First five days in the mission field

I have been out here for five days now. I have the privilege to serve beside Sister Coburn, from Virginia Washington DC, and Sister Harvey, from Colorado Springs. The weather is warm and I am in one of the more populated areas. We wake up at six thirty, work out for half an hour, do personal study, and then plan out our day. We plan who we are going to visit and what were gonna do, and we make goals. After planning, we get cleaned up and eat breakfast, then head out. We visit with people, do tracting, heart attack doors, do service, like helping people wrap Christmas presents, and eat dinner at member's houses. They are all very friendly and the food is always delicious. We haven't had much success at finding people who want us to teach them, but they aren't usually outright rude. We usually get home around nine. We get to sleep around ten thirty, then the sequence starts all over again the next day. We keep ourselves too busy to feel homesick. 

In the picture, Sister Coburn is the blonde and Sister Harvey is the brunette. They are both amazing and I am so grateful to serve with them. Sister Coburn is going home in a month, this is her last transfer and she's been in this area for 9 months already, and Sister Harvey has been here six weeks longer than me.  In this mission, they try to keep people in an area for around six months so I'll have lots of time to get to know the people here.  

We are serving both the Highland Ranch ward and the Roxborough ward. They meet in two separate buildings, but luckily they are less then a minute walk between each other. There is one large parking lot and the two church buildings are on both sides. I don't know why it's built that way, but it makes it convenient for us! 

We were able to sing in the Roxborough Christmas program and were able to attend the farewell talk of a Sister heading out to her mission this week from the Highlands Ranch ward. After church we had a few meetings, then we ate dinner at a member family's house. Afterwards we were able to help wrap presents at a friendly non member's house, where we had cookies, cocoa, and many laughs. 

For the last twelve weeks, the Sisters haven't been able to find anyone interested in lessons, then a few days before I arrived they were able to find someone. On Sunday, the Sisters were inspired to to visit David, a man they had spoken to two months ago. He had seemed interested, but told them he was usually pretty busy, but they were welcome to drop by. For the next two months, they would stop by nearly every other day, and he was never home. They didn't want to bother him, but the impression that they should try again just wouldn't leave. 

I'll send you the rest of the story next week.