I'm Here!!

Well everyone I am in Cali and today is my first P-day! So as for my area well unfortunately its not on the beach, in fact I haven't seen the ocean which is overall depressing BUT some people would say that I am in the best area of the mission. Or at least Nate and Katie would. Yep that's right I am in Doublin!! Crazy right? So Katie send me all the people you know! My comp is Sis. Oborne from Alpine Ut and when we sat down I looked at her and said so what area are we in and she was like "Doublin" and I got all excited and she was like have you heard of it? I sure have! So I am thrilled to be here, even if there isn't an ocean. As for my comp she is awesome! She has only been out 6 weeks but she was in the MTC for 6 weeks because she is actually a visa waiter for Brazil. So Nate instead of learning Spanish I am working on my pourtuese! haha We live in a members basement and its really nice. It doesn't have a large kitchen, as in no oven but we have a skillet and grill with a stove top on it so I can still make mac and cheese. But looks like no cookies, muffins or frozen pizzas. Guess Ill have to eat healthy... :) So me and sis Oborne acutally live with two other girls, Sis Johnson who is a trainer and sister training leader (she is in charge of training the whole mission) and her new comp Sis. Ellis who happens to be my fellow district member from the MTC! (the one from Hawaii) So I was thrilled to have her because we are both clueless to what we are doing. Me and Sis oborne are over the Doublin ward and the other two are over the Tri-Valley singles ward. Which leads me to my next point. Cars. We have a car. BUT we are in a car share. Which means some days we are on bikes.

I road a bike on Saturday all the way from Pleasenton to doublin. Oh and those record high temps? Yes it was 106. Lets just say there for a few minutes I was really missing the Utah Snow... But I survived and we most likely won't have to do that again! Oh and I don't have to buy a bike because our mission president loves the sisters and just gets bike for them. Its great. :)

 

So on to adventures of the week. We have some crazy investigators. WE have a 18 year old named Selma who is a complete sweetheart she knows everything and she loves it, she just isn't ready to be baptized because she feels like she doesn't know enough. But the entertaining ones are Sister King and Miss Ruby. Our mission is a little different, we don't to trackting we do a lot of service and we focus on less actives a lot. So Sis King is a less active who is crazy. really. At one point she was telling us how at our age we are perfect. So we tried to throw in through the atonement we could be and she said no you are perfect. Then she went off about seeing a jewish rabi and who knows what else. But she is really funny so its all good :) As for Miss Ruby she is the awesome Black lady who isn't a member and likes to bring up how the blacks couldn't have the priesthood but hey she lets us come back every week so maybe something will strike with her! But I love how we call her Miss Ruby, it makes me think Im in Georgia.

As for other adventures our apartment doesn't have air conditioning which means it gets hot and well there are ants. Everywhere.  We went today and got some ant traps so hopefully that will help but if anyone has other suggestions that would be wonderful! WE have probably killed 1000's of ants by now. I mean we had them in our microwave this morning! An unfortunately this apartment is new so we are lacking furniture and storage so pretty much there are ants crawling in my clothes. Oh well it could be worse! Also there are spiders everywhere! I mean there was a spider web on a truck that had seriously been driven within the same day. Oh well!

So those are my adventures of the past couple days, its going to be a busy week but we have some fun things planned for the 4th! (fireworks might be included) Ill you all know!

Well I love you all and hope all is well at home! enjoy the air conditioning and swimming pools for me!

Here is my address- it will probably be my address for 4-6months so feel free to send mail there! Also packages, forget the junk food, send peanut butter and granola bars and nuts and fruit snacks and other items I can eat on the go :)

My address:

Annlie Stevenson

11975 West Vomac Rd

Doublin Ca 94508

 

Love ya!

Sister Stevenson

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