One Week With Not Enough Sleep

Howdy! (Texas A&M Greeting)

Learning an area with your companion together is pretty intense. It's exhausting.

Monday was crazy. Had a big goodbye party for the other sisters. I started to get to know/memorize the people in the ward. The other sisters were finishing packing and I cleaned stuff out. Altogether, we were up way too late.

Tuesday was transfer day. So we drove down to the mission office and I got my new companion!! :) Her name is Sis Niedert and she's from St George. She's pretty awesome! She's got red hair and is just super awesome all around. Since our zone lost so many sisters this past transfer, I'm not STL, Sis Niedert is. She's 23. If you have questions about her...just ask me later :) haha 

 Sister Niedert & Sister Carling

That day we just drove home and kinda went over the area book and what I knew. Just an information overload week for both of us. We had dinner with a member at an awesome place called Fuego and met the Bishop and the Ward Mission Leader that night.

Wednesday was crazy. We taught a number of lessons at the Institute and did some planning and met with recent converts and then had correlation that night and met more people after the big institute class (Got to see a few people from Brenham!! Whoop!).

Thursday was another crazy day. We met a few more recent converts.  We got to teach a girl named Rong from China. It's so cool to be able to teach someone who is in the beginning phases of believing in God. It's amazing. We will probably get to do a lot of that. We also went on campus and talked to people. Sis Niedert is so great at it!! We also decided that it feels like we restarted our missions. Working with YSA's is like a totally different culture of missionary work. There's like a super fine line between professional and casual. We are learning to find our balance but still keeping our fun personalities :)

Friday we had district meeting had a mini meeting with the Zone leaders about the meeting on Saturday and did a VERY speedy weekly planning. Fastest one I've ever done! We did it in like an hour! Friday night we tried to tract...haha YSA's go out on Friday night's. we were also on call for going and picking a sister's companion up from the hospital. Our phone was on loud and luckily nobody called haha. #SisterTrainingLeader

Saturday we went on campus that morning and then had a quick lunch before our mini zone ysa pow-wow meeting. I got to talk about president's vision for YSA's it's pretty awesome. I mean I still don't understand his whole vision, but I'm excited to be able to keep learning more. That afternoon we had an awesome lesson with A recent convert. Laci came with us. She is also a recent convert. She's really awesome and just has such a STRONG testimony of the church. I am really grateful to be able to work with her and with this ward!! After that lesson, she drove us to the Hafer building (The first time I ever got to go inside of it!) for a baptism. It was pretty great we got home a little late because it was so far.

Sunday was break the fast. That was weird! YSA Stuff is just weird because I've been in family branches/ward my whole mission. This whole adjusting stuff is going well and by the time I'm done, I'll just keep doping what I'm doing. That night we got a ward list and tried to visit a few people. We were successful once!! We also got their RS president to come with us! :) (The ward has 2 RS presidencies and 2 Elder's Quorum) We went to the hospital at like 11:15 last night to run an errand for Sis Hassel and Sis Sabin. (Sis Hassel came out from the MTC with me) She's had a few medical problems and the doctors and president decided that she's needing to go home. So she leaves tomorrow. We went to their apartment to switch laundry and went home.

Today we went to bed at like 1ish. We got up and started cleaning and the normal pday stuff. So yeah. We got frozen yogurt at yogurtland as a district before Sis Hassel leaves tomorrow (we get it free cuz the member owns it). now we are here. It's cold outside.

I also am out of time...

Keep moving forward!!!

--Sister Carling