A Foot or Two: I live in a hotel?!

Friday, December 11, 2020

I live in a hotel?!

(Sister Putnam)

Hey guys!

Wow, so much has happened! On Saturday, Sunday, & Monday, mom and I finished packing up the house. Monday I had my last class with my district. I'm gonna miss them all so much but they're gonna do great!

So on Tuesday we went to the airport and my mom, grandma, and friend Meagan came to drop me off, and that was awesome!

I arrived at the airport and was picked up by my mission president and his wife, along with several other missionaries from another flight. I was the only missionary on my flight though so that was weird. Anyway we all went to take pictures together, then we stopped at the temple to get a picture in front of the temple, then we drove to the stake center to eat dinner & then our trainers picked us up, my trainer is Sister Madsen, she's awesome! She introduced me to some other sisters as her daughter (apparently its a thing for trainers to call their trainees their sons or daughters in the mission) she also got me a pineapple for me as a welcome gift which was super sweet! And we live in a hotel!!

On Wednesday we did the whole wake up, exercise thing, and we have the whole gym to ourselves! After that we unpacked my suitcases to get me all moved in, and then we had institute, where we talked about Christmas, and then we had lunch with the other sisters in our area, and made brownies, and then went to district council and discussed the talk he'd assigned everyone to listen to, which was Love Your Enemies by Dallin H. Oaks, and also there was a companionship of two elders there, one wore a black suit & the other wore a navy blue suit and they looked like the Bible & the Book of Mormon lol. Then we went grocery shopping since I didn't have anything in the fridge for me yet, and then we got home & gave a lesson to a lady in our ward named Sister Akers, she's really fun, she LOVES the Seahawks, and so we talked about the Seahawks for a bit & then talked about Light the World. Then after comp study we went & had a lesson at Bishop's house, & we just chatted before getting to the lesson, he's pretty cool!

On Thursday, we had a typical morning, at lunch we cut into the pineapple Sister Madsen got me, so that was fun, & then because I'm a greenie, we had to take a driver certification class, and it was supposed to only last 30min, but it went on for an hour and a half, but afterwards I finished unpacking, and then we gave a lesson to Sister Madsen's parents, and then when we did a video chat with our district we found out that there were some changes made and now we can only call home on pday, no more mealtime calls or lessons to families. But maybe it means more areas are opening up for mission service around the world!

Friday we had a 2 hour long mission devotional over zoom and some guys showed up in Santa hats and when they took the big mission picture some guys were doing all sorts of poses and stuff, it was great! We were scheduled to teach a lesson during that time and we had to reschedule which was frustrating, especially considering getting a lesson with them is difficult since they never answer our texts, but they actually answered our this time, and we have a lesson with them tomorrow! We had lunch with the harbour pointe sisters again and went on a walk together, they’re super fun! and I found cute tiny pinecones

On Saturday we went to the Bishops Storehouse, and it was super fun, we filled orders that people had placed and then brought them out to them, and that was great! Some Spanish speakers showed up and Hermana Barker (one of the harbour pointe sisters) and I got to practice Spanish, so that was great! One of the ladies volunteering there let us use her phone to text our moms which was really nice of her, and then that evening she called us and was like "hey I'm going to Costco do you guys want anything" and we were like "oh my gosh that's so nice but were okay" and she was like "okay I'm getting you stuff" and what the heck that was so nice!

On Sunday we had church, and then we had a mission tour or something that lasted like 2 hours, and then we had come follow me with our district, I was so tired, I almost fell asleep, and then a nice lady in the ward brought us dinner which was 3 different types of pastas which was amazing!

Love you and miss you all! Until next Pday!

Pictures! (There are more coming in a second email)

1: Meagan and I prior to going in the airport,

2 & 3: mom and I

4 & 5: 😊

6: me in the Seattle airport coming out to the busses

7: some Sister Missionary legos aunt Becky gave me! 🥰

8: Sister Madsen and I

9: us outside the airport

10: Aaron, the guy who asked to pray with us outside the airport

11: us outside the temple

12: some tiny pinecones I found