The Great City of Yuba!

Dear Family and Friends,

I know what you're wondering. What are those apostate sisters in Yuba City doing emailing on another non-Pday? Well these things can be explained. We washed the car yesterday--which was greatly needed, thanks again to the Elders who previously inhabited our apartment (did I mention we had to take 3 hours to give the apartment a scrub down last week?)--and apparently that upset the car because then it stopped working. We of course discovered this once we were late in getting to an appointment we had set up. See we do do work (the double dos were intentional) we taught a lesson on a Pday. So we walked over there, taught a great lesson, and came back to give the car a second try. No luck. So then we spent a nice hour on and off the phone to Elder Blackard who is in charge of the mission cars, then an hour or so calling tow companies for estimates and seeing if we could find a Sister from one of our wards to give us a ride from the car place to grocery shopping. When the tow guy came though he jumped the car for us and we were able to drive it down to the dealership where we got to spend another fun hour or so while they replaced our battery. Thus Sister Sorensen did not get to do her laundry, we did not get to email, and we barely had time to go shopping. That is okay though, as I was able to get the laundry done during study this morning and here we are contacting a member referral and emailing all in one!

As for Yuba City, Sister Howard and I have decided that we like it. Aside from the fact that we are more or less in the ghetto of the mission it is great to be able to go out walking or biking for proselyting and to simply have people out on the street that we can talk to. In fact last week I nearly tripled the most OYMs I had ever gotten in one week and we were able to find 5 new people to start teaching. Of course we also spent many hours trying to figure out exactly who the previous Elders had been teaching, where those people really lived, and what they had written about their lessons on the teaching records. So, Elder Sorensen (Zone Leader), here is my humble plea that you keep good, detailed, and respectful teaching records once you make it to the field. Emphasis on the respectful--I couldn't believe what they had written on some of those teaching records. And while learning the names, faces, and callings in two wards is definitely harder than one, I think Sister Howard and I are making good progress.

Hopefully next week my letter will actually be interesting.

Love,
Sister L. Sorensen