At the
request of Elder McLaughlin (may he rest in Billings) I'll say- "Joke's on me, I'm in Cody,
Wyoming!"
The Billings, Montana
mission was a shock, but getting sent to the hickest place around was like... I don't even
know... REVELATION. And the best part
is? I love it here! HA! It's exactly the opposite of everything my mission in Brazil is going to be
and I don't even care. All of Wyoming is
the size of Mesa, AZ. Just let that sink in for a minute. Welcome to Cody. There is a rodeo
every single night and the first night I
met the Bishop in his work clothes. He works on a damn? AKA He was looking ROUUUUGH. Everyone is SO
nice and I maybe get told I'm a pretty
little thing 500 times a day. So obvs, I love it!
To make matters even better, I am being
trained by the best missionary in the
entire world. Sorry I'm not sorry. Sister Christensen is from Richfield, Utah and has been out for 6 months.
So all you Utahans if you've heard of
"Christensen's" the department store, her family owns all three! She is THE hardest working and is
obedient to a "T". It's hilarious
because President Meacham has asked us to wake up at 6:23, so she wakes up at 6:18, so she can be exactly
productive by exactly 6:23. Whiiiich I
think was the point of 6:23, so we could be productive at 6:30? See the cycle here?!
Hahaha. But seriously she is so awesome.
Very outgoing, sooo nice, and the other day she accidentally prayed to herself at a dinner
appointment? She has been traumatized
ever since. "Dear Sister Christensen.... Uhhhhhhhh" Then everyone died laughing. Including the
non-member husband of the COOLEST Sister
in the ward. After our dinner she comes up to me and goes- "it's just not fair that they would
call the only person with any life in
them to Brazil where you can just point at someone on the street and say- BE BAPTIZED." I promised
her I'd "get" her husband if it's the last
thing I do in Cody. People have been trying for 20 years, but let's be honest, tenacity isn't a
joke with me.
So speaking of
"getting" people. Sister Christensen and I showed up in Cody on Tuesday night and took over Cody 2nd
ward. Ever heard of "white
washing??!" Our life. We had no one to our name, and didn't know a single person in Cody (other than the
McDougal's whom we live with- AKA coach.
welcome to a small town!). We hit the ground running and starting tracting our street. We joke
about that experience all the time
because now everyone contact we have is on our street so we don't have to use our miles! HA! We found a
woman who had been taught previously and
now we have a baptism set for September 14th! HAAAA! Sister Christensen is a sister training leader
with Sister Taylor in Lovell, WY and
when President Meacham found out he about died laughing. He said he knew I would be a fire
cracker! Love this place. We are the
first Sister missionaries here in as long as anyone can remember and that is getting everyone STOKED
for missionary work. It's so sad telling
people that Sister Christensen is only my companion for 2 weeks because then Sister Huskey (also a
VISA waiter going to Sao Paulo North,
who came out same day) is coming here to be my companion so Sister Taylor can finish out her mission
with Sister Christensen. They've been
together 6 months and it's like they are dating. It's hilarious. Anyway, Sister Huskey will come
here as early as Saturday and since it's
my area I will probs make senior companion in 2 weeks? Mission record whaaaa?
Anyway, the work is
moving along here in Cody and I am just
treating it like it is Brazil. The field is white and I'm ready to harvest! Sorry my thoughts are so
scattered, there are two other sets of
Elders in Cody and they are trying to hurry us to come with them to Powell and hang out with the
zone. A really cool experience from
this week- we were tracting and I felt like
we should visit everyone on Meadow Lane since we were there anyway. We go to the first house and no one is
home. So we walk a little ways to a set
of apartment buildings I hadn't noticed on the map, and on the ward list there is a Sister
Kim (from Korea) listed as living in one
of them. We go to her door and knock and she answers in TEARS. She goes I'm having a REALLY hard time
and I just prayed and told God I needed
something right now. Then I hear a knock and I look through the peep hole and see your tags. I
know God sent you, and I know he loves
me now (all in broken English). She then goes on to tell us some difficulties she is having with her
ex-husband and their fight over the
custody of their kids. It was just so nice to know that God really does hear our prayers and we can be an
answer to someone elses if we listen to
the spirit. Most times if we are tune, we don't even realize we are being guided.
Alright times up! I love you all so much!
Sister Mills!
PS my Portuguese is going downHILLLLLL.
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