Sister Sadie goes to Louisiana!: jam packed w goodness

Well family.

Are you ready for some craziness?

bc this week was one huge non stop party.

literally non stop party.

guess how many pictures I took this week?

you'll never guess.

I took 400 pictures this week.

Yep.

and then we also have transfer news.

and its kind of a doozy.

so first things first heres our week!

jokes. I won't be a brat. I know yall are all going to just go right to the big letters and skip all this ramble. but if you didn't and you keep reading this ramble I'm really proud of you because you have alot of self control and by now I think even my own curiosity would make me skip to the transfer news. but if youre still reading for the first time through.... go you. ;)

TRANSFER NEWS

wow. okay so this is whats going on.

I'm getting transferred. I'm leaving Alexandria.

Sister Fristoe is staying in alec and being STL

In mission lingo, I am being pink-washed, doubled in training.

AKA that means, I am going training a brand new sister in a brand new area to sisters. The description I got from PHansen was that I would be taking a new sister to a branch that has never had sisters. At least since he has been mission President. Its a good branch but it needs some good strong sisters.

So. Here we go! Off to yet another adventure that I really need help with!

First I needed help with being a missionary. being trained.

Next changes I needed help learning how to train another sister.

Next transfer I needed help learning to be an STL.

Now I need help with yalls knowledge. Whether its missionary knowledge, auxiliary leader knowledge, ward member knowledge or ANYTHING.

I will be starting in a brand new area neither of us knowing anyone.

Where in the world do we start?

As ward members, what would yall appreciate with new missionaries?

basically I'm still wrapping my brain around it as well as being in a little branch.

So seriously.

Any advice you have.

PLEASE HELP AND SEND IT. I NEED IT ALL.

anyways. more to come.

pray for me and this precious new sister :)

Here's my past week:

DAY 1: MONDAY

setting: p day

We had a halloween pday so we dressed up and met up with the elders to have a costumed nerf war and carve pumpkins!

here are our awesome costumes.

Pocahontas and Meeko the raccoon sidekick :)

ps shout out to Kortney for the sweet raccoon hat created and mailed 5 days.

natural habitat?

nerf war! the elders were lame and didn't dress up. but they made up for it by building a fort :)

Carving pumpkins!!! classic.

update. the carved pumpkins only lasted 2-3 days on the porch before it turned nasty and moldy. soo....

STILL DAY 1: monday evening

setting: down the road

This house is just down the road from our church building. They go ALL OUT for Christmas.

long story short they are on a TV show airing the 1st or 2nd week of December on ABC and they needed an audience when they filmed it. So the church offered up their parking lot for people to park in and walk over so naturally all the church members got invited to be extras or audience members for the filming of this TV show.

RAD RIGHT. IT WAS AWESOME.

talked to alot alot of people, had a great time, and also probably got to be on TV! (we aren't allowed to say anything about it yet but remind me in December to tell yall what TV show so yall can find me in it!)

its was a big deal!

DAY 2: TUESDAY

setting: district meeting

We had a halloween district meeting as well.

We had a different costume for this one.

Meet Sister Payne and Sister Meyers from The District 1.

The District is a show/video clips that all new missionaries and their trainers have to watch while they are training aka their first 12 weeks.

These sisters are from back in the day and they are fluent in the soft sister missionary voice, and they have the clothes from the old mission standards and its just bad. We learn alot don't get me wrong! but.... wow. some points it is painful to watch.

Here is Sister Payne and Sister Meyers, respectively

Here is Sister Payne and Sister Meyers 2.0

We looked pretty dang good if I can toot our own horns for a second.

We dressed like this for District Meeting on Tuesday with just our District.

We dressed like this for MLC on Wednesday with the leaders of the mission.

We dressed like this for ZTM on Friday with our zone.

It was hilarious.

Here is our tuesday district meeting.

It was a funeral for Elder Porter.

A great elder that we all learned alot from.

He will be missed........

he is going home. :( poor man.

DAY 3: Wednesday

setting: MLC & wards halloween carnival

The Sister Meyers and Sister Payne picture was the only picture from MLC because it was kind of last minute late notice meeting. MLC was wonderful as ever!

Then we went straight back and to the Combined Halloween Carnival!

It was great!

We changed into Pocahontas and Meeko.

Failed and didn't take that many pictures and also failed and forgot my name tag. #whoamI?

DAY 4: THURSDAY

Setting: the ZOO

A less active in our ward is the Director at the Zoo so she calls us to volunteer when there is activities at the zoo. This week was the ZOO BOO.

The first time we went we were personal photographers that took a family picture for them on their own phone :) it was really fun. SO MANY PEOPLE. about 1000 for night one.

What we took pictures of. People with the Slimer from Ghostbusters