Dear Everyone,
I have come to the realization that I am totally 100% a city girl! haha! I miss Vancouver! I am having a hard time adjusting to Goldendale and remaining focused at the same time. The people here are nice and we have people that we are teaching. I feel separated from everything. We are right between The Dalles Oregon and Yakima Washington. There is a whole lotta nothing around here. Its actually really funny though. We drive around and I think, Really?? People still live like this in America!? Its fascinating and I feel like I am living in an old western movie. There is even a guy that stands on his porch all day long whom the sisters have talked to before. When you ask him what his name is he answers in complete honesty that he is Jesus Christ. He has the beard and everything. Its great!
Sister Lierley and I are getting along just fine. She had a rough transfer the last 3 weeks and she is still getting to know the area as well. She was trained in Vancouver and misses it too so we are a great pair. The sisters that were here before us were two skinny blondes and now they have two curvy brunettes. I can only imagine what they are thinking. haha! What is the Lord trying to have happen in Goldendale. Oh well, so a little more about Sis Lierley. She is from Talkeetna AK and she is the youngest of 9 kids! She is full of life and energy and is excited to be a missionary. She is a hard worker and she makes me laugh. We had a great bonding experience yesterday, let me tell you about it!
We were leaving an appointment an headed to dinner and we had gotten out a little late to get there on time at 5...we left the other person's house at 5. We called our dinner appt and apologized for running late and said we'd be there asap. The Hodges said that was ok and gave us a clue as to where they lived. We typed in the address to me gps and we were off on our adventure. Since Goldendale is a huge ward we thought that we were headed in the right direction until the gps had us turn onto a dirt road that we would be on for 3ish miles. We said okay, here we go...We kept on the gps road and called dinner again because we needed help and they had no idea where we were and gave us more directions that didn't help because by this point we were completely lost! haha! We were winding though the countryside by this time and going though the mountains on dirt/gravel one lane roads...we were going to die and no one was going to be able to find us. When we got to the where the gps said that we had arrived at our destination, we were on a bridge with nothing around us. We were lost for an hour and a half and we traveled about 50 miles out of the way. It was ridiculous, but hilarious. When we finally found a highway after looking at a map and finding out our way, we called our dinner again (we had lost reception quite a few times). She told us to keep coming down the road and she would find us. We eventually started to see signs of civilization again and we got excited! haha! I was never so happy to see another vehicle as I was at that time. We found Sister Hodges and she lead us to her house and we started dinner about 6:40 instead of at 5. I told her that if I could cry I would have been bawling! But they were not upset with us and we apologized at least 100 times. They told us not to worry about it and that they were just glad that we didn't get stranded or hurt somewhere.
All I can tell you is that the Lord loves and protects his missionaries even when they are following a gps into the middle of no where! So that was how sister Lierley and I became close friends. Its because we almost died! I loved screaming in the car, "WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!!" It was great fun. I even made a recording and took some pictures so you will have to wait to see those another time.
I gotta get going now! I love you all and I will see you in 5 weeks! :)
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