Help with pointers

Hi everyone. I know this sounds like a silly question, but i'm having trouble with calculating pointers for dialogue in pokemon Emerald. The pointers seem to be little endian so I have reversed the bytes, but I feel like I'm missing something...

Dialogue: "Welcome to the world of Pokemon!"
Offset: 0x2C899A

Calculations (using the programmer calculator on my computer):

+ 08000000 =
0x82C899A

Reversed (honestly not sure if I've done this step right):

0x9A892C8

There are two things I think I've done wrong. First, using the wrong offset. Birch's speech actually starts with "Hi! Sorry to keep you waiting." so i need to use the offset for that. But that's not really the point. I'm confused about calculating the pointer. If you can see anything wrong, please point it out to me! :)

Also, you know how strings are terminated with 0xFF... do each of them have their own pointer? Or am I misunderstanding about this too?

You're missing one zero.

0x08123456

56 34 12 08

And yeah, every string is terminated with 0xff