Translados!!!

June 16, 2015

Hola Mamacita!

Why yes, we did have transfers!  haha so the truth comes out! I am staying in SACRAMENTO!!!!! Woohoo! I made the cut! haha!  and something even more crazy is that I am serving in my home town!!! What! haha So, I have been called to serve in the Cordova zone, La Riviera ward/branch, Rancho Cordova East, aka Rancho and Folsom. Of course there aren't a lot of Hispanics in Folsom, but we still cover it, and hey! I remember shopping at Ross and hearing people talk Spanish. :P We will be meeting at the same building as Aaron's ward (talk about scary!) and be careful because I'm going to be there when Landon gets baptized. Haha I'm going to be super close to home!  Don't come and find me! 

So the even more fun thing is that I am shotgunning the area with my new companion, Hna Fly. *Shotgunning means that they pull out the missionaries in the area and put in a new companionship of missionaries that don't know the area. So we are going in blind :) It's a really great way to do finding in areas without previous bias from experienced missionaries in the area.

Hna. Fly was in the CCM with Hna. Burke. Hna Burke absolutely loves her, so I know I'll probably love her, too! Oh! and Hna. Burke is staying in Carmichael, haha I get to leave her this time! She is going to do great with her new companion Hermana Webb! The neat thing about transfer calls this time is that if a missionary was called to the Modesto mission, President Jardine would personally call them and tell them so. Two missionaries in our zone received that call, one of our zone leaders and Hna Greenfield (Hna Burke's trainee and Hna Kaaa's current companion). We'll miss her lots! but she's going to Stockton South so she will have lots of fun! 

I got the 4th of July package! I showed Sister Schow and she thought it was cute... I'm going to miss her sooo much! But I told her that I'm going to take her to the temple after my mission and I'll write her letters so it will be good.

Our ward hasn't had a ward mission leader this whole transfer because our old one decided that he wanted to go to an English ward and there aren't any priesthood holders to fill that calling, so our correlation meetings, gospel principle classes, and relationship with ward council has been a little interesting. The Elders have been teaching the GP class for a few weeks and finally I asked if they wanted help in teaching it so they don't have to do it every week. So Hermana Burke and I taught the Gospel Principles class on Sunday and we made cookies! At the end of the class I said, "Traemos las galletas!" (We brought cookies!) and someone said in a thick Spanish accent, "cooookies!!" Haha then they all started saying it. :) I love Latinos.

Last week we did a zone service project at a member's house, the Hunt family. After a while of being there, I realized that it was Lexi Grimsman's grandparents house! Hey that's pretty cool! :P It's always little things like that that remind me that I am so close to a lot of people I know and care about. It's weird!

I am super excited for this next transfer! I know there will be challenges ahead, as there always is, and some of them may be more personal than my recent ones, but I know that transfers are inspired of God. I know that I am going to Rancho for a reason and that I will do my best to stay on purpose and not be distracted! haha even with the iPads!  

Para Siempre Dios este Con Vos

Con Amor,

Hermana Twitchell

Our District with our new IPads!!  (too many Hermana's)

Our Zone with their new IPads!!!  (Haha yes there are quite a bit more Sisters)

Us with William!!
 

We went to a Pita kitchen which is owned by a Palestinian  --  Arabic food Yum!

Food!  We went to a Russian Restaurant ...  We started handing out Russian Pamphlets to those we see that are nice enough to accept one