React Native - Assign value from promise to variable

I have a couple repositories containing database calls such as getUser and getUsers.Now I export those repositories as followed:

import { DatabaseBackend } from "../common/database";import {    userRepository as _userRepository,    bookingRepository as _bookingRepository,    pricingRepository as _pricingRepository,} from "../common/repositories";const backend = DatabaseBackend.ReactNative;export const userRepository = _userRepository(backend);export const bookingRepository = _bookingRepository(backend);export const pricingRepository = _pricingRepository(backend);

This leads to me having to do things like this:

const fetchUserData = (uid: string) => {        userRepository            .then((u) => {                u.getUser(uid)                    .then((user: User) => {                        if(!user) {                            return;                        }                        setUser(user);                    })                    .catch((err) => {                        logger.error("Something went wrong while fetching user information", err);                    });            })            .catch(err => {                logger.error("Something went wrong while fetching user information", err);            });    };

The intellisense says userRepository is:

const userRepository: Promise<{    getUser: (id: string) => Promise<User>;    getNanny: (id: string) => Promise<Nanny>;    getNannies: () => Promise<Nanny[]>;    getParent: (id: string) => Promise<Parent>;    updateUser: (user: User) => Promise<void>;}>

Is there a way how to assign the functions to userRepository without me having to do any then calls on it? I'd like to just being able to call userRepository.getUser() for example.