I AM ALIVE!
FIRST DAY:
As we drove down the "parade" route we saw my brother Bodie and yelled to him and he chased us down the hill and got to hug us all.
Thank heavens! I was praying so hard I would see someone I know right away and it happened! And then he took me back and passed me off to my friends Lisa Smitty and Katie Tehrani (friend from study abroad). Smitty is now in Taiwan with Bodie and Katie left for Singapore.
So Smitty took me around and when I got my name tag Sister Starley from my single's ward put it on me and she was so sweet even though I was a blubbering idiot bawling my eyes out.
My comp. is Sorella Ansted and we're best buds! Seriously, we quote movies together all the day long and laugh really really hard at stupid things. And she took some italian at the Y so she's picking everything up really quickly.
(The elder next to me just put on socks with his sandals to show how proud he is for having gone to BYU, op, now he's shoving them in my face.)
Peeps I've seen: Cadets Marx, Curriden, Souza and Crandall from ROTC. A couple people from timpview who i never really knew but we exchange awkward smiles. Annie Horne and Emma Brooks are in charge of our cleaning service on tuesdays. And Jenni Buckley is in my zone. It's great to see her every day.
So Wednesday night we had a "teaching experience" where we watched elders open a lesson with an "investigator" and then they would leave and our group (about 70 of us) had to continue the lesson. I participated in all of them. And then in the 3rd one the devilishly handsome, french, teacher asked me and Sor. Ansted to start off the lesson. We were horrified! But we did it! We started with Jose, a guy who just moved to Orem from Guatemala (woot woot!) so we chatted about Guatemala a little bit and asked about his religious background and gave a brief synopsis about the Bible and Jesus and following his example.
THURSDAY:
Got a flu shot. My arm still hurts. It must have the flu. Is that normal?
FRIDAY:
We started teaching our investigator "Pietro." It's not so convincing because we saw his garments. We've taught him about the restoration, the priesthood, the Word of Wisdom, the spirit, the BoM so far and we've improved lots in the smoothness of our lessons. We asked him to be baptized by the authority of the priesthood and he said he would have to think about it. :)
We had our first gym time. We played 5 on 5 soccer with some other sisters and I scored 2 goals. Since then we've been playing volleyball.
SUNDAY:
was lovely. Sheri Dew spoke to us for relief society, it was incredible! I always imagined her to be a weak little timid woman but she's so powerful and sassy!
I went to choir practice. We sang "Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer" and it was gorgeous! and there's a part where all the men get louder and louder and louder, could they get any louder? yes they do! and then we all come in with 6 parts and it blows your mind! love those man voices.
OTHER:
Bodie left tuesday. I said bye to him monday night at dinner. Which was wretched and agonizing, especially after when I had to go sit down and eat my dinner and the elders next to me were avoiding eye contact as i wiped my tears away. Don't worry we took a bunch of cute pichahs togeddah.
I also saw the Kohlers sunday.
I FOUND OUT YESTERDAY I'LL ONLY BE IN 3 WEEKS!
The guy in charge of it was on his HONEYMOON! why now??? I dunno, but it was agony waiting.
FUNNIES:
1. I told Sor. Ansted about the story when Aunt McCaye read in her companion's planner: "Kill Sister Christianson". She says that to me all the time now.
2. Fratello Pesci (our teacher, his name means fishes) asked Anziano Chipman "Quanti fratelli ha?/ How many siblings do you have?" "ho...quattro....fratel, fratell, fratelli......" "Bravo, ha quattro fratelli." "Oh, I have 3." Priceless.
3. We were all really tired on friday and not participating as much as usual. Fra. Pesci was asking every practice questions and he asked someone "Satana ha fede nel piano di Gesu' Cristo?/ Does Satan have faith in Christ's plan?" One of the elders answered but pronounced Satan wrong, so Fra. Pesci said "SA-tana, everyone repeat, SA-tana". It was the most energetic anyone had been all day when we practically screamed "SATANA!". hilarious.
4. Anziano Faggioli is from orem and knows the kippies. His name means "beans". His district calls him "faggiolaccio"= bad bean. HA.
5. I wore the bright red lipstick Livi gave me yesterday. It made me feel sassy.
LOVES AND SNUGGLES,
Caj- Sorella Christianson
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