Man has this been a CUHRAZY day! I got transferred, and I am so dang excited. I'm in Santa Anita, a place outside of Quito, and even though it's super close to the city, it still feels kind of rural to me. I'm with Hermana Pincay (pronounced Pink Eye :-)). This is the last transfer of her mission, so we will only have six weeks together which is sad, but funny, because when I first met her, she had eleven months on her mission, and I remember thinking (at only four months myself), I'm never gonna get to where she is. But here I am today, 11 months on the mark, and she's finishing her mission! Crazy how time flies.
Anyway, Hermana Pincay will be the mission nurse which means that I'm like the secondary nurse! How about them apples?!?! Hello PA school mandatory patient contact hours!
Also, Hermana Caceres stayed in Mitad del Mundo and received....*drum roll please*...Hermana Bustos! What the heck?! Hermana Bustos, my trainee, is leaving Hermana Giles, my trainer, to head to my other trainee, Hermana Caceres! I'm so glad that Hermana Bustos is a little closer--maybe I'll get to see her more! So, last night I was packing, and we get a call from Hermana Pincay. She had to be at the offices at 7 a.m. and since her companion was going home, it meant that I had to be there before that. So, we woke up at 4:45 this morning, got dressed, finished packing, and took a taxi to Santa Anita. We arrived a little early, then headed with the hermanas to San Carlos to drop off the suitcases of Hermana Evert, Hermana Pincay's former companion. We also dropped off Hermana Caceres there, so we had a quick goodbye. She then headed to the terminal with the hermanas lideres, and I headed with Hermana Pincay and Evert to the offices. We dropped off Hermana Evert, and then went up to the offices to work out some financial stuff with medical receipts and everything which was fun especially once the office elders started shooting us with Nerf guns. We responded in kind :-). Then, we headed down a couple floors to put our fingerprints into the system so as to have 24 hour access to the offices. How special are we? :-) We then headed back to the house, I unpacked, and we took a quick nap to try and regain some sleep that was lost with the 4 a.m. wake up call. We headed out to eat super fast (like ordered and ate in fifteen minutes), did fifteen minutes of grocery shopping, and at 5:30, we arrived at the internet to write you. So, that's why this email is so short (and no letter to President Murphy). I'm so excited for this transfer and to run in the mornings and be doing medical stuff. It's gonna be awesome!
I was so sad to leave Hermana Caceres and my investigators in Mitad del Mundo, but I was so ready for a change. I got to my sector today, and I just loved not knowing anything. I've always felt like I'm comfortable doing the same thing over and over again, a good routine, but the mission has taught me that I do like change. I can't wait for my job in the medical field someday where every day will be a little different.
Also, happy Harry Potter World anniversary! I loved that vacation so much, and it made me happy this week to think about it, and can you believe a year has already gone by since we were there?Also, our bishop this week took us to a restaurant called Fiambres to eat cuy. That's guinea pig for anyone who wants to know. As it turns out, on the Discovery channel, there's a show called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, and he went to that exact restaurant just to try cuy. It was good, but I didn't really like the skin, fried or not. Anyway, packing and moving wasn't too bad, especially with my new luggage. Perhaps that was the main reason I had to go home--Heavenly Father knew that I had overpacked the first time and that my suitcases were junk, and that going for another year would not have worked :-)
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| Cuy before they're cooked. Next week I'll send the pic of them cooked. |
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| The hermanas from my zone <3 |
Okay, I love you all soooooooo much. Pray for me. My sector is a little dangerous, although we are now the tallest hermana companionship in the mission. So maybe that'll help.
Okay, I love you all a lot.
Love,
Hermana Kennedy
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