I made it here to New York! Its amazing! Its so beautiful here and its cold! The first day we went out street contacting (they call it sweeping) and we were freezing! I had dressed warm but a lot of our Elders didn't have anything but their suit coat. We were grateful to get indoors. Welcome to missionary work!
They then took us up to a building
called the Brooklynner, it has 51 stories and is the tallest building in
Brooklyn. We went all the way up to the roof and we could see everything! We
could see Manhattan, we could see Ellis Island and the statue of Liberty
(cool!) and all 5 bridges onto long island and all 5 bouroghs. It was quite a
view. I'll send pictures if I can. :D (put them on the blog please?)
So... We got our trainers today.
Mine is Hermana Madsen and we have been assigned to work in zone 9 in an area
called Riverhead... look it up... haha... its not at all the kind of place I
thought I'd be serving.... (Hermana Madsen will be going home as soon as she is
done training me... I'm killing her.) O yeah! and we are actually assigned to
teach in English.... I will have to try really hard to keep learning spanish...
its a half and half branch thought so hopefully i'll have people to talk to
still. (some of the Elders in my MTC district would die if they new I was
English, they were all praying that they could be switched to English. Ha!)
Its actually in the country! We live
in a house with a senior couple but they are going home at the end of this
transfer so we might have it all to ourselves after that. Crazy huh? There
aren't a ton of members here, its a new branch, maybe only 5 years old or so...
oh, and we are blinding the area (I think they call it white washing in other
missions.) It means that both of us are brand new to the area. :D we had no
idea what to do today! Haha. So i actually got lucky and had a really slow
first day, i think i'll get to ease into things instead of having to dive in
head first and hope i can swim. Don't worry, we're both really excited to be
here and ready to attack this area with everything we've got. :D
Dad. My address is:
959 Middle Road
Riverhead, NY 11901
But please please please don't put
that on the Blog.... Send everything to the mission home and they will forward
it on immediately. It just makes everything easier and it will make sure
nothing gets lost. (btw... our area is in the general neighbor hood of the
hamptons... we're on and over the north fork of long island, the hamptons is on
the south fork. But still, this is a lot nicer than the city.)
I can't remember what else you asked
me for on the phone so send me a list of Questions and i'll answer them as best
I can.
I am afraid I'm going to get soft
our here. I already feel spoiled rotten. What am I going to do when I am done
training and they move me to the city... I will be so LOST! What an adventure
this is.
I love the mission president and his
family. I told him that he can trust me and i'll give him everything i've got
so I have a lot to live up to already. But I am ready and willing to do it. I
meant it. I want to do this right. I've only got one chance right?
They told us that 25% of all the
missionaries in the NYS mission are involved in the training program in
someway... next transfer there will be 50% involved... WOW! I could be training
really really fast. The number of sisters serving all over the world is growing
exponentialy! Its awesome.
Well I need to go. This was supposed
to be super duper fast. My P-day will regularly be on Monday so i'll talk to
you then.
I love you!
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