Anybody Miss Me?

Dear Family and Friends,

I am most sorry to have kept you all waiting (as I am very sure you have been, on the edge of your seats, constantly refreshing the internet browser just waiting for that email/blog entry to come up). But, in all seriousness (almost) yes, it finally happened--I got transferred. So despite the fact that Sister Ah Puck and I thought that we were being very clever by creating a giant transfers possibility grid with sticky notes, we were still very wrong. I am now in Yuba City with Sister Howard (Sister Rowland's MTC companion, and she's served with her twice in the mission too). We are shotgunning--or in non-mission lingo, opening up an area for sisters--two wards: Sutter Buttes and Butte Vista. It has thus far been quite interesting since we have no idea who people are and more importantly where. We do have a car (another Mazda 3 even) but guess how I got to the library today? Yes folks pa min cykle. No, that is not a typo, just Danish. Those kind elders, we only have 1.9 miles left in our allotment for the month, so we probably will go over when we go on exchanges with the Butte Vista ward tonight. Speaking of which we left a message with the Ward Mission Leader of that ward informing him that Sisters had moved into the area but we have not heard back from him so I hope he knows.

But as for my last week in Palo Cedro. It was actually quite good. We taught a lot of lessons with members, pushed, planned, and pleaded very hard to save up enough miles for the last week of the month so that we would not go over (yes, just in time for me to leave!). We had pretty good success with the ward and had some very good visits with some of the less active people in the outflung parts of the ward who the Ward Leadership asked us to visit. In Palo Cedro tradition we saw a bear (a baby one, which reminds me I saw a fox two weeks ago). So the work was picking up pretty well for Sister Muanga (sp?) the new Samoan "Greenie" to come to.

I've acutally forgotten a lot of the other things I was going to say since I planned this email out on Monday. Anyway (in response to Laura) I did send a picture of the pigman home--oh yeah that was one thing, we tried to go talk to the people at that house and discovered that the pigman was actually a cow in clothes, still odd however--but I also sent another picture of the Zebra and I don't know which one went up on the blog (as I do not control that) so it was not my photography skills which were at fault.

To Eric: Thank you for sending the French Book of Mormon and writing to tell me that you were sending it! I think I put the Mission Office Address as the return address on that letter so go ahead and write me back there because they forward the mail on. As for the monkey stickers, guilty as charged, but someone gave them to me and I've been trying to use them up. Feel glad that I didn't send you the "Girl Power" stickers. Though perhaps I should. . .

Oh yeah, my address. I don't really know it. I live at 605 Queens #3 in Yuba City, but I don't know the zipcode so I guess you can all just write me at the mission office address and they can forward it on. I guess that's easier.

Love,
Sister L. Sorensen