Pinecones & Useless Phones

Sister Penelope Lake
Jul 5, 2020
3 min read

June 22nd

This week was great! A little fun with filters on P-Day.

Transfer calls came! I am moving to Forest Grove, to Pumpkin Ridge ward. I will sharing the ward with two other awesome sisters! Sister Evans is staying here as an Sister Training Leader (STL) and I will stay tech squad. I will be with Sister Atwood!

Also Sister Evans account got hacked, so that was fun. We think we fixed it :D

Here's our district pictures! Go 6-ft rule. People stood next to who they lives with and were 6 ft from everyone else. Corona!!

We had a few lessons this week with the awesomest people! We got to have a member lesson in person (outside 6 ft apart). We also just had a lot of happy people that we met with.

Our institute classes are ending, and for one of them the teacher sent treats through amazon for everyone to eat for the last class, so that was fun!

We did service for a member this week, it was great to do stuff out in the sun!

Also, the Elders put a ton of pine cones on our windshield on our car. But while taking them off, we got to have an awesome conversation with a lady who was teaching her kids to bike in the parking lot! So that was cool. Also our car is so dirty now.

Well now I got to get packing! My ice cream machine ain't gonna pack itself!

You are great!

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June 29th: Phones are useless

We had an adventurous week this week!

So transfers happened. They happened on two different days, so Sister Evans and I had a half P-day (prep day) on Monday and another half P-day on Tuesday. Sister Atwood and I got up here on Tuesday. We have no wifi in our apartment, no car, and we didn't have a SIM card for three days. So, we had sisters take us to the store for groceries (again, half P-day on Tues). They took us home, we put our groceries away, then we packed some stuff and stayed at their home all day to use the wifi in their apartment. Then they drove us home.

Then they picked us up the next day in the morning, this time we were prepared with a packed lunch and dinner. Then they dropped us off late at night. The same thing happened the next day. Fun tip for life, phones are useless when they don't have a number or data and you have no wifi. On Friday in MLC, we were able to pick up our SIM card! Yay! Also instead of calling us Pumpkin Ridge B on our account, they named us Bumpkin Ridge. It has made us laugh a lot. But on Friday it was so nice because we could reach out to our ward, call the missionaries we were supposed to contact, and use data while at home! Yay for SIM cards.

Sister Atwood is amazing! She is really funny, we get along so well! We like a ton of the same things. Also she has been catching onto Facebook so so fast. We have a lot of plans for what we are going to do and better ways to train! It's a party.

Our apartment had some interesting cereal. And not much else. Yay for grocery shopping!