Hola from Argentinaaa!

9:00 AM Wednesday Morning:

 

Bahaaa. Lo chiste, lo chiste. I joke, I joke. (; Pues, guess what! My departure date was May 6th, annnnd for some reason I'm still here in Provo, UT. Chillin' at the good ol' MTC haha. Wanna hear my story? Well of course ya do!

SO...Last week was insannnne. We had our typical P-day and everything, and that evening we were supposed to get online and do portal stuff. We weren't all sure what was going on with our travel info or anything, but we were getting pretty antsy to know. My companion, Hna. McBride, gets on her portal and just about has a PANIC attack. "Hermana Lybbert LOOOOKKK!!!" Whaaat?! On our portal, it shows what mission we're headed to, and her's had CHANGED. For her re-assignment!! (Obviously none of us have received our visas yet haha). I got so stoked, so I immediately checked mine, ANNND...Nada. No change. We got our entire district together and had to have EVERYONE check their portals. Out of us ten, only 3 had changed to: Boise, Idaho!! Hahaha I love it, and Hna. McBride is WAY stoked. We all continued checking our portals throughout the evening but nothing else. So we all go back to our apartments when the time came for bed and went about our typical nights, plus my companion freaking out and being super stoked. (:

Next Morning. We all get up, and once we realize that our portals could have changed again...DANG. Who knew girls could get ready so fast. (; We all book it to the computer lab, and before we even get there, we see one of our elders jumping and fist-pumping down the hall, yelling: "ORLANDO, FLORIDA, BABYYYY!" Hahaha yes. SO great. Everyone starts checking theirs! Boise, Orlando, California, Seattle, Arizona...I excitedly log on to mine: NADA. Still hadn't changed. I really wasn't bothered by it a whole lot; I was mostly just SUPER stoked for everyone else. It's like a second mission call! So intense. I decided to patiently wait until our travel info came later that day...

We had already had both our classes, eaten dinner, and we were in the middle of doing language study when the intercom suddenly went on in our building, which we had never heard it do in the 5 weeks we'd been here. It said, "Could we please have Sister Lybbert come to the Travel Office? Again, Sister Lybbert, come to the Travel Office."

My district went NUTS.

"YOU GOT YOUR VISAAA! YOU'RE GOING TO ARGENTINA!!" Hahaha as much as I wanted to believe them, I still kept in mind that it was possible that I was not reassigned, and I'd be spending another week here in the MTC...Hna. McBride and I both giddily speed-walk across campus to the Travel Office, come into the Travel Office, and an employee comes up to me, "Sister Lybbert! You haven't seen your reassignment yet, have you??" Me: "Uhhh nope." Worker: "Ah, yup, welll the missions here in the U.S. are getting pretty full, and so they were only able to reassign 140-160 of the missionaries here...Unfortunately, you weren't one of them..."

Yup. Called ittt. So the rest of my district all received their travel info and were scheduled to leave either Monday morning at 4 am or Tuesday morning at 4 am.
Sooo where am I? I finally get the chance to go to the scheduling services, and guess what! I am now a Solo Sister haha. I have pictures, no worries, family. (; It's just a matter of getting to a computer that'll let me load them haha. But now I've got the cool SOLO sticker on my badge and have to be escorted by at least 2 elders everywhere--to class, to gym, to meals, etc. Excepppt...All my elders left! So, lucky me, yesterday was my first day as a solo sister with a district of all elders in my zone. Fortunately, I knew them before, because they're in the class next to us, and we see them all the time. Either way, the elders are fanTAStic. No worries, family. They escort me and are kind of like my own personal bodyguards haha. So legit. They're all awesome, and I've been able to help them in their lessons, TRC, learning Spanish, etc.

Today is my second and final day of being a solo sister haha. It is my P-day, however, and the elders aren't allowed to take me to the temple and to work out and such. So I've been tagging along with a German-speaking group of gals! Haha. Annnd what else? It's their first week and first P-day, so they said they were feeling kind of clueless. I was able to go up and meet them again last night, plan out a bomb P-day, and show 'em the ropes a little bit. They're all wonderful sisters, and I've loved being able to give them some useful tips and advice. (: But it's only for today. We're getting a new district today with 4 hermanas, who will be moving into my empty, lonely room with me. Yayyy! (I can't sleep alone, either, so I've been bunkin' with another gal, going to my mission in Argentina, who also wasn't reassigned). The room truly is a tad depressing, though. The beds are stripped and empty except for mine. Que triste. :/

 

2:30 PM Wednesday Afternoon:

Okay, so I didn't use up all my email time this morning, because I was *hoping* to get my reassignment this afternoon! And y'know what??? California Santa Rosa Mission!!! Whooots! No joke, I was hoping for California haha. I REALLY have been missing it lately. But holy heck! I finally get to go! I don't receive my actual travel plans until tomorrow, but that's alright! I'm stoked! Like I mentioned earlier, I'm a solo sister and spending my P-day with a group of German-speaking gals, but it's entertaining. (: I'll be the first to admit that I REALLY miss my district. They're incredible, and it SUCKED that I could only shake the elders' hands! Gah. Ridiculous. Monday night was probably the hardest, though. It was our last time saying comp/apartment prayer all together, and then I was to take my sleeping stuff and go sleep in a different room. Of course, it was Hna. McBride's turn to say the last prayer...Midway through, it finally hit me. I loved these girls, especially McBride, and I was sad to see them go. Needless to say, when we all looked up at each other at the end of the prayer, it was initially only me crying. Buuut we all know that spreaded a bit. (; Either way, they're great, and I've no doubt they are doing an incredible job out in the field!!

 

So now...This could possibly be my last time emailing until I hit the roads of my glorious California. Whew! I'm SO stokeddd! :D Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Ganandooo. (: Nos vemos y amores!

 

-Hermana Lybbert

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