sister sister

before i even start, if you don't read the rest of it google PARRTJIMA Alice Springs thats all i ask of you so sadly I am getting transferred.. i am going to THE ALICE SPRINGS SISTERS AREA AGAIN!  President knows me so well that I don't need to leave this place ever!! Sister Auatabu and i are both still here, Elder Ostraff and Mattie are still zone leaders, but Elder Wharekura (who just finished training) is our new district leader and is training!! I think he is kind of freaked out but he is a great missionary! Funny and sad news though Tennant Creek closed, last transfer Bush closed so our district/zone is down to 6 missionaries. Us sisters the Zone leaders, the district leader and his comp. its SO SMALL. But it's so good! I love it so much here and am excited to be here another 6 weeks! Crazy thing is... next transfer is Christmas (So start sending all your christmas packages now ;) ) jokes. but time has flown here on the mission! It's so incredible. I am almost at 6...

Really I hate email captions, they are the worst and always so weird so sorry mine are always gonna be terrible.  This week was funny though a lot of weird but funny things happened.  Tuesday was beginning to end the funniest day of my mission it started off with the elders calling us and asking, "Sister Standage what did you do when you got bit by a dog?" "Went to the Smiths" "Oh ok" "Why did someone get bitten by a dog?" "Yeah Elder Mattie did" "Oh true, were you on Saltbush?" "YEAH how'd you know?" "haha that's same dog that bit me!" Dear any future missionaries in the Australia Adelaide mission that are blessed enough to serve in Alice Springs DO NOT KNOCK DOOR 8A ON SALTBUSH COURT. unless the dog is inside. It does look friendly but its not and will bite you! Then we were following up with some people and ran into a family that lived in Fiji (where Sister Auatabu grew up), one man drove up and ...

This week was wild. but here are a few highlights. Monday we were visiting Irene, she said a million times, "You are never here long enough" and man is she right. I hope to stay in Alice Springs forever. So if I ever hear my name not in Alice Springs Sisters on the transfer call I will call President up and put Irene on the phone.. ;) just kidding I know God calls us to the places we are supposed to go to, but I also know God will never want me to leave Alice Springs! Tuesday was so so sad. Sister Starling left.. I bawled. I love her and she really did teach me so many things and she is my second companion that I have killed.. But she had work to do in Adelaide and she is prime marriage age so she needs to go to BYU this fall to find her husband ;) But I was now training Sister sekona, so we went town finding for a little bit and ran into the woman. She is from Annabella, which is in South Australia, which is a long ways away for y'all who don't know. But she was in A...

ok so thats sister starlings email caption for this week because we got word of an emergency transfer... she is going down to Adelaide 1 week early then on the she goes home.. So... I am now a senior companion and my new companion is Sister Sekona, Sister starling and sister sekona overlap in the airport for about 20 minutes tomorrow afternoon. Its so sad. Sister Starling and I thought we had a whole extra week together. But on Saturday President was here and we had extra interviews and gave us the news... really put an anchor in our otherwise so incredible best day of my mission day. but i cant jump around. back to last week. our pday was the district p day and that was the best. we went to the desert park but that wasn't even the good part we just got to hang out with the elders. there are no other sisters here. And honestly thats the best thing ever, these elders are actually pretty cool and only sometimes very annoying. ;) But it was awesome. I love Alice Springs. We had zone c...

Its been 2 months since I've been on my mission?? Technically longer than that cause the MTC but I have been in Australia for 2 months.. This week was a good one. We are emailing tuesday cause of the holidays in the Northern Territory.. yesterday was picnic day. and town was dead. except all the tourists..heaps of them around.. but its funny. i love the holidays here they have heaps of weird ones like beanie day.. ya its a thing.. anyways we met this sweet lady and she is basically Sarah Isch, but from Africa honestly. we walked in and i kind of freaked out because she had just had a baby, they both talk the same and look alike.. weirdest but coolest thing. I have cousin look alikes here in Alice! ;) She is such a sweet lady but we are talking with her and have such a hard time actually teaching her. sister starling and i are studying how to begin teaching so we can teach her better. but her baby is adorable so ill definitely be going around her house when we can ;) We are trying t...

My last day in the city was good but kinda sad honestly, started crying saying goodbye to sister Brooks and Lousi, they are incredible unofficial trainers that I had, I learned so much from them and will miss them and Elder Li (the greatest elder ever, he is so funny and would always make fun of me in Mandarin class.. we best be best friends when we get home!) but...... Literally last week when I stepped off the plane I was at home, I actually almost started crying because I saw Elder Norman and man have i missed my MTC family!! They are the greatest people in the world, and i'm so happy i get to serve around elder norman again for a little while at least. Sister Starling had leadership trainings so i hung out while she did that cause there aren't any other sisters here in alice! but after that we jumped right in and started visiting everyone! I am obsessed with these people here! This will be a good transfer (and next cause they never flush Alice) but i guess i can't say n...

YALL this week has been a wild one. its another novel of a email so skip to where i talk about sunday if you aren't gonna read it all... cause i know most of you dont. ;) so last monday we had a lesson after pday ended, it went so well, but the funny thing was that Jarvis (one of the members in the branch) came to the lesson. but afterwards he comes back up to me and said, he knew he knew me somehow cause i looked so familiar. a cute sister that had just gotten home that i was able to go to breakfast with before i left had send our selfie to him and he had it on his snapchat... funniest thing! so the members in the branch knew me and had seen me before i even got here! also that night we had FHE and we played spoons.. literally so fun! elder kuchler cheats like no ones business, but its fine hes a great missionary thats all that matters right?  tuesday i got to spend a lot of time with victoria square because sister b had to do trainings. I LOVE sister brooks and lousi! they are li...