Gretchen arrived safely in Canada! After a brief visit at the mission headquarters (including a brief orientation, introductions, and an interview with her mission president) she was assigned to the provincial capital of Victoria on the very scenic Vancouver Island. I know you want to hear directly from Gretchen so here are a few excerpts from her letters:
“Hello all! I'm writing to you from the gorgeous city of Victoria on Vancouver Island. We live in a church member's basement and there are wild daffodils that grow in our front yard and young deer come to eat the grass and birds chirp constantly [sounds like a Disney movie!].”
“Okay, so let me fill you in on the adventures of the past few days. We took a tiny plane up to the Vancouver Airport and I didn't really have any missionary experiences because I was sitting next to another new missionary who happens to be Dwight Schrute's doppelganger.”
“We waited in customs for thirty minutes and then in immigration for another two hours and then we had to wait for another 45 minutes for President and Sister Nelson to pick us up. We had interviews and introductions back at the mission home and then we ate dinner and had a brief orientation and testimony meeting. I found out that I was coming to Victoria (yay!) and then we slept in the mission home which has the most amazing beds EVER.”
“President Nelson made us breakfast in the morning and at the table we had to practice our door approach, which was pretty nerve-wracking. We hung around the mission office for the entire day and met entirely too many people and we were totally overwhelmed. I said goodbye to Sister Wight (it was so sad) who was assigned to a Vancouver suburb and I got on the ferry with a bunch of Elders and we took some good pictures.”
“My new companion/trainer, Sister Weber, met me at the dock and a member took us out for dinner at Red Robin. Sister Weber is from Utah and we both lived in Perkins during Freshman year. She's been out for fourteen months and she's been here in Victoria for six, so there's lots of speculation about whether or not she's going to finish her mission here. She's super perky and going into Elementary Ed and even though we have fairly different senses of humor, we've been able to get along well.”
“Over the past few days, we've taught lessons and gone tracting and had dinner appointments and gone to church ─ pretty much all the typical missionary stuff. I'm still way overwhelmed in trying to figure it all out, but it's getting easier day by day.”
“President Nelson made us breakfast in the morning and at the table we had to practice our door approach, which was pretty nerve-wracking. We hung around the mission office for the entire day and met entirely too many people and we were totally overwhelmed. I said goodbye to Sister Wight (it was so sad) who was assigned to a Vancouver suburb and I got on the ferry with a bunch of Elders and we took some good pictures.”
“My new companion/trainer, Sister Weber, met me at the dock and a member took us out for dinner at Red Robin. Sister Weber is from Utah and we both lived in Perkins during Freshman year. She's been out for fourteen months and she's been here in Victoria for six, so there's lots of speculation about whether or not she's going to finish her mission here. She's super perky and going into Elementary Ed and even though we have fairly different senses of humor, we've been able to get along well.”
“Over the past few days, we've taught lessons and gone tracting and had dinner appointments and gone to church ─ pretty much all the typical missionary stuff. I'm still way overwhelmed in trying to figure it all out, but it's getting easier day by day.”
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Oh, Victoria truly is a GORGEOUS city, very Disney-worthy. :)
Thanks for these excerpts from her letters!
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