Hello from Redwood City!
Family!
Today was transfers, and I arrived in Redwood City with Sister Kelson (from Sandy, UT!) about 3 hours ago. We are white-washing here, which is terrifying. There were Elders here before, so we don't have a clue about what is our area, when is church, who are our members, who we are teaching...what is our phone number??? But we are super excited to be here. President has been trying to open it up to Sisters for a really long time, and this transfer he finally did it. I think that I may be in Meredith's stake?? I'm not sure, but our zone leaders are serving there, so we may run into each other now and again. It is GORGEOUS here! Our apartment is right in the heart of downtown. We are excited to be hopefully be doing lots of walking.
The bad news for us is that all missionaries keep track of their areas- or they should. We have records of everyone we've taught and what we've taught them, down to which streets and houses we have knocked. With a good area book white-washing would not be nearly as scary- but since arriving we have discovered that we don't have an area book at all... We found various teaching records in desk drawers and on tabels from the missionaries before- but there are only 9 or 10. So we're hoping we can get permission to meet with them so they can tell us what's up, because as of right now we have a week full of knocking. haha
One of the missionaries at transfer meeting this morning gave us a GPS to use for the next couple months until we figure out what is what. That was the best thing that happened to us all day lol, because we had no map and no idea where Redwood City even was.
This past weekend before I left Peter Orosco was Baptized. He is doing so well, and Bishop already has his calling lined up for next week. Peter is excited and ready to serve. He invited us over to his house and had us meet his landlord and her family- all of whom are now investigating the church.
I am going to miss Yerba Buena a lot :( Sister Alvey and I had a fireside in the church on Friday and after it was over we just sat in the chapel and cried together :( It has literally become my home here, there are so many people who I love & so many wonderful memories. I am looking forward to the day when I get to return and visit them all again- but I am super excited to get things going here in our new area.
Sister Kelson is awesome. I have heard only good things about her. We recognize eachother from high school but can't figure out how we knew each other. She is going to be headed back home in November so hopefully we can make her last few months awesome!
Much love :)
-Mariesa
Today was transfers, and I arrived in Redwood City with Sister Kelson (from Sandy, UT!) about 3 hours ago. We are white-washing here, which is terrifying. There were Elders here before, so we don't have a clue about what is our area, when is church, who are our members, who we are teaching...what is our phone number??? But we are super excited to be here. President has been trying to open it up to Sisters for a really long time, and this transfer he finally did it. I think that I may be in Meredith's stake?? I'm not sure, but our zone leaders are serving there, so we may run into each other now and again. It is GORGEOUS here! Our apartment is right in the heart of downtown. We are excited to be hopefully be doing lots of walking.
The bad news for us is that all missionaries keep track of their areas- or they should. We have records of everyone we've taught and what we've taught them, down to which streets and houses we have knocked. With a good area book white-washing would not be nearly as scary- but since arriving we have discovered that we don't have an area book at all... We found various teaching records in desk drawers and on tabels from the missionaries before- but there are only 9 or 10. So we're hoping we can get permission to meet with them so they can tell us what's up, because as of right now we have a week full of knocking. haha
One of the missionaries at transfer meeting this morning gave us a GPS to use for the next couple months until we figure out what is what. That was the best thing that happened to us all day lol, because we had no map and no idea where Redwood City even was.
This past weekend before I left Peter Orosco was Baptized. He is doing so well, and Bishop already has his calling lined up for next week. Peter is excited and ready to serve. He invited us over to his house and had us meet his landlord and her family- all of whom are now investigating the church.
I am going to miss Yerba Buena a lot :( Sister Alvey and I had a fireside in the church on Friday and after it was over we just sat in the chapel and cried together :( It has literally become my home here, there are so many people who I love & so many wonderful memories. I am looking forward to the day when I get to return and visit them all again- but I am super excited to get things going here in our new area.
Sister Kelson is awesome. I have heard only good things about her. We recognize eachother from high school but can't figure out how we knew each other. She is going to be headed back home in November so hopefully we can make her last few months awesome!
Much love :)
-Mariesa
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