Okay. So the area I'm in is named Sunnyside, so that's really happy. (; My area is 3 English areas put together and our Zone has big areas because it's a lot of country out here, so there's lots of driving. My branch is great, they're all really nice and extremely patient with my bad Spanish.
You can't see any mountains in my area, but there are lots of trees and hills and the occasional lake. I give it a 9/10 on the pretty scale. It's REALLY green out here like REALLY green. When you drive, both sides of the road have huge trees on either side, people here call them "green tunnels" I'll try and grab a pic today if I can.
Finding is really hard in my area because people actually, literally hide from us in the forest. So there's that. Most of the people in my area speak English so we can't just "tract" and find effectively. I've been coming up with finding ideas, but if anyone has ideas that they used in their missions lmk.
We live in the basement of a member, her name is Augga and the other day we came home and she said, "your guys' fridge just looked so empty so I got you guys some snacks." We were like, "lit!" So we go downstairs to find a whole case of rootbeer, Chinese snacks, pie, cream puffs, ice cream, chips and salsa. It was an Abuela moment. I was shook. Haha.
It's been stake conference and so we've done a lot with the English wards lately and we show up to stake conference on Saturday and they fed us pizza and cookies and all the things, and then they sent us home with a WHOLE Costco pizza and a package of Costco cookies. So don't worry, Momma, I'm being fed.
That same day we went to a friend's house to buy some tamales and she fed us tamales there. Get recked. So much food. SO. MUCH. FOOD.
Other than that THIS WEEK I GOT TO SEE HNA BILLINGS AND HNA NILSSON!!!! We had new missionary training together and let me just say there were many tears to be had between the three of us. Mostly happy. I love those guys. I probably won't see them for 10 weeks now.);
We're only teaching one person. His name is Jose and he's my favorite person in all of Washington. He's so ready. Like so ready. Whenever we ask him to do something he says "Claro que yes" and it's always funny.
In the MTC we would always laugh about the time during service that they drove us to the middle of nowhere and just had us rake grass for an hour. Hna Billings and I were like ¿what? BUT. We got called by a very kind old Abuelita to come help her with her yard and I raked grass for an hour so I guess it's a thing everywhere but Utah. Hahahahaha.
Last week everyone kept telling me to "prepare for the dark months" and I was like "what are you talking about!?!?!?" It's been so temperate lately, like sunny and nice and I decided that everyone that ever told me Washington was rainy was a lightweight.
And then it started to rain.
So yeah. We are entering the dark months and it pours every day. 10/10 will take getting used to. Haha. It's chill. Washington is pretty alright.
I'm learning a lot here and I'm excited for all the new adventures!!! I love you guys and I'm so thankful for all of the prayers!!
Love you all,
Hermana Jimenez
Sofia was happy to do her service this week raking grass
(much easier on her allergies than packing Alpaca hair).
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