Sister Lapp Serves in San Diego: 12 Weeks! No longer a Greenie!!

Well this week is transfers and my trainer is leaving tomorrow! I am so nervous I don't even know what to do and the anticipation for my new companion is killing me! I finished the 12 weeks missionary training program so now I'm just a regular missionary....no longer a greenie! Hopefully by 6 months I'll feel like I'm not a greenie anymore :) I passed my 4 month mark on Sunday....isn't that crazy? I don't want to think about it though, because I never want to leave. The work is hard and I'm frustrated a lot, but surprisingly I don't hate it....I really love it! It's weird....I feel like I should hate it and I probably act like it sometimes....but I never want to leave. Two elders from our district here in Ramona went home today.....and it just made me realize how much I never want to leave. Basically half our mission is leaving this transfer and we only have half of that number coming in. They're trying to downsize our mission, we are only supposed to have 200 missionaries in our mission....which is crazy because there's 7 LANGUAGES in our mission!

I've heard stateside Spanish is 9 months, that's halfway through my mission! Crazy right? I really do need to work on not getting frustrated....how did you know that was a problem? Haha it's not a huge problem, but my trainer only corrected me once in a while because I would just get so mad at myself. I need to work on being patient with myself I think. Spanish isn't really my biggest problem, I have a bigger problem with remembering everything we need to do! I'm so forgetful, it's ridiculous. And it's a struggle sometimes, but I feel like I'm writing more things down (or typing them in tasks in the area book planner app) so I'm doing a lot better than when I first got here! President and I even talked about that during interviews a little. He just told me to write everything down.

Earlier I was thinking about miracles. I feel like they don't come around as often as I expected before I was actually a missionary. It's ok, though because it really makes me appreciate the daily little miracles that we have the opportunity to see. We are so lucky to see it as much as we do. It makes me see that by little things, great things come to pass. The little things are the greatest things.

Well other than that everything's same old same old. Pray for my new companion....hopefully she's patient because....I'm working on myself still! Haha just focusing on the work makes it better. I've been working a lot on trust with the people that we teach and I've been seeing that they really love me a lot more. They already loved me, but now I think they trust me. I've just been sharing more so that we can relate to each other better. It's been good!

It's been soooo hot! My companion got sick this week, and I think it's just because it's soooo hot. I've been trying to drink a ton of water, but I still feel like it's not enough! It's just so hot! My skin feels like it's baking in the sun. It's so boring when your companion is sick because sitting around is bad because you work all day every day on a mission, then when you're sitting around you feel anxious like you just can't sit still. I have to do something for a little while, then go do something else because I'm getting antsy, then switch, then switch back to something else. Even emailing every week gets to me! 2 hours of the same thing gets me a little antsy, but it's ok because I'll pause emailing and switch to something else. It's crazy how much that's changed since I left. I think I'd get antsy watching tv now! Crazy right? I was even watching interesting church movies while she was sick and I had to pause it and do something else.

I was so excited to see that Julia is going on a mission! That is so cool.

Being a missionary is the greatest thing! I'm learning so much and I know I'm growing!

Well I hope you have a good week!

Love,

Hermana Lapp

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