Hi dad! I am writing an email!!! I know, I'm just as excited as you are haha, love youuuuu!!!!
You guys I love my dad. He's literally the best. He's so funny and hard working. He's my shining example for missionary work. I wish you all were as blessed as me to have grown up with his mission stories as my bed time stories. I have never found anyone that wants to build the kingdom of God more than he does.
Don't worry mom!! I didn't forget about you my number one! You are the hardest worker I know and thank you for continuing to support me while I'm out here!! Thanks for all the updates about Corona virus so I can stay safe out here. You guys. I'm literally so blessed to have my parents as my parents!!!
Hello! I am here! I haven't written for more than a month but I'm still out on a mission!! Yippee!!!
Update on my mission:
I am halfway through my transfer now! (Transfer is 6 weeks). 3 weeks ish ago, me and Sister Shay got transferred. We asked our mission president if we could start Chinese work in an area. Well, President let us come to a place called Torrance and we were just so excited to start Chinese work here TOGETHER! And then they told us we would be STLs (sister training leaders). Yipee!! I think it's for sure because Sister Shay is so charitable and loving and EVERYONE could seriously benefit from her being in their life. Well, a couple days later we got a stay at home order from the state of California, which told us that we couldn't have gatherings larger than 10. So in this mission, we avoided going out. Well, this week we are not going out all together. Unless groceries. So no, we are not quarantined, we are not on lockdown, just not going out except for some exceptions. Don't worry, even after 3 weeks, me and Sister Shay are pretty pumped about Chinese work here!
It been awesome here!! We've been busy, haha our suitcases are still not unpacked.....we will get on that soon, #aHouseOfOrderIsaHouseofGod (would be super impressed if you can read this hashtag), BUT, it's been awesome. We've been doing a lot of virtual lessons with nonmembers! We were able to do 15 this week!! Me and Sister Shay had this goal at the beginning of the week, and on Sunday we had set up 5, but we still needed 2 more! AND THE LORD PROVIDED!! We were soooo excited when we achieved our goal haha. Too excited. Jk, you can never be too excited about the Lord's work. Yes we are friends who are progressing! Yes we have been finding a lot! Yes this area is AMAZING!
Sister Shay time:
GAH. I LOVE HER!! it's just too good I don't know how I got so blessed. We still share snacks. And this week it was an Elder's birthday! So we made him brownies and got him a balloon and we made everyone write him notes (which was hilarious because our zone is all elders with the exception of us) and then dropped it off at their apartment (don't worry we got permission and didn't knock the door or anything). Then we ran to our car and drove him and were just out of breath and laughing the whole time. Then we did a facebook call with our whole zone and made him open his door and read all the notes. It was so fun!!!
Chinese zone:
Rip all of our native speakers from Taiwan left and went back to TaiwN. We are down 4 Chinese missionaries. Guys I loveee them. *many tears*
Update on updates:
We get updates every day. Everything is always changing. We lost 30 or so missionaries this week, but we love all of them and the new ones that will come!
A thought:
Haha sorry but also not sorry to everyone who opens up Facebook and it is just flooded with missionary posts. Super happy to see that social media is being flooded with good things! I think it is so awesome.
Another thought:
Don't compare! I feel like this is really easy to do as a missionary, but every single missionary has a different mission experience. They do things differently. At the end of the day, if you did those things you know God wants you to do and you are happy, then you can be happy. Me and Sister Shay have talked about how maybe some people may think we're too optimistic, too unrealistic, but you can see the world the way you want to see it. And maybe someone sees it differently. And that's okay!! Because God's opinion of you is what matters. No one else's!! I just love all of you so much and wish I could give you all hugs. Each of you are SO AWESOME. There's a reason why you're on earth, a reason why you're alive during this time.
Okay, byeeeee remember that I love you all!
Okay and if anyone is still here reading this, here are some funny things lol
-one day me and Sister Shay made a goal to drink 14 bottles of water. This combined with the scarceness of toilet paper is not a good combination ahahaha
-me and Sister Shay bought SO MANY SNACKS. Also we had to buy a 2 week food storage, but we can't touch it until quarantine. We are ready to be quarantined so we can touch this food.
-there is something in california, or at least where we are, called 99 cent store. It sells produce and everything is so cheap and is 99 cents. Well, me and Sister Shay just love it.
-eggs our scarce now too. One day me and Sister Shay were doing groceries and on the way out, THERE WAS ONE CARTOON OF EGGS. For everyone else, maybe it's just whatever, but we get excited over anything and started jumping up and down ahaha. They are our "golden eggs"
-we bought the Elders in our district matching watches and they bought us matching pens. Booyah
