#sightandsound

Missionaries are assigned companions - another missionary that we do everything with. We stay together all day, every day. We're always in sight and sound of each other.

That sounds exhausting, right?

Amazingly, it's not. That may have something to do with the fact that I have a pretty great companion - Sister Annie Snyder. She's twenty-one years old. She's from Indiana (not India). And she's the BEST. We've been together for eight weeks, five days, four hours, and fourteen minutes. Not that I'm counting.

 

Things that I love about having Sister Snyder as a companion:

1. We always have an endless supply of breath mints. (That really comes in handy.)
2. We both have a great appreciation for Christmas. You can tell by our matching Christmas bows that we wear in our hair. And our abudant collection of Christmas CD's. And our two mini Christmas trees in our bedroom. And our peppermint essential oils that we like to use for perfume this time of year.
3. We accidentally talk in unison sometimes. And sometimes on purpose.
4. Sometimes we forget that God is watching us. So I have to sing about it so we remember.
5. We both love broccoli and ice cream. But not together. That would be weird.
6. We both quote The District, Napoleon Dynamite, and The Errand of Angels on a very regular basis.
7. We both really love to go running at six thirty in the morning. (That one's a joke.)
8. Sometimes we get lost. But it's always almost always a good experience.
9. When we are angry with each other... Wait, that never happens.
   
10. We help each other to improve and work on our appropriate goals.
11. Our bedroom always smells good.
12. We enjoy the small things. Like midgets, amoebas, and mini-golfing (on P-day of course).
13. Sometimes we forget that bad/sad things are happening around the world, and in our area, and we are happy all the time anyway.  
14. We are good at sharing cupcakes. Sister Snyder eats the frosting, and I eat the cake.
15. We are good at making fun of each other's hair.
16. We have so much fun with our investigators. We think some of them might like us, maybe.

Things that are less good about our companionship:

1. Sometimes we eat too much ice cream.
2. We have too many inside jokes.
3. There's hair. Everywhere.
4. Sometimes Sister Snyder likes to lay in my bed instead of hers.
5. Sometimes I like to give unneccessary definitions to words that Sister Snyder "already knows" the definition to.
6. Sometimes we fight over who gets to hold Lucky the cat in their lap.
7. Sometimes we pet dogs that make our hands smell really bad. Then we can't find our hand sanitizer. Then we cry.
8. That's all the bad things.

Basically, I love my life. And my companion. There's no denying that I'm in the right place. I know that Heavenly Father is aware of me, and He really is in the details of my life. Right down to the amoebas.