...greetings from...OLYMPIA! granola, hippies, and summer sunshine!

we're in the capital of washington..so the city is quite a bit bigger than sequim. sister willardson is my new companion and we got doubled into olympia so everything is new to both of us. it has been an elders' area for a while. we just got here yesterday evening and besides knowing how to get to target and the church building, we'll have some great times getting lost and trying to learn the area and the two wards that we're over. we have veronica..our GPS..to help us find our way around and our district leader is a great help too. the elders before us left tons of notes to look at and we have a few appointments set up but for the most part we still have a lot to figure out. sister willardson has been doubled into an area before so this isn't her first time doing it. her and i are so much alike..it's crazy. yesterday we got to our apartment..which used to be lived in by the elders..and besides finding old socks and cases of mountain dew and needing to clean up a bit it's a super nice apartment. we have heard excellent things about the wards here and that the work in olympia really has great potential to explode!