January 18, 2010
Ta dunn!
So second week of the transfer...so crazy. Sis Pua's awesome so I'm learning a lot about everything. She was my ZL in my first transfer so it was weird at first. We get along really well though and just joke back and forth all the time about being offended and offending each other. It's classic hulet banter. :) So it's great fun. She's from Maui in
So it's been crazy this week with sisters getting sick, comps not getting along, people being disobedient. It's weird that being in this position I see everything that happens or doesn't happen. I often wish I could just be back to doing normal missionary work. A lot of what we do is support for the district leaders and the sisters. Whew. We had training meetings every morning last week and we're finally finished with that. Zone conference is coming up and we'll all be going to the Church History Library so that will be great.
It's been neat having a lot of new sisters in our Zone. 9 trainer/trainees and they're all working so hard. I think it helps with the trainers constantly trying to be a good example and the trainees' desires to work hard. It's amazing to see it. We also have the comp issues that we dealth with so I'm learning more in that respect because I've often been a live and let live type of person only worrying about myself and I've come to realize that that doesn't help anyone but myself. So it's interesting being the support and push for them to be better. I feel more like mom who was never afraid to tell someone that they needed to shape up (even those who weren't her children) but to do it in a loving way. I'm grateful for that example mom :)
To answer some questrions: Transfers are on Feb 17th. Just count six weeks from Jan 5th and you'll be good. They are always on Wednesdays.
Sis Pua and I have been blessed to be able to speak with really good and prepared people on the square but none who have taken that final step to receiving missionaries. One guy came and wanted to know why he couldn't enter the temple and what the book of mormon was about but he just promised us he would get a book and read it. He was agnostic and seemed more on the logical side but not so logical that he didn't accept the existence of ghosts and spirits (to which, he said,
We're giving a training on "Virtue" for Zone Conference and we were discussing it this morning. Something that we talked about was a diagram that Pres. Holmes used to describe the leadership in the church. The world views leadership in the form of a triangle: once you reach the top, you look down on all the people you had to step on to get there. In the church, it's inverted with christ at the tip, or the bottom, lifting us all up and as you are called into leadership, you go lower and lower on the triangle towards the Savior. Sis Pua and I expanded that to be anyone that is able to grow closer to the Savior: the closer you become to the Savior, the more people you are able to lift up; and just as you cannot convert people more than you yourself are converted, you cannot lift people up more so than the Savior or those below you are lifting you up. I liked it. :) Anyway, that was my little shpeal...
Funny story: we had to take Sis Yang to the ER to make sure everything was A-ok. When we got there, they wanted to do some blood tests so we had to wait for a while. Poor Sis Yang, the entire time they spoke to her, tried to describe her condition with the little vocabulary she knows and tried to understand what they were telling her. The nurse, however, seemed unable to simplify her descriptions so you can imagine my face when she told Sis Yang "When you have a bowel movement, we need to take your stool samples. That goes for when you urinate as well; we need to take a urine sample." Sis yang didn't understand but said ok. I told her that when she pooped we needed the poop and when she peed we needed to get a sample of the pee. It made it all the more awkward when it came time to doing it and the instructions said: wipe the space between the labia (skin folds). Use three wipes and wipe from front to back between the labia.
Sis Yang read it ALL out loud and I had to explain it to her one step at a time. Sis Pua just stood back and watched (turning away at times to laugh) as I explained what the "leed" (lid) was, etc., etc., etc.
So that's one to add to my more awkward moments. :) I'm glad to hear that Disney came out with another good cartoon. I look forward to seeing it when I get home. I also enjoyed Buddy's good doctor story. Sis Pua made fun of me when I told sister yang that the IV that they hooked into her was a "saline drip". she scoffed and told sister yang "they just call it an IV. I don't know what it stands for but it's an IV."
So it's just the beginning. We'll see what else happens. For the most part it's just really great to still be on a mission and I'll be honest, I kind of dread ever going back to normal life. I've still got 9 1/2 months, though, so no worries.
Oh my. I forgot. Two more things: so Sis Hollesen and Sis Taumalolo (roommates and APs) live with us and Sis Hollesen always has this weird thing where right before she goes to bed, she begins to smell something that's not right and look for what it is. Last time, they were onions left by the last sister that lived there and we threw them away. This time we found that a whole thing of potatoes had become rotten. She ran away and was like "Sis Hulet........bleh...can you take care of that??" Yep. I did it. I clean the shelf off of the nasty rotten potato slime. ew. I gagged of course.
Anyway, it's been an exciting week. Stressful, but exciting.
Love you all!!!
Sister Hulet
January 11, 2010
“Tonight I will guide your camel”
so this quote is from a book and I thought of it as I was reading the part of 1Nephi with Ishmael and his daughters (if that gives anyone a clue for what it is from). Haha, becky and I used to laugh at it all the time. I chuckled to myself when I thought of it last night. tee hee.
So this first week has been crazy. The first day of transfers was completely out of control: We had prayer meeting with our Zone to pass out planners, calendars, newsletters, etc. Then we all split to go contact on the square. Sis Pua and I, however, met briefly with the South DLs and then the assistants to discuss some business and then we went out to contact. We had to go take care of some things from Sis Pua's assignment last transfer (she was director over the
Then the rest of the day on Wednesday we had to take a sister to the airport, then pick three sisters up from the airport and return home only to grab dinner for a quick half an hour and then head over to Wal Mart with the trainees for their first shopping trip here. WE finally got dinner late that night around 9:00. So crazy!
Thursday was a bit better although we discovered more and more of what our responsibilities were. It's been really good and we have the support of absolutely amazing DLs this transfer and good, hard-working sisters in our Zone.
We've had really good contacts in the past week. WE took a tour of three with a couple from
We also had this great Asian couple, Francis Poon and wife, who were in a hurry but wanted to see a couple things on the square. Francis, apparently, had been to
Sis Pua: "Wow, you both really know a lot about this already!"
Poon: "No. I do."
We took him quickly inside the SVC and showed him the pictures of the temples in Hong Kong (where he is from); Tai Pei,
We then (last one) had a really good contact with a guy that was passing through on his way to CA. We got to tell him more about the Priesthood restoration (he was looking at the statues of Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery receiving the priesthoods) and he asked us questions about the plan of salvation. We told him, since he didn't have much time, that reps could visit him to share more about that and could bring him a BoM. He agreed and was on his way. So cool though! the people that have been coming have been SO prepared!!
I've learned a lot from Sis Pua. She has a great talent for explaining things clearly and also making the gospel real for people: showing how it can be APPLIED in their lives through her own personal experiences and also the experiences of the pioneers. It's amazing! I'm excited to be able to work with her. We also get to just joke back and forth and keep everything really light. It's so good. But when it comes down to it, we work hard and remember what we're here for.
We've been in training for DLs and ZLs almost every morning at 8 to know how to deal with different things and it's been really helpful to get everyone on the same page. We're just beginning to see what problems will need to be dealt with already, but it'll be good. The biggest thing will be helping to support the DLs and helping the 9 new sisters from the MTC to adjust.
Hope you all received my Christmas cards! Love,
sister Hulet
Sister Hulet
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