1. Who is your companion? Where is she from? How long has she been on her mission/in the area? I saw that she's doing the driving. They must've heard about your dipping days in Glenwood. "We're banished, genius!" Haha. Just kidding. I know it's because you're green.
Her name is Sister Moetala! She's American Samoan and talks often about how the island was so small and how she doesn't want to go back. Haha. This last Wednesday, she passed her year mark. As far as dipping stories, there really aren't a lot of dips to even explain what dipping is. She'd probably think it was something else that is completely not missionary appropriate. ;)
2. Tell us about some of the members and people you're teaching, like if they have cool conversion stories or how they ended up in Pasco.
I'll send you what I sent to my mission president about the people I'm teaching in the mass email. All the members are so great! We cover the Pasco 1st, 10th, and YSA (girls), and one cool conversion story from our ward mission leader in the first ward: Brother Clements has been a member for about 30 years. (He's actually two days younger than Dad, to the year.) Before he joined the church, he was a member of the RLDS Church (now the Community of Christ). I can't remember now why he joined, although he did tell us. He also just recently bought a Harley... so there's that.
3. What's your daily routine like? What do you do on preparation day besides email?
Well, we get up at 6:30, get ready and exercise until 8:00. Personal study until 9:00. At 10:00, we start "My First 12 Weeks" training, depending on if we have a meeting or somewhere we need to go, until about 11:00. From 11:00 we usually update the area book and make phone calls. The rest of the day we try to spend finding. That could mean knocking [doors] on streets, and then sometimes we check the addresses we found of people we found in the area book. Just whatever Sister Moetala decides we need to do, honestly. Then we usually have dinner with members at 5:00. All the members are so great. Not any food yet that's really crazy. All just kind of normal. One night we had a Guatemalan enchilada, which looks nothing like the enchilada you and I are familiar with. I don't know how to explain it. She just piled all the toppings onto a crisp tortilla. I wish I had time for details.
4. How big is your ward? How many young women are there? (That last one is mostly for me.)
Each of the wards are fairly decent in size. About like home. Except the YSA branch is not very big. We don't spend a lot of time with the YW, unfortunately, so IDK what to tell you. :/
5. What do you eat? Are there any weird Washington foods?
I haven't had any weird Washington foods yet. [See question 3.]
6. Do people have accents there? Do they think you have an accent?
Some people have kind of a "Warshington" accent. Like, yeah. Some people actually say that. No one has said anything about my accent yet.
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