December 15, 2014

I have my new companion! Her name is Sister Greear. So Sister
Corbridge and I drove up to the transfer meeting and after the 'train
the trainers' meeting, we went into the back of the room full of
greenies (late, because we always are) as they started announcing the
companionships. I saw the back of Sister Greear (who of course I
didn't know who she was) and 'ASL' came to mind. I knew she was going
to be my companion. (Back story, my trainer knew she was going to
train me, and I knew I would train Sister Maile when I saw her at the
airport). All the elders went first and then they started announcing
the sisters and I just had my eyes fixed on her the whole time. They
announced she would be in St Augustine Shores, which she knew would be
ASL, and jumped up and screamed and we hugged. It was great. Also, she
knows Sister Allred!! Sister Allred served in the Seattle YSA and
Sister Greear went on exchanges with her often. Pretty crazy!
Also, I made Sister Greear a 'greenie package'. A green stocking with
a bunch of green things in it. It was very cute if I do say so myself.
So, transfer meeting ends and we're supposed to be picking up a car to
take back to our area. Like, us four have no way to get home without
this car we're supposed to get. So they tell us to wait until all the
other missionaries have left, so finally an hour and a half later the
parking lot is cleared and I'm telling jokes and playing
would-you-rather with President Craig. Anyway they take us to the
mission office and we get our car, which is exactly the same make,
model, and color as the other sisters except it had 24 miles on it.
Yeah! New car!
Oh- another exciting change of plans. In switching apartments with the
elders, we would have lived directly next door to the zone leaders-I
mean like sharing a wall with them. That's obviously a no no so they
called the zone leaders in the middle of the transfer meeting and said
'hey by the way yall are switching apartments with the sisters too'.
So that was an insane move, getting everything out of the apartment.
Yeah, suffice it to say, it was crazy. So now we live right next door
to Sister Corbridge and Sister Butler, her new companion. Pretty
sweet.
Oh AND. So we have our area books (containing all the information on
the area, peoples' teaching records and addresses, members info, etc)
on our iPads and they are supposed to switch after transfers. Well
somehow mine (it always happens to me) got messed up and we haven't
had any information for the last five days. The struggle is very real,
let me tell you. We just tract and try to find new people until the
area book comes back. Hopefully it will be soon!

Geez what else even happened this week. Some members gave us a twelve
days of Christmas thing! A have a present to open every day until
Christmas. Very sweet :)

On Saturday, we went to a deaf potluck. That was fun. I didn't know
that going to Gallaudette was such a big deal, but whenever Martin
Price introduced me as someone whose parents went there, people were
pretty impressed. Hey, okay! I bought some excellent pictures from a
deaf photographer.

Hey, friends, I need some new jokes. The other missionaries already
know what's coming when I say I have a joke. Plus I have to out-joke
my district leader, and I cannot lose.

Love
Ashley

                        Sister Greear brushing her teeth and my study desk. Exciting stuff.