October 16, 2009
Today is now my P-day Friday, alert the news!! I have a new companion and everything has changed in the last 3 days!! So my new companions name is Sister Mondaca we have had soo much fun together! Monday morning we go to a giant conference all 150 sisters...and find out what the next 6 weeks will bring...so this transfer #2 bring Sister Mondoca, we are in Cover zone and CHAT district yay! our p-day is friday and my favorite color is Red..dark red...ha ha.. Anywho we officially changed companions on Wednesday morning...after all the packing and moving and crazy sleepless night I had to wake up at 3:30 am to drive with Sister Mondoca to the airport to drop all of the Outbound sisters off and I was sleepy the whole time ha ha...back to bed that day only to wake up a couple hours later to rush around get ready and drive to the airport 3 more times it was great fun, all the while getting to know my new companion!! So then we were on the square around 1 that day, because of all the airport runs...our first experience as companions on the square, hold your breath people this gets goofy! ha ha..So we pray before we go up to the square to be guided where we need to go, and follow the Spirit...we walk upstairs and then out the door we go, uh oh *where do we go now?! ha ha then I thought....hmmmm How about the Assembly Hall, sounds great!! So we walk over there ...and I'm thinking, hmmm who are we supposed to find here...then boom * I look over and see her.. Judy and started talking to Judy and then along comes Bill and Dorothy ...all from Chicago and in town for a convention about Parks & Rec...so neat!! We walked around with Dorothy, Bill & Judy for an hour and showed them all the buildings and answered their questions, along the way they were joking and teasing with each other...they had the greatest accents, they were all old friends and were so funny to listen to speak we Loved taking them on a tour!!! It was amazing fun, wish you could have been there :D....Then another time we were in the North visitors center walking to the RC and suddenly I just turned right, and Sister Mondaca was like ok...following ha ha...and we found Phil...He has been going through some very hard times lately, and needed to chat...we were able to feel the spirit so strongly and relate to his problems and really talk with him and give him advice that would help him in his life, a quote I think of from the movie "Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration" is ...."the worth of every soul is great in the eyes of God" ....that everyone we speak to is important regardless of their religion, bringing up, or current standing or place in the world...we love talking to everyone and really being able to connect!! This whole time that we have been in our new apartment we have been sprucing it up if you will, no one has lived there for a bit of time, so things are funny there...and we spent a lot of time cleaning and making it cute!! One thing that was sad though...is that our refrigerator (brand new) didn't keep our food good...so we had to have a trash party and throw it all away...everything melted and went bad from sitting there for 2 days without the fridge working, no good and the people to came fix it hadn't...so today we went to President Holmes and he had to call in to have them fix it....they said they did fix it yesterday....and he kept inquiring, then they find out that they fixed a different fridge in the apartment downstairs. LOL!! So funny and random!! So long story short, we came home from Costco to find OUR fridge in the downstairs area of the house (its a house split in to 3 apartments 157 A,B,C) we are upstairs...and it was in the entry way...so funny! so hopefully it will get better now that its being worked on and not someone else's ha ha..So lets see Thursday we just worked on unpacking...and cleaning some more, its hard to feel organized with 4 girls sharing one room, 4 bunk beds, a tiny closet, a non working fridge and no milk for cereal....but after yesterday and cleaning and getting it all organized its a super cute place, we figured out where everything goes and its great!! So cute now...just waiting on a few things to touch it up and its great!! I have a view of the Temple and Church office building right from my window...I got top bunk..its beautiful at night!! Ohh I am soo cool, why? Because I have a pager...oh yeah back to the 80's, its used to get us if Mission services needs our help for something or people want to get a hold of us! It’s neat ha ha....funny?! yes.....A man called in to the RC (referral center) just at the last minute that I was sitting there...literally because I had even closed out of the program we use to call people, so I have no idea how the call even came through, I had a feeling I should stall before leaving the RC so I did, and John called....Looking for Direct TV ha ha a lot of people get the #'s mixed up but its great anyway...so we laughed about that and I told him about the number he did call, and asked if he wanted to have a video about Christ and have the missionaries share a message about Jesus Christ with him, and He Said YES! It was great, I love random calls like that, but especially when people are so open and receptive its fun to talk with people!!! Well last but not least, Today!! this morning we woke up, our fridge still not working, late for a Dr's appt. for Sister Mondaca, Foot Dr. and had to turn a list of food that spoiled in our fridge to President (if we recall earlier that was taken care of ha ha) after that we had to run up stairs to the Van...parked at a meter...we only had 15 min...and the time had run out, so up we run!! Rushing to the Van, right outside the South Gate...and then we tell the lady that is ok if she moves her car up a spot so she won't be in the tow away zone...then she looks at my name tag, and says "You are just who I am looking for" ...and I'm like...uhhh how do I know you?! Ha ha then she hands me this package and says "I'm Elder Smith's Mom..." (he is an Elder that was in my district at the MTC and always making everyone laugh with his latest rendition of Enchanted musical LOL!) anywho...in the MTC I got a little sick and Elder Smith had Gummy vites..they were delicious and he said if we write his mom (sister bailey and I at the Time) that she would send us a package.....well weeks went by and nothing....so sad!! But today she hand delivered them (she is from Hawaii, in town for a wedding...and found me on the street corner) she said she prayed to find me, and deliver this package and we got to chat and hang out for a bit! It was great :D...so random and lovely! Went to Costco to shop for some food, we were shopping having a great time, and had to run for training for our district...CHAT! so we get to the cash register and are all ready, and then....our cards won't work, and the man at the cash register was looking at us like we were silly,...and we didn't know what to do, So we were just going to put the stuff back or figure out what to do when a lady with her daughter comes up to us and says "let me pay for those" we said No No No you don't need to do that.... she insisted..she paid for our grocery's at Costco, and saved our lives...it was such a nice thing to do!! People can be so great around here!!! Anywho one last thing...the CHAT, I'll explain that and then I'm out of here until next week, we have CHAT, so that people can go to Mormon.org and CHAT with missionaries...we will have a program set up so that we as a companionship can teach lessons online to people from beginning to baptism if they want! So at Temple Square we are the first District to try it out here...SO EXCITING!! We already talked to one today and have a follow up appointment for tomorrow...so exciting!! Its a lot of fun, but people come on with questions and as a companionship we answer their questions and everything right there...it can progress to phone calls and computer as well, so its a lot of fun and there are 5 companionships doing it right now...today was the first day of training, we shall see how it continues!! So exciting :D I will tell more later.
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