Well as you can tell from the title, I got transferred to Casa Grande! It is so different down here than what I have been used to for my whole mission. My past areas have been filled with pretty well-off /rich people. In a few areas I did have an apartment complex though. Here it is completely different! There are a few nice communities, but the rest of the area is ghetto. Tons of trailer parks and run down houses. Our area is HUGE! (compared to my last areas). Just guessing that it is 30 square miles. Not sure though. It takes a half hour to get to the edge of our area and we only cover one ward. Down here it has a bigger desert feel than my past areas. It takes a little getting used to and I still feel like I'm on exchanges with the Spanish sisters or something. But it's good! I always
hear that Casa Grande is awesome :) So I'm really excited to be here.
hear that Casa Grande is awesome :) So I'm really excited to be here.
I love my new companion, Sis W, to death although she is almost done with her mission! She will go home the end of next transfer, so she has three months left. I'm so glad to be with someone who knows what they are doing! It's like I'm finally getting my training from someone experienced! We get along super good and she actually reminds me of Aunt Darci when she says certain things :) It's fun. Our teaching pool is very limited right now so we are trying to meet new people and find those
ready for the gospel, which is kind of hard with such a huge area and random people living out in the boonies, but it's fine :) We will figure it out. This ward needs to be more excited about missionary work so we have been brainstorming how we can get people to help us out more since it is hard to find people to teach.
Anyway to back up a little bit, the few days before transfers were jampacked. Sister A and I had a lovely P-day filled with packing for me. However, we went and got Cold Stone for a little celebration/party. It was fun and we got a lot done. Plus we went to the girl's home that came on the mini-mission with us for dinner. Her parents aren't members and they were totally against her joining the church, so this was a huge step for them. It was really fun! They even asked us a few questions about what we do as missionaries and the logistics of it all. We then played a little game with her dad because he loves games. It was really good to just allow them to interact with us and see that we are normal :)(kinda) haha.
Anyway to back up a little bit, the few days before transfers were jampacked. Sister A and I had a lovely P-day filled with packing for me. However, we went and got Cold Stone for a little celebration/party. It was fun and we got a lot done. Plus we went to the girl's home that came on the mini-mission with us for dinner. Her parents aren't members and they were totally against her joining the church, so this was a huge step for them. It was really fun! They even asked us a few questions about what we do as missionaries and the logistics of it all. We then played a little game with her dad because he loves games. It was really good to just allow them to interact with us and see that we are normal :)(kinda) haha.
On Tuesday we had zone meeting. That was awesome because we are close to the Gilbert Temple and our leaders got permission for us to finish zone meeting on the temple grounds :) That was super fun and we got to have a little bit of "alone" time on the grounds to just think and make goals for
ourselves and such. It was nice. We then had a lesson with one of our convert
and the members we taught him with. The convert told us that both Sis A and I are so special to him and that we are his rock (except Christ). He said he wants to keep in touch with us forever :) He is adorable. The sister member cried when I said goodbye and she ALMOST started to make me cry, but I held myself together. I love her. She has done so much for me being in that area. We also had a lesson with another guy that night. He also wasn't very happy to hear that I was leaving, but I think he has attachment problems so it's probably a good thing. The Bishop was out of town, but he was super nice and called me to tell me goodbye and thank you for everything I had done for that ward. (Which
wasn't really much, but it was nice anyway :)
Then as I said before, I got transferred to Casa Grande! It has been fun but like I said before, we are trying to find people to teach. We do have an investigator who lives in a trailer park and we taught him in a HABOOB! My very first real haboob (monsoon). It starts out as a wall of dust and wind blowing in and then it RAINS. It was lightning every 5 seconds probably and it was raining real hard. But before the lightning got bad, and it first started raining, we taught this guy in the rain. We didn't
have another female so we couldn't go inside so we just chilled outside. We were SOAKED and had to end the lesson a little early because of the storm. It was fun though :) So ever since Thursday it has been overcast mostly and super HUMID. Yes, humid. It gets dang humid during monsoon season. Usually at least 80-90%, but one day it was 100%. Crazy right?! So that is interesting!Anyway, the guy we taught in the rain, came to church this Sunday and "gave it a try". I'm not sure if he liked it so we need to check with him. He isn't very talkative and doesn't open up much so it's kinda hard to teach him.
