Hermana Soh's Mission Emails

Welp, I have left the beautiful warm weather of Mexico for the cold weather in Idaho. We started the week off with our district slowly being picked off. We had a few leave on Monday, others leave Tuesday, and I was part of the group that left on Wednesday morning (at 3:30 am!) On Tuesday we didn't have much to do so we packed and helped the new arriving missionaries get checked in to the CCM. I even saw a missionary who was from my home stake, he was from the East Limestone Ward but I think he didn't actually leave from there. On Wednesday I flew to Idaho where it was flurrying a little bit. I stayed the night with the mission president and his wife and another newly arrived sister missionary (who is also an Hermana but went to the Provo MTC for some reason). There were two elders who arrived the same day, one of them Elder Holladay who was in my CCM district. In the morning we took some pictures in front of the Pocatello temple (there are three temples in my mission and two mo...

¡Hola Hola! Well, the good news is I don't have COVID. I was feeling poorly last night, sore throat, chills, body aches, etc. My companion felt similarly so we got tested just in case. The test was negative though which is amazing because we are leaving on Wednesday and would have been stuck here. The bad news is that the test was horrible. The doctor had to stick it way up my nostril and it was so painful. But it was with it that I know it's not COVID and don't have to be quarantined. It rained this past week and was cold (and we may or may not have played volleyball in the rain one day), so I think that was when our immune systems were weak enough to get sick. My district in front of the temple sign My district's name tags in front of the temple from today Something random that I adore about Mexico City is that they have gondola cable cars as a form of transportation. I love them because they look exactly like and remind me of the Skyliners at Disney World. Sometimes ...

¡Hola! Well, I made it to the CCM! I arrived on Tuesday of last week and didn't get a P-day last week. Sorry if my typing is bad, the laptop I'm on is a Spanish keyboard and things are in the wrong place. Immigration into Mexico wasn't too bad. The worst part of it was that from the airport to the CCM, I was put on to a bus with other missionaries and I was the only one who spoke English! Talk about language learning by immersion.  Me on the bus to the CCM My district during our exercise time The CCM bus I was one of the first of my district to arrive to the CCM, which meant I could greet all the others as they arrived. Hermana Thomas´s flight came in super late so I was getting ready for bed by the time she arrived. And to our surprise, she had had an allergic reaction to a brownie on the plane and had to use two epipens! We had to go to the infirmary and get her checked out. We were up past lights out and didn't get to bed until about midnight, and then had to wake up...