It's been nuts, I flew out to the mission field on Tuesday! It was so good to hear from the family and hear your voices! It made me superrr home sick tho... I struggled the first couple days in the field. Everyone would ask me where I'm from and I say Idaho while I would start to cry... Haha love being a baby.
The first thing the AP's and President Evans did to us was when we landed was they took us down to downtown Rochester gave us a couple Book of Mormons and some restoration pamphlets and kicked us to the curb to do some street contacting. It was super scary at first but once we got the hang of it, it was super fun! We spent the night in the mission home which is in Rochester and we woke up and the first thing we did Wednesday morning was drove down to palmyra and went to the Hill Cumorah and then to the Sacred Grove!!! It was so cool! I went to the same spot that changed my life a year ago! The cool thing about the Sacred Grove is that we can be alone and read and study by are selves. It was so cool to be there as a missionary!
Well my trainer is Elder Verdine! He is super cool we get along great! He's an answer to my prayers! He's from Portland Oregon! He leaves after training me so he is kinda trunky, but it's good! We are serving in Medina, New York. It's a very small town about an hour away from Rochester and 40ish minutes to Buffalo! It's super cool here, the people here are so nice. I love it! We got 3 investigators throughout the week! Susan is who I started teaching we taught her my second night here, she came to church and we set her for baptism on October 22! But she doesn't want to move forward without her boyfriend... So we started teaching him, he seems interested but it'll take time! I'm so excited for them tho. It's crazy to see people how the Lord does, I barely know these people and I already love them so much and care for them. Susan and Cordell have 3 kids, Marquess, Marcus, Messiah! They are a little black family. Marquess is 8 years old and wants to be baptized with his mom. It's so cool! We helped Susan out with a garage sell that she was having Saturday morning and her son Marquess has been wanting to have a lemonade stand all summer long so we helped her surprise him with a stand. He made 7 dollars and was the happiest 8 year old ever!
It's starting to get kinda chilly here.. It's like 50 degrees in the morning and the humidity so it just goes straight through ya! Haha. We haven't taught to many lessons but we have been spending a lot of time street contacting in downtown Medina! We handed out 14 books this week!! It's so cool to see people change and open up within seconds of meeting them! It's pretty tough adjusting to the missionary life. But I know the blessing it will bring to everyone I love back home... I can't begin to tell you how much I miss all of you! It's beyond the description of words! I miss all of you sooooo much!!! I pray for everyone everyday. I hope all is well at home!
Love and miss y'all so much!!!
Elder Judy
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