Monday, June 24, 2013

..... so.... funny story..... I moved areas again..... I'm now in Chorley.

I have been moved so many times on my mission.... I am now on to companion #13! Yes, you heard me, companion #13. How many transfers do sisters have in the field? 13... People are going to start thinking I'm a major problem missionary.

Anyway, how this came to be... Wednesday morning I got a phone call at 7 AM. President said, "Sister Orr, I'm moving you to Chorley." I was like...okay. Sister Telefoni was training a new missionary and that new missionary decided she wanted to go home. So Sister Telefoni didn't have a companion. So they sent me up here. Sister Finke got put in a different area. President said that I'm supposed to bless some lives up here. So phone call was at 7 AM Wednesday, the assistants came to pick us up with all our luggage at 3. So I've been in Chorley since last Wednesday. I'm happy to be here though... just weird that it happened to me again. I just told President at a meeting the other day that I must be the transient missionary who just moves here, there and everywhere.

The temple is in our area. That is super nice. Our ward here is huge. Average sacrament attendance is around 175. It has a lot of families in it. I laughed yesterday as I walked down the corridor and prams were lining the way.

We've been told to do a lot of member work here. The Pageant is going to be held on the temple grounds here, so we're supposed to help in any way we can. Little do they know that Sister Telefoni and I will both be gone for the pageant. Oh, I don't know if you know, Sister Telefoni and I came out together. You may have already known that.

So yes, that's what we're up to.

We had a zone training and interviews with President last Thursday. That was good. President says that when I get home I need to call them regularly. Skype would probably be best since it's free. He said he was trying very hard not to turn the interview into an exit interview. 4 weeks left and then I'll have my exit interview.

I can't believe it's almost July. We were talking to a new member the other day and she was telling me she got baptised a few months ago. In my mind I was thinking, "oh, probably December or sometime around Christmas." I asked her when she got baptised and she said March. It doesn't seem like March was a few months ago. It's been 6 months since Christmas..... weird...

Another weird thing about this ward. The Bishop is the MTC coordinator and several ward members are MTC teachers. I'm like, "I know all of you."

Also, I think it is funny that I was always saying I didn't want to serve on temple square... Now, I'm in the British equivalent. :)