HILL, OLIVIA

Hello friends! How is it goinngg? It has been a crazy week! My companion(sister Leonard) I was with for 10 days went home so now I have new companions! Sister Blackmon and Sister Bean! They are super cute and we're having a good time!  It's crazy cause Sister Blackmon is actually my grandma(she trained my trainer) haha and now we're comps and she is training Sister Bean! I am a STL again for the Hermiston zone and it is a giannnttttt zone, so lots of sisters to love & serve ;) Hermiston is a cute little small town that is known for its watermelons haha so everything here has a watermelon on it. The area we cover is pretty dang big and we're all new to it, so lots of learning! We live in a cul de sac with all missionaries so it's super fun to walk next door and see everyone.  We are teaching this lady named Tracy and her son Taylor. Taylor is veryyy difficult to teach haha, he is convinced God is not loving. So I was very scared to start teaching him but I've...

Holy smokkeeessss, lots has happened this week!!!! Let's get the big thing outta the way... I got ET'd (emergency transferred) to Hermiston, Oregon on thursday! I got a call late monday night from my mission president telling me I was leaving Kennewick to go to Hermiston in a couple of days and oh boy, I was shook, literally so sad:( But I got all my tears out and now I'm in Hermiston and I'm doing good!  I am now companions with Sister Leonard who goes home in 1 week, haha so I have very little time to learn the area, but I've been praying hard for help with that lol.  I was very sad to leave Kennewick because that is where I started my mission and I was there for 5 months! I learned so dang much and I absolutely love the people there! But I am excited to do the same thing with Hermiston!  Said goodbye to my sweet old ladies that we visit every week and just make me so happy. Said bye to the Faamausilis who literally became my family out here. Their daughter malia ...