September 16, 2013 - 1st pday in the field Normandy Park Washington

I'm in the Field!!!! wow it has been a crazy... but wonderful week! I am sorry you don't get to hear about my last week at the MTC really. Too much to say about this week ha. But I will say that I finally found Kristin Trone and Tyson Wilson! So fun to see people from home :) Okay MTC blurb over lets start from last tuesday....

Tuesday- Such a long day! I got up at 2 AM and headed to the transportation office. We took a Bus, a train, and  metro, and an Airplane to get to Seattle. All of which is 2.5 hrs. from home. ha Ironic. But anyways I got to talk to Mom and Dad at the Airport which was great! So glad Amanda had Lennox!!! Yay for Amanda, Nick, and Khloe :)

Anyways flew to Seattle and was met there by our Mission President: President Choi (Chay). He and his wife seem way nice. We went to the mission home and... wait... we drove from the Airport and it was the scariest 45 min of my life. The elder driving drove a white bullet (get it? Bronze bullet, white bullet ;) ) and he kept slamming on the brakes and changing lanes way close to semi's. Dad I am sorry for ever saying anything about your driving ;) Anyways we got to the mission office and had some interviews. Sister Choi  is super nice and is leading our mission choir. Yup you heard right we had a mission choir! pretty cool. Anyways we got to meet our Comps after that. All the missionaries that were in the field already came filing in and it was hard to explain but I saw my comp and knew she was who I was going to be with. Afterwards we were talking and she had the same feeling! She is awesome!!! Her name is Sister Mullins. Well that was day one.

Wednesday- Forgot to mention I got my boot from mom! Thank you! Foot is slowly healing! Luckily it has been cold enough here I can wear my boot on one foot and my zip up boots on the other and not look too weird...sorta. Anyways.... Day one in the Field. Sis. Mullins and I had some down time and we decided to visit some Less-actives in our Ward. We found one in our area book named Marilyn Dunstan. So cool story we went to visit her and she kept saying things that didn't make sense about our bishop talking to her and such. It turns out our Bishop had decided to get to know her as well and went and saw her two hours before we did! The spirit knew she needed us on that day! so cool! So Sis. Mullins had a woman named Latrece on date (baptism) for the fifth of October before I came. Well on Wednesday I commited her nine year old son Jeremiah to baptism on the same date! He didn't say yes but he gave us a fist bump. We are taking that as a nine year old yes ha ha. I met our Bishop this day and he is super nice. I also met our Ward mission leader. Both great men and will be really easy to work with. So I found out Sis. Mullins cannot cook pizza ha ha she has tried three times and burned each one so I am the designated pizza cooker now ha ha. Everyone asked about my foot so I started telling them I tried to kick Sis. Mullins and failed ha ah (Her Idea)

Thurs- So Sis. Mullins is from Texas/utah (divorced family) and super amazing she is 20 and has been out since april. She is a great trainer and soooo strong in the Gospel. She has already been such a good example to me. She has us do this fun thing where right after we turn the lights off at night we say "choose a number between... and... " then what ever the number corresponds to in our head means we share a story on that family member. Its a fun way to get to know each other.  We went tracting on this day and accidentally parked on a person's grass a little bit and a man walked by and said "real christian of you parking on someones grass" ha ha oops. We had dinner with Latrece and Jeremiah tonight and that was great! Our mission pres. has this rule that we sing at every appointment. I was nervous at first because I don't like my singing voice, but I swear Heavenly Father is making me have a good voice for on my mission only. Sister Mullins and I sound great together! not to sound conceited but... we do and people have said it and asked us to sing in Sacrament meeting. Mission miracle I think so!

Friday- So we had a lesson with a sweet new convert named Linda Caffaro. She is a 75+ something sister with an interesting story. She was raised a messianic Jew. (believes in christ).. so she considers herself to be a messianic mormon jew now. Yup you heard right still a jew, now a mormon jew ;) we meet with her to discuss the Gospel princples book from church. That was fun we talked about the coming of Christ ;) Friday night we taught Latrece and Jeremiah about the word of wisdom. They are what we call golden investigators because they are seriously awesome and prepared and have no issues (other than coming to church!!! She practically runs her church so it's hard for her to leave) Anyways Jeremiah was sooooo cute when we said we don't drink, smoke, do drugs he kept saying "Wow, me either!" Ha he is nine so we hope he doesn't do those things ;)

Sat- This morning was rough. Sis. mullins and I both didn't feel good. Janice would be proud to know my oils are going to good use. Speaking of which (don't judge) I am out of peppermint already ;) anyways Sis. Mullins had a headache so I gave her some peppermint ha ha but she got it too close to her eyes so we had to wash it off because it was burning. Super funny I promise. At lunch we had a surprise we thought we were having lunch with the ward meal corrdinator (don't include: turns out members can still fix meals on weekdays but we can't eat in home without an inv. which prompts them to invite someone over) anyways turns out it wasn't our lunch coordinator. It was Sister Mullins Aunt and Uncle!!! They just showed up. She was shocked and wanted to leave actually ha it turns out her aunt called out bishop and gave her our number! ha so ya not a good surprise entirely but she was still happy. She is so good she got right back to work after and kept her focus. (please don't visit!) P.s. dad my mission song is the Time is Far spent Hymn 166 although Sister Mullins has aggreed to adopt "I come from the land of trees and rain" as our unofficial mission song.

Sun- So church was great I had to introduce myself of course. We got a less active woman named Gloria collins to church. She was so happy to be there. It was great. She also brought her grandbaby and said she will bring her more often since we have nursery :) After church we decided to nap instead of take our lunch hour. Such a good idea! No food but sleep ;) then we hit the roads.... and got stuck in a rainstorm ha ha. We tracted into a woman named robin and she let us in because of the rain and my boot, but she didn't want to talk religion ha. Turns out her Brother in law is the bishop of one of the surrounding wards buts she is luthern. So we sang a hymn instead. Then we went to elderly couple that are less active in our area due to health. Mom you would love their house. It was a summer cottage turned into a house with BEAUTIFUL wood work and a gorgeous front lawn! They had the greatest old time music playing and the strangest assortement of chairs ha ha... of course we tried each one out ;) So fun! Great way to end the night. We taught 19 lessons this week! Good for a transfers week apparently.

Mon.- So this morning is P-day we were supposed to go to ward choir and our car wouldn't start. Dad you would be proud that I lifted the hood and did all I could ha ha my comp. thought we were low on oil so I checked. Oil was fine, belts fine, ha but battery was dead and we were out of gas oops. So we got it jump started and filled the gas. It died again and we took it to les schawb and got it recharged. Sis. Mullins wanted to go to Jiffy lube (sorry for the cuss word ;) ) but I refused. Proud right? Now I am emailing you guys and then headed to write people by hand. I love you guys so much and I will talk to you more next week.

Weird things of Seattle:

Cat on a leash

Hippie vans everywhere

Jenn
Sister Franzen