Hello everybody! It has been quite the week here in various parts of Oregon! Since I've last written to y'all I spent a day in Garden Valley, over two days in Medford, and almost four days in good old Klamath Falls! What a ride!
Monday night I said a lot of goodbyes and got all upsetty spaghetti. Tuesday morning we headed to the transfer spot, and after a brief encounter with a homeless lady in a bikini (long story, not even sure if I could put it into words!), I was put in a transfer van heading south! :) Two stops and a few hours later I ended up in Medford to spend the night until my greenie flew in Wednesday. I spent the night at Sister Mitchell's apartment, and it was hecka weird to see her again, but it also felt like we were just back in good old Waldport! :) We even broke out some of the old card games too!
During my stay in Medford we went to the pear farm owned by the church, and I lived out Jacob Chapter Five. I was really out there nurturing grafted trees? Wild. I also sniped a free haircut from Mitchell because these ends were getting rather ridiculous. God is very good for that one.
Shockingly the transfer van got really behind the next day, and the greenies didn't roll into Medford until around 9:15, so I ended up staying a extra night with Mitchell and McLean, before heading off to good old K-Falls in the morning!
My new companion is Hermana Campbell, she's from Kaysville Utah, went to a year at Utah state, and was originally called to Salta Argentina! We don't have like any pictures together though, whoops!
Klamath Falls is something else. It's got very hardcore 'Merica vibes, and I'm kinda scared. Guess it isn't called "Klamtucky" for nothing. Our ward is pretty old, from the one week we've seen of them. Our ward mission leader is like 92-no joke, he's actually that old-, so that should be interesting. They asked us to show up to ward council yesterday, and it was a comedic masterpiece. Absolute chaos and anarchy. Kinda of amazing to witness honestly, they'd be talking about things, and be almost done, then some old dude in the corner would very loudly say something someone else had said five minutes ago, and they'd have to loop back around. Then when I asked who was in our missionary huddle, they had never heard that word before, so that's gonna be fun to figure out!
We went and ate with the other Sisters after District Council (at Jalapeños- thanks for the suggestion Sister Johnson :)) and we saw the two dirtiest people to ever walk the earth. No exaggeration at all, I was actually dying over it. They were literally covered in dirt, and their van had trash overflowing out of it! They also were straight up holding three rats each, this image has been haunting me for four days now, and I don't think I'll ever actually we able to describe how dirty they were.
People I've met so far:
Brother Nash: our 92 year old WML
Delores: a 93 year old member who we go over and visit with once a week! She's a straight up boss, and has some incredible chaotic energy. She forced us to drive to "Dairy-Queen" so that she could buy us shakes, then she flew past the turn while we watched, and we had to wait for her for like seven minutes in weirdly packed "dairy-queen" parking lot. What a boss. Her kids tried to put her in a nursing home last year when she broke her leg, but she said no.
Jesus: what a man. was baptized like 5 years ago in Cali, and is just now starting to come back to church. We met with him, and talked about the story of Enos and it was hecka cool. He came with his fiancé, who he lives with though...so that's a problem.
Gary: Gare-Bear, former eternagator, now member of two months, legend. Is going to Provo for the first time this week to attend a wedding for one of his first Sisters. :)
Joann: new member as of last week! super sweet, only briefly talked at church, but I'm super exited to have a lesson with her soon!
Lori: investigator we have very mixed notes on. Very confused, we will be going in 99.9% blind when we meet with her this week!
Much much love, hoping a less confused Hermana Shelton writes you this week, but until then...
Hermana Shelton :)
p.s. I have a mailbox for the first time in my life so that's kinda cool!
F O T O S:
1 - goodbye to Maria, Karla, and Oscar♡
2 - goodbye lunch selfie with Haylie!
3 - nota de the Forsloffs ft. the Bro Forsloffs amazing artistic ability
4 - service at the pear farm!
5 - haircut in the Medford STLs kitchen
6 - bye-bye Hermana Peterson
7 - bried reunion with Sis Philly, who was getting moved to Medford(ish)!
8- the only photo I currently have with my new comp. RIP, I'll do better next week.
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