german tour. Her first was when I was on half day exchanges with our district leader. It was cool. We also started figuring out some of the more funny things about temple square that we’re going to write about after our missions, like how the plant next to the buttons in the Tabernacle likes to try and eat us whenever we go to assist in the Acoustic Demonstration (you all will have to come and hear that if you haven’t already, and it will make more sense if it doesn’t now), and how when contacting a Chinese Motorcoach (huge tour) we feel like we’re herding Cats. (they like to stop and take pictures about every 5 steps… and one tour group we contacted was rude and made the sister giving the Mandarin tour cry. She’s a great sister, so she’s okay now.)
Sister Dröge and I have been getting to know each other better, and we’re finding even more things that are alike than we had before. We are very similar in a lot of ways, in addition to what I said last week, she also likes to write ( I think I mention that she likes to draw people, etc) and… yeah. It’s fun. :D
Thank you all for your emails, and stuffs, and thank you Amy for the package, I did get it, and I wrote you… but I haven’t sent that letter yet, so I’ll have to try and send it today, along with a few other things : )
Oh, and if any one has an extra cord that connects from the camera to the computer it would be greatly appreciated… I’m pretty sure there are some in the house in Orem, but… yeah. :D
I’m excited for Jared’s baptism coming up! Who’s going to Baptize him? You’ll have to let me know how all of this goes with the moving and packing and stuff like that!
Lots of love n stuff n stuff!
~sister of the Sarah Sort.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Traiiinnniiinnngg!
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
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
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 :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)