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 Referral Center) and then we had to go pick up pizza for the new trainees and their trainers. However, we stopped at one Little Caesars and found that the pizzas were actually at a different location across town. Then we brought the pizzas back (an hour later) to the building where lunch was SUPPOSED to be and discovered it was to be held at a different location. So as we were packing the pizzas across, I was trucking it up the stairs and tripped UP the stairs. Pizzas: completely fine; My shin Bone: bruised and bleeding. Yay me. I've successfully managed to be not-so-klutzy my entire mission until it snowed pretty heavily one day and the first day of this transfer. And actually, since that moment I've continued to bruise myself and cut myself everywhere I go. Opposition? maybe....
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 Germany and a man from France. They were all really receptive, they asked good questions and were delightful. The German couple, in the end, referred to have missionaries bring them the BoM and the French man acknowledged that he felt a peaceful, pure, feeling that we were able to identify as the Spirit. He preferred to look up more information on the internet though so he did not want missionaries.
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 Temple square before and knew a lot about it:

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, Taiwan (where his wife is from); and San Diego (where they are living). We explained more about it and told him that missionaries could come and explain more about the temples to him and his wife. He was soo excited for it (he told it to some other sisters he spoke with). He then wanted to find a Japanese sister he could talk with (because he had been studying japanese for 2 yrs) and was so excited when we found one. I spoke the little Mandarin I know to his wife who said (this is true!) that my pronunciation was excellent. ah ha. I should be asian.

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

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