You'd think with all this extra time on my hands, I'd have plenty of time to post a couple updates! Well, I do, in fact. But for some reason, my motivation to do so has been rather low. My bad! But prepare for a good chunk of pictures and fun! :D
End of January: My padre got a couple of free tickets to the Wenatchee Wild Hockey game, which our family loves for some odd reason haha. I'm pretty sure we just enjoy the players hitting the glass and the cool moves. (;
February 3rd: SUPERBOWLLL! To be completely honest, our enthusiasm slowly died throughout the day. I blame waiting for so long to actually watch it. On the plus side, however, I'm almost certain this was the BEST Superbowl we've had when it comes to food. Mmmmmm. SO good! Even for the preggo belly over there to the right hahaha. Love you, Dene' (;
Also part of the food, I had made some cheesecake! As tasty as it was, I was extremely disappointed that it wasn't fully cooked in the middle. Sooo a week or so later, I was in a cooking mood again. Bring on the homemade chocolate truffles and cheesecake! Mhmmm!
I mentioned an update or two back that Janna Hodges was home for about the same amount of time. The friendship Janna and I have has always made me kind of chuckle. In middle school we were definitely best friends. And although we weren't as close in high school, we were always in sports together and found that we were always friends. Close or distant. Going to the same college helped, I will admit haha. But we've always had that tie where we were comfortable randomly calling each other up to go play volleyball or take a roadtrip to Utah or something. Anywho, it really was a blast hanging out again while we were both home. We'd spend P-Days with the sister missionaries here in our ward, and we'd go out on splits all the time. About a month before she reported, she decided she needed to start adjusting to a "missionary schedule". Haha well this is what happens when two gals who have taken full advantage of being able to sleep in for the last two months try to help each other adjust to this "Missionary Schedule" haha.
Yeah, we still didn't make the 6:30 AM mark. :P
(Janna took off and reported on the 6th of March! She's headed to the Louisville, KY mission; if ya wanna keep up with her, she has a blog, too! http://sisterhodgesinkentuckycountry.blogspot.com/ )
Near the end of February, transfers were coming up for our missionaries, and we found out we'd be getting a THIRD sister missionary again! Well the senior comp (Donaldson) was heading to Spokane early in the morning to pick her up, and Sister Lambert was needing a companion for the next day. We all decided it would just be easiest if I went over the night before, stay the night, and "live the life" of a sister missionary the next day haha. It was a BLAST. I absolutely loved everything. The time in the morning to exercise, the peace and quiet in the mornings, so much time to really immerse yourself in studying scripture and the language (if learning a new language). It just made me that much more excited to take off! (: Anywho, the sisters have this on their giant mirror on one wall. I loved it.
On Tuesdays, the sisters try to make it to the "elderly home" for rummikub (sp?) with them folks. I joined them, and it was hilarious haha. Gotta love old people. They can say just about whatever they want, because they're old. :D
And then Hermana Donaldson got home with the new sister! Hermana Pendleton has been temporarily reassigned here while waiting for her visa to Peru. (: Good ol' Quincy--her first area haha.
Oh!! And I also had the chance to go to my first-ever Zone Conference with them; it was crazy incredible. Hermana Donaldson and I both have the Crying Syndrome. Simply, we just cry a lot when it comes to Gospel stuff haha. But it was way awesome. All the other missionaries there were super confused when they met me, for two reasons: A) I had no name tag. "Hola Hermanaaa...? Uhhh..." Yeah, that was hilarious. And then B) I'd introduce myself as Shelan. "Oh I see, Hermana Shelan...?" And then I'd have to explain: "Oh, no, Shelan Lybbert. Sorry, I'm not a missionary...yet...And no, I wasn't named after the lake...Yes, I'm so glad you enjoyed serving 6 months in Chelan...Yes, I'm sure it's a great place...No, I wasn't even born there...NO. There is basically NO relation to the lake whatsoever. Mine is with an 'S'..."
Yeah...I had that conversation a few times haha. Anywho, President Mullen always takes pictures at the meetings and such to put up on the Spokane Mission blog for parents. I had to rummage through and find some of us. :P Yes, I'm in the yellow, on the right of both pictures.
You know you're preparing for a mission when: every time you come home, your family just assumes you've been out with the sister missionaries, since you've been spending so much time with them anyways haha. But really. The week I stayed the night with them, I'm pretty sure I spent 4-5 days of the week with them, whether it was at church, P-Day, going to lessons, practicing the first lesson with Janna and them, splits, etc.
Yes, Janna and I were looking for some help on teaching the first lesson, the Restoration, so we thought we might as well as the professionals: Our Missionaries! We all had a blast and really enjoyed going in circles teaching, switching teaching comps, etc. Before leaving, we all had to steal a quick picture of us all. Thank heavens Hermana Lambert has long arms, because we could barely fit all of our giggly faces in haha. I've come to love every single one of these gals. Serving seems to bring people together.
Top: Hermana Pendleton, Janna Hodges, Me
Bottom: Hermana Donaldson, Hermana Lambert
End of February & Beginning of March: Many of you heard that my madre and I were in a play! Yes. I was casted/coerced into the play Meet Me In St. Louis...I had only ever done one other play before, and that was when I was 10. It was Oliver and Company. It's not really my kind of thing, but apparently they were needing a couple of gals my age. The director hears from a few little mice that I'd be in town, so I get a call one day. Yes, I accepted to help. My thoughts: "If nothing else, it'll make time pass quicker, right?!"...Oh yes. It did. Because you know who I was?? The flirtatious Southern belle! GAH?! Seriously? What the crap. I can sing, that's fine. If you REALLY need me to dance, fine. But you seriously just asked me the be THAT girl who flirts with every guy on stage? Whaaat. Yeah, I finally got over it. I did it. Granted I was freaking out internally and felt completely awkward (I'm gonna have this no-dating dealio for the mission down NO PROBLEM). Nevertheless, it ended up being rather fun, and I enjoyed doing it with my Mama. (:
Okay, that's plenty for now haha. I have several more pictures and great exciting news! I have another "Love of My Life"!! Dene' had her baby girl! :D But I'll leave that news for the next update. (:
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