Hello!! How are you guys? I'm doing great, the mission field is very different from the MTC but I think I'm really gonna enjoy it once I get the hang of it. Right now its still really new, so it's strange, but great. Um so I guess I'll just tell you about what I've been up to this week.
Tuesday: So Tuesday was a 20 hour day, with the time change, full of stuff. I woke up at 3:30 utah time, 2:30 washington time, and got ready to head out. Our district saw us off (4 didn't leave til Wed so it was super cool of them) and then we drove up to the airport, I got to call you for a very limited amount of time, which was sad, and then I got on the plane and was off!! I fell asleep on the plane because the seat next to me was empty and all the others around me were missionaries so there wasn't anyone to talk to.
When we got to the airport, the 18 SISTERS, and 7 ELDERS (which by the way is the first time there have been more sisters than elders, and also been so many that came) President and Sister Weaver met us and they are the nicest people ever!! President Weaver is one of those people that can just look at you and know you're entire life story. He is very good at discernment. Then we drove to the mission, which was about an hour away, and had some training. After the training I met my companion Sister Jensen. She is from Hooper, Utah, and she is awesome! She only has 4 weeks left, so one transfer, so it's funny to see what I will be like by the end of my mission. We left Tacoma in our BRAND NEW 2013 TOYOTA COROLLA, which is pretty nice I guess :) and we went to my first area which is called Kitsap Lake and Seabeck. We're over 2 wards, and the area is beautiful. The members are super awesome too!! When we got back we went knocking and it was strange, We got some nice no's, but we mostly got a lot of doors slammed in our faces, so that was fun.....
Then we went home and I finally got to go to sleep at 10:30!!
Wednesday: We woke up at 6:30 and got ready, personal/companion studied, and then we headed to district meeting. Which included, Elders Thornton and Lonas, and Sisters Daines and Esplin. At the meeting I got called as like a Q something where I have to give an object lesson at every district meeting so that will be fun, Sister Jenson has already shown me some pretty cool ones. We met with a lady named Josephine (Jody) who we put on date for Feb. 28! Then we went and met the Hodgdons, who I'll tell you about later, and we had dinner at a members house. Then we went home for the day, after some knocking. Finding is 5-7 usually.
Thursday: We were in Tacoma all day doing a new missionary training. The Weavers took us to the Sound, a big river ocean thing, and told us about how the song "I'll go where you want me to go" is pretty much describing our mission. My area is like mostly Navy base and most the members are military families, so I will learn alot bout military things I'm sure, I already have. For dinner a member took us to Olive Garden and it was delicious, if I get fat it will be the members fault, I have been fed dinner every night so far, and sometimes lunch too.
Friday: In the morning I went to one of my bishops houses, Bishop Nauman. He is an orthodontist and has like a multi million dollar home on the lake, it's insanely nice!! We went back to the Hodgdons, who I'll tell about later. When we went knocking we met this really funny old man that as we left he said, "you better leave before I fall in love with you, god bless you, and may your boyfriends be rich!" It was really funny. His name was Ray Roberts, he's a Navy veteran.
Saturday: On Saturday we went and visited a bunch of people, and went tracking in a trailor home where we met this mother and daughter named Levondra and Sophia. We're taking them on a church tour on Wednesday so I'll have to let you know how that goes. Then we had dinner at my other bishops house, Bishop Batschi. After that we met a less active named Sarah Richards who has started going to church more, and she has 3 super cute little girls. Then we went home.
That brings us to Sunday. Sunday was an amazing day! We started at 7:30 PEC meeting for one ward then went at 8:30 to our other ward PEC meeting which we left to go to 9am sacrament meeting, sunday school, and then we went to 11 am sacrament meeting, sunday school, and Relief society, it was busy to say the least. After church we ate with a member, and then we went to the Hodgdons.
The Hodgdons are a part member family (PMF) Sarah, the mom, has recently become active, and David, the dad, was until I came, completely against the church. They also have 2 kids, carson and Morgan. a girl and a boy. So anyway, Sister Jensen used me as bait and asked David if I could practice teaching on him, and uncharacteristically he agreed. So we went and taught him the 1st lesson which started out with him refusing to agree with anything, to him saying that he would pray. It was incredible the change that there was. He is one of the most stubborn people I've met, and somehow we got through to him. So then on Sunday we went and visited them during the Super Bowl. We knew he wouldn't turn it off so as we watched it, and by watched it I mean it was on, we were showing him Mormon Messages, and teaching him about different stuff, like prayer, since he hadn't done it yet, and family,because they understandibly are struggling a little bit, he's in the Navy by the way. So we noticed he was drinking beer, trying to hide it by putting it in a mason jar, and Sister Jensen said, I can go dump that down the drain for you, and he was like "HECK NO, this cost a lot of money, that's stupid" They argued a little about how it's bad and such and that was it, or so we thought. At 10:15 last night we got a text from Sarah that said right after we left he went to the sink, dumped out his beer and got an orange soda!!!!!! We couldn't believe it, the gospel is an amazing thing. I don't know if he'll continue progressing at the rate he is, but I can see him in white, and I can see their family in white, being sealed in the temple, and it would be amazing because if he was baptised within the next 6 months I could go to their sealing while I'm on my mission!!! So that was the miracle of the week.
Well I hope all of you are doing good. I love and miss you guys so much. The homesickness finally kicked in the other day and it was tough, but seeing the change in David motivates me to stay and stay strong. I love you guys so much!! Oh and I don't know if you sent my stuff already, if you did they will just forward it but for anything else you send my address is:
6665 Newberry Hill Rd.
Silverdale, WA 98383
It's a members home, and it's super nice, I'm told the nicest in the mission so it only goes downhill from here :)
Once again I love you, and I pray for you every day!!!
Sister Brittany Thomas
PS- Hey if you see him, you should ask Allan if he served in this area and if he baptized anyone here, that would be awesome if I met someone that he had baptized. Anyway, I'll talk to you next week.
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