Week 50 (2/18/19): "I'll do what You want me to do Lord, I swear! But are You sure??"

Well, transfers are this week, but I'm staying put with Sister Harris, which I'm super excited about. Partially because that means I don't have to pack again, but also because I love being here in Dinuba and Selma. The people are just so loving, and I love learning Spanish more.

We started teaching a couple really cool people this week! We read from the Book of Mormon with them, and they loved it! And someone Sister Harris taught the first time she was here moved back to Selma, so we met up with him, and he wants us to come back!! So we'll go see him tonight!

One really cool miracle from this week- yesterday at church, there was a family who is moving and it was their last Sunday. In talking with the mom, I learned that they were moving to Raleigh, NC (and she didn't know before that I was from Virginia.) So I was able to tell her how much I love the east coast, how amazing it is, how loving the people are, how excited their new ward will be to have a big family like theirs move in, and just how good of a place it is. At the end, she told me that she'd been really worried because they'd never been out east before, so she didn't really know what she was getting into, and that I was exactly the help she needed. I love when Heavenly Father uses me to help someone else like that. It is the greatest feeling in the world.

And talking with my family this morning was the best! It was so much fun to see their faces, and to be able to have a conversation with them. And I got to message with Rachel this morning, which made my heart happy!

Love you, bye!
Sister Cate

The fishtail the elder did last week

Week 49 (2/11/19): "I'm being attacked! I'm an endangered species!"

So this week was pretty much moving. So we moved from Kingsburg to Dinuba last weekend, and then the English elders moved into the Kingsburg apartment, and the Spanish elders moved into the English elders' old apartment. And at first we were told that we had about 30 days, but then they got back to us and told us we had a week. To get everyone moved. So we worked together and we did it! We still need to clean out the Spanish elders' old apartment, but other than that, everything is done.


Today we're going up to the Sequoias, so last night some other sisters slept over at our apartment. It was really fun. And in preparation, we fit 2 mattresses in our car. They were memory foam, so we folded them in half and stuffed them in. And then getting them out again was fun.


Also, we get to go to the temple tomorrow!! I am so excited to be able to feel the peace there and help a bunch of people return to live with Heavenly Father!! (You know, in a different way than normal...)


Love you, bye!
Sister Cate

Going to see the Sequoias

with Hermana Oso

The huaraches I got a couple weeks ago. They're super comfy! 

And an elder did a fishtail in my hair on Sunday, since it was giving me grief. He has 4 younger sisters, so he's had lots of practice.

Me in a blanket fort I made

Week 48 (2/4/19): "Were you at least winning the staring contest with your burrito?"

Alternate title- "You don't have to be a rocket scientist- oh wait, we have one." 

(One of the elders in our district is going into aerospace engineering.)

We now live in Dinuba! Our new apartment is so nice. There is tons of natural light in the morning, it has a dishwasher, and we got a bunch of really nice furniture from some apartments that had just been closed in the Modesto area. We pulled in all the elders in our district to help us move, and so it went pretty quickly. 

There was also some lightning to welcome us to Dinuba! It was awesome! I forgot how much I'd missed lightning. 

Anyways, talk to you next week! 

Love you, bye! 

Sister Cate

Week 47 (1/28/19): "We need to call this number. Someone needs their kumquat tree picked."

 I have not had a normal week since getting here. I actually got to go to Relief Society yesterday (I've played piano in Primary the last two weeks and played in sacrament meeting yesterday). And then this week, we have a doctor's appointment, zone conference, and moving. Oh yeah, so for the past couple transfers, the Sisters have been covering Dinuba, but have been living in Kingsburg, about 20 minutes away. But last week, they finally got us an apartment in Dinuba! So we're moving in this weekend. It will be so nice to finally live in our area. So yeah, normal's not a thing here. But that's okay. 

Last Monday, we played a rather epic game of Monopoly as a district. One of the elders had found and bought Fresno-opoly. It became a 3 (sort of 4) way partnership versus a 2 way merge. After finding a way to transfer all your assets to the other members of the partnership whenever you were abut to be bankrupted, the partnership eventually won. 

Anyways, talk to you next week!

Love you, bye!

Sister Cate