what a week! I can't believe seven days ago I was sitting on zoom in the Mendon MTC! wild!
I flew out of the SLC airport Wednesday morning, and that was such an experience! The new airport has this new machine for security, and it would put the tubs on the other side of the glass if it wasn't up to snuff; so naturally both of my tubs ended up there :). This guy told me he'd have to send them back through (I still don't know why, or how sending the exact same thing through would change anything but here we are). Anyway the tub that just had my suitcass in it made its way back within five minutes. The tub with my shoes, jacket, wallet, and plane ticket didn't. I waited for like 20 minutes and watched all these people come and go before I asked some guy if he'd seen my shoes; and this lady (who looked so strangely familiar and I couldn't get over it) made it her life mission to find my tub. Turns out the first guy was a scrub and just set it to the side and never put it on the tub.
After locating my shoes (and literally everything vitally important) I started to walk to gate B. Turns out gate b is literal miles away. I walked for a really long time before arriving to the b gates. Then I walked to B30 (the last one). There was like 20 missionaries there (all but one reassigned from somewhere else). We waited around for a while before they started to board. These two sisters almost missed the plane because they took the longest bathroom trip of all time. Then once we boarded we had to walk through this maze that lead us to a parking lot, where a bus drove us to our plane.
Once we landed we drove to a church building, we did some orientation stuff then I met my companion Sister Peterson (she's been out for 16 months today!). I also found out what area I was going to, but it meant nothing to me. My companion, two others Sisters (who are also serving in our area), and I drove back to the airport because the other new Sister's luggage had been put on a later flight. After about an hour there we learned the flight was delayed so someone would have to bring it to us. We then drove to our area, which is when I learned that I was GOING TO THE COAST!! I had no idea and I was so pumped. It's rained every day since I've been here, apparently it's the worst time of year to be here; but I see the ocean EVERY time I drive anywhere. It's so pretty.
I've taught like six lessons so far, but all to members. We have a couple nonmember lessons lined up this week so hopefully they come through! We live in a retirement community pretty much, so we aren't allowed to go in anyone's houses so we either zoom them or sit on their porch in the rain. Zoom with these older people is honestly so funny. They'll all be holding their phone so we can see up their nose and stuff! It kills me!
The members here are so sweet though and sign up for lessons with us (we have two member lessons a night). They also feed us dinner almost every night!
Sister Peterson and I are assigned to the YSA branch; so we had to go and bear our testimonies in two sacraments (this church building puts out chairs for its chapel BTW, they have no pews). The normal ward was over zoom so it was just us and about 10 others. The YSA was in person for the first time this week though; and no one showed up. Literally. It was two sets of missionaries and the people with callings in that ward. Not one member of the word walked in! Which made it so we had to bear our testimonies (which we also had to in the first one). It was so awkward I felt so bad for the Branch President.
My comp is also new to the area and so we're trying to figure out the people and the area. We have two lessons with nonmembers set up though so hopefully everything works out!
Needless to say my rain boots have gotten A LOT of use :) it's only NOT been raining for about 6 hours total of my time here! Which makes backing my companion a bit rough (missionaries aren't aloud to reverse without there comp giving them hand signals behind the car). It's a pretty cold experience but it's all good.
Much love from the Coast,
Hermana (or Sister now) Shelton.
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