I just got rid of one kid...yay? I MISS HER! WAH!

Well, it has officially been 24 hours since Halliday Shimai went through the doors of the MTC. Sometime at approximately 6:30 am this morning she probably threw her alarm clock across the room and muttered to herself "WHAT THE HECK WAS I THINKING???"
From now on, all of her posts will be taken from the email that Halliday Shimai sends home, and will be posted here by her Mom. Hope that you enjoy her adventures and learning experiences in the MTC and in Japan! See Ya!

OOPS!!!

Whoops! Me again! I report tomorrow afternoon! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODNESS!!!!

Anyhow, I made a mistake on my mission home address. I forgot the zip code and you kinda need that. So here's the address again.

Sister Jessica Meeauilikakaniokealii Halliday
Japan Tokyo Mission
4-25-12 Nishi Ochiai
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo-to 161-0031
JAPAN

Anyhow...I'd like it to be known that my parents are horrible companions and keep trying to leave me alone =P

Anyhow, the trip up here to Provo was crazy long. We hit snow around Flagstaff and hit some black ice on the Rez....it gave us all quite a scare, but my daddy is a good driver and handled that pretty well. The roads were icy all the way to the I-15. And it was soooooooo cold! Around 7:30am it was -18 degrees out!

Since the roads were so icy we couldn't go more than about 40 MPH the whole way to the 15 so it was a looooooooong trip. My back STILL hurts.

We finished up my mission shopping and dropped by the BYU bookstore for a little bit. Then we went to the MTC to check the information desk just to make sure we knew what we're doing tomorrow. Which we don't. Or at least I don't. I just know I walked into the lobby and I was like "I shouldn't be here....this is a forbidden place....there's ELDERS here!"

Yeah...I should probably get over my fear of Elders now. I'm gonna have to be stuck in the MTC with them for a long time.

Let's see. It's snowing up here. It's been snowing pretty much since about 4:30. I am NOT looking forward to the trek to the temple on P-days.

Tonight we went to dinner with Clarissa and Jacob and a bunch of my family that I apparently knew when I was a baby? And my dad's old college roommate Robert and his family that live up here too. It was cool. We all talked pretty easy.

Clarissa is getting roundy! hee hee. It's cute. ^_^

Let's see...that's really all for Utah now. I'm so stuffed. We went to Olive Garden and I ate lots of salad and breadsticks.

There were lots of missionaries there eating their last meal. I bet every nice-ish restaurant is busy on Tuesdays in Provo. =P

Now I must head off to bed. Tomorrow I'll be in the MTC and my parents will be updating this for me. So long and see you in a year and a half!!!

Love,
Halliday Shimai

HELLO!

It's ME! only...not me! I'm Sister Halliday now! Whee! But this is the only entry I'll be making on my own. From here on out this blog is gonna be updated by my parents. My mom is gonna post my emails here for all to take a gander at and see what I'm up to. She'll also post pictures when I send pictures home for your viewing pleasure. Oh boy!

So ummm...I guess I could write something of substance here now. I was set apart tonight at 7:30. It was pretty long cuz President Reeder likes to talk...and he likes to make other people talk too. But its ok cuz he actually has interesting things to say. He talked about Aaron and Moses. Did you know Aaron and Moses were companions? Like missionaries!?! Never thought about that.

Ok um...I'm a little giddy I thinks.

It was a pretty weird day all around. First, it was raining all day. In Arizona!!! Then sacrament was pretty empty even though my friends filled like 4 rows. It's cuz a FREAK flu hit and everyone was sick. Even the bishop! Sad day...but then he couldn't stop me from talking about video games in my talk. meheheheh.

Oh! but my grandy and my aunt came to hear me talk! That was a very happy thing indeed!

Then my open house was really hot. I had to open many windows cuz too many people were breathing all at once. not to mention kids running around. They get pretty toasty pretty fast those kids. =P

Anyhow, it was nice. I got to see a lot of the people I wanted to say bye to which is good cuz its hard to say goodbye to an entire ward. I'm gonna miss it...the ward I mean.

Anyhow so then President Reeder came over to set me apart and my phone was going off like crazy and I'm thinking "what the random!? they should know I'm getting set apart...I just kicked them out!" But we went through the setting apart and I only cried um.... k like every time someone spoke.

I don't really remember what was said though...cuz when it was over my dad checked my phone and told us that the Prophet had died...and I was too busy crying and everything kinda flew out of my head. So sorry...no details for you. Sister Cole had us sing "We thank thee o God for a Prophet" though. I was too busy crying to sing but it was nice anyhow. Even if my family can't sing...but they kept in tune I think. I was really really sad cuz President Hinckley was prophet since ever I KNEW there was a prophet. Well, knew as in understood what a prophet was.

And I was sad cuz I wanted to see conference in the MTC and see President Hinckley there. But at least he's with his wife. He missed her an awful lot. And don't worry. I love President Monson too...but he's too tall to ever be a cute little old man. *sigh*

So then I opened presents and my aunt Shareen made me the most wonderful stationary set. It's just PERFECT so I can write you all letters!

That's pretty much it. Tomorrow we leave for Utah and I get to see Clarissa and Jacob! YAAAAAY! And a bunch of strange relations I've never met. Oh joy.

That's all! I got to get to bed now. It's WAY past 10:30!!!

Love always,
Je...Halliday Shimai (that's sister halliday in Japanese)

PS. If you want to write, here's how:

MTC: (for use February 2008- April 7th 2008)

Sister Jessica M. Halliday
MTC Mailbox #202
JPN-TOK 0415
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, UT 84604-1793

Mission Home: (for use April 7th-July 2009)

Sister Jessica Meeauilikakaniokealii Halliday
Japan Tokyo Mission
4-25-12 Nishi Ochiai
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo-to 161-0031
JAPAN