Alice on a mission

My trainer loves to tell people, "ah! Training is so difficult!" "Everything is so crazy because I am training" or "I am exhausted every day from being a trainer." So if you ever think to yourself, "I wonder what Alice is up to right now," just know, I am here in Draper, UT being a gigantic burden. Our teaching methods: 1) we make videos containing principles of a lesson and send one ever day to two people we are teaching. 2) we gave the lesson pamphlets to a couple and they study one a week and then text us what they learned. We also dropped off a Doctrine and Covenants book to the lady because she wanted one!  3) we call people on sundays with a member because that technically counts as going to church. Usually it falls through though! Haha ANYWAYS, this week was very emotional for me: 1) I cried laughing many times. The more my comp amd I have laughed, the better friends we have become. Hermana Hopkins and I are so close. We try not to think a...

Ah I am just happy. I am so blessed because I was transfered to a Spanish area and I am in good company! My new companion's name is Hermana Hopkins. She is from Texas and she has a choir personality! She is really into theater and singing and being dramatic which can be interesting. Every night, she lays down on the bed and plays music from her phone and sings unapollogetically! Awe man she has a beautiful voice!! It is insane. But you know what is also besutiful? Silence. So I take long showers now. "Adapt. React. Readapt. Apt." -Micheal Scott Comp life is difficult. No matter how much I love and like Herm Hopkins, I have to meditate twice daily and pray for patience even though I LOVE being her comp. It is just a change. I really am grateful to work along side her. She calls people every day to freak out to them. We balance each other out. I have not felt stressed for the whole week I have been here. Blessed.  We texted a lady whose contact was in our phone to introduce...

This morning I woke up and was very productive. I did my laundry, read the Book of Mormon, did the dishes, journalled, ate breakfast, did yoga and while I was cleaning the kitchen Sister Tofaeono walks out of our room and says, "Sister Hall, what are you doing?" I was confused so then she said, "it is 3:40 in the morning." I was so suprised. She then explained to me that i scared her around 2am by sitting straight up in my bed and saying, "LETS DO THIS!" She tried to talk to me but i kept responding with, "C'mon! LETS DO THIS!" So she turned on the bedroom light to see what I was talking about and then I began to make my bed. She thought I was going to go back to sleep but then I walked out the door and started my productive morning. This week was great! I can see my companionship "prospers by degrees" more and more each day. At one point this week, we even scheduled a day AND we followed the schedule.  Aint no mountain highhhhh eno...

This week was wayyyyy better. Of course there were some downs but overall it was a good one. This week i really wanted to feel like i belong with my group of sisters. So this week i prayed really hard to be a baller. I prayed for the desire to play basketball. And it changed the dynamic of my group so much! The sister that i did not get along with is now a real homie all because i started to participate in the basketball games. I did not see that coming. I also showed my comps that i am interested in their culture. I lesrned a lot. Then S Mariner asked, "is it bad to call someome fat here? I told my trainor that she looked pregnant and i told my mtc comp that she got fat and now they both don't like me."  Major achievement I ate a huge watermellon by myself over the course of this week  dont let your dreams just be dreams. We are not supposed to have members drop food off, but apparently saying no to food for Samoans is the equivalent of "screaming in their face...

Hello, Well I was sitting on the plane just relishing in my last moments of no expectations. I thought to myself, "enjoy this while you can, because it is going to be non-stop work, obedience and strict schedules for the next fifteen months." Hahaaaa what a joke. Expectations met reality and it hurt a little. I'm in a trio with two Samoan sisters serving in the Samoan area. We are stationed in West jordan and the area we cover is bigger than my actual mission! Sister Tofaeono is my trainer and my other comp's name is Sister Mariner. Sister T is very understanding, chill and extremely genuine. I love that about her. She is so chill in fact that when i ask for guidance or about the rules, she says, "do what ever you want." And sister mariner is beautiful and mellow. They are both from Samoa and they speak Samoan as their first language. They speak it to each other a lot so i am kinda in my own world A lot of the time. One thing that is weird for me is that the...