Family!
Wow, what a week.... I love being full field!!!! It's been wonderful! So I'll fill you in on all the deets. :)
I'm in Pearl City and Aiea, right by Waipahu. Apparently it's a small area, but it feels huge to me, since I'm used to four streets where I know every single household. On the first day in the area, I was just amazed getting there and seeing streets and streets of non-members! Which means there's lots of work to do!! I was so excited. There were quite a few baptisms in the area within the past year, meaning right now we're in the finding stage. So we get to go tracting a lot! Wooo! I've always wanted to go fo real tracting in a place that actually has non-members. If you can't tell that's still kind of a novel idea to me. Our area is a giant hill (and we live at the very top) that goes all the way down to the ocean. Sidenote, we don't really see the ocean, except for when we're on the very top of our hill. So I'll miss that... but not too much because I know I'll be going right back to it haha.
My companions are Sister Curtis and Sister Mottl. I LOVE them!!! Both of them are dying (going home) at the end of this transfer. And fun fact, they're sister trainers! Which means I'm a sister trainer too..? I don't really know how that happened. It's cool though. :) I was worried about being in a tripan, but it's been SO fun. Nothing to worry about. :) The more the merrier right?! And they're super great missionaries, so I am learning a lot from them! Also, there's this super spectacular couch in our pad, and we sit on it and talk story and bond all the time. And when I say all the time I really mean lunch time and after we plan at night haha.
Other fun things that have happened this week...
-SUSHI. So. Much. Sushi. Sometimes I forget that I'm not in Japan haha. It's been so great though! Our ward loves us, and loves to take us out. The best one so far has been Genki... it's this Japanese place that has a giant circular conveyer belt going around the restaurant, with different dishes on it that you just grab when you feel like eating it. It's pretty fantastic. Good thing I got over my phobia of raw fish.
-We have bunk beds! We had to set them up ourselves. It was an adventure. I don't know why that's a significant fact... but it was fun at the time.
-On P-day we went to PCC! Haha, right back to Laie, same place I go every Monday! But it was so fun. And it had only been half a week since I had seen all the VC sisters... but I missed them already.. so it was good to show up and surprise them. :)
-We had stake conference this weekend, and it was SO good. On Saturday, four recent converts shared their conversion story. And guess what?! For three of them, the very beginning of their conversion began in the Visitors Center! They all decided that the gospel was something they wanted while in the VC. And they're all solid members now. How cool is that?! It made me feel a lot better about the efforts we put in at the VC.... really no effort is wasted.
-We spent ALL day today at the stake center checking planners and area books for interviews with president! It was looooong, but really fun to get to know all the other missionaries in our zone.
Well family, I am out of time! Sorry I didn't get more pictures today, I'll send you a flash drive with copious amounts of pictures sometime in the near future! And mom, thank you for the package! I haven't gotten it yet because it got sent to Laie, but I'll be able to get it from some siters on Monday at MLC (missionary leadership training). Oh, and because of that I won't be able to email you on Monday! Actually it might be like Thursday before I email you because we will be on exchanges.
LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!
<3 Sister Sabey
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| My Tripanionship! Sister Mottl, Sister Sabey and Sister Curtis |
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