Yeah you read it right.... #ET!!!! For those of you who don't know all the random mission lingo ET stands for emergency transfer. Basically the mission president can call at anytime and change where you live and your companion. That is an emergency transfer. Sister McBride and I got halfway ET'd. We are still companions but we had five hours to pack and move into an old Elder apartment..... 🤦♀️ More on that later, but, it has been a Rollercoaster of a week my friends so buckle up!!
Monday: SO SAD! Our ward picnic got canceled due to weather. We were so upset because we had five families (three non members and two returning members) coming! So that was sad. We ended up going home and calling a ton of people. That's all for Monday.
Tuesday: Tuesday was a..... day. It was moving day! Ah! So our day started off normal, we just went to our morning meetings, came home took lunch, laid down for a short nap around 1:00, and no more than 10 minutes into our nap the phone starts ringing..... we pick it up and turns out it was the Zone Leaders. We answered and they said Sisters, we have a little emergency. We have a Sister from Samoa who has been serving for over 20 months due to covid. President thinks she will be able to get a flight soon, but the members she is living with have Covid..... meaning if her plane arrives she won't be able to go and may miss her only shot to go home for months. So, you are moving to a two man that Elders currently live in, they are moving in with the zone leaders, and all four of the Sisters that are living in a members home are moving into your big apartment. You need to be out by 7:00pm..... so, missionary work went out the window and we ran around like crazy people trying to pack, clean, and stuff everything into our tiny equinox...... It was by far the most stressful day on my mission because not only did we have to move we had a SUPER important Spanish lesson that is a 30 minute drive away from our apartment. So, alas. We drove to the lesson and he accepted a Book Of Mormon! That means it was totally worth the drive. However, we zoomed home with less than an hour before we had to be out apartment. When we got to our apartment it was absolutely disgusting. Guys. We have been living here for almost a week and we still can't get rid of the smell. We have tried everything. Air fresheners, oils, boiling orange peels and cinnamon. But alas, it still smells like boy.... I wish we had before and after pictures because we rearranged all the furniture and turned it into a Sister apartment so, now it is much better. We had to de-elderify so it looks nice, but it still stinks. That's all for my update on the move! Sister McBride hasn't unpacked because transfers is next week and we are pretty sure she is moving so she only unpacked her carry on and is living out of that! I unpacked a little more than she did but we are basically living out of our suitcases until Saturday when we get transfer calls.
Wednesday: Well, today was super busy! We had a fun time getting ready because we didn't have time to unpack anything yesterday. So, we did that, and some studies and then headed out at 11:30 to do service for our cute mom friend Esther. We love helping her because instead of cleaning on her lunch break she gets to play with her kiddos. Right after service we went to a meeting with a recent convert and got him set up with temple prep classes!! Let's go! He is excited to move along the covenant path. After that lesson we went to another recent converts house and set up lessons with her 7 year old daughter who lives half the time with her Dad who is very anti-religion. Her poor momma is really trying to teach her but it is hard when it is a constant fight, so we came to be the third party advocates for the church. After we did that lesson we went to our new Relief Society presidents house for dinner. We talked about members that could use visits and had a really yummy casserole of some sort. After that we rushed to youth group and I taught Yoga and did meditation with all the girls. You could tell they really liked it because there was zero talking! Which is a feat for this group of girlies. After mutual we came home and crashed. We didn't even bother unpacking or anything we were so tired. It was such a good day and felt so good after we did barely any missionary work yesterday.
Thursday: Today we left our apartment at 7:00am and drove to downtown Las Vegas to help at the Covid-19 Vaccine clinic. The one day it decided to snow in March in Vegas we had to be standing outside clearly underdressed for the weather directing traffic. Below are before and after pictures of when we got there and after we froze to death. It was honestly so funny to help a bunch of old people follow clearly marked signs. I love doing community service especially for something as important as getting our older population vaccinated. Sister McBride killed it at traffic directing because she is much too nice to be the one telling people where to go. She would've held up our line chatting with people :) So, I had to move the line along. Natrually, I am a pro because of my traffic directing skills learned at good old CFA. Speaking of Chick-fil-a THERE IS ONE RIGHT NEXT TO THE CLINIC! So, obviously we stopped and got Chick-fil-a for lunch. It literally made my whole month. After that we came home did weekly planning for an hour and half and then rushed to Centro Hispano! We had five class members!!!! I had to take a picture because chances of all five of our awesome middle aged men students being in the same room at one time again are..... probably 0% ;) We had a blast teaching English class like we do every week.
Friday: Today we finally got to relax after a long three days. It snowed in Vegas yet again and if was so bad we weren't allowed to drive. So, we stayed in, did all of our studies, unpacked and made a bunch of phone calls. That's all that really happened Friday.
Saturday: It finally warmed up a little! Today we helped clean the chapel, walked to Del Taco because it is now a five minute walk from our apartment...... Walked to the church to do language study because our service is absolutely terrible at this new apartment, and had all of our appointments cancel on us. So, again it was a pretty chill day. We invited a TON of people to church so, in the next paragraph you can read how that turned out. We would've gone street contacting but Sister McBride sprained her ankle doing jumping jacks, (don't ask me how we have no idea) so sadly, the nurse told us not street contacting until transfers.
Sunday: Well, today was crazy, not only did we have our usual two sacrament meetings, ward council, and Relief Society zoom. We also had breakfast with the Gallegos family, lunch with the Villagomez family, dinner with the Gapp family, and a lesson with the Vazquez family. The Gapp family made us the cutest Easter baskets and totally made our day! Maria (the Vazquez momma) totally opened up today and even committed to reading the Book Of Mormon with her kids this week!! Lunch with the Villagomez clan is always a party and I never understand anything..... but, they made the best fried rice I've ever had in my life so, esta bien.
You're welcome for the abundance of pictures this week! Sister McBride is probably getting transfered so there are lots of pictures with members. We also took some fun pictures of us at a huge park that we discovered on our morning run, and lots of other random things that made us happy this week. I am not apologizing for this email being so long but, if you skipped to the bottom and just looked at the pictures you are going to be really confused on who is who. So you should probably start from the beginning ;) As always I love you guys! I also love hearing from you!!! So, please update me on how your lives have been!! I have Facebook messenger and this email!
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