So I was given the responsibility of travel leader..... who on earth that that was a good idea. I barely know my cardinal directions...... while we were on our first train a wonderful man named Alan started talking to us and he was an airport employee and said that he would take exactly where we needed to go he said he had helped hundreds of missionaries, because he is always going where they need to go. Now for those that know me I was very skeptical of this guy, he was super quirky, like in the good way but also the serial killer kind of way, he also had a weird laugh which scared me. But he turned out to not be a serial killer so all was well. He was super nice and led us to where we needed to be. Thanks Alan!! No idea who you are but thanks!!
Any who!! When we got to where we needed to be it was 2 hours before we needed to board our flight, we had some time to call home, I was a mess. As soon as my mom picked up and I heard her voice along with my father's, I started to cry haha. I know I'm a totally wuss haha. That was amazing and it was exactly what I needed to keep going. Once I said good bye and that I will call again at Christmas 😂 I wiped away the tears and waited for my little ducklings to finish their phone calls.
We sat and waited for a while, until it was finally ready to board the plane we hopped on and we were off.
We landed!!!! We got off the plane and the first people we saw was our amazing mission president, President Wright. Amazing man who made me feel so welcome. His wife is one of the sweetest people I know, she shook my hand and told me "goodness I wish I could hug you all and tell you everything will be alright" hahaha made me chuckle. We loaded a van and went to the mission home.
When we got there after an hour drive we were all pretty exhausted and it was only 2ish in the afternoon. We went though a whole bunch of orientation and the do's and don'ts of the mission. After about and hour of that. We all interviewed with our mission president and then found out our new companions shortly after!!!
I got Elder Evans. He is a super cool guy!! Kinda weird and quirky and super sarcastic he is a molly Mormon hahaha. And when I say molly Mormon I mean has never had caffeine in his life, home schooled with his 9 other siblings kind of molly Mormon. 'Im not saying this is bad I just saying it isn't what I'm used to hahah, he is super cool and had taught me a ton already. I love him lots. He has been on his mission for 23 months so this is his last transfer!
(Vallejo, CA)
After we found out all this we went to the mission presidents home and ate pizza with him and his family. After that was all said and done with we were put into the hands of our trainer and we were off.
Once me and my companion had our awkward small talk and got to Vallejo we stopped by a local Walmart to pick up food for the next week. I didn't know what to get so I got a big bag of Captain crunch and a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread and a bag of apples. Haha I know I'm so adventurous. Which I had to use on my home card because I never got the pin to my mission card..... probably should call someone about that..... hmm oh well I will do that after I'm done emailing y'all 😁😁
When we picked everything up we got to the apartment, (it's just a small little apartment nothing special 2 bedroom 1 bath) once we dropped the food off my companion said "let's go" I was all confused and then we went and had another dinner with a member from the ward!!! We were off. We ate with a nice family whose name is have forgotten, I'm awful with names it's sad. Hahah and while we were driving there almost ran out of gas, we met some people who were driving next to us who were smoking weed and asked us if we wanted a hit, they then tired to race us in our car. They did a doughnut I'm the middle of the road and peeled out..... it was slightly scary haha. my companion then looked at me and said, "Welcome to Vallejo"
We went to bed shortly after that dinner and man did I sleep like a rock. The rest of the week was full of meeting ward members, talking to investigators and just trying to get used to the missionary life. which is much more different than I would have ever expected. But I really am loving it. It's a lot of hard work but I get to serve people at the same time as serving the Lord. That's pretty amazing if you ask me.
We have already, in just my first week we put in 20 service hours hahah. I'm loosing weight and I'm quite tan ;) I'm also extremely sun burnt all the time but I don't think that matters as much! ;)
Keep sending me emails I love hearing from all of y'all! It honestly and truly does keep me going! well this email is extremely long but I don't have much more time to type up anymore! but Just know that I'm loving it! God has been with me every step of the way! and God loves all of us! He really does. Go talk to him! He wants to hear from one of his children! Tell him about your day and he will bless you with guidance and peace and calm! It's a beautiful thing!
I LOVE YOU ALL!! AND I MISS YOU ALL!!
Hope to hear from all of you soon!!!
-You're favorite Missionary Ever-
-Elder Riley Field
Happy 4th of July!
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