For the 4th of July we had to be in by 5 unless some members invited us to be with them. Our Ward Mission Leader had us for dinner. His wife is due to have another baby boy this week. They have a two year old boy already. They are super cute. Anyway we had some yummy hamburgers and then they took us home. They were going to go to a party for fireworks which we couldn't do. It was fine though because I have been so exhausted. Sister W and I just relaxed at home and told each other
stories. We got to know each other a lot better and it was really fun. So no fireworks for me this year! We have a few recent converts that we usually go read the Book of Mormon with so that has been fun. Sister W is really good at making the scriptures come alive for people and helping them see how fun and good it can be to read. So that is awesome! I'm really excited to be here. :)
We had a few crazy experiences with dogs yesterday. There were so many angry looking dogs in fences that we needed to go in. So we would just pray for safety and cautiously head in. :) It all worked out. One dog was barking like crazy until we got in the gate, and then it just went and
cowered in the corner. So who knows? Maybe we had angels with us. :) It's been an adventure and it's hard to learn the area since it is so huge, but Sister W has a GPS so that is really handy. Trying to learn a new area is always so exhausting so I've been extra tired and trying to get fully unpacked. I think I finally got the unpacking part pretty much finished, so now I need to focus on learning who the people are and their names and what they need etc. It will be interesting to see what they decide to do with us next transfer. By the end of this transfer Sister W will have been here for 6 months so I wonder if they will transfer her with only one transfer left. Who knows?!
Anyway it's been a good week even though it's extremely hot and muggy. I'm going to freeze when I get home because I think it's cold in our apartment and it's usually around 80 degrees inside! My hair is so dead from constantly being in the hot air. It's like blow drying it all day everyday so ya, it's pretty dead and nasty. Oh well. I'm just rambling now because I don't have much else to say because I still don't even know who is what and where they are! haha. So maybe next weeks letter will be better :) Well have a good week!
P.S. I know this is Christ's church on the Earth and I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary and spread God's love and peace to his children :)
wasn't really much, but it was nice anyway :)
Then as I said before, I got transferred to Casa Grande! It has been fun but like I said before, we are trying to find people to teach. We do have an investigator who lives in a trailer park and we taught him in a HABOOB! My very first real haboob (monsoon). It starts out as a wall of dust and wind blowing in and then it RAINS. It was lightning every 5 seconds probably and it was raining real hard. But before the lightning got bad, and it first started raining, we taught this guy in the rain. We didn't
have another female so we couldn't go inside so we just chilled outside. We were SOAKED and had to end the lesson a little early because of the storm. It was fun though :) So ever since Thursday it has been overcast mostly and super HUMID. Yes, humid. It gets dang humid during monsoon season. Usually at least 80-90%, but one day it was 100%. Crazy right?! So that is interesting!Anyway, the guy we taught in the rain, came to church this Sunday and "gave it a try". I'm not sure if he liked it so we need to check with him. He isn't very talkative and doesn't open up much so it's kinda hard to teach him.
For the 4th of July we had to be in by 5 unless some members invited us to be with them. Our Ward Mission Leader had us for dinner. His wife is due to have another baby boy this week. They have a two year old boy already. They are super cute. Anyway we had some yummy hamburgers and then they took us home. They were going to go to a party for fireworks which we couldn't do. It was fine though because I have been so exhausted. Sister W and I just relaxed at home and told each other
stories. We got to know each other a lot better and it was really fun. So no fireworks for me this year! We have a few recent converts that we usually go read the Book of Mormon with so that has been fun. Sister W is really good at making the scriptures come alive for people and helping them see how fun and good it can be to read. So that is awesome! I'm really excited to be here. :)
We had a few crazy experiences with dogs yesterday. There were so many angry looking dogs in fences that we needed to go in. So we would just pray for safety and cautiously head in. :) It all worked out. One dog was barking like crazy until we got in the gate, and then it just went and
cowered in the corner. So who knows? Maybe we had angels with us. :) It's been an adventure and it's hard to learn the area since it is so huge, but Sister W has a GPS so that is really handy. Trying to learn a new area is always so exhausting so I've been extra tired and trying to get fully unpacked. I think I finally got the unpacking part pretty much finished, so now I need to focus on learning who the people are and their names and what they need etc. It will be interesting to see what they decide to do with us next transfer. By the end of this transfer Sister W will have been here for 6 months so I wonder if they will transfer her with only one transfer left. Who knows?!
Anyway it's been a good week even though it's extremely hot and muggy. I'm going to freeze when I get home because I think it's cold in our apartment and it's usually around 80 degrees inside! My hair is so dead from constantly being in the hot air. It's like blow drying it all day everyday so ya, it's pretty dead and nasty. Oh well. I'm just rambling now because I don't have much else to say because I still don't even know who is what and where they are! haha. So maybe next weeks letter will be better :) Well have a good week!
P.S. I know this is Christ's church on the Earth and I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary and spread God's love and peace to his children :)
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