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Okay! Hi!
Two months. What? How did that happen? Crazy.
We are doing our best to stay safe and dry and warm here...as a matter of fact,
I'm wearing my wellies right now :)
You had snow!? Man. How exciting. We're
supposed to get some soon I think. We don't get to watch the weather or
anything...we just know what people hear and pass on to us. haha. we have heard
about Hurricane Sandy though...this will be an adventure! We're in the midst of
preparations, so don't worry. They'll take good care of us :)
Okay. Questions/answers. The johnson farm is a
separate assignment since it's about 45 minutes away--so if i ever get called
there, i'll move to the apartment down in hiram and work there for the whole
transfer. but right now, i live in a house on the grounds of the VC--so it's
about 2 minutes to sites. we live with one other companionship, so there are 4
of us in the house. and it is so fun. Sister Gamble and Sister Goodman are the
others who live with us, and they are so fun. we have companion study together
every morning for the first part of the hour, and we always find something to laugh
about. they are the best. :) Sister Gamble's favorite color is purple, and she
has purple everything...purple, purple! haha :) Also, it's the perfect group
for me, because they all like to sing/listen to Christmas music. That's
definitely already been happening at our house. We even got a head start before
Halloween! Aren't you proud? :)
When we're at sites, we exercise til 7, shower
and get ready, study from 8-10, and then go to sites for the day. At sites, we
either give tours, make calls in the call center, or take a shift being on mormon.org for chat. When I first got here, i
hated the idea of making calls to people i'd never met. But it's actually kind
of fun. we get to talk to some really great people. As for tours, the full tour
takes about 2 hours. we start at the Whitney store, take them through all the
rooms there, then take them through the Whitney home, the Johnson Inn, and the
Sawmill and Ashery. I wish I had time to go through everything we teach during
tour--because it's all great! someday i'll write it down and send it to you.
:)
We're in our area about every other day and
sites the rest. We're in the Chardon Branch, and we have President
Draper--what's Tanner's uncle's name? I'll ask around and figure out which ward
he's in. We do have dinner appointments a lot of the time. And the members
always give us a lot of food to take home. Free food is the best, right? They
are so generous to take care of us like that. And free is my favorite number!
Smiley face.
I did get to play my flute a few weeks
ago...and hopefully i'll have time again today to play for a bit! I love it. AND we get to participate
in an inter-faith choir that's doing a Christmas benefit concert in December.
God is so good :) Our conductor kind of reminds me of the guy from our PHS NYC
tour--what was his name? But still nothing like Coach--i'm so spoiled :) I love
being able to sing again though! I am so grateful for the opportunity. Pray
that we will have lots of missionary opportunities there!
There are 8 missionaries in my district,
and...a lot more in my zone. I don't know how many exactly. Our district is the
Perry District
The jam is purrrrfect. :) I'm so glad to have
it! And I ate up the last of the muffins the other day--they were so good! I'll
have to find that recipe and make some more :)
OH here's some exciting news. Turns out that I
know about half of Fiona's family. Haha. I went to high school with her cousins
Nate and Caitlyn Perkins--Caitlyn was in Jazz Band with me and played bass.
remember? I think just my soph year. She was fabulous though. And of course I
know Henry--Fiona is excited/sad for him to go the MTC tomorrow. Funny ol'
world, isn't it. So many people, yet so small. but the exciting news is that we
visited with Fiona yesterday, and she finally decided to try coming back to
church with us on Sunday! SO excited. This is a big, big step for her. I love
her so much and hope that by the time Sunday comes around, she still feels like
going. Prayers please? Thanks much :)
President Dahneke is a counselor to our stake
president, I believe. He's a cool guy. And he looks so much like Scott!
Ohh man. I wish I could have been there to
hear the Gruppmans play!! [Igor and Vesna Gruppman, violinists] Tell them thank
you so much for their kind words. I love them so much! I am so grateful for the
chance I had to see them on tour and then to play with them and get to know
them better at the Lyceum camp. I am so impressed and humbled by their own
humility and faith--they are such incredibly gifted musicians who have put
their whole lives into perfecting their music--and yet they always seek to use
their talents to glorify and give thanks to and praise our Heavenly Father. I
love them!
Some favorite quotes from the week:
"The secret to having it all is believing
that you do."
"We are each of angels with only one wing
and can only fly embracing each other." --Luciano de Crescenzo
I went on exchanges with my great grandma on
Saturday (my trainer's trainer's trainer)--Sister Esser. She served in chardon
last year, and we went back and visited a bunch of her former investigators. It
was great, and we have a bunch of appointments from it. yay! One of those
appointments is for thursday with a 13 year-old girl named Tierra and her
younger siblings. We're trying to think of good object lessons to help us teach
them the lessons from pmg--namely, the restoration and the plan of salvation.
Any ideas? I'd love to hear any and all of them.
We visited a member last week, Sister Eging,
who has 8 kids at home at the moment. 4 are adopted and 4 are foster kids--and
she's fostered something like 25 kids total in her life. What a wonder woman! I
was so awed by her patience and love and cheerful outlook on life. she is so
busy and has so much going on--and yet she's able to keep a smile on her face
and laugh as the house is torn apart by all the little kids. She told us that
it's no good to get worked up over the things you can't control--so she just
laughs about it. i've heard that a million times before but this was the
principle in action. She's incredible! We each want to be her when we grow up.
:)
I'm going to end for now so I can try to send
some pictures! Love you!!
Love,
Sister Lyndsay Wygant
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Sister Wygant and her companion Sister Ellsworth
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