I'm going to just start out with the transfer news for y'all! I'll be moving...10 minutes away! I'm staying in Waldport and getting a new companion (once Sister Peterson is officially dead). Her name is Sister Phillips and I'll be picking her up Tuesday. We'll be moving into the Yachats apartment with the other Sisters, because there have been some...issues with ours... so yeah! Sister Mitchell is leaving Waldport after a legendary stay of 7 1/2 months and will be moving to her second area, to be an STL in Medford, and Sister Hawkins will be getting a baby on Wednesday, so we'll be in a trio for a epic 24 hours! It should be a good time! We're not sure what's going on with us moving yet, so I'm sure that'll be a major part of my next email! :)
We did some service for Jodi this week, she was the referral we got last week. She just moved here, and has a broken leg so she needed a little help. She had us put all these nails in the wall so she could hang hoodies. It felt incredibly wrong, because she didn't have us measure or anything before drilling in these nails, I honestly felt like I was committing a crime more than I was helping her. But she was very thankful to us, and we're planning to go back and help her some more later (well I guess just me, and Sister Phillips now, but still).
We also did some service for a lady named Kristal, she may or may not be insane, jury's still out on that one. What I can tell you is that her house smells like she has a few pet skunks, if you know what I mean; but Oregon, will be Oregon I guess. We helped her move a bed from her house to her sister's, who's house smelt like she owned about 27 pet skunks, so that was epic. Luckily BP was there and managed to get everything done in record time so we could high tail it out of there! What an MVP!
Speaking of the best ward mission leader in the history of the church, BP comes with us to lessons with the Youngs on Tuesday nights. They're a newish member family who are still learning quite a bit, and are growing a lot. This week Bishop asked us to teach them about patriarchal blessings, so we ran with it. We talked to them about it, and then we asked BP to share a little about his experience with his blessing. He told us about how his blessing said he'd be blessed with many daughters, and then he only had two sons; but he said that he knows that it was talking about all of the Sister missionaries he's gotten to know during his time as WML. It was the most wholesome thing ever, and all of us were tearing up, including Sister Young, who told us she wants to get her's soon!
As I've mentioned a few times already, I'm killing my trainer tomorrow; so naturally on Thursday I planned a "FUNeral" for her. Emphasis has been given to "fun" because it was in fact very fun. I went to the dollar store and got some decorations, and wrote her this eulogy, it was a grand time. We pretty much got birthday decorations and crossed out everything that said "birth" and wrote "death" on it instead; so it could also be referred to as a "Deathday Party" if you prefer. We don't have many pictures unfortunately, because the Elders had to run off right after for some service...
I also finish new missionary training this week! Wahoo! I taught the interim zone-leader who's only going to be one for five days (our ZL got shipped off to Brasil last week, and our STL will be heading out next Friday!). He was so uncomfortable and at one point asked if I was supposed to teach him. Which made me question how he did new missionary training when we was a greenie, but all was well.
Our district leader made us all matching friendship bracelets to remember this district. Each companionship picked a color, I obviously wanted it to be purple, and Sister Peterson wanted yellow, so we had to compromise for maroon. It's super special, and I'm going to miss this district a lot, it's been an epic six weeks. Every companionship is changing this transfer though, so that'll be exciting!
This week has mostly been a lot of lasts with Sister Peterson, and a lot of her saying goodbye to people. Mostly we did the same thing, but people got sad at the end, and asked her to pray every single lesson because "You'll be going home soon."
Waldport, as always has been fabulous and I can't wait to let y'all know about all the adventures we have with some newbies next week!
Much love, Hermana Shelton!
Also duolingo played with my emotions a bit this week, but it's all good. I've decided that it's actually prophecy and that one day I will receive an email saying this from the church. :)
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