Buhrley, Eliza

sorry i left everyone hanging last week! Last pday was loco!  starting off with transfer news drum roll please  I got transferred to Santa Paula and i was absolutely heartbroken about it. I cried a good long while after finding out because i was not ready to leave Simi. No one thought i was being transferred! I was excited for what was waiting for me in Santa Paula but sad for what i was leaving behind  Let me rewind though. We had to drop off hermana bagley and darrington because theyve finished their missions and i didnt realize how sad i would be to say goodbye to bagley. She became the big sister i always wanted and i teared up a bit hugging her! To say ill miss her is an understatement. So I was already so sad to say bye and then thursday morning i opened my transfer email and was double whammied with leaving simi. It was a shock to everyone that i was leaving so i quickly said really hard goodbyes and promised id visit and then i was packing my bags for Santa Paula....

Sorry if youve gotten 50 emails from me in the past 30 minutes but its not working so i dont know if it's actually sending  at night in cali the temp gets down to like low 50s and im FREEZING!! California has turned me into a baby! Back home, thats shorts weather! (Sorry utah,idaho,wyoming friends)  Christmas is in full swing, we set up our mini christmas tree in our house and put up cute decorations (thanks mom!!)  And  all the missionaries in simi valley got together for a service and we got to move christmas trees. 691 christmas trees to be exact! They were all in a giant truck driven from oregon and we unloaded all of them! We were covered with dirt and scratches after. We got to go to Crèche (i think it means manger in french) last weekend! Its a multi faith activity that theyve been doing for 17 years! Its a 3 day event and they have lots of tables with tooooons of nativities from all over the world! And they taught everyone about jewish traditions and churches...