As a sister missionary preparing
to leave it can be hard to find the right resources to help prepare yourself
for the next eighteen months of your life. My time since my call has been
slowly ticking away and I leave for my mission in Peru in less than a month.
Doing some research for my own benefit I’ve found a few resources that have
really helped me get certain things together- clothing (I can’t help, but be
picky since you have to live with the attire you choose for the next year and a
half), wholesome music to bring, things to do to prepare before leaving, things
to bring and special tips for the MTC, the mission life etc. So, I’ve decided
to share a few of them on here today so that hopefully I can save someone else
a little bit of time. I know how hard it is to find resources that are worth
taking the time to read, so without further ado here are some of my awesome
finds:
- Bella in Berlin (bellainberlin.blogspot.com)- Maybe I’m spoiling this post by starting with what has become my favorite blog over the past couple of months, but I just couldn’t contain my excitement. This girl has everything. And by everything I mean everything a sister missionary could possibly want to know, not to mention her blog is a blast to read with all of her jokes and unstoppable enthusiasm. Seriously, go look at it now. Her “Things I Wish I Would’ve Known” posts are the best!
- Hermana Silva (hermanasilva.blogspot.com)- This sister has one of the blogs I first started following before I even received my call. Her tips are an invaluable resource in helping to prepare, especially her posts about the MTC that give specific tips of what to expect ad extra things you can bring to save yourself from trouble.
- In doing some research on the mission I’ve been called to serve in I was able to find not only a blog for my mission, but also the blog of the mission president which have both been extremely helpful for me as I try to get an idea of the area I’ll be serving in. If you will also be serving in Peru the two sites are as follows…misionperuhuancayo.blogspot.com and outofthefryingpanhendo.com. If I hadn’t stumbled upon this I’d have no idea my mission was a walking one, what a pensionista is, or that I might possibly eat a guinea pig. So, if you can find sites like these for your own mission I’d recommend it…
- In my mission the language spoken is Spanish and clearly I speak English…,so I’ve been doing a lot of preparation for that as well. The resource I’ve found to be the most helpful is memrise.com. I found a course on there for my language that I can do on my computer or my phone and it’s FREE! It’s no Rosetta stone CD, so it hasn’t by any means helped me to become fluent, but it has been helpful in learning a lot of words that I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. The site tests you on the words and also allows you to review them, which is helpful for those of us that have short term memories…like me.
- Music I’ve discovered mostly on my own just by hunting around. I definitely recommend, The Work- A Nashville Tribute to the Missionaries, anything by Jenny Phillips (But, she also has a called to serve cd out specifically for missionaries. I love all of her CDs.), and of course every missionary’s favorite The Mormon Tabernacle choir!So, there we go. Those are my top picks for things I’ve found this week. Stay tuned next week for more.
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