February 24, 2014

Sydnie's new address is listed below!

Hey!

Thankfully I haven't lost my driving privileges...yet! Hopefully I won't, but the rules are really strict and as I have been talking to other missionaries a lot of it is because a lot of people weren't being very careful or following the rules for cars, so one of those situations where one person ruins it for all of us. :( But it will all work out!

So to answer the  question, I was transferred! I am now in Red Oak, Iowa, and I am serving in the Shenandoah ward. It's the farthest east ward in our mission. I am with a different Sister Harris than my trainer and it honestly has been really fantastic! We were in the same district for the last 2 transfers and the first day we met we (and everyone else) said that we would never be companions because we were too good of friends and we wouldn't get anything done, and we would burn the town down. Naturally the Lord has a sense of humor. I think when we first found out we would be together no one believed it would actually happen. But so far it has been really great, and yes we are getting stuff done!

Anyway Red Oak is a really small town but it reminds me a little of inner city Ogden but without the Crime problem. It's mostly really old houses, on the grid system.

But there aren't a lot of stores and it's pretty far from any other town. Even to the church it's about 25 miles and we have a lot of other really small towns in our ward.

There are also Elders in this ward and we pretty much just split up the ward and each serve in a couple towns I guess, still trying to figure that out. I have never had to also work with Elders in an area before.

We live with an older couple, the Nix's. They are in their 60's and actually remind me a lot of the Bucksbees! Haha they are really nice. I guess they sent a picture to both mom and dad. I don't know them really well yet though, but I am working on it. They both work a lot and are only really home weekends, which is when we are busiest...

Saying goodbye to Plattsmouth ward was really hard. I truly felt like they were family. It's weird because I do miss it and it's hard just moving on so quickly, but I got to say goodbye to a lot of people which was great but really sad, some were worse than others. Sister Reveillac was probably the hardest, along with a lot of the less actives that we worked with. And with a lot of people I couldn't say goodbye but we just talked about how Stake conference is in a couple weeks, and we will see each other then instead. There are definitely a lot of pros and cons to being in an area for such a long time. Funny thing is Shanna Goldsberry is now going to be in Plattsmouth with Sister Bynum. It's really weird!

Thanks, love you guys!

 

This is my new address:

700 N. Broad Street

Red Oak Iowa 51566