Once upon a time, Sister Tillman lived at the MTC and loved it a lot but realllly wanted to leave because she got kind of tired of living the same day over and over. So Heavenly Father granted her wish, and when she opened up her reassignment, she noticed that she was leaving in the next 12 hours. By then, she'd realized that she didn't want to leave that soon and didn't want to say goodbye to her district or her teachers or her investigators, but she had to because that's what missionaries do, so she packed up all her stuff, stalked her friend Sister Cleverly to take cute pictures with her, got three hours of sleep and then left the next morning for Scottsdale, AZ.
So Sister Tillman meets up with Sister Holyoak at the shuttle and discovers that they were both going to Scottsdale (ok, there's more back story, but I'm in the process of summing up because it's not that important) and so they became temporary companions. Or so they thought.
They make it to the Phoenix airport, and unfortunately Fawkes was not there to greet her, but a senior companion was, so hooray! So she and Sister Holyoak get into the car (Sister Holyoak is going to Austrailia Cantonese speaking but crazy things went down because she lived in Hong Kong so Australia held up her paperwork and said that she was a gross foreigner and needed to get her blood tested. Those crazy Australians) and the nice senior companion mentioned something about bikes, and that's when Sister Holyoak and our dear Sister Tillman realized that they had been reassigned and would be biking. So that was a shock. But there was more to come.
So they make it to the mission home (used to be the Mesa mission home before they split and Scottsdale took it over) which is really quite a lovely place, and began their "training" by being told that they are being guinea pigs for a new visa-waiter program because the mission president, President Sweeney, likes visa waiters. An incredibly long story short, our missionary and her companion are now companions until visas come and got handed a completely empty area book and have a totally weird purpose and are BOTH COMPLETE AND TOTAL GREENIES WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING. So yeah, our missionary is completely terrified. But the ward is nice and the Bishop is great. And her purpose is to focus on less-actives and part member families because there are also Elders assigned to the ward but they're the Zone Leaders. And the ward that she has been assigned to is about 50% less active so she and her companion have a lot of work cut out for them. But at the same time their planners are empty BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON.
Needless to say, there is much freaking out that is had.
On the bright side, she's moving into an awesome guest house where the room is about as big as the room she shared with other people at the MTC. So that's nice. And Sister Tillman is now designated driver forever and always because Sister Holyoak just got her American license a few months before going into the MTC and it weirds her out that people are driving on the right side of the road instead of the wrong one.
The end.
Love you all!!
Sister Tillman
