On Sunday October 26, Madilyn Sayler, one of Megan's first semester roommates posted this to Facebook. She lives in Megan's mission.
"So a portion of the missionary fireside was spent by my parents trying to pick me out a husband... But I also ran into THIS CUTE THANG!!! My roomie from our first semester is serving in the mission where I live! Say hello everyone, she's lookin good! — with Megan Chapple."
November 3, 2014
Tenino Washington is a beautiful place. The entire mission is required to tract from 5-7pm every night, and it is definitely interesting! A majority of the time it is pouring rain, and it is super duper dark outside. Everyone has in their possession a Reflective belt ( Which we wear like royalty sashes) and we wear it while we tract in the pouring rain. It gets so dark here at night. In the winter it starts getting dark around 4 pm, and is pitch black at 5pm. The houses in my area are very spread out, and often on average, we can hit about 10-15 houses in an hour on a good night, if the weather is really bad sometimes less. Something I have learned here, is that you have to waterproof your waterproof! Its a good thing that our apartment is attached to a Laundry facility, because we use the dryers on a regular basis! On Halloween my zone gathered together and watched the movie The Best Two Years. My companion, Sister Muto, is from Magna, Utah, and she had never seen the movie. She is going to be a film major.....but I think she really liked the movie! Our ward mission leader, Brother Haga, got us some really nice soft mattresses, (because lets face it, the standard mission mattresses really aren't all that comfortable) and its like sleeping on a cloud! So nice! I got a really awesome greeny package, a Halloween package, and my companion and I made some really yummy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! We have been doing a lot of ward listing, and often times we go looking for people or addresses that do not exist, or the gps says we have arrived....and the house must be invisible! its super duper funny! My bishop says that a lot of people come to small town Washington to hide....which is definitely true! we knock on a lot of doors, or go looking for a lot of people who see who we are, and then pretend like they are not home, or don't answer the door even after we ring the door bell.....they just turn the volume up on their TVs! Oh well! On Park day, we did not use our car at all and we walked to Bucoda in the rain. Now I am very grateful for our car! It is a super nice brand new 2014 Corolla. Her name is Sister Juliet Ohara ( like off of Psycho). On Saturday, I got to do service for a Part-Member family, The Saffors. They live along the Scoomchuck (spelling?) river, and they have a farm - We got to help them pick their home grown Washington Apples, and then used their Cider press to make fresh pressed Cider/ Apple Juice! We probably pressed about 10 gallons worth of cider, and we got to take a bunch of it back to our apartment! yum! ( lots of fresh apples too!) Sister Muto and I got dropped by our investigator, Theresa this week, but we also put our golden investigator Jerry on a Baptism date for the 22nd of November! I will tell you more about him as we get closer to his baptism date - he is a 75 year old man, and he is amazing! Well, its raining here a ton, but I love it, and love The WA-TAC mission. I can't wait to continue to make more memories here in Tenino!
Signing off,
Sister Megan Chapple
Alma 26:12
Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.
Signing off,
Sister Megan Chapple
Alma 26:12
Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.