Bonjour tout le monde!
These past two week have been CRAZY. I don't even know where to
start and just to warn you this might be a short email because I think the
cyberbase is going to close soon...
Okay hmmm where to start....
We had the transfer last Thursday and awesome news! I'm actually
not driving the Juke, but the Qashqai--the nicest car in the mission! Perks of
being an STL in the North, haha :) Koutio is the "north" because it's
just more north of Noumea, which is the south in our mission. In New Cal, most
of the missionaries are in Noumea or just outside of it. If you had a map, you
could stick one finger on almost all of the mission areas in New Cal. So yeah,
Koutio is cool so far but pretty big compared to the other areas in the
mission. Good thing we have a car! The apartment is bigger than the one in VDC,
but it was SO DIRTY. And Soeur Rooraii and I didn't have a chance to really
clean it until this morning. Now we feel a lot better!
Koutio is still very
civilized--we have a McDo [McDonald's] and the biggest grocery store on the island, haha.
The ward I'm in is the Riviere Salee ward and it's the biggest ward in New
Cal--way bigger than Magenta. And the awesome thing is that the members here
want to invite us over and help us in our missionary work! And the DMP [ward mission leader] is
great, too! I'm excited to work in this ward! We've already had a soiree with
one family and at one point I had the thought that I could be in some house in
the middle of Utah having the same experience (but maybe in English, haha) It's
cool to see how even across the world, the Gospel is the same and the members
have the same testimonies and blessings and trials.
We've already have 2 weeks
of the transfer and we're just now getting the opportunity to really get to
work in our area. We've had 2 lessons with an amie so far (and some cancelled
ones) and been invited over twice.
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| Watching General Conference |
We had general conference this weekend! It
was great and the best part was that they had it in English in another room!
Haha, pretty much all of the missionaries were in there... But I was really
happy to be able to watch it in English so I could really learn and understand.
The translation is just not the same! But after watching conference I really
just want to go to the temple! #13moremonthsbeforethatsevenpossible
Vanuatu was great! We had two days of trainings with President
and Sister Granger at the mission home with all of the zone leaders and STLs in
the entire mission. It was really awesome BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO TELL Y'ALL
ABOUT IT LATER BECAUSE THE CYBERBASE IS CLOSING AND I'M REALLY
SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
JUST KNOW THAT THINGS ARE AWESOME AND I'M DOING WELL AND I LOVE
YOU ALL!!!
Have a great week!!
Soeur Matheson :)
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