Sister Gale in the Greece Region of the Adriatic South Mission

You guys I hit my  6 MONTH  mark on my mission!! Its already 1/3 way over 🙁 No way! This place is  home  to me now! Running out of copies of the Book of Mormon really should never be a problem but it is once again here haha, this time in English tho! There were a total of 11 left on the island and Sister Kruger and I had 7 of em so we had to make a drive over to meet the elders in Limassol since they needed a few for their upcoming lessons. Guess that just shows we're doing something over here but yeah, definitely should have ordered some more earlier. President Anderson called Sister Kruger and I Wednesday night and told us we were gonna be the Cyprus STLs ( Sister Training leaders ) next transfer!! WHICH MEANS  WE GET TO STAY TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER 6 WEEKS!!   BEST CALL EVERRR!!  We've been praying we'd get to continue serving together because we work SO WELL with each other! And it looks like the Lord thinks so too! I feel like I've known Sister...

Hey all! Had exchanges with Sister Campbell again! Soon as 6 PM hit on Monday we were back to work! We grabbed the car to take the whiteboard to the beach for some finding with the other sisters and our Larnaca elders. It took us a while to actually start "whiteboard finding" since we kept finding people to talk to on the way there and had so many great convos, ALL IN GREEK!! Haven't had real convos in Greek in foreverrr! We ended up handing out 2 Greek BoMs! We eventually made it back to the whiteboard where the rest of the missionaries were. Found a guy from Fiji that was raised a member. He loved talking to all the missionaries and said he wanted to buy us all something, so we just got some juice and fresh fruit. We hope he comes to the music night we're having soon and back to church again! Next day exchanges continued and Sister Campbell and I had a blast together! We did some service cleaning the park again and were literally dripping sweat after 5 minutes,...

We about traveled all around Cyrpus this week it was so crazy! Pday was really fun since we went to Λευκάρα (Lefkara) with the elders and explored this super cute village up there. Literally felt like we were walking through a real-life pinterest board! The next day Sister Kruger and I picked up the Elders again and we drove down to Λεμεσός (Limmosal) for Zone council. It was really great! We did lots of role plays in Greek answering questions about the 10 commandments and then answering and linking our answer to teach the Restoration. Point being made that the Restoration needs to be the basis of everything, no wonder it's the 1st lesson we teach! We haven't had language study all week since we've been so busy so when we were up for the role play I panicked a bit since I haven't taught in Greek for for so long, but we bared through and taught simply which is also extremely important. That night we had a HUGE combined zone finding activity and put together a soccer...

Quite an eventful week over here! Officially drove on the opposite side of the road and didn't die!! SO that's a miracle in itself! 90% of the time we still ride our bikes/walk but when we visit investigators in villages farther out we get to use the new car! English mode is officially switched ON, Greek mode just kinda flickers here and there but I think all but one mini lesson was in English. We also haven't really had time for language study, since lessons actually fell through this week, so SYL (speak your language) between Sister Kruger and I has been huge because when we are eventually transferred back to Greece we'll need to be speaking Greek again!  We had a pretty noteworthy and definitely memorable experience while finding haha. So we were walking by some homes and stopped to talk to this little old Greek lady who was mopping her patio to ask if she needed any help. She didn't want our help but invited us inside the gated patio and had her Indi...

HELLO FROM LARNACA CYPRUS! Wow this place is so NOT Greece, well at least not Thessaloniki where I just was. Walking off the plane was like going straight into a sauna, HOLY HOTTT. Humidity is a killer. My new companion and the senior couple, the Grover's, picked me up from the airport, they are so sweet! My new companion is Sister Kruger! She's from England and has been out for almost 11 months. AND, she has the cutest English accent, I LOVE IT! She's a literal angel and I'm really excited to serve with her! We clicked really quick and had a super great 1st week together! Honestly could be one of my favorite weeks of my mission so far, I feel so at home here on this little island :)  There are so many people from the Philippines and Africa here! As in Greek people: I feel like don't really exist, at least not everywhere like in Greece. And then the ones we do find are Cypriot and speak a really weird Greek, think you just call it Cypriot, so its kinda hard ...