Abby's Mission to Orem

From Abby: PG in PG.. Perils to pass through. Hiiii I'm currently sitting in my massive tie die shirt, its 7:44 AM March 31. I'm sitting with a pillow on my lap and my wet showered hair is making me somewhat chilly. I have to admit the lack of food in my stomach is doing me dirty.  Last Pday was my LAST pday in the Orem Zone :( Somehow, someone convinced me to attempt playing flag football and I felt like I was back in PE 10 where the issue isn't my cardio vascular health, or my desire to be united as a team but my lack of coordination and spacial awareness. Don't ask me to run in a group of people and then catch a football?  Okay Abby we get it you don't like sports.  The activitiy was one of signing eachothers transfer Journals, taking pictures, and wanting to literally flip a table because of how SAD.  Orem zone will always have a special place in my heart.  Monday night we had our last lesson with Chase and Alex. We finished the plan of salvation and sh...

From Abby: There Must Needs Be Transfers Hellooo  This compiles March 17-23 :)))))) Currently its 8:27 AM and I've absolutely wasted my morning after a terrible nights sleep all because of TRANSFERS. Yknow Cascade and Orchard? The two stakes i've been in for SIX MONTHS? Yes the time has come I have been booted, finally, to my second area (Pleasant Grove.. Which has been referred to as Punishment grove here in the Utah, Orem mission) and THIS area has been split in two and BOTH stakes are being white washed.  The amount of notes sister Atwood and I have to make is absolutey criminal. All that being said lets recap this week. Last Pday we went THRIFTING at Indy Clover which was a very poor choice for my wallet. LOVE thrifting as a missionary because anything too casual is emmediatly off the radar and a booth without dresses or skirts is rejected and neglected. Did that stop me from spending too much money? No.  We also baked as a district, upon arrival to the scene we disco...

From Abby: Jesus Wall Hi all dearest readers, Its 5:07 PM, I'm generally cold and listening to Sister Atwood talk to her family avidly explaining the ins and outs of our missionary work here.. Love her :)  How confident are we that this email will be complete by 6:00?  I have faith  The logical reason I think this task may be possible is my LACK of journaling and therefore LACK of detail... Lets begin.  Last Pday was a zone Pday, a majority of the Zone finds joy in playing volley ball or football, I personally enjoy being curled up in a corner tapping away at my email and contemplating insights I've had throughout the week. This week i've THOROUGHLY enjoyed moving around and adding to our Jesus wall, using the creative side of my brain to make things more aesthetic and pleasing to the eye. Times where I could have spent journaling I instead spent standing and examining and moving things around. Now it looks good and i've mostly rectified the outcomes of the roughness...

From Abby: Oh, It is Wonderful! Hello Allll Apologies for a LACK of email title last week. It haunts me. Currently once again typing in my notes app as a preventative caution  I just finished listening to my mum :) She sent me a 30 minute voice note this morning explaining in her way all the events of my beloved home in the north  Mom if you're reading this, thank you <3 I'm feeling completely annoyed at myself. i'm almost EXACTLY one week behind on my journal which is somewhat discouraging considering the fact that I would love these emails to describe the most important events of the week and I am only now having to tackle the task of filtering them. My environment right now: The sun is streaming into our basement apartment the shape of the windows beam of light is directly to the right of me.  to my left is a plate with banana bread crumbs and a ripped out page of the articals of faith from a Come Follow Me manual we grabbed from a church building. I can hear the wa...

From Abby:  HI ALL I'm currently writing my email in my beloved notes app because my email has not been saving drafts and therefore causes for great distress and mourning at the loss of an email that was invested into and then GONE in an instant. HAPPY NEW MONTH  Can you believe we've already made it to MARCH?! So many exciting things to come, my mind dwells primarily on spring yet I try not to fixate :) Last Pday I somehow only spent $22 USD on groceries I swear I could hear my wallet singing. We went thrifting and blessed the Burts name (Our senior couple) when they were willing to drive Elder Cease, Elder Chapin and Sister Atwood and I  Highlight: When we picked up the elders we saw their adorable lil old man landlord named guy on his bike :) We DEVOURED subway to give us energy for the event that is thrifting and then got to work. Outcomes include: -Green old lady grandma sweater -black skirt that attracts hair  -Black puffed sleeve top  - SLACKS?! Yes my fr...