I am being transferred!!!!! I'm going DOWN TO THE SHORE! I'll be in
Eatontown! AND. I WILL BE IN S. BROWNS ZONE. AGAIN! and I'll also have
another Poly comp- her name is Sister Kafu. Lol, our family and the South
Pacifics (E. Ketywan, and Lavalua something like that lol)
Oh my goodness Momma, thank you! I didn't realize I would be getting so
much for Christmas! Marah sent me something, you sent me 2 boxes, Br. M gave me
a gift, etc etc. I'm so blessed! I love you all sooooo much!!!!!1 :D
Wow, that did look cold for the tree! I mean normally theres lots of snow,
but it isnt actually snowing when we go! Also, your weather is pretty crazy over
there- we're still 50s and sunny. Everyone told me to prep for the gross, icy,
8ft of snow winters here, and its been beautiful! lol...... one sec, i gotta go
find some wood to knock on.......ok, continuing:
SCI WENT TO THE TEMPLE AND YOUR PICS WERE SO CUTE AND NOW HES AN EAGLE AND
HOLY MOLY ITS BEAUTIFUL AND I JUST WANT TO CRY IM SO PROUD OF HIM!!! Such a cute
lil missionary <3 Also, tell Br. Call congrats! ( is it now Bishop Teeples,
and Br. Smith and him, or what? i cant remember who the other counselor was...
haha)
S. Cardoso is my favorite and im going to miss her sooooooo much! It was so
wonderful to spend that day with her doing her family names and eating our
street vendor food together. Shes definitely one I'll come back to see- I gotta
go to Joe's baptism in June of 2017!
I'll be happy to just talk to you guys and gma and gpa and whoever else is
there that day! only 11 more days mom!
My car's name will always be Phil- wherever I go. lol :)
Now,
Where to even begin with this week...it completely flew by and I
have absolutely no idea what happened! I'll try to recall it as best I can in
the short amount of time I have to email everyone.Monday we had pday and we went indoor-glow-mini-golfing with part of the zone! It was super fun, and I won out of my little group (so our years of going mini-golfing as a family have paid off! #Success). Then we went to target and went grocery shopping and went home to shower and get ready for dinner with the Nash family! I love those people. The boys are like lil brothers to me, I want to adopt them! We should merge our families...Jenna just has to marry one of the boys, or KK- theres enough to go around haha. Nah, but they're super tight, I feel like y'all would get along with them real well!
Tuesday we weekly planned, helped a lady move into her house a bit, read the Book of Mormon with the cutest less active's daughter, and then cleaned our own apartment for transfers. It was a busy day, but a successful one as well!
Wednesday we had 5 set appointments back to back to back, so we were running like crazy trying to see and teach everyone! It was really our only full day in our area in which to do so. So we saw Br. P and talked about squirrels, we saw S. K and talked about her and her secret spy life, we saw Richard again, and ate lunch with Br. M again. Oh my goodness i'm going to miss all of these people sooooooo much! They've stolen my heart.
Thursday we went to Ellis for the day, and becuz the sun sets so early we
got to see it! It was soooo pretty! Then we went and had dinner with our
investigator Damaris. She's still recovering from surgery, but she went back to
work last week becuz she's gotta pay the bills. She's so amazing. I really love
her. I just want her to get stinkin baptized so bad! But it's ok, only when
she's ready.
Friday we had an All Mission Tour with Elder David F. Evans, he just
finished 6 yrs as the Missionary Department Executive thingy, idk. but he was
super high up in the missionary dept- he counseled and talked with President
Nelson every day! It was cool. He went around and changed a lot of procedures
and traditions and really cracked down on all of us, but it was a great meeting.
It's so important to follow our leaders- they truly are inspired of God. And no
matter how hard it is to change, or how bitter some people are about it, it's
always worth it. Anyways, then we travelled home and helped prep for the Ward
Christmas party that night. It was fun! We had a lot of LAs there, and we got to
sit with them and have a good time. I love this ward so much! It's super
frustrating at times and I feel like I'm just banging my head on a brick wall,
but they are such good people. I'm going to miss them all for sure! This is what
almost 6 months in an area does to you :'(
Saturday we went to the temple with S. Cardoso! But boy was it a whirlwind
lol. She called us at midnight the night before, so we were like still half
asleep talking to her- her ride had cancelled and so now she was wondering if we
could meet at her house at 6:45am instead of 9am. Oh gosh lol, so we said sure
we'll be there and went back to sleep. We woke up at 5:30am and got going, only
to find her there with a bunch of the sisters from our ward that we love! Lol,
they drove us to the temple, and then they went through a session while we went
and did baptisms for S. Cardosos grandmas and grandpa and dad. The Spirit was so
powerful! I've done probly like 100 baptisms by now, but I've never done or seen
done a family name. Wow. It really brought it home for me seeing her baptized
for her grandmas- these really are saving ordinances. We are doing the work for
them so they have the opportunity to feel like we feel- to be saved as well- and
to live with us for eternity! Think about it. Everyone who ever has lived or
ever will has the amazing, blessed opportunity to be baptized at some point by
proxy. We are literally saving souls when we go to the temple. I just want to
cry right now lol, it's so beautiful. I constantly find myself thinking "O how
great the plan of our God!" (2 Nephi 9:13) all the time. He is so amazing, and
His plan is perfect. Anyways, at the temple (which we didnt purposely set
up *cough*) we saw S. Brown and her comp and a bunch of other missionaries, so
we got to go through a session with them! It was so special, I loved it. Then we
ate our lamb gyros (street vendors man) with S. Cardoso- they're only $5 and
they are heaven wrapped in tin foil- I wanted like 10 more after my first bite
haha. We got home and then went to appointments the rest of the night.
Sunday we had church, my last Sunday in Emerson. Bittersweet. It was a
great Sunday too. After church we drove to Morristown for the Missionary
Musical Christmas Fireside! We had been practicing for a while, and it was
beautiful. The Spirit was so strong, and yes I cried during the last song when
the whole congregation started singing. It's amazing the Spirit that can be
brought by music.
And then this morning I got my transfer call. Eatontown here I come! I'm
excited I'm going to the shore in the winter- cuz I could NOT stand the heat in
the summer...can you imagine?? I would like literally melt and die haha. So I'm
going from Zone 1 to Zone 8, from the very top north, to the very bottom south.
Fun stuff! lol Im excited, so we'll see how this next transfer goes....which, ok
mom, don't flip out. But the way things are looking now, I wont be home for
Christmas next year- we got pushed back 2 weeks, so its looking like the first
week of January for me. The next 2 transfers are going to be 7 weeks long
instead of 6. haha, so sorry! I wish I coulda been, and I might still be- who
knows!
Anyways, I love you all!!! I'll send you my address next week? Is that too
close to Christmas to have them sent? If so, send em to the mission home.
Stay Jersey Strong!
Sister McAllister
temple trip
street vendor food
Merica
She is 94
Look who she met at the Temple? more missionaries
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