My Dear Ohana,
Okay I just love my new area so much....Parkland Lakewood. To start off, I am safe here, so mommy don’t worry at all. Only if you like you could look it up on the web...LOL. The people here are so humble... I think that’s why the Lord has me here to teach me. I never found that person yet. This is the perfect time to be here for Thanksgiving. Everyone is just so greatful for what they have. It’s only been 6 days and I have met 48 members so far. It’s very sad cause some homes feed us but they barely even have enough for themselves. And they want to serve the missionaries. Our numbers been so good this week. There is a lot of polys and a lot from Hawaii here. So they all just love me to death. We have visited one member and an investigator in a nursing home and we also visited a member also in a sister nursing home. So right now, mommy and papa, my best friends, I promise I will never let you be in a nursing home at all. I will take care of you both. Every time we go there... it is just so sad. And I went 4 times so far. There are a lot of people there dying. There is one man named Clod and he always called out “Help Me...Help me...” It is just so sad and they don’t get visits that much. And we go over and it makes their day and they are so happy when they get a visit. But it’s just sad to see them like that and here is the ghetto...so it is not that nice and it always smells. All the nurses just love us when we come over to visit them. So I do feel good after. Some times we see them in their wheelchairs in the hall so we push them and walk around and talk to them cause they just look so bored. And it’s the same everyday. There is one man named Edward in a wheelchair and he has only one arm and he follows me around and says “you’re so pretty”. So I do walk with him and talk to him sometimes. It’s just really sad there and I will not let you be there when you get old.
Well on a good note we have 3 on date...yes :) My ward mission leader is less active. It’s hard for me because coming from Silverdale 6th Ward with Brother Barney. He is the best ward mission leader ever. And my ward mission leader is less active so I’m going to work on my ward mission leader and missionaries.
Oh man, so also a member of the 12 is coming to talk to us missionaries in the Wa-Tac on Saturday and then he has a leadership meeting with the Bishops Saturday noon and on Sunday the member of the 12 is speaking in our Stake here in Lakewood so I get to hear the member of the 12 2 times. That’s awesome!
Okay funny story... for this happens like everyday and night...So I look outside of my porch and next building...there’s always police at the door and they are going in and coming out with someone handcuffed. Or at nights we hear loud knocking and it’s always the popos (police) getting someone or a prostitute. Ya there is a lot of prostitutes here. Oh man our parking is so bad here. We can never find parking at our apartments. When we come home at 9. So some times we drive around our parking 3 times, never find parking so we will have to park at a member’s and she will drive us back. Oh man it’s cold! And funny we live out of our area so we are in some of our elders area so some times we see them at our apartment complex at lunch time.
Man, I never been this excited to clean my apartment ever. So elders used to live here forever until they change it to a sisters area now. It’s only been sisters for 3 transfers. so elders apartments are so bad. But on the good side there are a lot of weights and it’s upgraded from the other ones I had in Silverdale. It’s much heavier. I’m excited on that. Okay, so Parkland is a bad place for me to be on a diet. I been trying but the holidays are coming up....LOL
Man I just love my comp so much. We have so much fun :) because last transfer for her and well 2 transfers ago was very hard with our comps. Well let me tell you. I do love my old comp very much but it was hard to get to know her. It is so different not serving in the same ward as elders any more. I don’t have to share. But I do miss serving with elders cause it’s a whole different way of serving. The work is wonderful. I love Jesus Christ and know I am nothing without him. I love my mission. It has already changed myt life. My testimony has grown so much. Thank you for having us my family in the church. I love you, I love you too, I love you more, I love you to the Heavens and back to Hawaii. I love you from the WA-TAC.
Always with love and Aloha, your baby girl, Sister Casey
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