One Week in Brooklyn 12/16/13

Hello!                                                                                                                           12/16/13

       So as you may have guessed from the title of the message I am serving in Midwood, Brooklyn New York. My plane flight here was delayed a half an hour because they ran out of overhead area on the plane and had to wait while they checked all of the additional carry-ons. So it was not delayed because of weather and the flight was only a little bit bumpy.

       When we got here the APs and President and Sister Calderwood picked us up. They gave us a lunch and took us to a building where we watched a welcome video and then went up to the roof. Up there we could see the skyline which was really cool. We did our interviews and personal goal setting for our mission up there.

      Then off to the mission home, where we got homemade sliders for dinner. We talked about our mission a bit afterward, took some pictures, and then off to bed with the sisters upstairs and the elders in the basement. The next morning it started snowing and after breakfast we went to the mission office which is a church building.

There we filed in to another room where our trainers were all sitting with an empty seat next to them. They started with the elders and had each one individually step forward and get told who their trainer is going to be. So of course .....I went last. My trainer is Sister F and she is awesome!! We are getting along so well. We have very similar tastes in food and clothes, we even have some of the same stuff just in different colors, plus she is from California. So they gave us pizza, I got to see Elder Clark,  and Elder Duncan. Then we had transfer meeting, and then picked up my package and an iPad. Yes I do get to use an iPad mini which is really cool. Apparently we were either the 8th or the 9th mission to get them. I also get a subway card so I can use the buses and the subway instead of driving a car.

Then we went to our apartment and then had a district meeting.

        On Wednesday, I got to go to the temple! Sister F had a newly reactivated convert who invited her to come see her get her endowment and since it was easier than splitting up, I got to go too.

Then from 6pm to 9 pm is Prime Time which means that most people are coming home from work to that is the best time to go and do referrals, street contacting, and lessons.

      The other big thing that happened was on Friday we had the ward Christmas party. There was members acting out the nativity with a two week old baby playing Jesus. All of the missionaries in our ward did two musical numbers. We sang away in a manger and far far away in Judaea's plains. Sister F and I are the only sisters and then there are three companionships of elders.

Now to answer the questionnaire.

1. How is the weather? 

Cold, it snowed the first day that I got here.

It hasn't snowed a lot since then but wind will really drop the temperature.

2.Tell us about your place you are living in? 

This place is huge! I was expecting some tiny little apartment but our study- living room-ish area alone is larger than my room at the MTC. Then we have a tiny kitchen, a bedroom with a bunk bed and a regular bed, a bathroom, and several small closets.

Until Next Time,

Sister Megan Hodgson