(Sister Putnam)
Okay, so I get so many ideas for email subject lines throughout
the week and I can only choose one!
That is
unless I make a title for every day within the email!
So, I'm going to be doing that, in addition to having a
subject line!
Monday: Spell Czech is not my fiend. I mean, spell check is
not my friend.
So on preparation day we went to WinCo, which is apparently
a store lots of missionaries love to go to because its cheap!!! Then afterwards
we went to Target and got Christmas presents for the sisters in the Harbour
Pointe ward, and then we went to the Harbour Pointe sisters' apartment for
lunch, where I wrote emails, and man, I do not care for autocorrect on this
phone! We hung out over there for a few hours, and after that we came home and
had dinner, and then after wards we went with the Harbour Pointe sisters to do
service at a members house. We made wreaths and I essentially fought with
inanimate objects until I’d created something that resembled what a wreath
looked like lol. They actually turned out pretty well. The members had a 9
month old dog, so it was a big puppy, and when we'd set the wreaths down on the
garage floor where the member asked us to set them down, the dog would pick up
the wreaths and hold them in his mouth it was adorable. The member was going out of town and needed
the wreaths for the ward Christmas party, so Sister Madsen and I, not being
super busy, took the stuff for wreaths home to finish later. Then, we went and
hung out at bishops house, he's really cool and motivating. He talked about how
Satan is really sneaky about taking away our agency and how it's really
important to be careful. We always leave bishops house feeling motivated to do
good things cause he's just so good at being inspiring!
Tuesday: Good news! I saw a dog today!
If you understood that reference, I applaud you, cause I
love that movie!
On Tuesday, we went on exchanges with the STLs, and I was
with Sister Richards. We got lunch together, and she has Lebanese heritage, so
she was asking all about the middle east cause she wants to go there someday so
I was telling her about that and that was awesome! Then we went and raked and
weeded someone's yard, but the lady whose yard we raked didn't have anything we
could rake with so we just used our hands, and for not having rakes, we did a
pretty good job! Afterwards we walked a lady's dog, and the dog was so cute, he
was a pitbull lab, and we just took him to a little park and played fetch for a
bit and he was so cute, he loved to guard the toys that he wanted us to throw and
we were like "we need the toys in order to throw them" and he kept
guarding them but we did eventually get to throw the toys for him. he was a
good boy. On the way home we listened to Les. Mis. songs and then exchanges
were over because quarantine exchanges are weird lol. Apparently regular
exchanges are an all-day thing. So then, sister Madsen and I had scheduled to
teach the Linton family that evening and they rescheduled :( so we went out to
the car and made more wreaths (we decided to do it outside because making them
inside would've created a huge mess). Afterwards, we taught a girl in Kenya
named Mode over facetime. This week she said she'd wanted to fast, and when we
called her that night we talked to her and she thanked us for showing her what
fasting was because she felt it brought her closer to God! And she's super
interested in the Book of Mormon, and she's just super awesome, her faith is
amazing!!! We can't wait to teach her again!
Wednesday: Boom! Roasted
On Wednesday we went to the salvation army warehouse and
filled donation meal boxes with the necessary items with a ton of other
missionaries, and Chick-Fil-A was so nice and catered for free! Then we had
district council. So we have a district group chat, and they've been doing
phone calls every night, and sister Madsen and I thought it was just for fun,
and the last two nights we hadn't been getting on because we were tired. Well
during district council, the District Leader was like "Okay, so we've been
doing district calls to build unity, is there any way we could make it so
everyone can make it to the video chats?" And everyone kinda glanced at us
and we were like "Oh sorry we'll come" but yeah we got roasted. The
video chats are actually pretty fun. Any way after dinner that day we called this
one elderly lady in the ward and gave her a quick lesson, and then we taught
the Lintons about the plan of salvation, so that was awesome! The Lintons are a
family of 4, the wife is an inactive member who wants to be active, and she
wants her husband to join the church, so hopefully her husband will begin to
see how being a part of the church will benefit his life, both temporally and
eternally and want to be baptized. prayers would be greatly appreciated for
that!! Then afterwards we got on the district phone call so we wouldn't get
roasted lol.
Thursday: We ate cookies and second cookies!
On Thursday, we were able to get several texting lessons in,
and we taught our ward mission leader about 1 Nephi 7:17-18 where Nephi prays
to have the bands broken and instead of becoming strong enough to have the
bands broken, the Lord helped him loosen the bands, and we talked about how the
Lord answers our prayers not always in the way we wanted but in the way we
need. Thursday's light the world challenge was to find something about a person
in your family history to talk about, so I posted a quote by Ann Cannon
Woodbury, my 3rd great grandmother: "It is better to wear out than to rust
out." Then we made cookies and there were a few extra so we ate a few
cookies, and then we delivered cookies to people and some people would. not.
stop. talking haha. There was one lady we said bye to like 5 times and she kept
starting the convo again. Quarantine seems to have made so many people become
lonely :( They're all great people though!
Friday: the forbidden forest (not really it just looked
enchanted lol)
So we had a mission devotional on Friday and as of Friday
the mission is quarantine free! no missionaries have covid in this mission! as
of right now, that is. After lunch on Friday Sister Madsen and I went on a walk
in a pretty forest/hike and we talked so that was fun! it was good to get out
and get to know each other better! Then we mad more cookies and delivered them
to people again, and lots of people had dogs!! and then we had a district phone
call and that was fun.
Saturday: A short-notice talk
Okay, on Saturday we went to the bishop's storehouse for
like an hour and then Sister Madsen and I had to leave cause we had to go to
New Missionary Training, then afterwards we went to a drive thru Christmas
party that was going on at that building at the time (they invited us to, so we
had to!) They gave us soup and hot chocolate and we stopped somewhere to eat
while it was still warm, and found out while we were eating that I had been
asked to speak in church on Sunday, so that was great! Sister Madsen and I also
found out that we both love the office, so that's great! So yeah then we went
home and I cranked out a talk on how sacrifice brings for the blessings of
heaven. Then we talked to some other sisters in the hotel, and then one sister
was going to leave on Sunday, finishing her mission, and so we took a hotel
squad picture together, and then we went to bed after getting on the district
call.
Sunday: Christmas Decorations!
I finished writing my talk and printed it, and then we went
to church and I gave my first talk as a missionary, in the talk I mentioned
that I lived in Saudi Arabia, and so after church one member came up to Sister Madsen
and I and said he'd lived in Saudi Arabia for a while, he knew President Christiansen!
That's so cool! Then we went to come, follow me, and then one family in the
ward gave us dinner, and it was amazing! They gave us ribs, and potatoes, and
mac an cheese! Like what the heck! and then after wards we decorated our hotel
room with Christmas decorations!
Okay, I love you all! Just a heads up, our next preparation
days are Christmas and new year’s, so you won't hear from me until next Thursday
but I love hearing from you all!
Love you and miss you all!
And my mom said some people are asking for an address to
mail things to, so I’m just going to include it in the signature right down
here!
For usps it’s:
Sister Alyssa Putnam
Washington Everett Mission
P.O. Box 13390
Mill Creek, WA 98082
for FedEx Amazon and UPS this is the address to use:
Sister Alyssa Putnam
Washington Everett Mission
16124 35th Avenue
Southeast
Mill Creek, WA, 98012
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