Malo Soifua!!! (just another way to say hello)
I have had a very exciting week and a half!!!!
Honestly
i don't remember much of our last few days in the MTC... I have it all
written down in my journal but i didn't refresh my memory before we
came... faamile atu!!! (sorry)
I do know that
the asthma struggle has been real! The last couple days in the MTC where
brutal! We didn't have time to go to the doctor in the MTC because it
was a long weekend and we were flying out on monday!! So sista Beckwith
and Sista Garvin made me promise to tell my mission president about my
asthma and go to the doctor ASAP. I didn't want to do that. BAHAH!!1
Sista
Corrigan Sister Maire (english speaker from Australia, came to Provo
mtc for visitor center training. Everyone kept getting us confused
because we are within 2 inches of each others heights-I'm taller- we are
Brunette and we both wear glasses! LOL!!) and I left the MTC at 1pm
on Monday!! Uso kinisone and sista kamaleti came and said goodbye!!
Leaving Sista Garvin was impossibly hard. If I wasn't so excited to get
on the plane, I probably would've died!!
When we
got to the airport they literally just dumped us at the curb and said
peace out. We were all like 'so this is what the outside world looks
like... I'd forgotten!!' LOL!!! We got cafe rio!!!! WHOOP WHOOP!!! and I
called home. That was impossibly hard too. They made me cry and i was
not expecting that.THE PLANE RIDE WAS SOOOOOOOOOO LONG! I had asthma
problems pretty much the whole flight.
Customs
would've been fine if Sister corrigan hadn't announced her sutifed
(cutifed..? Red pill--Mom edit: sudafed) as a controlled substance.... as a result all our
bags were hand checked and we were there for like an extra hour!! uggg.
We
met President Rudd and had some briefings! I met with president Rudd
and told him about my asthma. The next day we got our areas and
trainers!! I am serving in the Redoubt Area, Alema ward!!! My trainer is
Sista Taituuga!!! SHE IS AMAZING I LOVE HER SOOO MUCH!!!! She is from
Samoa!!! She was originally a visitor center sister but got pulled into
the Samoan program. Lots of the old Samoan missionaries got sent home. They are trying to fix the areas now so have brought fresh missionaries
into these areas. So we are both new, that's been interesting!!
We
went on a run my first morning and I did just fine. But as soon as we
stopped I died!! We got permission to go to the doctor and he put me on 2
inhalers and some pills. They didn't quiet work in time and I had a
very bad asthma attack Friday night. We went to the hospital and spent
all night in the hospital... ha ha!! I took so much inhaler!! They kept
me all night because my heart rate wouldn't come back down!! They put a
ton of water through my IV pic and i had too pee all day long on Saturday ;) We got permission to sleep the rest of the day Saturday. I
felt so bad wasting the lord's time.
On SundayI introduced myself and bore my testimony during sacrament meeting..
IN SAMOAN!!! whoop whoop!! That was fun!! The members are so
wonderful!!! The non members too!! Everyone is so surprised when I say
malo soifua!! They love talking to me even though I don't understand!!
Everyone is so awesome and tries to help me every time I meet them! One
lady we visited tried to teach me head shoulders knees and toes!!
BAHAHA!!!!
I have had lots of fun food!!!
-Cocoa
Samoa (SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKING GOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! THe cocoa beans are
chunks so you chew them as you drink..... yummy!!!!!!!)
-Taro (it's kind of like a potato...? not really... kind of. its good if you dip it in something!!)
-Palusami (Taro leaves with coconut milk IT IS WICKED GOOOD!!!!!! YUP YUP YUP!! I HAD IT YESTERDAY!!!)
-Lamb
soup (it is what it is! It was way good! they leave all the bones in
when they cook so you just pick it out... that's fun!)
-Oka
soup (I had this yesterday too! I didn't know what oka was.... Oka means
raw fish in samoan! The soup was cold and tasted really salty. I
basically just told my brain not to think about it and ate it. I
couldn't help avoiding the chunks though!! LOL!!! It was good!!)
-Banana
(They peel bananas and boil them and them let them sit out. They are all
dry and hard and don't taste like anything... not my favorite ;))
We
have to leave because the elders are here and we can't email in the same
place at the same time (because of the previous missionaries)!!
Alofa ia te oe!!
Sista Peo
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