After a long week, we got covid tested on Friday. I thought I was going to be able to make it through my entire mission without getting covid tested...well in the last few months I had to get tested. We got rapid tested on Friday morning and they said we would get an email the next day with our results. Well, they didn't come on Saturday. Then on Sunday we got an email saying "sit tight. Your results will be sent to you in the next few days". Sooooooooo we still haven't received our "rapid" test results. So funny.
Don't know how many of you saw on my Facebook but my BEST FRIEND, TIFA, just opened her mission call...to...THE CALIFORNIA OAKLAND/SAN FRANCISCO MISSION SPEAKING TONGAN!!!!! So that was EASILY the highlight of my week! For those of you who didn't see, she starts the MTC June 23 then, Tifa *Sister Kioa* will be joining me here on August 4 and I will head home in September. We will have 6 weeks together in the same mission. Her first transfer here will be my last. Tender. So excited for her and for the choice she made to serve. She is going to make a HUGE impact on the people here. I have no doubt about it. She is such an incredible person. I can't wait to share a piece of my heart with her.
Many people have been asking me lately how I feel about being here. Obviously, it is not what I originally had wanted or hoped for. This situation has not been ideal, but what I am doing here has such a great importance. I know this message I have shared the past while has touched lives, and hopefully changed a few. I know that if I had been in Costa Rica the past 9 months it would be the same. Lives would be touched regardless of location. However, the past two weeks I have been having the strongest feeling that there was another reason that I was in THIS mission. This specific mission. I was talking to one of my mission leaders about this last Monday night. Then, the next day Tifa sent me the video of her opening her call to serve in THIS mission! It was yet another testament to me that God knows me. He knew that I needed another special connection to this place. I can't describe what it means to me to share something so special and sacred as my mission with someone so close to my heart. Tifa has always been a great Christlike example of love to me. I admire everything about her. Her mission call was an answer to my prayers.
God knows EACH and every single one of us! He ANSWERS our prayers! Never did I think this would be one of the ways He would answer mine, but it was! He knows me better than I know myself. He knows what I need. I'm so thankful for a father in heaven who knows me and loves me.
Have a great week everyone!!
Hermana Shauna
1- pass along cards!!
2-stopped to smell the flowers :))
3- vaccinated but still wearing masks haha #california
4- we went on a pretty hike in the mountains by our house!
5- mis companeras 
6- this SUPER creepy truck just had a mannequin chilling in the passenger's seat
7- me and tifa at my farewell. miss her. but we will see each other soon, AS MISSIONARIES 
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