Three days until New Caledonia!


Hellooooooo!

This week has been good! I head out to new Caledonia on Monday at like 4pmish ahhhhhhhhh!!!
I'm getting ready and getting psyched! 

Highlights of the week:

Infield orientation this week was long but good, and actually pretty useful. They just had all the people that are leaving this week going back and forth between rooms talking about how the members are great places to go to help out our investigators and for our ward's sake. They also talked about planning and contacting and told lots of stories, and then did a skit that was really awkward but hilarious.

Anther highlight:  I sang with Dallyn Bayles!! He was so amazing! There were 7 of the 12 apostles there with all the new mission presidents! Elder Christofersen came up and thanked us and shook our hands!! Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson gave us a hug!! it was Dallyn Bayles singing and then a choir of about 16 missionaries. It was so good and there was such a cool spirit there! I love music!

Another highlight:  My very very very favorite apostle came to speak, Elder David A. Bednar! They had a broadcast of the devotional on Tuesday since it was the anniversary of the day that Joseph Smith was martyred. When he came out to speak I nearly pee'd my pants, I was so happy (I have been telling my district all week that all I wanted was to hear from Elder David A. Bednar. Also not to say I'm psychic or anything, but I swear the night before the devotional I had a dream with Elder Bednar in it. In my dream he came to speak, and I was super happy and his wife heard me talking about how much I loved him, so she told me to come meet him, but we could never find him. Unfortunately the part in my dream where I never did get to shake his hand or meet also came true, but I had a great seat for the devotional so i'm just happy that I got to hear from him. He talked about the word of God, our need to plant it in our hearts, and by planting it like a seed (Alma 32) we can let the tree of Christ and love of God grow within us. As a choir we sang "Praise to the Man." It was also beautiful. 

Anywayyyyy, all is well, learning how to contact....ha ha. Yah, not the easiest but still kind of fun. 

The French plague hit our zone this week also (not actually the French plague, but all the Frenchies did get sick) some got a cold and some got some stomach flu. I am clean though! Hopefully I stay clean, I just keep telling myself that my immune system is amazing, I'll be fine (its all a mental game.)

We played our last game of volleyball today, sad day.

Other than that everything is good though!!! French is coming, Oh! I made a game with Sister Driggs called "Qui est le Champingon?" (who is the mushroom) Pretty much it's just that for the day you're only allowed to talk in French and the first person to say an English word is the Champignon (the mushroom) and the other person is the champion(champion is the same in French). I lost the first day because when I walked out of the bathroom I totally forgot. The second day though, the whole district was playing with us and I was the champion!! (not the mushroom) It's a fun game but afterwards you kind of have a headache from so much French...I can only imagine what my headache will be like once I get to New Cal ha! I'm so excited to go though!!

love you all! 
Soeur Rodriguez 





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